An Enterprise Reporting Tool

INTRODUCTION:
To create a report out of any data from database we
have a reporting tool.
A reporting tool gets the data from database and then
publishes it
There are few components of any reporting tool:
1. Extraction
2. Publishing
3. Access control
4. Scheduler
WHAT IS COGNOS?
Cognos is a web-based enterprise reporting solution.

Cognos has three parts to the system:
1. Cognos Connection (the portal)
2. Query Studio
3. Analysis Studio

What does Cognos do?


COMPONENTS:
COMPONENETS ACTIVITY
IBM Cognos Connection Publishing, managing, and viewing content
IBM Cognos Insight Managed workspaces
IBM Cognos Workspace Interactive workspaces

IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced Ad hoc querying and data exploration

IBM Cognos Report Studio Managed reporting

IBM Cognos Event Studio Event management and alerting

IBM Cognos Metric Studio Score carding and metrics

IBM Cognos Query Studio Ad hoc querying

IBM Cognos Analysis Studio Data exploration

COMPONENET DESCRIPTION:
IBM COGNOS CONNECTION:
IBM Cognos Connection is the Web portal for IBM
Cognos Business Intelligence.
System administrators also use the portal to
administer
IBM COGNOS INSIGHT:
Can analyze data, explore scenarios, and influence
decisions by creating personal or managed
workspaces.


IBM COGNOS WORKSPACE:
Can create sophisticated interactive workspaces using
IBM Cognos content, as well as external data sources
Can view and open favorite workspaces

IBM COGNOS WORKSPACE ADVANCED
Can perform advanced data exploration and author
simple reports.
Can create reports with relational or dimensional data
sources
IBM COGNOS REPORT STUDIO:
Using Report Studio, report authors create, edit, and
distribute a wide range of professional reports.
Report Studio provides powerful functionality.

IBM COGNOS EVENT STUDIO:
Set up agents to monitor your data and perform tasks
when business events or exceptional conditions occur
in your data that must be dealt with.

IBM COGNOS METRIC STUDIO:
Can create and deliver a customized score carding
environment for monitoring and analyzing metrics
throughout your organization.

IBM COGNOS ANALYSIS STUDIO:
Users can explore, analyze, and compare dimensional
data. Analysis Studio provides access to dimensional,
OLAP (online analytical processing), and
dimensionally modeled relational data sources.
IBM COGNOS TRANSFORMER:
Transformer is a multi-dimensional data modeling
component designed for use with IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence