Modeling components

Modeling components model data within data sources to structure and present data in a way that is meaningful to users.

Modeling components include the following tools:

Creating a business view of your data - Framework Manager

IBM® Cognos® Framework Manager is the modeling tool for creating and managing business-related metadata for use in IBM Cognos Analytics. Metadata is published for use by reporting tools as a package, providing a single, integrated business view of any number of heterogeneous data sources.

Framework Manager must be installed to a different location than Cognos Analytics.

Designing and preparing dynamic cubes - IBM Cognos Cube Designer

IBM Cognos Cube Designer is the modeling tool used to design dynamic, aggregate, and virtual cubes. Relational metadata is imported to use as the basis for dynamic cube design. Individual dynamic cubes are deployed as OLAP data sources to Content Manager in IBM Cognos Analytics.

To work with a deployed cube in the IBM Cognos studios, the modeler must also publish a Framework Manager package for it, configure the deployed cube for use as a data source by the Query Service, and start the cube.