Business Intelligence

Organizations that have built vast repositories of data in recent years often leave opportunity on the table when they fail to analyze that data and use it for business advantage. Until recently, this may not have been a significant issue for companies content to maintain their position in a relatively dormant marketplace. In today’s challenging economic environment, status quo is not sufficient. To succeed, managers must have complete and accurate visibility into their organization with instant access to the information necessary to determine if the company is performing against its targets.

As a result, Aon eSolutions has integrated IBM® Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities into RiskConsole. The BI module provides cross-functional business modeling capabilities that help business users and risk management departments analyze and identify the factors driving the total cost of risk—ultimately reducing business costs. The solution boasts powerful analytic capabilities, interactive executive-level dashboards, superior ad-hoc query capabilities and report writing capabilities to better measure and monitor performance against business objectives.

KEY BENEFITS
 

Robust analysis tools.

• perform complex analysis quickly and easily to get to the “why” behind an event of action to improve business performance
• analyze what’s driving your business with data organized in logical categories such as fiscal periods, regions, locations, product groups, etc.
• move from summary level to transaction level detail to find exactly the information you are looking for
• analyze what has changed over previous years, quarters, months and other critical measures with sophisticated time trending with built-in customizable time series

Advanced reporting capabilities.

• develop reports with access to a complete list of self-serve report types and the ability to personalize the format for the stakeholder, driving better decisions
• create intuitive self-service reports with drag-and-drop authoring, incorporating data, text, charts, graphs and images to create the exact report you need
• distribute reports on-demand or on schedules based on time, calendar, events or an external trigger
• schedule and bust multi-page reports to ensure that stakeholders receive relevant, consistent and timely information, resulting in greater agility across the organization
• create and deploy a single report that can be executed across multiple languages and output formats such as HTML, PDF, XML and Microsoft® Excel®, resulting in high user adoption
• build report templates that include standard report objects, queries and layouts
   

Information-rich, visually appealing dashboards.

• translate information into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts and other graphical elements to show multiple results together
• communicate common business patterns and relationships: trends, rank part-to-whole, deviation, correlation
• create personal alerts based on custom data conditions to control when and how you receive critical information
• draw users’ attention to sub-par results and areas that need immediate attention with conditional formatting and exception highlighting
• drill-down/drill through to reports and analysis for additional information and context