It also has an integration layer with IBM Cognos provided by IBM Business Partner Assimil8.

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The Location Analytics product is directly integrated to standard business analyst tools such as IBM Cognos and Microsoft Office.

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Last October Esri acquired SpotOn, a geo-spatial business intelligence software developer which worked with IBM Cognos to provide customers with embedded maps in their reports.

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If ManyEyes is a build-your-own kit car, then business intelligence platforms such as IBM Cognos, or SAP BusinessObjects are the Rolls-Royces of data analysis and visualization.

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The big BI vendors such as SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos and Oracle Hyperion all telling the end-to-end story as well, while at the same time they are trying to make their products easier to use.

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They likewise deserve extensive collaboration capabilities that can be integrated with your enterprise environment as what IBM has done with its latest release of Cognos 10.

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