Summary Cognos 8 BI

Objectives  In this module we will examine:  major innovations in Cognos 8  review of new functionality in Cognos 8  customer scenarios for Cognos 8

Cognos 8 Review  What are the major innovations in Cognos 8?  A Complete Enterprise Business Intelligence software solution with integrated reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and event management capabilities that provides users with Business Intelligence across multiple applications and data-sources, and provides IT with solution control, security, and management.  Leveraging a modern single architecture built from the ground-up using open Web services standards that meets the combined demands of IT and key business stakeholders.  Cognos 8 takes decision making to the next level of effectiveness, simplicity, and cost effectiveness!

Major Innovations in Cognos 8  Open Data Access Strategy – Cognos 8 supports normalized and ROLAP relational data, OLAP Servers and modern XML-based data sources. All of our end-user functionally is equally available for all the data sources.  Integrated Cognos Enterprise Planning and Consolidation with the full Cognos 8 platform for reporting, analysis, event detection, and scorecarding on the plan, the published plan, the workflow, and consolidated ledgers.  Dimensional Reporting and Dashboarding - Extending the marketing-leading ReportNet with dimensional reporting and dashboarding.  Deep, Large Data Comparative Analysis - Enhanced Analysis Studio (PowerPlay Web in Series 7) functionality for direct exploration and analysis.

Major Innovations in Cognos 8 (cont’d)  Extended Self Service Reporting - Enhancements in Query Studio to extend scope of use.  Process Integration and Event lifecycle management to provide closed loop decision making.  Actionable scorecards in Cognos Metric Studio.  Extended data transformation services in DecisionStream.  All BI capabilities take advantage of the modern Web services architecture introduced by ReportNet and leveraged by PowerPlay today.

Review - Administration, Installation, Configuration  Administration  Cognos Services Approach  Process and Project Management Control required  Security, Roles and Privileges  Installation and Configuration  Standby dispatchers  Report server affinity: Defining routing sets  Upgrades  Cognos Configuration test feature

Review - Framework Manager, Query Studio  Framework Manager  data agnostic  dimensional modeling on relational data sources  best practices updated  query sets  quality of service  Query Studio  expanded formatting capabilities  combined filters  templates

Review - Report Studio, Analysis Studio  Report Studio  document - model design - layout - query - format  manage Query Studio templates  enhance query and analysis  new report specification - new Query Explorer  extended charting - visually appealing  shared layout components  Analysis Studio  asymmetrical crosstabs  context sets  simple effective analysis

Review - Metric Studio  Metric Studio  Integrated  simplified deployment, management, and usage  enhances CPM product vision  single point of communication  Advanced Performance Management  robust support for Objectives, Projects and Countermeasures  interactive permission-based scorecard management  actionable items

Review - Metric Designer, Event Studio  Metric Designer  simplifies building and automation of large applications  designs and loads from relational or dimensional sources Note: Separate Metric Studio models storage from Framework Manager models  Event Studio  Event management

Review - Portals, Drill Through  Drill Through  Sources of drill through  Targets for drill through  Web-based modeling  Run Time user interface  Portals  Portlet to portlet communication  Emergence of Open Standards - WSRP.  What is WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets)?  Personal preferences and pages  Profile management

PRESENTATION TIER: ZERO FOOTPRINT BROWSER WEB TIER APPLICATION TIER BI CONTENT MANAGEMENT BI PORTAL SERVICES COGNOS BI BUS: SOAP, XML COGNOS APPLICATION FIREWALL WEB GATEWAYSWEB SERVICES APIs COGNOS PORTAL: SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS REPORT, SERVER AND SECURITY ADMINISTRATION CUSTOMER APPS DISCONNECTED OLAP - Report Consumer/Viewer - Analytical Users (OLAP and ROLAP) - Business Report Authors (Ad Hoc Query) - Professional Report Authors Enterprise Portals, Custom Applications, Intranet, Extranet Web pages,... OLAP Windows Client OLAP Excel Client HIGH VOLUME REPORTING REPORTING: Managed Reporting, Production Reporting, Ad Hoc Query REPORTING SERVICES: Scheduling, Bursting HIGH SPEED ANALYSIS ANALYSIS: OLAP and ROLAP Analysis & Reporting OLAP ACCESS SERVICES: OLAP Connectivity, Security, Administration Event Management ALERT & DETECT Define, Qualify, Schedule, Escalate, Close Loop Processes Metrics Management SCORECARDING KPIs, Trend, Cause and Effect, Close Loop Processes DATA TIER CONTENT STORE/ AUDITING RELATIONAL: Relational (including Aggregate aware RDBMS) -- Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata, ODBC MULTIDIMENSIONAL Cognos OLAP, IBM DB2 OLAP,SAP BW, Microsoft SSAS, Essbase, Oracle 10G LEGACY** Mainframe MODERN XML Common Metadata for a single, consistent business view of physical data Metadata Modeling AUTHENTICATION PROVIDERS HETEROGENEOUS DATA SOURCES EXTRACT/TRANSER/LOAD DIRECT ENTERPRISE INFORMATION INTEGRATION The Big Picture

Cognos 8 Scenarios

Customer Scenario 1  Customer has a large data warehouse (star schema) and needs to do analysis  Customer reluctant to move data into cubes

Scenario 1 - Potential Solutions AdvantagesDisadvantages Use Analysis Studio on star schema data warehouse. Use ROLAP technologies if available (e.g. DB2 Cube Views) to improve performance Create cubes where required for complex calculations and aggregations Use Report Studio when data from DW and cubes needs to be shown together No need to move large amounts of data Reduces latency of information Requires a well designed data warehouse and use of ROLAP technologies which are still emerging (i.e. harder to find skill sets) Create cubes for all analysis and use Analysis Studio Fast performance for the end user Potentially moving large amounts of data will require additional resources and introduce latency Customer will likely complain that they have already invested in getting data into a reportable format in the DW

Customer Scenario 2  Customer has a large IT backlog of reports and users have to wait a long time for their reports  Customer has a combination of OLTP, star schema and cube data sources

Scenario 2 - Potential Solutions AdvantagesDisadvantages Use Query Studio to give users self service to all of the different data sources. Use Report Studio templates to provide better formatting control Provide some users with Report Studio and Analysis Studio Query Studio gives users self service access to all of the customer’s data assets and reduces the reporting backlog Other users with more specific needs get Report Studio and Analysis Studio IT has to support a larger variety of user interfaces Create cubes from OLTP data and provide users with Analysis Studio Provide some users with Report Studio Fewer user interfaces to support Significant work to put all data into a dimensionally modeled relational structure and/or cube Some users will need to format reports and may find it difficult to use Report Studio

Comparison of PowerPlay 7 and Analysis Studio Series 7Cognos 8 Access to cubes PowerPlay Web, PowerPlay Windows Analysis Studio, Query Studio and Report Studio, Event Studio Simple slicing and dicing PowerPlay Web, PowerPlay Windows Cognos Viewer (Report Viewer), Query Studio and Analysis Studio Lightly formatted reports from cubes (titles, font control, etc.) PowerPlay Windows Query Studio and Analysis Studio Heavily formatted reports PowerPlay Windows to some extent Report Studio Publish cubesPowerPlay Enterprise ServerFramework Manager Publish reports based off cubes PowerPlay Enterprise Server to PowerPlay Web No publish step

Summary  In this module we examined:  major innovations in Cognos 8  review of new functionality in Cognos 8  customer scenarios for Cognos 8