As a powerful query and reporting tool Cognos Impromptu on the desktop and Impromptu Web Reports for the Web offer both users and enterprises the functionality of seeing their data the way they would like to see it, not as the database presents it.

Using the unified query and reporting interface; users are able to search the database for the data they require. They are then able to produce reports using either the report wizard or ad hoc report functions, resulting in up to the second information regarding key business issues.

Impromptu Web Reports takes this critical information delivery system one step further by allowing whole enterprises to author and post frequently requested reports. Users can subscribe to the reports for information to be delivered to their in box, on a hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis, this can be triggered on an event basis, such as when the database is refreshed. The same users are then able to tailor the report format, content or layout through a series of guided HTML pages to allow users to view the business, as they would wish to see it.

Together Cognos Impromptu and PowerPlay can be used to benefit from the "Analyze-then-Query® approach to help identify your key business information and then drill through to the underlying detail to help understand the information identified.

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