Getting Started with Cognos TM1 Applications

Use Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler to design the cubes and dimensions that define your data. Then you can construct a Cognos TM1 Application to manage workflow of that data such as contributing to a plan or reviewing changes. The Cognos TM1 Applications portal is the launch pad for the activity around the application. It is managed by the Cognos TM1 Applications server which provides the web access to the applications. You can choose a variety of different clients to use when working with the applications.

Cognos TM1 Applications serve as the basis for organizing and managing applications. Application modelers offer the choice of using Cognos TM1 Application Web, Cognos Insight in distributed or Cognos Insight in connected mode to contribute to their applications. In addition, Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler can be launched from Cognos TM1 Applications and is used by modelers to plan and build the data structures on which applications are based.

Each of the clients available through Cognos TM1 Applications has advantages, and the modeler makes the determination of which to offer based on several factors.

Cognos Insight

• Cognos Insight offers a flexible and interactive experience with a choice of distributed or connected modes.
• In its distributed mode, Cognos Insight uses an interactive canvas layout for planning and analysis applications that provides responsive, rapid discovery and navigation.
• Since calculation and query processing in a distributed architecture occurs locally only after the slice of data downloads, administrators can deploy Cognos Insight applications to more distributed users from the same central server hardware.
• Cognos Insight cannot be used on applications that contain websheets.

Cognos TM1 Application Web

• Cognos TM1 Application Web is a good choice when you need a high degree of formatting or when you do not want to install the Cognos Insight component on your local machine.
• Cognos TM1 Application Web offers the rich formatting provided by websheets, in addition to slices and other detailed navigation of cube data.
• Applications that use a canvas layout show a simple multi-tabbed view when used with Cognos TM1 Application Web.

Either Cognos Insight (in either distributed or connected mode) or Cognos TM1 Application Web can be used interchangeably if the application uses cube views alone and has multiple sandboxes disabled. You can select which client you want to use on these applications.

To choose a client, select the application and right-click to display the clients available for that application.

To get started using the product you can find sample applications in the samples folder as zip files which can be imported for GO_New_Stores. There are also some .cdd files in the Proven Techniques folder which are used with Cognos Insight.