| Cognos BI Need |
Challenge |
Netvisn Solution |
| Security Management |
Limited insight into security |
All security settings are fully visible for all users, groups, roles, and data |
| Change Management |
Identifying content impacted by changes to models, packages, databases, etc. |
All dependent content is identified and can be automatically updated |
| Promoting or migrating content |
Safe, painless way to promote content to a new environment |
Ability to promote multiple folders or single reports quickly and easily |
| Documentation |
Need to document all reports, packages, etc. |
Automatically documents all Cognos objects in Content Store |
| Ability to manage Cognos Content Store |
No visibility into the Content Store size, growth, etc. |
Full visibility and detail on all Cognos Content Store objects with analytics |
| Distribution Management |
Knowing what content is being distributed, to whom, when, etc. |
All details on content distribution is readily available |
| Restore deleted content |
Difficult and tedious to restore deleted objects in Cognos |
Recycle Bin easily restores objects with same settings as when deleted |
| License management |
Keeping track of licenses issued |
License tracking for all users, groups & roles by type |
| Version Control |
Retain and document versions of reports, queries, models, etc. |
Prior versions are automatically saved and are easily restored to production. |
| Usage and utilization monitoring (auditing) |
Knowing what content is being used and by whom |
Ability to track usage by user and content usage with multiple measures and dimensions |
| Data Management |
Visibility into what data are being used and its source |
Data lineage for all items used can be traced back to database, table and column |