IBM Cognos 8 Customers List

IBM Cognos 8 helps combine various products and applications of Cognos. The various components of Cognos 8 are report studio, event studio, Cognos connection, analysis studio, framework manager, content store, IBM Cognos TM1, and others. The architecture of Cognos 8 is seen as completely different from other previous versions. The steps that Cognos 8 follows to enable business users are creating reports, building dimensional reports with report studio, implementing the right measures, providing complete access to the broad range of the data sources, etc. The solution supports different gateways such as apache_mod, CGI, servlet, ISAPI, and others.

The IBM Cognos 8 contains the data sources, content store, and metric store. It extends the inherent capabilities, and leverages all the data, offers a pipelined transformation engine. The solution is built on web services for the right flexibility. The benefits of Cognos 8 are it gives scalability, transparency, and availability.