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Cognos 8 BI Architecture
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About the Author
Cognos Certified Professional having 3+ years of experience in Cognos Credential
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COGNOS/PPT/0807/1.0 Version and
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Mani Sathiya Samuel, Jayaprakash Santhosh (112888) Created By:
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Cognos 8 BI Architecture: Overview
Introduction:
This chapter exposes you to the internal architecture of Cognos 8
Business Intelligence (BI). Also, it explains the various components of
Cognos and how they communicate with each other.
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Cognos 8 BI Architecture: Objective
Objective:
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
List the components of Cognos 8 and the tier they belong to
List the Web based User Interfaces (UI) which will be used by the
developer
Define Cognos 8 BI
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Cognos 8 BI Introduction
Cognos 8 BI is a enterprise wide BI solution.
It helps in operational reporting, analytic reporting, adhoc
reporting, scorecarding, and event notification.
It is a web based solution. Both development and enduser
viewing can happen on web.
It supports both Relational Online Analytical Processing
(ROLAP) and Multidimensional Online Analytical Processing
(MOLAP )datasources.
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Cognos 8 Architecture
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Cognos 8 BI
Cognos 8 has a multitiered architecture. It can be separated into three tiers
namely: Web Server, Application Server, and Data Server.
Cognos 8 BI has both Windows based and Web based interfaces. These interfaces
sit on top of all the tiers.
The following are the Web based UI for COGNOS:
Cognos Connection
Query Studio
Report Studio
Analysis Studio
Event Studio
Metrics Studio
The following are the Windows based UI for COGNOS:
Framework Manager
Metrics Designer
Transformer
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User Interface
Cognos connection:
It is a Web portal and a single point of access for data and all other
Cognos products. To simply say it is the HOME PAGE for Cognos Web
based Interfaces.
Query studio:
Query studio is an adhoc reporting tool that lets users with little or no
training quickly design, create, and save reports.
Report studio:
This is a professional report development tool, where the users can
create, edit, and distribute reports. This is the most often used Interface.
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User Interface (Contd.)
Analysis Studio:
Analysis Studio helps in viewing both ROLAP and MOLAP data sources.
It gives the ability to user to analyze the data in a better way.
Event Studio:
Helps in scheduling reports automatically
Also, helps in raising triggers when any value goes down a permissible
limit. For example for a Stock Manager, if the inventory value falls below
very much, an automated email has to be sent highlighting the fact.
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User Interface (Contd.)
Metrics Studio:
This interface helps the Senior Management of a company to monitor
the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of the company as a whole.
It provides Dashboarding and Scorecarding capabilities.
Framework Manager:
This Windows based interface helps in building the Metadata layer of
the Physical data.
It is this Metadata, which will be exposed to the Report author for
building reports.
Transformer:
This Interface actually helps in designing and developing the multi
dimensional cubes.
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Tier 1: Web Tier
The Web tier contains one more Cognos gateway residing on
WebServers.
When a Cognos 8 gateway receives a request, it:
Encrypts passwords to ensure security
Extracts information needed to submit the request to a Cognos 8 server
Attaches environment variables for the Web server
Adds a default namespace to the request to ensure that the server
authenticates the user in the correct namespace
Passes requests to a Cognos 8 dispatcher for processing
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Tier 2: Application Tier
This tier contains one or more Cognos servers.
The main Application Server component is Dispatcher,
Content Manager, and services like report service, job service,
log service, presentation service, and so on, managed by
Dispatcher.
A dispatcher starts all Cognos 8 Services Configured and
enabled on a computer and routes requests to appropriate
services.
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Tier 2: Application Tier (Contd.)
A Cognos server has the following services:
Presentation service:
Handles requests from Cognos Connection, Query Studio, and Event Studio.
This takes care of rendering the report.
Report service:
The report service handles interactive requests to run reports and provides
output for a user.
Batch report service:
The batch report service handles background requests to run reports.
Job service:
The job service runs jobs by signaling the monitoring service to run job
steps in the background.
Monitoring Service:
The monitoring service assigns a target service to handle a scheduled task.
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Tier 2: Application Tier (Contd.)
Log Service:
The log service manages all logs generated by the dispatcher and other services.
Content Manager Service:
The content manager service performs object manipulation functions in the content
store such as add, query, update, delete, move, and copy.
Metrics Manager Service:
Metrics manager service provides the metrics studio interface for monitoring and
entering performance information.
Data Integration Service:
Data integration service controls the loading of metrics data and the calculation of
metrics status for scorecarding in metrics studio.
Content Manager:
Content Manager is the Cognos 8 service that manages the storage of customer
application data including security, configuration data, models, metrics, report
specifications, and report output.
Content Manager is needed to publish models, retrieve, or store report
specifications, manage scheduling information, and manage the Cognos namespace.
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Tier 3: Database Tier
This tier consists of content store database, application
database, and metrics store:
Content store:
This is a relational database where all the data needed for Cognos 8 to
operate is stored.
Application database:
This is the actual business data on which Cognos 8 do the reporting.
Metrics store:
This is a relational database that contents for metrics packages. It also
contains metrics studio settings such as User Preferences.
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Questions from participants
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Test Your Understanding
1. What is the name of the interface where you can schedule
reports?
2. Which of the following is a windows based interface?
a. Transformer
b. Metrics Studio
c. Event Studio
d. Analysis Studio
3. List all the services of Cognos server.
4. The Content Manager is available in
a. Tier 1
b. Tier 2
c. Tier 3
5. What is the functionality of a dispatcher?
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Cognos 8 BI Architecture: Summary
Cognos 8 BI is a complete Enterprise reporting solution.
The architecture is three tiered: Web, Application, and
Database.
The Developer and Business user Interfaces of Cognos are
both Web based and Windows based.
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Cognos 8 BI Architecture: Source
Cognos 8 BI Architecture and Planning (PDF document from
Cognos)
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