Cognos Group

[jim wood]

Guys,

Should the Cognos group be split in to it's product set and should TM1 be within it?

Jim.

[Martin Ryan]

Yes, good idea. I personally prefer not too many splits though as issues can cross areas. What products are there in Cognos? I don't actually know... Anybody got a product list?

[Alan Kirk]

Yes, good idea. I personally prefer not too many splits though as issues can cross areas. What products are there in Cognos? I don't actually know... Anybody got a product list?

Umm... I think you'll find one in the OLAPedia.

http://wiki.olapforums.com/index.php?title=Cognos

(I thought you were the one who wrote that...)

[Martin Ryan]

Busted. I copied and pasted from Wikipedia. I did tidy it up though.

[Martin Ryan]

And after reading what I "wrote" I'm not that much wiser.

So Cognos 8 BI is a stand alone tool? Then Analyst and Contributor are two tools that go together to create Planning? Does that suggest three forums (BI, Analyst, Contributor) or two (BI, Planning), or what?

Martin

[Alan Kirk]

And after reading what I "wrote" I'm not that much wiser.

So Cognos 8 BI is a stand alone tool? Then Analyst and Contributor are two tools that go together to create Planning? Does that suggest three forums (BI, Analyst, Contributor) or two (BI, Planning), or what?

Martin

This page ties with what I understood the situation was:

http://www.cognos.com/products/planning ... ing_button

IBM Cognos 8 Planning ... (is) ... Part of an integrated but separable performance management system delivering planning, reporting, scorecarding, dashboards, analysis and financial consolidation.

Then you also have Reporting:
http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8b ... ort_button

In other words, I believe it's modular rather like base TM1, Web, EV, only with many more permutations. Pick some or pick all. Though I admit that this isn't from first hand experience at this point.

[Martin Ryan]

Anyone with firsthand Cognos knowledge want to add their suggestion? I'm leaning towards just having Planning and Reporting. A purist would suggest that there should be multiple splits, but I'm conscious we don't want to have umpteen squared forums for umpteen tools.

Martin

[rollo19]

I suggest split it into Cognos BI and Cognos Planning:

Cognos BI - which includes the Cognos portal, common to all Cognos tools such as Planning, Consolidation, Report Authoring, ad-hoc OLAP and relational query tools, Event driven automation of reporting jobs etc. As this is an OLAP forum, some people may be interested in a category for Cognos Transformer & Power cubes.

Cognos Planning which is an OLAP modelling tool comprised of two components - Analyst which is a client tool to build/manage models and do centralised planning - similar to TM1 server. Contributor is a bit like executive viewer for the web, with workflow and audit-ability - so you take models built in Analyst and roll them out in Contributor to any number of people for collaborative planning.

[Martin Ryan]

I've done as suggested in this thread - left the Original Cognos forum and created inside that forum the Planning, BI and TM1 forums.

If you want to go direct to the TM1 forum you can still use the link: http://forums.olapforums.com/viewforum.php?f=3

Martin

[John Hobson]

Sorry - getting into this late as I'm on holiday but you can see how the Cognos veterans split it at http://www.cognoise.com/community/

J