Cognos Query lets you explore and navigate in your data from your Web Browser.
Cognos Query lets novice and experienced users directly access corporate data resources for real-time data exploration. Using only a Web browser, users can navigate suites of published queries, saving and modifying them as required to meet their information needs.
Cognos Query balances ease of use and power. Query users and authors can service themselves, quickly and easily accessing published sets of queries using the fully integrated Cognos portal. Users can run and modify existing queries, design new ones, and optionally publish queries back to the portal for future use. Users can take advantage of advanced features, like query-to-query linking, prompts, and the ability to define sophisticated calculations in the browser environment.
For IT, Cognos Query is easy to support, is designed for Web deployments, and is part of the end-to-end Cognos BI solution. The Web client is HTML-only, meaning anyone with a browser—including extranet users like customers, suppliers, and partners—can create and execute queries. IT never has to install, configure, or support custom software on client desktops, and users never have to download plug-ins or Java applets.