IBM Cognos Business intelligence

Vishal choudhary
What is IBM Cognos BI
is a web based reporting and analytic tool. It is
used to perform data aggregation and create
user friendly detailed reports. IBM Cognos
provides a wide range of features and can be
considered as an enterprise software to
provide flexible reporting environment and
can be used for large and medium enterprise
 Benefits of IBM Cognos
Cognos will specifically benefit your company in these five ways:

1. It leverages your data by analyzing information to reveal hidden insights so

you can make confident and informed decisions with improved
operational efficiency.
2. It offers powerful "what if" scenario tools that allow you to make more
confident decisions with predictive analytics, allowing you to plan and
reach your organizational goals faster.
3. It transforms your business from a reactive model to a proactive
organization. Identifiy corporate risks and new opportunities from the get
go!
4. With Cognos Studios you can easily design and create a custom dashboard.
In just a few simple steps you can interact with this information for greater
business intelligence insights.
5. Create dynamic reports with an easy to use drag and drop user interface for
content authoring, relational or dimensional data, multiple data layouts
and visualizations, various styles and formatting, distribution, and
incorporation of multiple external data sources.
 Data Warehouse
• Data from multiple heterogeneous data
sources and is used for analytical reporting
and decision making. Data Warehouse is a
central place where data is stored from
different data sources and applications.
 OLTP vs OLAP
• ETL & Reporting Tools

An ETL tool extracts the data from all these

heterogeneous data sources, transforms the
data (like applying calculations, joining fields,
keys, removing incorrect data fields, etc.), and
loads it into a Data Warehouse.
The data mart is a subset of the data
warehouse and is usually oriented to a specific
business line or team. Whereas data
warehouses have an enterprise-wide depth,
the information in data marts pertains to a
single department. In some deployments,
each department or business unit is
considered the owner of its data mart
including all the hardware, software and data
 BI Reporting Tool
There are quite a few BI Reporting, Dashboard and
Data Visualization Tools available in the market.
Some of which are as follows –
• SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence (WebI)
• Crystal Reports
• SAP Lumira
• Dashboard Designer
• IBM Cognos
• Microsoft BI Platform
 Multilayer architecture
• UI
• T1:web server
• T2:application server
• T3:data
• Prompt controls provide the user interface in
which the questions are asked. Parameter
values provide the answers to the questions. If
you include reports from different packages in
an interactive dashboard that uses global
filters, ensure that you use the same
parameter name for the prompt in all the
reports.