Saturday, January 26, 2013

Cognos Architecture

Cognos Architecture:

It is a three tier architecture. Presentation tier, Business tier, Data tier.

Presentation tier:  Web server is present in this tier and it handles request from user and response to user. After receive request from user it delegates the request to dispatcher to process the request and get the response from dispatcher to delegate to the user.

Various webserver: IIS, Apache, IBM Http.

Business tier:  Various cognos services and BI server are present in this tier. Dispatcher receive request from webserver and delegate to appropriate services. Services such as Email, Bursting, Presentation, Report, Event, Studio, Content Manager services. All these services are located under BI server.

Data tier:  Content store is present in this tier. BI server creates content store tables in content store with the help of content manager. BI server stores packages, reports,folders,scheduling, views,etc. in content store.
Datasource is present in this layer which helps to connect with database and olap.





1 comment:

online archer said...

nice explanation about cognos architecture and its three tiers