0. IBM IOD 2011 Brian Simpson, IBM Jason Tavoularis, IBM Ronnie Rich, IBM
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What Everyone Should Know about IBM Cognos TM1 and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Integration Session Number BPM-1942B
Brian Simpson, IBM
Jason Tavoularis, IBM
Ronnie Rich, IBM
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2. Acknowledgements and Disclaimers:
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3. Agenda TM1 and BI – Where we’ve come from
TM1 and BI – BC Egg Case Study
Dynamic Query Mode
Authoring and Consumption
Report Server Best Practices
eXtensible Query Engine
Dynamic Cubes and Cube Technologies
Upgrade and Migration
Conformance
Performance
Cognos Insight
What’s New
In The Labs

4. Where We’ve Come From… Platforms Global Growth Enterprise Scale
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Where We’ve Come From…
Platforms
Global Growth
Enterprise Scale
Purpose: Provide our history of innovation that matters
Key Points
We are ready for the next revolution, we have done it before, and we will do it again
Our roots are deep in helping driver better business outcomes. With our roots in BI we have been a leader in helping companies achieve their potential. From our BI success to our expansion to planning and performance management, to SPSS, OpenPages, and Clarity coming into the fold, we have time and again seen ahead of the curve of what we need to provide to you for you to become empowered and experts for your organization to drive smarter decisions and better results
You have looked to use to innovate to fuel your organization, we have done it time and time again.
World Class BI
Robust Planning
Higher Scale
In-teractive Memory
Configurable OLAP
Passionate Customers 4
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5. TM1 and BI: Bringing It All Together…
Grading Stations Production Data
Biosecurity Surveys
Producers Flock Count, Hatchery, Fowl Removal

8. BI Mobile reporting on TM1 Data

9. IBM Cognos BI Dynamic Query Mode

10. Dynamic Query Mode 101 - Definition
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Dynamic Query Mode Definition
Refers to the execution of BI content by Cognos 10’s Java-based extensible query engine
64-bit
Performance
In-memory caching
Optimized query processing
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11. Cognos BI User Interfaces eXtensible Query Engine
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Flowchart
Cognos BI User Interfaces
Report Server
Query mode
Dynamic
Compatible
eXtensible Query Engine
(Java)
v8.4.1 Query Engine
(C++)
Data sources
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12. Authoring and consumption
Cognos Workspace
- create & share interactive dashboards
- TM1 Websheets & CubeViews
Cognos Workspace Advanced
- seamlessly graduate a workspace widget to perform advanced data exploration
- author simple reports
Report Studio
- author professional reports for a wide audience
- detailed control over the appearance
- bursting, prompts, maps, and advanced charting
- IBM Cognos Active Reports
CAFE
- interactive OLAP analysis within Microsoft Excel
Query Studio
Analysis Studio
- ad hoc reporting and analysis

13. Report Server Primarily serves 2 purposes
Routes query specifications to the query engines
Renders the result sets delivered by the query engines
When Report Server is configured as 32-bit on a 64-bit BI server
DQM data access will be 64-bit
CQM data access will be 32-bit
When Report Server is configured as 64-bit
Only DQM will work – use Advanced Dispatcher Routing for CQM content
Rule of Thumb
Configure 1.5 ReportService processes per CPU for 10.2 DQM

14. eXtensible Query Engine (XQE)
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eXtensible Query Engine (XQE)
The lessons learned over decades of leading the BI industry culminated in the design of this next generation query engine
Embraces the principles of extensibility and abstraction
Accelerated value in every new release
10.2 extensions
Dynamic Cubes
HiveQL (see session 2545A Thursday AM)
ERP/CRM providers
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15. Dynamic Cubes – Feature Mission
High performance analytics over growing data volumes
Extends Dynamic Query with in-memory caching of members, data, expressions, results, and aggregates
Aggregate awareness
Aggregate optimization

