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Cognos 8
Cognos 8
Date: 21st Feb 2010 Location : Bangalore Presented by: Ravi Shankar Reddy
Agenda
History of Cognos BI
Cognos 8 BI overview Architecture Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 3 Security Work Flows
Comparison
History
"C8 - Cognos vision for business intelligence & 15 years of solutions expertise" In the early 90s - Cognos introduced leading reporting and analysis tools Impromptu and PowerPlay. In 2003, The game in BI changed forever with the launch of Cognos ReportNet. "Cognos ReportNet is phenomenally successful; its web-based architecture addresses the pent-up demand among customers looking for a single reporting product to meet all of their reporting needs. Cognos 8 One product on a single, proven, and modern architecture. Cognos 8 BI takes the strength of the ReportNet platform and delivers a single, Web services architecture for all business intelligence capabilities. It offers reporting, query, and analysis; dashboards and scorecarding; event lifecycle management; and the unifying power of centralized metadata in one product, on a single, proven service oriented architecture. Cognos 8 BI delivers all of these capabilities through a 100 percent Web browser interface for all users. The promise of business intelligence is all users accessing at the right time all of their data, in any way they want, to understand what is happening, why, and determine what actions they should take to help the organization succeed. Impromptu PowerPlay Transformer Metrics Manager Visualizer
COGNOS ReportNet
COGNOS 8 Series
Cognos Connection Report Studio Query Studio Analysis Studio Event Studio Metric Studio Cognos Office Connection Cognos Go!
Overview (1 of 3)
Cognos 8 BI assist organizations to improve their overall performance by helping them to plan, track, monitor, analyze and report the business activities.
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is the only BI product to deliver the complete range of BI capabilities: Reporting, Analysis, Scorecarding, Dashboards, Business event management Data integration on a single, proven architecture with Zero Footprint Technology* Functional: human-centred, easy to use, coverage, appealing, adaptive, configurable, rely on results/solutions already found, flexible, based on autonomous processes, Technical: Web-centred, ontology-based, push mechanisms, autonomous processes, and interdependence among knowledge layers Architectural: interoperability, integration, flexibility, scalability, sustainability, heterogeneous inter-related knowledge sources, and large knowledge sources End Users' Requirements
* Zero Footprint technology allows users to connect to the database and see the reports through web browsers which doesn't require them to install any software to do so. With the help of this Zero Footprint technology, the reports that were only availabale to top executives, now can be seen by any employee making them to participate and contribute towards the decision making.
Overview (2 of 3)
All BI Capabilities Against Any Data Cognos 8 BI is the first BI product to eliminate barriers to data access. Extended open data access capabilities allow the complete range of BI functionality -- reporting, analysis, dashboarding, scorecarding and event management -- to be performed against any organizational data, whether relational or OLAP, helping to eliminate information silos that can inhibit decision-making. While competing solutions require separate tools to view different types of data, Cognos 8 BI uniquely delivers a single metadata layer and a single query engine, providing customers with a single, trusted place for all relevant data and a complete and consistent view of any business issue or driver.
Dimensional Reporting and Dynamic Dashboards Its comprehensive reporting capabilities are suitable for business style and production and business style reports, real-time dashboards, as well as ad-hoc queries. New in Cognos 8 BI is the ability to report OLAP data and maintain dimensional awareness, enabling consumers of a report or dashboard to simply click and drill down to the right level of information required for decision-making. Also, new chart styles such as gauges and maps, as well as rich graphical formatting, enable the creation of more dynamic and high-impact reports and dashboards. Deep, Comparative Analysis To simplify the exploration and discovery of information, Cognos 8 BI makes it easier for users to perform complex analysis, even against very large data sources. Enhancements include the ability to apply compound filters, nest subsets of information, and compare different levels of information -- all with drag-and-drop ease. Now, for example, comparing the top five sales reps in the bottom five regions, across the top five products, can be done quickly and easily. Analysis can also be performed against multi- dimensionally modeled relational data in addition to OLAP data
Overview (3 of 3)
Powerful Business Event Management and Process Integration Based on the proven Cognos alerting capability, Cognos 8 BI offers the industry's only business event management. It automatically monitors data and alerts users in real-time of key operational or performance events -- with information in context - via email or Web-based news items through the RSS channel. It eliminates the SPAM that normally occurs with first-generation alerting technology by only notifying users when there has been a change to the status of the event. With Cognos 8 BI, events can be sequenced.
