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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is an integrated business intelligence suite that provides a wide range of functionality to help you understand your organization's data. Everyone in your organization can use IBM Cognos BI to view or create business reports, analyze data, and monitor events and metrics so that they can make effective business decisions.
IBM Cognos BI integrates the following business intelligence activities in one Web-based solution. Before you use IBM Cognos BI, you should understand how each of the components that make up the IBM Cognos BI user interfaces can help you do your job.
How IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Works
- In IBM Cognos Framework Manager, the modeler ensures that metadata is presented in a anner that business users can understand. Modelers import the metadata from one or more databases, and then add to the model to meet user requirements.
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The modeler then publishes and updates packages to IBM Cognos Connection so that authors can use them to create reports, agents, and scorecards.
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Business users and report authors use the published packages to understand their business data.
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Users run, view, and manage their content in IBM Cognos Connection. Depending on their security permissions, they may be able to simply run and view reports or manage schedules, portal layout,and other users' permissions.
- In IBM Cognos Transformer, you can leverage queries in published packages, queries from IBM Cognos BI reports, and personal data sources, such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software, to create a unique, focused model of your business.
- In IBM Cognos Cube Designer, you can build dynamic cubes from metadata that is imported from relational databases. When the dynamic cubes are published, they can be used by report authors.
IBM Cognos Workspace
In IBM Cognos Workspace, you can create sophisticated interactive workspaces using IBM Cognos content, as well as external data sources such as TM1® Websheets and CubeViews, according to your specific information needs. You can view and open favorite workspaces and reports, manipulate the content in the workspaces, and e-mail your workspaces. You can also use comments, activities and social software such as IBM Connections for collaborative decision making.
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Using Report Studio, report authors create, edit, and distribute a wide range of professional reports. They can also define corporate-standard report templates for use in Query Studio, and edit and modify reports created in Query Studio or Analysis Studio.
Use Report Studio for reports that
- Are intended for a wide audience
- Exist long enough to require maintenance for changing requirements and data
- Require detailed control over the appearance
Report Studio provides powerful functionality, such as bursting, prompts, maps, and advanced charting, and provides many ways to customize reports.
