These documents provide a high-level introduction to the
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence products, and some of the important
new features and capabilities for version 10.1.0.
IBM Cognos BI New Features
(Information Center)
This publication introduces you to the new features in
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.1 and includes references
to the product documentation for additional information. The guide
gives you an organized view of the features by functional area and
audience role.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 Handbook
(IBM Redbook)
Use this IBM Redbook publication to help you understand
the new features in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.1.
This guide uses a fictional business scenario to demonstrate the capabilities
of the product, and focuses on the roles of the Advanced Business
User, Professional Report Author, Modeler, Administrator, and IT Architect.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1: Intelligence Unleashed
(IBM Redguide)
This IBM Redguide introduces the new features of IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence version 10.1. The document discusses how the
product can satisfy the needs of the user community by enabling features
such as collaboration. The guide describes how IT is simplified because
fewer components are required to deploy, manage, and maintain.
IBM Cognos BI - Overview
(Marketing)
This is the home page for the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
version 10.1. Overview material describing the unified BI workspace,
collaboration, and mobile analytics, as well as product demos, white
papers, and videos are all available.
Before you install IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, carefully
consider your IT environment and your users and their business intelligence
requirements. Careful planning facilitates performance, the best use
of your resources, and helps you to avoid potential problems.
Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Software Environments
(Technote)
This technote documents an up-to-date list of environments
supported by IBM Cognos Business Intelligence products, such as operating
systems, patches, browsers, Web servers, directory servers, database
servers, and application servers. Before installing, review the supported
environments to ensure your product works properly.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Release Notes
(Information Center)
Before you install your IBM Cognos product it is important
to be aware of all issues that can affect your installation strategy.
There might be issues that were not known when the installation information
was written. Review the Release Notes file before you install your
product.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment
(Information Center)
This document describes the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
architecture from the perspectives of structure, communications, workflow,
and security. It provides information to help you plan an installation,
improve performance, and secure a deployment.
After carefully planning your system, you can begin installing
the various prerequisites and components. These documents provide
step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring components
of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, Version 10.1.0. Product installation
guides, such as the IBM Cognos Data Manager installation and configuration
guides, component add-on installation guides, such as the IBM Cognos
Mobile, and Getting Started Installation Guides, such as IBM Cognos
Reporting are available in the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Information
Center.
Installing IBM Cognos BI Components
IBM Cognos BI Installation and Configuration
(Information Center)
This guide contains instructions for installing, upgrading,
configuring, and testing IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. The document
provides information about changing application servers, and setting
up samples.
IBM Cognos Statistics Installation and Configuration
(Information Center)
IBM Cognos Statistics is used with IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence to provide business users, analysts, and programmers
with the ability to analyze, view, and present complex data. This
document describes the installation, configuration, and administration
tasks required for IBM Cognos Statistics.
IBM Cognos Virtual View Manager Installation and Configuration
(Information Center)
Virtual View Manager is a server product that helps business
users query different and distributed information sources and create
a unified view of their business information. This document provides
instructions for installing and configuring IBM Cognos Virtual View
Manager with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence server and IBM Cognos
Framework Manager.
IBM Cognos BI Lifecycle Manager User Guide
(Information Center)
This document describes the proven practice upgrade process,
from project planning and status reporting to upgrade verification
and identification of compatibility issues between releases.
IBM Cognos BI Installation and Configuration - Upgrading to IBM Cognos BI Version 10.1.0
(Information Center)
New versions of the product provide enhancements that may
affect many components, such as product features and functionality,
performance and scalability, and usability. Because of these improvements,
upgrading may not be simple, and should be considered a process that
you perform in stages. This document describes the upgrade process.
These documents contain recommendations, technical assistance,
and proven practices when migrating IBM Cognos Series applications
to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. Additional resources available
on the migration Web site: //www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/customercenter/migration.html
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Migration
(Technote)
For the Series 7 customers moving to the latest version
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence this home page lists links to a number
planning and technical documents, professional migration service assistance,
and education.
IBM Cognos Migration Assistant User Guide
(Information Center)
This document provides background information and step-by-step
procedures to help you move metadata and applications from IBM Cognos
Series 7 to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.
After installing and configuring, administrators will find
these documents useful for server administration, data management,
security and content administration, activities management, customization,
and portal services administration.
IBM Cognos - Content Administration in IBM Cognos Connection
(Information Center)
This document describes the administration tasks you perform
in the portal to monitor servers, optimize performance, set access
permissions, and schedule and distribute reports, agents, and metrics.