16. Cube Technology Selection
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Cube Technology Selection
Application Objective
Data Structure
Optimal Technology
Notes / Considerations
Write-back
What-if analysis
High-volatility apps
TM1
Medium data volumes
Aggregates on the fly
High performance analytics
Large data volume
Star/snowflake schema
Dynamic Cubes
Optimized aggregates
Aggregate-aware
Operational / transactional system
Consistent performance
PowerCubes
Low / medium data volumes
Data movement into cube: Latency
Cube groups to manage volume
Tightly control latency (cached & non-cached data)
OLAP Over Relational (OOR)
Leverages Framework Manager model
No database aggregate support
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17. Search for “Cognos Dynamic Cubes”

18. Compatible Query Mode Easy upgrades from Cognos 8!
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Compatible Query Mode
Very similar query processing to that in version 8.4.1
Will continue to be maintained
Not actively enhanced
Easy upgrades from Cognos 8!
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19. Cognos 10 Upgrade Supported Path
Upgrade first, then leverage new features
Use Lifecycle Manager to
validate results
Cognos 8 and
Cognos 10
Accept desired results
Move business users
into Cognos 10
to leverage new features
Accept
desired results
Promote reports
to production
Leverage Cognos 10 New Features
(e.g. Dynamic Query, etc)
The supported path to Cognos 10 is direct, even if you are running Reportnet, Cognos 8.1, 8.2 or 8.3. There is no requirement to upgrade to Cognos in fact we want customers to move to Cognos 10 as quickly as possible.
We advocate a two phased approach to upgrade:
In Phase 1 the Cognos 8 applications are upgraded and validated in Cognos 10. Once your applications have been validated in Cognos 10, you would move this to production and release it to your user base and would shut down Cognos 8. Once phase 1 is completed you will be taking advantage of all the improvements within the platform and users receive their report content exactly as they expect to but with increased performance.
During Phase 2 you begin to leverage the new features of Cognos 10 that benefit your users and your applications. Phase 2 is where you take a good look at the new features and functionality that Cognos 10 offers and begin to migrate your applications to benefit from these new features depending on your users’ needs.
Lifecycle Manager helps you validate during both phases of the upgrade. We’ll discuss Lifecycle manager later on in the presentation and I have 2 demos that show how lifecycle manager will help validate both phases of this upgrade.

20. Migration
Highly recommend Dynamic Query Mode when starting new projects
Enabling DQM on existing projects is an optional migration
DQM performance may or may not be better
There may be no re-authoring required, there may be significant re-authoring required
DQM will issue an error to enforce certain best practices that are optional in CQM
Overall, migration ROI is highest for OLAP data sources
Overall, migration effort is highest with DMR
Use Lifecycle Manager to understand the ROI of migrating existing applications to DQ

21. Migration Scenarios
Example #1 – Hierarchy not consecutive
2009

22. Migration Scenarios Example #2 – ‘Incorrect’ hierarchy level order
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23. Migration Scenarios Example #3 – Same hierarchy in rows and columns
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24. Levels and Attributes 24

25. Levels and Attributes Example: 2009 World Continent Country State City25

26. Levels and Attributes Defined Levels should only be used when:
there is a Balanced Hierarchy
An author needs to select members by level
Attributes are level specific
The dimension does not have element security applied
Levels should not be defined when:
The hierarchy is Unbalanced
The report author wants to make use of attributes that span levels
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27. Conformance

28. DQM Conformance Roadmap
10.1.0
10.1.1
10.2.0
initial release supports:
IBM Cognos TM1
SAP/BW
Oracle Essbase
added support for:
IBM DB2
IBM Netezza
Teradata
Microsoft SQL Server
MS Analysis Services
Oracle
added support for:
IBM Informix
IBM IMS
IBM InfoSphere BigInsights
SAP/ECC
Siebel
Salesforce.com

29. Conformance: TM1 as a BI data source
IBM Cognos BI
version
Supported IBM Cognos TM1 server versions
10.2
10.1.x
9.5.x
10.1.1
10.1.0
9.5.1
9.5.0
8.4.1
9.4.x

