Introduction to

Cognos BI Administration
Cognos BI

Objectives
At the end of this module, you should be able
to identify and explain the:

Cognos BI position in the performance

management system

role of the Administrator in relation to the

Cognos BI administration workflow process

Cognos BI user interface components

Cognos BI Workflow
Identify the tasks performed to install,
configure, and use Cognos BI.

Administration Workflow
Identify the high-level tasks of the
Administrator.
Plan
Cognos
architecture
installation and
configuration
options
performance
variables
multilingual
requirements

Install
Cognos
single server
distributed

Configure
Cognos
servers
security
(environment)

Administer
Cognos
servers and
activities
backup
deployment
security (content)
BI content
data connections

Cognos BI User Interface

Components
Cognos BI server components perform request
processing for users of Cognos BI portal,
reporting, querying, analysis, event
management, scorecarding, and modeling
components.
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Web-based interfaces
Cognos Connection
Cognos Administration
Query Studio
Report Studio
Analysis Studio
Event Studio
Metric Studio

Cognos BI User Interface

Components (contd)

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Windows-based interfaces
Framework Manager
Metric Designer
Transformer
Map Manager
Data Manager
Cognos Go! Office