IBM® Cognos® BI applications

IBM® Cognos® BI is a collection of several applications, servers, and services, that is organized in a multi-tiered architecture.

When you use IBM® Cognos® BI with your IBM® EMM suite, you use the following subset of Cognos® BI applications:

IBM® Cognos® BI Server, which provides storage for reports and folders (plus the queries and metadata models), the Content Manager, and so on.

IBM® Cognos® Connection, a web application that you use to import, configure, and schedule the reports. This application also provides access to the following additional components:

Cognos® Viewer: used for displaying reports. Cognos® Viewer is the module that displays the reports in your IBM® EMM applications.

Report Studio: used for customizing reports and creating new ones.

Cognos® Administration: used for configuring data sources, and so on.

IBM® Cognos® Framework Manager, the metadata modeling tool that you use to configure and customize the Cognos® data model that supports the IBM® Cognos® BI reports for your IBM® EMM application.

IBM® Cognos® Configuration, the configuration tool that you use to configure individual Cognos® BI components.