Flexible data sourcing

Cognos 8 platform for performance management


The Cognos 8 platform provides heterogeneous data access, data management, and centralized metadata to create a consistent business view of your data, improve collaboration, and accelerate time to results.

Common Metadata

Data from any source

The Cognos 8 platform delivers a flexible, cost-effective framework for uniting all of your corporate data to drive business performance.

  • Access any data including relational, OLAP, flat files, XML, and ERP.
  • Leverage any data infrastructure, whatever range of complexity.

Direct access

Leverage information directly from data sources and tools that are already in place, including OLAP and dimensionally modeled relational sources.

EII

Access multiple disparate data sources in batch, historic, or real-time. Use either the built-in enterprise information integration (EII) capability or leverage third-party integration technologies.

  • Lets you collect and integrate distributed data without data latency or migration.
  • Ensures high performance and sophisticated caching when you require a single view of data sourced from multiple systems including XML, JDBC, WSDL, LDAP, and Web services.
  • Optimizes query processing across your data.

ETL

The Cognos 8 platform provides extract, transform, and load (ETL) capability to deliver a consolidated dimensional view for analysis and reporting.

  • Built on a dimensional framework to provide information based on the way business users think.
  • Optimized for IBM Cognos 8 BI capabilities.
  • Lets you leverage and enhance your investments in third-party tools. For example, the Cognos relationship with IBM includes support for DB2 UDB, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, XML, email, CRM, and portal applications.

Read more: Dimensional ETL with Cognos



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Value from the Cognos 8 Platform
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The Cognos 8 platform provides an open, enterprise-class platform as the foundation required to address performance management needs across the organization. Underpinning Cognos performance management products, it delivers complete, consistent access to information; broad system management; and is built on a modern, service-oriented architecture.
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