Integrating Cognos Controller with other IBM Cognos products

You can install IBM Cognos Controller in an environment with other IBM Cognos products by configuring a specific installation of IBM® Cognos Analytics or integrating it with an existing installation of IBM Cognos Analytics. This allows the environments to share security settings and tools such as Report Studio.

IBM Cognos® Controller users can import published data from IBM Cognos BI applications by using the Import from Framework Manager function in IBM Cognos Controller.

With the IBM Cognos Controller OLAP extension, you can create an OLAP cube of Controller data that can be used by IBM Cognos Business Intelligence users.

IBM Cognos Controller users can prepare actual values for export to IBM Cognos Planning – Contributor so that the data can be used in the planning process. The Send to Application function in IBM Cognos Controller creates a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for import to external applications.

IBM Cognos Controller users can also import plans from Contributor so that the data can be consolidated. The necessary stored procedures and staging tables to do this import are in the Controller database and are delivered with IBM Cognos Controller. The Import from Flat Files feature in IBM Cognos Controller imports data from spreadsheets and text files.