IBM Cognos reporting components

The topic describes IBM® Cognos® reporting components that you might use while you work with IBM Verify Identity Governance Cognos report models.

Query Studio

Query Studio is the reporting tool for creating simple queries and reports in IBM Cognos Analytics. To use Query Studio effectively, you must be familiar with your organization's business and its data. You might also want to be familiar with other components of IBM Cognos Analytics.

Report Studio

Report Studio is a Web-based report authoring tool that professional report authors and developers use to build sophisticated, multiple-page, multiple-query reports against multiple databases. With Report Studio, you can create any reports that your organization requires, such as invoices, statements, and weekly sales and inventory reports.

Your reports can contain any number of report objects, such as charts, crosstabs, lists, and also non-BI components such as images, logos, and live embedded applications that you can link to other information.

IBM Cognos Connection

IBM Cognos Connection is the portal to IBM Cognos software. IBM Cognos Connection provides a single access point to all corporate data available in IBM Cognos software.

You can use IBM Cognos Connection to create and run reports and cubes and distribute reports. You can also use it to create and run agents and schedule entries.

Framework Manager

Framework Manager is a metadata modeling tool that drives query generation for IBM Cognos software. A model is a collection of metadata that includes physical information and business information for one or more data sources.

IBM Cognos software enables Performance Management on normalized and denormalized relational data sources and various OLAP data sources. When you add security and multilingual capabilities, one model can serve the reporting, ad hoc querying, and analysis needs of many groups of users around the globe.

Before you do anything in IBM Cognos Framework Manager, you must thoroughly understand the reporting problem that you want to solve.