Users of BI Analysis for Excel can select data sources ... move back and forth between the two environments." While Microsoft offers a similar connection between Office 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server, ...

While Cognos offers its own desktop reporting, analysis and dashboard software, many financial analysts, line-of-business managers and other business users prefer -- or are required -- to work in ...

Through the interactive exploration and formulae based capabilities of Cognos 8 BI Analysis for Microsoft Excel, they benefit from a live data connection that allows them to independently solve ...