Cognos has added a number of new reporting capabilities to the latest version of its Business Intelligence application, as well as a new stand-alone search engine product that will be standard in future releases. Other new features in Cognos 8 include the ability to view Cognos 8 BI reports, analyses and metrics within Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, and a series of Report Packs built to integrate with Siebel, including its back-end applications.