Cognos is IBM's Enterprise reporting suite of products aimed
at Users, Developers and Administrators.
User Products:These products are aimed at business users
with limited technical skills.
Cognos Connection is a web portal which allows users to
navigate Cognos BI content such as dashboards, reports, schedules, cubes and
scorecards. This is the go to place for Cognos users and developers, with most
Cognos products being launced from within this portal.Query Studio is an ad-hoc
reporting tool aimed at power users. It allows live querying of databases
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Business Insight Advanced is a report editing tool aimed at
power users. It allows some customization of Cognos Connection objects to be
made and saved on Business Insight dashboards. Online Cognos
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Analysis Studio is a 'slice and dice' tool for querying OLAP
cubes via drag and drop. Once created, views of cubes can be saved to Cognos
Connection and shared. These views can be later opened with Report
Studio.Cognos Business Insight is a dashboard tool which allows users to drag
content from Cognos Connection into their own dashboards. These dashboards can
then be saved and shared, however printing or exporting to PDF format is not
supported in the current version
Contributor is installed as a browser add-on and allows
users to enter budgets and forecasts into Enterprise Planning cubes. Support
for workflow allows controlled collaboration around planning and forecasting.
Developer Products: These products are aimed at technical
developers. Content developed in these tools can be published to Cognos
Connection to be consumed by business users.
Framework Manager allows technical developers to model
source systems and publish this model to Cognos Connection. A well developed
framework will ease the use of other Cognos tools. Map Manager allows maps to
be divided by territory and published to the Cognos environment for reporting
purposes. Transformer is used to develop and build OLAP cubes. It can be run
from a DOS command line in order to automate cube building, publishing and
archiving. Report Studio is the most feature rich report development tool in
the Cognos suite. A skilled developer can use this flexible software to deliver
complex reporting requirements. Enterprise Planning allows development of
Planning cubes and their associated workflows. Metric Studio allows business
metrics to be developed and represented as traffic lights.
TM1 is a recently acquired application which offers similar
functionality to Enterprise Planning. The current development path is merging
the feature sets of Enterprise Planning with TM1. TM1 runs very quickly when
compared to similar products due to an efficient rules engine and in-memory
processing.
