The IBM Cognos Special Edition is an integrated solution that embeds three key IBM middleware technologies, including a Web server, application server, and a database server, with IBM Cognos software for complete BI functionality. With the IBM Cognos Special Edition companies can leverage a corporate performance management solution that leverages existing applications, data, and hardware investments while remaining truly scalable. With this offering IT can deploy enterprise reporting, analysis, dashboards, scorecards, planning, data integration, and business event management with confidence, knowing it will integrate quickly and cohesively with their infrastructure. The combined solution eliminates the need for IT to source and test additional components since it is fully tested and supported by IBM Cognos solutions. This further reduces any risk from an installation and deployment perspective.