Cognos Business Intelligence by IBM is an application that provides business intelligence through analysis, reporting, scorecards and dashboards to aid people during their thinking and working processes as they try to understand and execute business performance. You can explore and analyze information and collaborate with your business partners or stakeholders for decision-making. Cognos Business Intelligence provides authoring capabilities for professional reporting. You can personalize your dashboards or make them portable. You can use trend analysis, analytical reporting and statistical analysis to assess your business situation. Collaboration allows you to form communities, capture opinions and annotations and share insights to improve your decision-making. Scorecarding lets you compare your strategies and goals to KPIs [Key Performance Indicators] to help you manage your priorities. Through task management and workflow capabilities, you will be able to connect your people and coordinate your activities. Through IBM Connections, you would be able to share insights and ideas with other users for social networking potentials.