Thursday, January 31, 2013

Various Components of Cognos

Discuss about various components of cognos:

Web-based:

Query Studio:  Use to create adhoc reports and support only relational modeling.

Report Studio: Use to create complex reports using prompts, joins, unions, etc.. and support both relational as well as dimensional modeling.

Analysis Studio: Use to create only cross tab reports using dimensional modeling. It doesn't support relational modeling.

Event Studio: Use to execute various task such as Job, News item, Run a report, Run an agent, Email, etc..  by automatically trigger the event when condition satisfies.

Cognos Connection: Display the packages, folders, reports, jobs, views,etc.. which are stored in content store. User interact with cognos connection to open the report, load the packages, run the job,etc..

Cognos Administration:  Use to provide security in cognos using user/group/role for capability, create data source connection, export and import the packages/content store, add user/group/role, server performance tuning, load balancing, etc..

Dashboards: Use to create different summarized view of business using list, crosstab, chart in single report page.

Window-based:

Framework manager: Use to load tables, datasources, packages, provide security at package/subject/query item/data item level, create and publish the packages for relational and dimensional modeling. Published packages will load in the studio for reporting.

Transformer: Use to create cubes.


4 comments:

Karthikeyan C said...

Simple & easy to understand... Good!!!

Karthikeyan C said...

Can we publish the GOSL package in cognos 8.4 without the help of Framework Manager? If so, plz explain about the procedure? Thanks in advance...

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