Actionable BI Scorecarding has been enhanced with advanced initiative tracking, enabling managers to monitor actions and decisions to correct and improve performance associated with a key metric. This enables decisions to be tracked over time and provides a formal corporate decision-making memory that will help users learn from the past when faced with new problems and opportunities. Users can also now get a quick feel for a metric's trend by simply moving their mouse over a metric and viewing an advanced history chart. Integrated Performance Management As part of its open data access, Cognos 8 BI capabilities can natively access Cognos Planning and Consolidation data. Using Cognos 8 BI, production reports that show budget vs. actual can be easily created, as can alerts that track budget variances and proactively notify management before any damage is done. Agents can even be created to monitor the status of plan and budget completion. Increased Self-Service Cognos 8 BI also enables extended self-service across BI capabilities, alleviating IT resources and allowing users to work with personalized, consistent information using familiar interfaces that fit their needs and skills. For example, users can easily perform ad-hoc queries against relational or OLAP data, graphically format the result using corporate templates, and then share the report with colleagues -- without ever involving skilled report authors or IT.
Architecture (1 of 10)
Presentation Layer
Application Layer
Data Layer
Metric Designer is the Cognos 8 modeling tool used to create extracts for use in Cognos 8 scorecarding applications. Extracts are used to map and transfer information from existing metadata sources such as Framework Manager and Impromptu Query Definition (.iqd) files.
Transformer is a modeling tool for creating PowerCubes for use with Cognos Series 7 and Cognos8.
Map Manager Administrators and modelers use a Windows utility named Map Manager to import maps and update labels for maps in Report Studio. For map features such as country and city names, administrators and modelers can define alternative names to provide multilingual versions of text that appears on the map.
Workflow (1 of 2)
Planning for Implementation
Installing Cognos 8 components: Cognos BI Server gateways Application Tier Components (Consists Of Cognos Configuration, Cognos Connection, Report Studio , Query Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio) Content Manager Configuring Cognos 8 One of the tools installed with Cognos 8 is Cognos Configuration. You use it immediately after installation to set the initial Cognos 8 configuration. Some of the things you can configure are Logging: You can specify the destination log for messages generated by Cognos 8. Security: You can run Cognos 8 with or without security. By default, the only security that is enabled is Cognos Application Firewall. If you want to set up security, you should configure security settings immediately after installing Cognos 8 Data access :You must specify database connection information for the Cognos 8 content store
Use Cognos 8 BI to do all your Reporting, Analysis, Scorecarding, Dashboards & Event Management
Workflow (2 of 2)
A model serves as an insulating layer between Cognos 8 reporting users and the database. Packages are model subsets that ensure users are provided with data appropriate for the reporting they need to do, and that the data is structured in ways that make sense from a business perspective.
Modeling Framework Manager is used to create a model that provides users with a single, integrated, business view of the database, and to provide Cognos 8 with information about how data is accessed, related, and secured. Packaging After a model is created, packages are published to locations on the Cognos 8 server where report authors can use them to create reports. Authoring Reports Cognos 8 can be used to create many different types of reports, including lists, crosstab reports, charts, master and detail reports, dashboards, and user-designed reports. You create planned, professional reports in Report Studio, and ad hoc reports in Query Studio. You can explore and analyze data in Analysis Studio. You can use report data from Report Studio, Query Studio, and Analysis Studio in Microsoft Office workbooks and presentations through Cognos Office Connection.
System Architecture
Cognos Connection-WebBrowser (Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox)
-ReportStudio & QueryStudio -AnalysisStudio -MetricStudio -EventStudio -C8 Connection Tools
Oracle db 10g
Windows Server 2003 -Cognos Configuration -Framework Manager -PowerPlay Transformer (For C8 Mobile Users) -Metric Manager -Map Manager -Data Manager
Comparison (1 of 2)
COGNOS 8 Series vs. ReportNet The enhancements include: Faster reporting with 60 out-of-the-box, customizable report templates for common business requirements, enabling end users to get data and produce reports more quickly without IT assistance. Reports can access not only historical information in the data warehouse but also up-to-date transaction data from SAP and Siebel.
Office Connection live integration with Excel and PowerPoint, transmitting data changes directly from the BI repository to these reports as they occur.
The power of Cognos 8 (reporting, querying, dashboarding, scorecarding and event-driven analysis) transparently, all from the same user interface. Broader, Internet-like Go Search capabilities that use contextual metadata to retrieve reports based on cell content and probability ranking, not just report titles. By improving the search engine, Go Search reduces the time wasted recreating existing reports that users were unable to find. Go Search also enables users to call up other reports on the same topic merely by clicking on the word, similar to a hyperlink.
Cognos ReportNet
P O w e r P l a y Cogos Connection PPES Framework Manager Transformer Content Store
Cognos 8
Visualizer / Metric Manager / DS
Comparison (2 of 2)
Q & A .
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