Integrating Planning Analytics Local with IBM Cognos software

You can integrate IBM® Planning Analytics with IBM Cognos® Analytics and IBM Cognos applications. This topic summarizes some of the most typical integration approaches and includes links to the related documentation.

The main options for integrating Planning Analytics with Cognos software include authentication security, data reporting, and data/object interaction. Configuring integration between Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics involves a combination of installation and configuration tasks on the computers hosting the server and web server components. In some cases, installation and configuration is required on individual end-user computers.

Authentication Security

You can configure the IBM TM1® Server to authenticate users using Cognos Analytics security. With this configuration, any TM1 user interface or other custom application must use a valid user name and password from the Cognos Analytics server to access TM1 data.

Using TM1 as a datasource with Cognos software

You can configure IBM Cognos Analytics to access TM1 servers and cubes from Cognos Analytics applications such as Cognos Report Studio and Cognos Query Studio.