New in Cognos reporting

With IBM® Control Desk 7.6, you have access to the Cognos® 10.2.1 BI Server products. These powerful enterprise tools enable you to perform a deeper analysis of visualization of the product data.

Cognos reporting helps you to extensively analyze your data

A complete set of tools is provided for your business user, administrator, and developer that includes Cognos Connection, Workspace, Workspace Advanced, Report Studio, and Cognos Administration. After you install and configure your Cognos server to integrate with Maximo®, your business users and report developers can create a wide variety of reports and workspaces to analyze the vast amounts of data that is generated by IBM Control Desk.

Improvements to metadata provide more options in Cognos reporting

Cognos relies on metadata, or pre-joined database objects, for creating and running reports. With the Maximo Integration Framework, you can publish Report Object Structures as Cognos metadata packages. In version 7.6, new site or organization restrictions are added to the metadata during the publishing process to ensure users see only the site or organization data that they have access to. Additionally, the types of maxrelationships that can be used within Report Object Structures for publishing are greatly increased.

New features add flexibility to how users access Cognos

New access points are added so that users can access Cognos. Business or power users who are focused on data analysis can bypass IBM Control Desk and directly sign into the Cognos Server with their IBM Control Desk user IDs. Users can also access Cognos reporting directly from IBM Control Desk through the new Analytics module, or from within an application.

A suite of Cognos reports and workspaces provide examples of how you can analyze your data

A suite of Cognos reports and workspaces are available that focus on assets, asset failures, work orders, and inventory. The following features are included:
  • Metric reports provide you with detailed information and are accessible from the Cognos portal.
  • Application workspaces highlight non-performing areas within your business. With a range of filterable values, the workspaces provide visual, intuitive, and configurable metrics that users can easily interact with.
  • Trending workspaces provide a view of metrics using the time dimensions of week, month, quarter, and year. By capitalizing on the new KPI Template application, and the KPI Scheduling features, these workspaces provide historical data views for trending analysis.

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Parent topic: New in Business Intelligence in IBM Control Desk 7.6

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