Cognos Analytic Applications are pre-built, extensible software solutions to drive and enable better decision-making, improve performance, and reduce bottlenecks. Cognos Analytic Applications extend the value of ERP and other operational systems, transforming operational data into consistent, reliable information optimized for reporting and analysis. Cognos Analytic Applications purpose is to analyze business data in order to react quickly to market and business trends.

IBM Cognos Analytic Applications are packaged business analysis and reporting solutions that provide line-of-business professionals with actionable, cross-functional insight drawn from information locked in ERPs and other data sources.

Cognos Analytic Applications is a powerful business analysis software offers organizations an integrated view of performance across business functions and departments. With easy-to-consume dashboards and interactive reporting, business users at all levels can quickly get the insight they require, driving smarter decisions and outcomes better aligned with business strategy.

And because Cognos Analytic Applications are built on the open, enterprise-class IBM Cognos Platform, they connect seamlessly with your existing data systems to provide a unified view of performance. The result is continuous, relevant reporting and business analysis with a low total cost of ownership.

Cognos Analytic Applications advantages:

Built-in Business Value:

The Cognos Analytic Applications combine Cognos market leading BI tools with best business practices resulting in a unique value for customers. The built-in business knowledge is based on years of analytic applications expertise and leverage Cognos’ more than 15 years of business intelligence experience with one of the industry’s largest customer bases among independent BI vendors. Cognos breadth and depth of BI ensures you have the right lens into information for the right role.

Extensible for Competitive Advantage:

Cognos Analytics applications provides the tools used to build the applications to ease customizations or extensions to any piece of the applications — whether it is adding additional SAP and non-SAP data, the open data warehouse model, new areas for analysis, customer-specific metrics, new/changed reports and analyses, or new BI pieces for new lenses into the content. The result accelerates return and reduces project risk.

Production-Ready Architecture:

Cognos Analytic Applications are used to built Oracle and SAP on top of a single enterprise data model. This allows the solution to rapidly integrate into enterprise environments with a minimum of IT effort, ensuring they can start anywhere with confidence incremental applications will combine seamlessly into a whole. IT also benefits from easy customizations to reflect their unique ERP customizations, built-in best BI practices and best data warehousing practices, including the automation of incremental data updates and slowly changing dimensions.

Accelerated Time to Result:

Cognos Analytics Applications drives result in time at every step of modeling the problem, preparing the data, analyze and deliver insights. The result is pre-packaged components for IT and business people ensuring a fast time to analytics with data integrity, quality, reliability and accuracy.

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Cognos Configuration allows you configure the properties to enable protection against penetration vulnerabilities, and it acts as a smart proxy for the Cognos product gateways and dispatchers. CAF works to help prevent the C8 environment from processing malicious data.

IBM Cognos Application Firewall (CAF) is a security tool used to supplement the existing IBM Cognos 8 security infrastructure at the application level.

All computers where IBM Cognos 8 Application Tier Components are installed must have the same firewall settings. All Cognos Application Firewall settings must be the same for all computers where IBM Cognos Application Tier Components are installed within a distributed environment.

CAF analyzes, modifies, and validates HTTP and XML requests before the gateways or dispatchers process them, and before they are sent to the requesting client or service.

IBM Cognos Application Firewall validates domain and host names to protect URLs that are created. IBM Cognos Application Firewall considers domain names derived from the environment configuration properties to be safe domain names. You can add names manually to the list of valid domains and hosts. Adding names is useful when you must redirect requests to non-IBM Cognos computers using the Back or Cancel functions in the Web browser.

The Cognos Application Firewall will prevent any non-administrative user from ever seeing the actual details of any error message generated by the system. This prevents users from obtaining potentially damaging information from detailed error messages, which often contain application and database server names

The Cognos Application Firewall also provides parameter signing, where a unique key or signature is generated and appended to report parameters by the application when a URL is constructed. Those signatures are then checked by the dispatcher when it receives the request to ensure that it originated from a trusted source and were not tampered with between the client and the application.

The CAF presents itself to users and administrators in a number of ways during day to day operations. It’s important to properly configure the CAF in a way that enhances system security but does not inhibit productivity, and as always, a large part of this equation is proper user education.

