Use this chart to compare features included in the Cognos Business Insight Standard Mode that is included in the Cognos Enhanced Consumer license versus Cognos Business Insight Advanced Mode included in the Cognos Advanced Business Author and above licenses. View the webinar video recording and download this chart: http://www.senturus.com/resources/cognos-business-insight-comparison-of-standard-vs-advanced-licenses/. Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.

1. Cognos Business Insight: Comparison
of Standard vs Advanced Licenses
Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the
Present and Shape the Future

2. For more information, please visit the Senturus website,
www.senturus.com. Under the Resource tab you will
find upcoming Events, Training Course Schedule and
Recorded Webinars.
You will find this under the “IBM Cognos Business Intelligence”
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3. Business Insight Standard Mode (included in the
Cognos Enhanced Consumer License) is
• A self-service dashboard assembly solution
• Allows users to leverage existing content (reports) and assemble them into their own
personalized workspaces, or dashboards
• Provides personalization and basic analytical functionality directly within the
workspace
• Is designed for consumers that want to enhance their experience with existing reports
allowing them to customize display types and palettes, perform basic calculations and
filtering
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4. Business Insight Advanced Mode (included in the
Cognos Advanced Business Author and above
licensing) is
• A self-service Report Authoring solution
• Allows users to modify existing reports using the full functionality of a business authoring
tool
• Allows users to author their own reports using intuitive interface features and gestures
including advanced presentation, layout, formatting, complex calculations, and filtering
• Provides an ad-hoc user experience which allows the authors to interact with the data
while they are developing reports using intuitive, integrated OLAP features such as drill-
down, slice-and-dice, and top/bottom filtering
• Combines the best features of ad-hoc (Query Studio), multi-dimensional analysis (Analysis
Studio), and professional authoring (Report Studio)
• Reports built in BIA are consumable via the Cognos Viewer, which is part of the consumer
or enhanced consumer license. Could also be delivered via PDF, HTML, XLS to recipients
• BIA does not have all the functionality of Report Studio which is part of the Professional
Author License or above
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5. Senturus has a library of over 45 FREE recorded
webinars, demonstrations and whitepapers including
• Cognos Business Insight,
• Cognos Insight
• Cognos Active Reports
• Cognos Mobile
• and more
The content is developed and delivered by Senturus experts and cannot be found
on any other website.
View the Resource Library: http://www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
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6. Cognos 10 Licensing Matrix
BI BI Enhanced BI Business BI Business BI Business BI Advanced BI BI
Consumer Consumer Author Analyst Manager Business Professional Professional
($891) ($1,110) ($1,450) ($1,450) ($1,450) Author Author ($3,340)
($400 add) ($1,680) ($2,790)
Cognos BI Capability
Business Insight       
Biz Insight Advanced   
Active Reports       
Cognos Search       
Cognos Collaboration       
Query Studio    
Analysis Studio   
Report Studio  
Metric Studio  
Event Studio 
Transformer 
C10 Real-time Monitoring: $650/PVU (Needs BI Enhanced Consumer)
C10 Statistics: $250/PVU (BI Consumer has access)
* Intel Xeon (Nehalem EP) ~ 70 PVU’s/core
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7. Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance
Management
– Business Intelligence
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
• Consolidate, close, report and file (CCRF)
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four
consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing
private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 12-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,200 projects for 500+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise.
Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
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8. A few of our 500+ Clients
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9. Contact Senturus
Senturus, Inc
www.senturus.com
sales@senturus.com
888-601-6010
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