Synopsis: Author Bill Pearson continues the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection with an introduction to using Cognos PowerPlay Web with an Analysis Services cube. In this article, we will set up connectivity with simple security, then overview using PowerPlay Web to report and analyze cube data.
Welcome to the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection. The primary […]

Let’s look at using PowerPlay to report from our Analysis Services cube. We’ll examine a few of the capabilities within PowerPlay for viewing cube data, and get a feel for the functionality PowerPlay can provide us in reporting for Analysis Services data sources. We have established connectivity to the Warehouse cube via Cognos Connect […]

PowerPlay Connect is the Cognos mechanism for linking OLAP data from servers other than their own into Cognos PowerPlay.  Cognos offers many integrated Business Intelligence applications, and will likely be the major player in its arena for at least the near-term.  As I continually emphasize to my Cognos clients, the future, at least from the […]

We will assume a basic understanding of Cognos PowerPlay throughout the article, as well as a proper installation of the software in general, as we noted in the introductory article, Cognos Applications Overview. This article assumes a “default” installation of Cognos PowerPlay (PPES and PPWIN components), as well as the correct installation of Cognos […]

In exploring the use of Cognos PowerPlay with Analysis Services cubes, we soon become aware that there are multiple approaches to reaching our ends. In this article we will examine using Cognos PowerPlay’s “client” incarnation, PowerPlay for Windows. We will explore the components involved first, and then we will expose the steps of […]

Synopsis: Author Bill Pearson continues the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection with an introduction to using Cognos PowerPlay with an Analysis Services cube. In this article, we will set up connectivity with simple security, then overview using PowerPlay for Windows to report and analyze cube data.
Welcome to the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection. The primary […]

Within the Construction and Support class, I like to include components of the Cognos BI Suite that are used to either develop, extend, maintain or support BI solutions. The main components that I will address in this article are DecisionStream and Architect. There are others, of course, but these are commonly encountered in […]

Centralized security within the Cognos BI Suite is delivered by Access Manager. Access Manager allows single-point management of user classes and profiles for all implemented components of the suite from a central console. Both authorization security and logon (or authentication) security is addressed. Access Manager can be used standalone to manage the information that your […]

Cognos provides a simple solution for managing access to corporate content in a web environment via the upfront component. Upfront was not really designed as a complete web site / portal content management solution (a point I find myself making again and again to clients for whom I implement the Cognos BI Suite). Although […]

The second general class of Cognos BI functionality, the Management and Integration Components, might be broken down into the following general categories:

Content Management
Security
Construction and Support

While there are various component applications and other elements that clearly fill these categories, there is, again, a degree of crossover in many cases. Some components operate within more than one […]