Available early in 2007, Cognos 8 Go! Mobile will extend the value of the proven Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) architecture by providing users with access to timely, personalized information on their BlackBerry® smartphone.

Increase business intelligence adoption rates

Cognos 8 Go! Mobile is the latest addition to the Cognos 8 Go! family of Access Modes designed to help you increase business intelligence adoption rates and make BI pervasive within your organization. These Access Modes let you integrate reports, analyses and other BI content into applications and interfaces that everyday users are familiar with.

With Cognos 8 Go! Mobile, users will be able to increase their productivity and improve their decision-making when working remotely by accessing operational and strategic information about customer orders, product performance and more.

Single authoring environment

BI report authors will be able to write a report once and know that every user will be able to access it regardless of language, locale or Access Mode. No need for a separate mobile BI deployment.

Purpose-built rich client

• Remote installation and centralized administration will let you distribute functionality and upgrades to users quickly
• Reports consumed on a BlackBerry smartphone will leverage existing metadata, security, roles, workflows used in Cognos 8 BI
• Provide users with actual Cognos 8 BI reports, not static renditions or OEM reproductions. No need to re-author for wireless devices
• Users will be able to take advantage of native BlackBerry smartphone functionality such as scrolling and clicking to navigate reports and menus
• Data storage for offline viewing and use
• Client automatically formats data for viewing on the BlackBerry smartphone screen

Theft and loss protection

• Single security augmented for mobile user needs
• Encryption during transmission and on the smartphone
• Remote database locking
• Key required for access to smartphone database
• Data fading and wiping will allow immediate removal of data if smartphone is lost or stolen

Effective data compression

Cognos 8 Go! Mobile will compress data before transmission and save the report on your BlackBerry smartphone.

Resource-efficient

You will be able to run Cognos 8 Go! Mobile on your existing technology investments with only light server requirements.