Tivoli Common Reporting

Brings industry leading reporting suite to Tivoli customers at no additional charge.

1. Simplified report editing

Launch web-based Report Studio in context from a report
You can run an out-of-the-box report, like an ITM report, and launch the editor in context to change something.

2. Ad-Hoc Reporting

Create ad-hoc, on the fly reports
Even novice users will be able to rapidly create reports with intuitive drag & drop function via the Query Studio, allowing for greater report usage with little training

3. Other capabilities

Automatic emailing of reports
Additional report formats
- XML
- Excel 2000 & 2000 Single Sheet, 2002, and 2007
- CSV
Greater granular data security (row-level authorization)

Provides a route to reporting consistency with other Tivoli products
Provides the basis for end-to-end reporting
- Allowing report data correlation with other Tivoli product data and business data (e.g. asset management, financial planning etc)
- Drives towards the longer term goal of single reports using data from multiple Tivoli products
Will provide ad-hoc reporting capabilities
Standard architecture (TIP/eWAS) will be supported
Allows customers access (via paid for upgrade) to IBM Cognos advanced analytics modules for advanced reporting capabilities never possible before
- IBM Cognos Analytic Studio provides the capability to drill down, slice and dice to see what is driving client’s business:
  - What if Analysis
  - Trend Analysis and Forecasting

Available through the TIP interface

Launched via a drop down tool from the TIP interface