IBM® Cognos® TM1® Pattern is
a pattern that simplifies the installation and configuration of an IBM Cognos TM1 environment. It uses reusable
and customizable components that collectively make an automation package
for the solution deployment. This automation package decreases the
time and costs of a solution deployment and shortens the time to value
by automatically creating middleware assets.
Cognos TM1 Pattern can be deployed on IBM PureApplication® System.
The pattern deploys a virtual system instance that consists of
the following products:
- IBM Cognos TM1
- Enables organizations to optimize performance through advanced
planning, analytics, modeling, and reporting. IBM Cognos TM1 applications are supported by
its patented, 64-bit, in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP)
server, which provides on-demand analytics of complex multidimensional
data with real-time analysis and calculation performance.
- IBM Java Runtime Environment
- Java™ Runtime Environment for running Java applications.
Server components
The
IBM Cognos TM1 Pattern includes the
following server components:
- Cognos TM1 Server
- Includes the Cognos TM1 Admin Server and IBM Cognos TM1 Server, the 64-bit, in-memory
online analytical processing (OLAP) server.
- Cognos TM1 Web
- Web-based component that extends the analytical power of Cognos TM1 by helping you to view, analyze, edit, and
chart your TM1 data in a web
browser. Administrators can also use Cognos TM1 Web to perform some Cognos TM1 administration tasks.
- Cognos TM1 Applications
- Are the basis for organizing and managing applications. Application
modelers can use Cognos TM1 Application Web, Cognos Insight in distributed, or Cognos Insight in connected mode
to contribute to their applications. You can start Cognos TM1 Performance
Modeler from Cognos TM1 Applications. Cognos TM1 Performance
Modeler is used by modelers to plan and build the data structures
on which applications are based.
- Cognos TM1 Operations Console
- Web-based component that is used to monitor the activity of Cognos TM1 servers.
- IBM Cognos TM1 Scorecarding
- Integrates scorecarding dashboards and strategy management into Cognos
TM1. Use IBM
Cognos
TM1 Performance Modeler to define the key performance
indicators (KPIs) to monitor. Use them to build your scorecarding diagrams. The scorecard objects
and diagrams you create are stored in your Cognos
TM1 server and made accessible to users as interactive
dashboards. This collection of scorecarding features creates a close integration of scorecarding and
strategy with planning, analysis, and dashboarding.
- Performance Management Hub
- REST-based API for TM1 Clients
to interact with the TM1 Server.
Client components
The following components are available:
- IBM
Cognos Insight
- A stand-alone tool that helps you to work with complicated data sources in easy to use
workspaces. Cognos Insight integrates with IBM
Cognos
Express®, IBM
Cognos
TM1, and IBM
Cognos Business Intelligence.
- IBM
Cognos Performance Modeler
- Use Cognos
TM1 Performance Modeler to build models that use dimensions,
cubes, links, and rules. Create applications from cube views, assign workflow, and set up security.
You can then deploy, administer, and maintain your applications. You can also import data into
Cognos TM1 by using Cognos Performance Modeler.
You can download and install the previously listed components from the IBM
Cognos
TM1 Applications portal. For more information, see
Accessing the Cognos TM1 web applications.
Other components
The following components
are available but they are not installed by the pattern:
- IBM Cognos TM1 Architect
- An older Cognos TM1 modeling tool that supports
the creation and maintenance of all TM1 objects. TM1 Architect does not support automatic
feeder and rules generation, and does not provide guided import capabilities.
- IBM Cognos TM1 Perspectives
- The TM1 Excel Add-In. Cognos TM1 Perspectives is an older tool that can be
used for both Cognos TM1 model development and for analyzing
data by using Microsoft Excel
capabilities. Cognos TM1 Perspectives supports the creation
and maintenance of all Cognos TM1 objects, but does not provide
the advanced capabilities of Cognos Performance
Modeler. If you require an Excel Add-In interface and the ability
to use Microsoft Excel
functionality, such as charting, when you work with TM1 data, you can use Perspectives.
- Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel
- A Microsoft Excel-based
tool that professional report authors use to build sophisticated,
multiple-sheet, multiple-query reports against multiple databases.
- Cognos TM1 Mobile Contributor
- A mobile application for the Apple iPad that connects to an IBM Cognos TM1 Server and coexists with other
desktop and web applications that connect to the same server. Mobile
users can access all their planning applications from IBM Cognos TM1 Applications, view submission
status for all approval nodes, and interact with cube views in a grid
or chart format right in the iPad app. Users can also change values
on the iPad and submit them back to the plan where the data is updated
on the IBM Cognos TM1 server.
TM1 samples
During
pattern installation you can choose to install the Cognos TM1 samples.
For information about the Cognos TM1 samples, refer to your IBM Cognos TM1 documentation.
Logging
Operations performed in Cognos TM1 Pattern are recorded
in log files. Logs are organized by virtual machine name. The log
files are stored under the IBM TM1 category.
The log files that are available under this category can vary, based
on the Cognos TM1 services provided by the virtual machine.
For example, the log files for the web tier are different from the
log files for the data tier. For information about accessing and viewing
the logs, see the documentation for your system.