Business Analytics - IBM Cognos

Med. AMNAI

Filière Master Cloud BIG DATA

Département d’Informatique

28 octobre 2020
 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Framework Manager

Plan

1 Introduction : What is Analytics ?

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Framework Manager

Plan

1 Introduction : What is Analytics ?

2 IBM Cognos Report Studio

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio
Framework Manager

Plan

1 Introduction : What is Analytics ?

2 IBM Cognos Report Studio
3 Framework Manager

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Introduction

Analytics is using analysis capabilities to :

• Discover what is happening

• Determine why is it happening

• Predict what is likely to happen

• Prescribe the best action to take

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Why analytics matter

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Analytics for Performance Management
Business Intelligence : optimize or derive improved business
performance
1 => Information,
• Accurate
• In time
• Complete

2 => Decision(s),
3 => Performance
Areas to improve ?
• Acquire, grow, and retain customers,
• Minimize/manage risk,
• Optimize operations and reduce fraud,
• Transform nancial processes.

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Dierent needs for Business Analytics

Dierence executives use business analytics to achieve dierent

goals

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?

• Dierent points of views !

• Business Analytics
• Enterprise information
• Enterprise performance management
• Data warehousing
• Analytic applications
• Business Intelligence
• Business risks
• ...

• Business Intelligence
• Querying
• Reporting
• OLAP

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 Introduction Why analytics matter
IBM Cognos Report Studio Analytics for Performance Management
Framework Manager Dierent needs for Business Analytics
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?
Business Analytics or Business Intelligence ?

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

IBM Cognos Architecture

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

Example IBM Cognos Deployment

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

Common Cognos Workow

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

Role of an IBM Cognos Metadata Model

• Metadata model provides a business presentation view

of data sources.
• BI users use the model to analyze and report on their
data sources.

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

OLAP Data Structures - Cube

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

Entities in Dierent Data Structures

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio A Overview of Cognos BI
Framework Manager

Relational Models : Operational vs. Reporting

• Requirement : Show all customer types that bought from a

product line.

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

What is Framework Manager ?

• Provides the metadata model development environment for

IBM Cognos BI.
• Used to create simplied business presentations of
metadata derived from one or more data sources.

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

What is Framework Manager ? (Cont'd)

Can create two model types :
• Relational for reporting
• Dimensionally modeled relational (DMR) for OLAP style
analysis and reporting.

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Examine a Framework Manager project

At the highest level, objects in a project include :

• A model organized into a namespaces and folders.
• Data sources.
• Parameter maps.
• Packages.

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Examine a Framework Manager project

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Examine the Model from the author's Point of View

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Framework Manager Workow

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Framework Manager Metadata Elements

• Metadata is dened and organized by the following

elements :

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 Introduction
IBM Cognos Report Studio What is Framework Manager ?
Framework Manager

Explore Framework Manager

TP1 (Demo 1) :
• Explore Framework Manager
• Create Metadata Models in IBM Cognos BI

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