30. Performance

31. Performance Improvements
As of TM and Cognos BI FP1 (DQM)
Query optimized
MDX Engine is moved to the TM1 server, closer to the data
Better use of the TM1 Stargate cache
Null suppression done on the TM1 server*

32. Avoiding wait times during interactive analysis
The following common usage pattern is NOT recommended: 1) Drag item from the Insertable Objects pane to the rows / columns.  2) Drag specific members from the same hierarchy to the Context 3) Since the result is sparse, turn on suppression to make it dense
Best Practices
Show only the top N members (elements)
Explicitly place members (elements) of interest on crosstab edges instead of all members and then filtering
Use parent members to avoid summary values computed in real-time

33. Cognos Insight

34. Cognos Insight Cognos Insight is many things:
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Cognos Insight
Cognos Insight is many things:
It’s a personal BI Analytic application
It’s a contribution client for TM1
Its an integration point for BI and a method to develop Consumer Insight dashboards
If you’re a TM1 Customer of version any contribution licenses grant access to Insight as a contribution client, as well as a personal analytic tool.
Cognos Insight while being a highly visual interactive analytic client, is in fact running TM1 Engine
This allows Insight to respond instantaneously, and be able to quickly and efficiently handle large amounts of data.
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35. Cognos Insight
When used as a contribution client there are two distinct methods:
Connected mode
This is great for central application where users are on low latency lans. All interaction with the TM1 Server is realtime.
Disconnected Mode
This allows the user to download a cache of the TM1 Server slice they are working with.
Interaction takes place locally and is committed back to the server
Offline work is available as of

36. Cognos Insight – Publishing to BI or TM1
Starting with a personal analytic workspace in Insight you can choose to share this in two methods.
You can publish your Insight workspace to Cognos BI
You can also Publish your workspace to create a TM1 Server
You can share your Insight file on Cognos Connection

37. What’s New

38. Guided Import – PM and Insight
Enhanced modeling and metadata/data management in Performance Modeler
Improved guided import for data and metadata from IBM Cognos BI packages and IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint
Analytics server advancements for BI reporting, including calculated and aggregated data
For modeling and reporting, we have:
--added improvements to the guided import (wizards for user friendliness) of metadata and data -- from the BI packages and from Business Viewpoint.
-- strengthened the reporting out of TM1 into BI – calculated and aggregated TM1 data now delivered in the BI report.
Faster modeling and reporting mean greater visibility to enterprise performance – and more confidence because of the accuracy of models and data.

39. Email notification on WFP state
In TM we introduced the ability notify stakeholders of either status changes in the WFP or allow broadcast messages from the Admin.
This requires Security Mode 5 (CAM Integration) and is dependent on the BI HTS Service and notification service.
This can be configured to show in their Portal inbox or to their corporate .
We have provided tags to simplify messaging
Eg <owners> would broadcast to all node
owners.

40. Rule Based Aggregate Awareness
Have you ever built a great rule in TM1 only to notice your BI report doesn’t think it’s so great?
Frustrated trying to recreate the outcome in your BI Report because you know it already exists in TM1?
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41. Rule Based Aggregate Awareness
With the introduction of Rule Based Aggregate Awareness this is no long a concern.
We have updated how our MDX responds to a BI request and now present those great Rules you haave written

42. In the Labs

43. TM1 and BI Integration “In The Labs”
Performance
CAFÉ
Metrics
Hierarchy Object
Attribute-Based Hierarchies
Subsets
Views
Strings
Automated CAM Group Maintenance
Cloud

44. Cognos Proven Practices on developerWorks
ibm.com/developerworks/analytics/practices.html
Writing Efficient OLAP Queries
IBM Cognos BI Dimensional Functions
Using Dimensional Functions to Determine Current Period
IBM Cognos TM1 FEEDERS