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‘SDK’ stands for software development kit. It’s a set of code libraries, ie. jars or dlls. The SDK comes in three different programming languages: java, C#, and visual basic. It’s not a studio or plugin or executable program. The Cognos SDK occupies a strange position in the Cognos development ecosystem. It’s a solution to a number of problems. People working with Cognos usually have a database or business analysis background, not programming, and often are not familiar with the term ‘SDK‘.

SDK is nothing that you use inside the main Cognos applications. It’s code that a programmer can use to write a script or application that talks to a Cognos server.

Specific to IBM Cognos, the IBM Cognos SDK is the published API that grants access to the BI Bus – the SOAP-based communication mechanism that ties the underlying IBM Cognos 8 BI services (report, content management, presentation, etc).

The Cognos SDK represents the important aspect for the recognizable organizations who are looking to customize, extend, or integrate their IBM Cognos Enterprise BI platform. The IBM Cognos SDK opens the doors to incredible opportunity for application developers with broad access to IBM Cognos’ core services.

Cognos SDK is used for administrative purposes rather than writing reports or queries such as:

To write your own custom security provider.
Integrate Cognos into your own application.
Script out adminstrative tasks.
Programmatically do just about anything you can do manually in Cognos Administration.

You can automate back ups, installs, permission grants, or whatever. If you’re an OEM provider of Cognos, using the SDK is essential. It will allow you to seamlessly integrate a huge amount of Cognos functionality into your own application. Your users may not even know or care that you’re relying on Cognos for your reports.

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Cognos Connection. Since Cognos 8 BI is a web-based solution, reports and analyses are found on a web page. This web page is called Cognos Connection. Cognos Connection provides a single access point to applications so you can view and analyse your data.

Metadata is published to Cognos Connection via packages, for example Corporate Data Warehouse in the above diagram. Each package points to a different data source. Through the packages you can access reports (written in Report Studio), queries (written in Query Studio), analyses (created in Analysis Studio) and metrics (Metric Studio). You can also access agents, which set up alerts for various conditions relating to your data. For example, when revenue in a quarter falls below a certain value.

Because Cognos Connection is a globally scalable you can set preferences to display your personal view of Cognos Connection in your own language. You can also customise your display by adding

• Shortcuts to items such as queries and reports
• Links to files and web sites, and
• Your own portal pages
• Folders to organise entries neatly

Portal pages contain ‘portlets’ and give you a very personalised view of your data and the way it is displayed. You can add

• Cognos content – select from a menu
• A search tool to locate entries in Cognos Connection
• Extended applications, for example created by the Software Development Kit
• A metrics watchlist
• Pages from other web sites

Cognos Connection adds valuable functionality to your reports and analyses. For example

• Reports can be scheduled and distributed by email if required
• Access to reports and packages can be restricted

By mouse-clicking on an entry in Cognos Connection users can execute queries, reports and analyses, or see pre-run results, avoiding the need to re-create output that has recently been run.

You can also distribute output so that users from other areas of your organisation can see them.

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Cognos is a Reporting tool from IBM which helps in reporting and analysis of various data from a data warehouse. Cognos is IBM’s business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite. The software is designed to enable business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports.  It is basically a 3 tier architecture.

Cognos software is currently used to help businesses gain a better understanding of their financial performance strengths and weaknesses as well as help set targets and effectively allocate the resources necessary to achieve those goals.

Cognos-reporting can perform multiple functions such as analyze expenditures all through the organization, track profitability of the products in a company’s portfolio, monitor business environments and determine business frauds and anomalies. This tool remains at the performance management software suite of business intelligence with IBM. The software is designed to allow business users with no technical knowledge to take out company data assemble it and analyze reports.

It is built on open standards, the software products can be utilized with multidimensional and relational data sources from several vendors, including NCR Teradata, Microsoft and others. The latest BI suite’s capabilities comprise activities of analyzing, reporting, scorecards and dash boarding, delivered through a web based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

IBM also offers Cognos Express, which is designed for small to mid-sized companies. The Express edition allows companies to utilize the functions of Cognos 8 BI, while also adding planning, budgeting, and forecasting functions.

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