1. Cognos 8 Cognos Connection Cognos CoE
Preparing a model for reporting involves refining the metadata you imported into a project so that you can provide the information that your report authors require. Any enhancements you make to the data source metadata does not affect the original data source. You cannot rename data source objects if they are referenced by a Framework Manager object.
Internal and Confidential

2. Cognos Connection Query Studio Ad hoc Reporting Report Studio
Report Authoring
Cognos Connection
(Web portal)
Report Viewer
Viewer
Analysis Studio
Analysis
Event Studio
Event Cycle Mgmt.

3. Cognos Connection (*) Out-of-the-box user interface
Tools :
Open
Private labeling (OEM or customer)

4. Cognos Connection - Administrator
Directory
Drill Through definitions
Navigate through while Analyzing Report
Portal administration
Manage portlet and
portal layout

5. Cognos Connection – Administrator (cont)
Capabilities
Set access rights to UI components and features
Server administration
Monitor
Configure
Schedule management
Content Administration
Administrate jobs

6. Cognos Connection – User
Public folders
Packages
Folders
Reports
Custom views
Jobs
Agents
My folders
Personal reports
My pages
Schedule management
Preferences
Report output in xml, pdf, html, xhtml formats
Report distribution
Report management
Report views

7. Pages and Portal pages
A Portal page is a page that is shown in the Cognos Connection portal.
A page is a content object.
A user can :
create his/her own page.
save it in Public Folders or My Folders.
as any other object, it can be access restricted (security).
add the page as part of the Cognos Connection portal (portal page)

8. Pages and Portal pages (cont)

9. Pages and Portlets A page contents portlets. Portlet:
A mechanism for displaying Web content as part of a portal page.

10. Portal Pages & Portlets
The portlets can content:
WebSites - Bookmarks
- Cognos Tools (Query Studio, Report Studio, Power Play Web, Cognos Query, Upfront , Visualizer)
- Graphs - Reports
- Maps - Folder Navigator
- RSS NewsFeeds - Watchlist Metrics (CMM),..

11. Portlet to Portlet Communication
One portlet can interact with another portlet.
The action on one portlet is reflected in another portlet.
Portlet Sources: Portlet Destiny
- Cognos Navigator
- Cognos Search
Cognos Viewer Portlet
- Bookmark Viewer
Image Viewer
RSS Viewer
HTML Viewer Portlet

12. Portlet to Portlet Communication

13. Customizing Cognos Connection
Default.css System.xml Portal_en.xml
-color fonts modify functionality text in a language
-graphics hide elements in UI
-use your own welcome page

14. Customizing Welcome Page
Default.css
Change the fonts, colors, graphics, layout
System.xml
Map your own Welcome page

15. Administrator vs. User Administrator can:
Set the presentation features for all the users or for one specific user (Set Default Profile or one specific user’s Profile).
Modify the content of “My Folders” for a specific user.
Modify user Preferences at the user level (the Preference is per user not per groups)
Set what styles are available for user / groups / roles.
User can set:
His/her own Preference:
User can create his/her own page and defined it as a default page
Change the style.

16. Workshop 1 Cognos Connection: Customizing the Cognos Connection
See CRN Query Studio Workshop.doc

17. What is WSRP? WSRP is Web Service for Remote Portlets
Defines how to plug remote web services into pages of online portals.
WSRP is an open standard.

18. WSRP and Cognos Connection
Cognos Portal Services portlets are based on WSRP 1.0 specifications.
Some third-party applications that follows the WSRP are:
SAP - Cognos Connection
IBM WebSphere - Plumtree