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IBM Cognos Express is the only integrated BI and Planning Solution purpose-built for midsize companies.

It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford.

IBM Cognos Express provides you with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? and What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs and identify new growth opportunities.

Cognos Express 9.5 contains all the essential reporting, analysis and planning capabilities in one integrated solution, from a single vendor. This simplicity eliminates the time and costs associated with more complicated, developer-centric implementations. You are more productive right away. It also reduces the complexity of deployment and ongoing maintenance, which minimises the IT resources required.

IBM Cognos Express is:

• Easy to install and deploy, with no hidden costs. IBM Cognos Express contains everything you need “out of the box.” Install and deploy within an hour – not weeks or months.
• Easy to use, with no additional burden on IT. With its simple, easy-to-use interface, everyone from novice users to power users can easily get the reports and analysis they need on their own, without relying on the IT staff.
• Easy to buy and modular, with a clear growth path. With IBM Cognos Express, you can “think big and start small” and enable project rollout to match resource capacity and budget.

You may purchase the full product with its reporting, analysis, dashboard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities, or you may start with the specific module or modules you need today, secure in an easy growth path for the future. This flexible approach gives you the freedom to “think big, but start small” - an effective strategy to match project and business needs with budget and resource constraints