IBM Cognos Security Administration - Security Model
(Information Center)
This document describes the IBM Cognos security environment
in various situations, from a proof of concept application where security
is rarely enabled to a large scale enterprise deployment.
Use these resources to help you understand the fundamental
modeling concepts to model metadata for use in business reporting
and analysis.
Guidelines for Modeling Metadata
(Information Center)
This document discusses fundamental IBM Cognos modeling
concepts that you need to understand about modeling metadata for use
in business reporting and analysis, and guidelines for building the
relational model.
These documents provide the business report author information
and step-by-step procedures and background information to help explore
and analyze data, build adhoc, standard, and complex reports, integrate
with Microsoft Office, and manage business performance.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Query and Reporting: Gain insight and outperform
(White Paper)
Use this document to learn about some of the IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence query and reporting capabilities, such as built-in
collaboration and social networking, and IBM Cognos Active Report
which enables users to access and interact with report and dashboard
content whether they are connected to or disconnected from the network.
Report Studio User Guide
(Information Center)
This document provides step-by-step procedures and background
information to help you create standard and complex reports.
Business Insight User Guide
(Information Center)
This document provides step-by-step procedures and background
information to help you create dashboards. IBM Cognos Business Insight
is a Web product for creating interactive dashboards using IBM Cognos
content, as well as external data sources, according to your specific
information needs.
The IBM Cognos 10 Dynamic Query Cookbook
(Proven Practice)
This document provides techniques for using dynamic query
mode in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.1. The information
also describes product behaviour, query optimization, configuring
data source connections for Oracle Essbase, SAP BW, and TM1, and how
Framework Manager uses dynamic query mode.
When a problem occurs in your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
installation or application, you must determine the scope of the problem,
which components are involved, and how to solve the issue. To help
you do this, the resources in this section provide information on
troubleshooting problems, and links to accessing support and services
from IBM
Administration and Security - Troubleshooting
(Information Center)
This document describes some troubleshooting resources
that can help you resolve problems. It also lists some common issues
by functional area and steps to resolve the problem.
IBM Cognos Enterprise BI (forum)
(Forum)
This forum is a place to exchange ideas and share solutions
with your peers in the IBM Cognos community. Active participation
in the forum will allow all the participants to get the maximum return.
All information is for community discussion and should not be considered
IBM support.
Information Management support - Cognos Diagnostic Tools and Utilities
(Technote)
IBM Cognos developed a number of diagnostic tools to help
verify your environment, identify and troubleshoot issues, provide
you with a way to automate data collection and detailed systems information
when you need it. Diagnostic results can be attached to cases logged
with IBM Cognos Support, significantly reducing time spend during
the manual data collection.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offers technical training
and education services designed to suit your application, role, timeline
and preferred learning format. This section lists some of the available
courses by job role.
IBM Cognos BI – Professional Author Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Professional
Author. The Professional Author builds sophisticated reports and dashboards
for a wide range of heterogeneous consumers by gathering report requirements
and creating the reports for distribution. These authors are Involved
in setting up business events management activities.
IBM Cognos BI – Business Author Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Business Author.
The Business Author builds simple queries to focus on variances, sifts
through large amounts of data, and investigates different areas of
the business through ad hoc reports and interactive analyses.
IBM Cognos BI – Developer Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Developer.
The Developer is responsible for building databases, models or applications
for end users. This can include data mart development, metadata and
OLAP models, building and deployment of scorecards or development
of SDK applications.
IBM Cognos BI – Project Manager Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Project Manager.
The Project Manager is responsible for managing the development, maintenance
and deployment of Business Intelligence Solutions (manages budgets,
objectives, risks, people and time-lines associated with fulfilling
a defined scope of requirements for an IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
implementation or migration.
IBM Cognos BI – Administrator Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Administrator.
The Administrator manages the deployment of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence,
including installation, configuration, maintenance, content management,
security and system optimization.
IBM Cognos BI - Consumer Role
(Web site, pdf)
This guide contains training courses for the Consumer.
The Consumer uses the Cognos Connection portal to view reports, customizes
personal portal experience, and manages personal content and/or view
scorecards.
To help you learn the features and capabilities in IBM
Cognos 8 BI, use the samples to guide you through the process of building
an application. The samples are an introduction to key concepts you
need to understand how to model your data, create, query and analyze
reports
IBM Cognos BI Getting Started
(Information Center)
The tutorial describes the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
architecture and provides examples to illustrate key functionality.
IBM Cognos BI Quick Tours
(Information Center)
These Quick Tours teach you the basic skills that you need
for using the IBM Cognos Connection, Query Studio, Report Studio,
Analysis Studio, and Event Studio. Each Quick Tour takes about 15
to 30 minutes to complete.
