NetVisn
Envisn
Overview
NetVisn changes the role of Cognos administrators from reactive to proactive, helping them gain full control over the Cognos environment. NetVisn handles documentation, metadata management, security, impact analysis, auditing and usage, and version control – with ease.
Routine management at all levels of the environment is handled by NetVisn. Administrators can identify and correct potential problems before users encounter them, which results in greater uptime and user satisfaction.
NetVisn works equally well in small organizations or in large environments with thousands of users and complex objects. An elegantly simple user interface allows administrators to manage their BI environment with ease.
Seamlessly integrated with IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos ReportNet, NetVisn gives your BI team access to key areas of the BI environment. And they are documented in a way that shows their relationship to each other across the whole environment. Hyperlinks within the documentation make navigation much faster. It’s all done automatically and therefore is always up to date.
Versioning and archiving allow administrators to manage change while retaining full documentation of what has been used in the past.
Benefits
- Manage large, more complex Cognos environments with fewer resources.
- Provides a single, integrated solution for managing all aspects of the BI environment.
- Security is presented in the way you need to manage it, both in terms of objects and users. Validation of security is fast and easy. Changes and corrections can be made from within NetVisn.
- Annotations provide contextual information about reports and other objects, making content easier to understand and use. Plus, they can be retained from version to version automatically.
- Metadata can be imported from external sources and combined with internal metadata. Metadata from NetVisn can also be used as a data source for reporting and analysis within IBM Cognos 8 BI.
- Change management ensures that you automatically stay in compliance by continuously verifying output and complete data lineage (SOX, HIPPAA, Basel II).
- NetVisn is user installable and requires virtually no training. And it's fully automated, so documentation is always up to date and accurate.
- Proven technology that is currently being used by some of Cognos' largest global customers.
Features
- Powerful analytic capabilities provide access to information on every aspect of the environment. Flexible output ensures users get information the way they need to use it.
- Annotations are automatically brought forward from the model, providing answers to questions about report content and data sources.
- Audit and usage data available on all users within the BI environment. Content not currently being used can be removed or upgraded.
- Fully scalable; can be used in environments of any size with consistently fast results.
- Run history of all reports, queries, and analyses with success/failure rates.
- Flexible and accurate impact analysis identifies all content that will be impacted by change.
- Flexible parameter-driven analysis makes it easy to search for specific settings, conditions, and relationships.
- Dependency analysis of all packages, objects, databases, and triggers.
- All public and personal content is documented and visible.
- Quickly validates that the correct database tables are being used in reports, queries, and analyses.
- Shows an object's dependencies including model, jobs, schedule, shortcuts, and views.
- View all joins, business rules, and database references in all packages.
- Security Profiler validates security and ensures that it has been correctly applied.
- Version control and archiving ensures that earlier versions are retained and can be reused when necessary.
Architecture
NetVisn is completely Web based. It was designed from the ground up using state-of the-art architecture and open source tools. It runs on Windows, Unix, and Linux and can be used with all major Web browsers.
NetVisn uses IBM Cognos 8 BI, IBM Cognos ReportNet, Cognos Planning, and Cognos Performance Applications. The solution places no overhead burden on the Cognos software or the content store.
Availability
For more details, visit our Website: www.envisn.com
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