Knowledge base

IBM Cognos Event Studio is a web-based Cognos Business Intelligence module. It is used for creating and managing agents and alerts. The purpose of a process or an agent is to monitor the data in the background to ensure that critical information is detected quickly and to perform tasks when a predefined boundary is reached.

IBM Cognos TM1 is an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) software tool that provides analysis of data stored in a database. IBM Cognos TM1 is a client-server environment which stands for "Tables Manager 1".

IBM Cognos TM1 is a solution with a client-server architecture and TM1 Architect is one of the standard TM1 client components that can connect to the TM1 server. The key components of TM1 are TM1 Architect, TM1 Perspectives, TM1 Web and Turbo Integrator.A complete TM1 model is build in TM1 Architect using Turbo Integrator processes. It lets you create, analyze and manage business data using the Cube Viewer. Administrative capabilities are only available through TM1 Architect Server Explorer.

IBM Cognos Map Manager is a Microsoft Windows program that you can use to import maps in reports. Map Manager can be installed together with Framework Manager and is also part of IBM Cognos Express. The maps can be used in Report Studio and viewed in Report Viewer. It is possible to create aliases of existing layers or to compose own maps or layers based upon existing layers within Map Manager. 

TM1 Rules & Feeders are concepts related to the IBM Cognos TM1 solution. TM1 feeders feed every cell that is calculated by a rule. Feeders are not used to feed rules that apply to consolidated cells. Feeders are not required to make rules work, however they can improve performance in sparse cubes.

TM1 Chores are a concept related to the IBM Cognos TM1 solution. A chore is a schedule that contains a batch of processes that is executed to run on a specific time period.

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The IBM Cognos TM1 Connector for SAP BW is a connector or interface that allows the exchange of data between IBM Cognos TM1 and SAP BW (Business Warehouse) through RFC (remote function calls).The IBM Cognos TM1 Connector for SAP BW enables the transfer of data from a SAP BW data warehouse to a TM1 cube, either via a BEx query or via a direct mapping between a SAP BW InfoCube and a TM1 cube. The connector can also be used to write data from TM1 to a transactional ODS table in SAP BW.

In 2012, Gartner started to switch from using the term of Business Intelligence Competence Center (BICCs) to Business Analytics Team (BAT). The concept of the BICC was originally introduced by Gartner about 10 years ago. Background of the renaming seems to be related to the fact that on the one hand "center" has negative connotations in the US (eg.

IBM Cognos Business Insight is a business intelligence workspace accessible from IBM Cognos Connection. The tool allows users to create dashboards based on already created reports or analysis. It gives users the ability to assemble and analyze virtually all the data in the company in a personalized way. Within Business Insight you can also make use of the reporting capabilities to create reports.