Summary

Cognos 8 BI

Objectives

In this module we will examine: major innovations in Cognos 8 review of new functionality in Cognos 8 customer scenarios for Cognos 8

Cognos 8 Review

What are the major innovations in Cognos 8? A Complete Enterprise Business Intelligence software

solution with integrated reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and event management capabilities that provides users with Business Intelligence across multiple applications and data-sources, and provides IT with solution control, security, and management.

Leveraging a modern single architecture built from the ground-up using open Web services standards that meets the combined demands of IT and key business stakeholders.

Cognos 8 takes decision making to the next level of effectiveness, simplicity, and cost effectiveness!

Major Innovations in Cognos 8

Open Data Access Strategy – Cognos 8 supports normalized and ROLAP relational data, OLAP Servers and modern XML-based data sources. All of our end-user functionally is equally available for all the data sources.

Integrated Cognos Enterprise Planning and Consolidation with the full Cognos 8 platform for reporting, analysis, event detection, and scorecarding on the plan, the published plan, the workflow, and consolidated ledgers.

Dimensional Reporting and Dashboarding - Extending the marketing-leading ReportNet with dimensional reporting and dashboarding.

Deep, Large Data Comparative Analysis - Enhanced Analysis Studio (PowerPlay Web in Series 7) functionality for direct exploration and analysis.

Major Innovations in Cognos 8 (cont’d)

Extended Self Service Reporting - Enhancements in Query Studio to extend scope of use.

Process Integration and Event lifecycle management to provide closed loop decision making.

Actionable scorecards in Cognos Metric Studio. Extended data transformation services in DecisionStream. All BI capabilities take advantage of the modern Web

services architecture introduced by ReportNet and leveraged by PowerPlay today.

Review - Administration, Installation, Configuration

Administration Cognos Services Approach Process and Project Management Control required Security, Roles and Privileges

Installation and Configuration Standby dispatchers Report server affinity: Defining routing sets Upgrades Cognos Configuration test feature

Review - Framework Manager, Query Studio

Framework Manager data agnostic dimensional modeling on relational data sources best practices updated query sets quality of service

Query Studio expanded formatting capabilities combined filters templates

Review - Report Studio, Analysis Studio

Report Studio document - model design - layout - query - format manage Query Studio templates enhance query and analysis new report specification - new Query Explorer extended charting - visually appealing shared layout components

Analysis Studio asymmetrical crosstabs context sets simple effective analysis

Review - Metric Studio

Metric Studio Integrated

simplified deployment, management, and usage enhances CPM product vision single point of communication

Advanced Performance Management robust support for Objectives, Projects and Countermeasures

interactive permission-based scorecard management actionable items

Review - Metric Designer, Event Studio

Metric Designer simplifies building and automation of large applications designs and loads from relational or dimensional sourcesNote: Separate Metric Studio models storage from

Framework Manager models Event Studio

Event management

Review - Portals, Drill Through

Drill Through Sources of drill through Targets for drill through Web-based modeling Run Time user interface

Portals Portlet to portlet communication

Emergence of Open Standards - WSRP. What is WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets)?

Personal preferences and pages Profile management

PRESENTATION TIER: ZERO FOOTPRINT BROWSER

WEB TIER

APPLICATION TIER

BI CONTENT MANAGEMENT

BI PORTAL SERVICESCOGNOS BI BUS: SOAP, XML

COGNOS APPLICATION FIREWALLWEB GATEWAYS WEB SERVICES APIs

COGNOS PORTAL: SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS

REPORT, SERVER ANDSECURITY ADMINISTRATION

CUSTOMER APPS DISCONNECTEDOLAP

- Report Consumer/Viewer - Analytical Users (OLAP and ROLAP) - Business Report Authors (Ad Hoc Query) - Professional Report Authors

Enterprise Portals, Custom Applications, Intranet, Extranet Web pages, ...

OLAP Windows Client

OLAP Excel Client

HIGH VOLUME REPORTING

REPORTING:Managed Reporting, Production Reporting, Ad Hoc Query

REPORTING SERVICES:Scheduling, Bursting

HIGH SPEED ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS:OLAP and ROLAP Analysis &Reporting

OLAP ACCESS SERVICES:OLAP Connectivity, Security, Administration

Event Management

ALERT & DETECTDefine, Qualify, Schedule, Escalate, Close Loop Processes

Metrics Management

SCORECARDINGKPIs, Trend, Cause and Effect, Close Loop Processes

DATA TIER

CONTENT STORE/ AUDITING

RELATIONAL:

Relational (including Aggregate aware RDBMS) -- Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, ODBC

MULTIDIMENSIONAL

Cognos OLAP, IBM DB2 OLAP,SAP BW, Microsoft SSAS, Essbase, Oracle 10G

LEGACY**

Mainframe

MODERN

XML

Common Metadata for a single, consistent business view of physical data

Metadata Modeling

AUTHENTICATIONPROVIDERS

HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES

EXTRACT/TRANSER/LOAD DIRECT ENTERPRISE INFORMATIONINTEGRATION

The Big Picture

Summary

In this module we examined: major innovations in Cognos 8 review of new functionality in Cognos 8 customer scenarios for Cognos 8