About the Framework Manager data models

A Cognos model is reporting metadata that describes physical database objects and their relationships to query subjects and query items. When you build reports in IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio, you build them from query subjects and items described in the model.

The data model for a IBM® Unica® application references the reporting views in the IBM® Unica® application database, making that data available to the Cognos 8 reports that are also delivered in the IBM® Unica® Reports Package.

When you configure the reporting views to include additional attributes, metrics, response types, and so on, you synchronize the Cognos reporting model with the reporting views and publish the revised model to the Cognos content store. At that point, those new attributes become available in Report Studio and you can add them to the IBM® Unica® reports.

The IBM Cognos 8 model from a IBM® Unica® Reports Package presents the IBM® Unica® application metadata in the following three categories (folders).

Import View. This level represents the data from the reporting schemas in the IBM® Unica® application database. You use this view to synchronize the data model with the IBM® Unica® database views, materialized views, or reporting tables through the data source connection.

Model View. This is the working area where you perform basic metadata transformations. You set up relationships between object entities represented by query subjects, creating building blocks that can be used in the Business View.

Business View. This level organizes query subjects in terms of business objects to simplify report building. This is the information you see when you open an IBM® Unica® application report in Report Studio.

The Campaign and eMessage models include shortcuts from the Model View to the Business View. The Interact model does not use shortcuts in the same way because some of its query subjects span two data sources.