IBM Cognos Impromptu is a business intelligence software used for performance management tasks. It is part of the Cognos 7 series of the Canada-based workforce analytics firm Cognos, which is part of IBM’s business analytics division. IBM Cognos Impromptu is an essential software for providing specific and detailed assessment and analysis of business operations and outputs. It does this by providing a database which stores the details of the day-to-day operational and financial data. This software in effect provides insight to attain better business decision making and to provide data-intensive and accurate assessments on the trajectory of the business. This enables business administrators to create catalogs and to control security of data. For quicker access, IBM Cognos Impromptu has native interfaces to various enterprise resource planning systems and can integrate with various IBM software to ensure interconnectivity with various business divisions.