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IBM Cognos Insight exist in 2 versions. The desktop standalone version or the version which can be accessed through the IBM Cognos TM1 applications portal. Both versions offer exactly the same functionality. They allow to import tabular data from eg. Excel sheets directly into IBM Cognos Insight by drag and drop. The data immediately shows up in a workspace area where users can analyze and visualize their data.

Reporting Services is the component in SQL Server that delivers formatted reporting.

When the fiscal year changes, the Carry Forward business rule helps you to carry forward the item balances from the old fiscal year to the new fiscal year. The system carries forward both the totals data and additional financial information (equity, investments,...)

Leading provider of Predictive Analytics solutions that SAP acquired in September 2013. KXEN technology extends predictive analytics tools beyond data scientists to line-of-business users and analysts in the workplace by automating key modeling and analytical tasks and enabling faster deployment and adoption.

The IBM Cognos TM1 Server is an application tier component and manages requests from IBM Cognos TM1 clients. It loads cubes and dimensions into memory and responds by executing calculations, consolidations and updates. Via the Cognos TM1 Server administrators can also manage security by granting or denying permissions to different server objects like cubes and dimensions.

This is the lowest level of metadata existing in the SAP Business Warehouse.There are two main types of InfoObjects: characteristics – representing dimensions for analysis - and key figures – representing the numeric data to be analyzed. The metadata definition consists of technical properties (Data Type, length, conversion routine, …) and descriptive properties (text and attribute Master Data, hierarchies, navigation properties, …).

A setting that can be applied to an application to prevent users from sending data to the same data intersection at the same time.

Owner/manager are keywords in the context of work status setup. Both are defined by the owner property in the entity dimension. The manager is derived from the child-parent relationship between entities.

IBM Cognos TM1 API's stands for Application Programming Interfaces. It installs required files that enable developers to work with the Cognos TM1 application programming interfaces like TM1 API, TM1 Java API and TM1 .NET API.

The BW InfoCube is the star-scheme modelled InfoProvider optimized for multidimensional analysis. It is based on an ‘extended’ star scheme that models the Master Data outside the dimension tables. The InfoCube allows 16 dimensions (containing multiple InfoObjects) and multiple key figures.