IBMCognos TM1 Executive Viewer provides business users with self-service, real-time, web-based access to information from online analytical processing (OLAP) databases for advanced analysis and reporting. Executive Viewer eliminates barriers to informed decision-making by providing dynamic, interactive, "self-service" analytics. You gain insight from your own data whenever and however you need it - without having to consume costly IT resources. Executive Viewer enables affordable, scalable, cross enterprise deployment of sophisticated analytic applications and includes connectivity to Oracle Hyperion Essbase, Microsoft Analysis Services, and IBM Cognos TM1.

Executive Viewer lets you not only report your data, but to visualize it graphically to quickly spot performance trends and outliers. For example, by creating performance maps (often called "heat maps"), you can quickly assess performance across your organization by geography, unit, or other factor. Using shape, size, and color to demonstrate trends and relationships, you can readily see relative contributions to performance, can focus analysis on areas having the greatest financial and operational impact, and can use interactive drill-down to uncover root causes.