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1. IBM Cognos 10.1 User Interface Tools
Overview
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Helping Companies Learn From the Past,
1 Manage the Present and Shape the Future

2. Corporate Performance Management Cycle
What is happening?
Scorecards and Dashboards
What happened? Why did it happen?
Reporting Analytics
What will happen? What do I want to happen?
Forecasting Planning
Budgeting
Consolidation
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3. Corporate Performance Management System
PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT Industry Solutions Enterprise Performance Solutions
SOLUTIONS
BEST PRACTICES
How are we Why are we What should
doing? doing it? we be doing?
PERFORMANCE Metrics Query & Event
MANAGEMENT Management Dashboarding Reporting Analysis Management Planning
PLATFORM
PLATFORM Portal Security Configuration Administration
Information
& Business
Data
SERVICES Modeling Integration
Operational or Enterprise Flat, Modern
OLAP Applications and Legacy
Star Schema
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4. IBM Cognos 10 Business Intelligence Reporting and
Analysis
Business
Query Report Cognos Analysis Event Metric Business
Insight
Studio Studio Viewer Studio Studio Studio Insight
Advanced
Single Access To Data (values) and Metadata (info on data properties)
SQL XML MDX ODBC
Composite Metric
Files Database
Relational Cubes
Reporting and Analysis Data Sources More
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5. User Roles
Report Administrator Roles define each
Admin
BI Professional
users’ capabilities
Professional
Author
for creating,
Advanced
viewing, and
Business Author distributing
Author
Business Author reports or
Enhanced Consumer
performing ad-hoc
Consumer
analysis
Recipient
Consumer Remote
Distribution
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6. IBM Cognos 10 Licensing Matrix
BI Advanced BI
BI BI Enhanced BI Business BI Business BI Business BI
Business Professional
Consumer Consumer Author Analyst Manager Professional
Author Author
Cognos BI Capability
Business Insight       
Biz Insight Advanced   
Active Reports       
Cognos Search       
Cognos Collaboration       
Query Studio    
Analysis Studio   
Report Studio  
Metric Studio  
Event Studio 
Transformer 
IBM Cognos Mobile       
*as of 10.1.1*
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7. Examine the IBM Cognos 10 BI Platform
• Metric Studio helps you manage the performance of your
organization by monitoring and analyzing metrics at all levels.
• Query Studio helps you quickly answer a focused question.
• Analysis Studio performs simple to complex analyses and
comparisons of data to discover trends, risks and opportunities.
• Report Studio builds sophisticated reports including multi-
page, multiple-query reports against multiple data sources.
• Event Studio notifies users of key operational or performance-
related events that may affect their business.
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8. Examine the IBM Cognos 10 BI Platform
• Business Insight is a Self-service Dashboard assembly
solution which allows users to leverage existing content
(reports) and assemble them into their own personalized
workspaces, or dashboards
• Business Insight provides personalization and basic analytical
functionality directly within the workspace. It is designed for
consumers that want to enhance their experience with existing
reports allowing them to customize display types and palettes,
perform basic calculations and filtering.
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9. Examine the IBM Cognos 10 BI Platform
• Business Insight Advanced (BIA) is a Self-service Report
Authoring solution which allows users to modify existing reports
using the full functionality of a business authoring tool
• BIA allows users to author their own reports using intuitive
interface features and gestures including advanced
presentation, layout, formatting, complex calculations, and
filtering
• BIA provides an ad-hoc user experience which allows the
authors to interact with the data while they are developing
reports using intuitive, integrated OLAP features such as drill-
down, slice-and-dice, and top/bottom filtering
• BIA combines the best features of ad-hoc (Query Studio),
multi-dimensional Analysis (Analysis Studio), and professional
authoring (Report Studio)
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10. For more information, please visit the Senturus
website, www.senturus.com. Under the Resource
tab you will find upcoming Events, Training
Course Schedule and Recorded Webinars.
– You will find this under the “IBM Cognos Business Intelligence”
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11. Contact Senturus
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sales@senturus.com
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