June 28, 2017 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
In Part I of this blog we covered the basics of data lineage; its definition and why it’s important. Here in Part II our will be focus on some of the things that are possible when Cognos data lineage is captured and stored for use in multiple creative ways.
May 23, 2017 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
This blog focuses on Part I of the subject of Data Lineage, covering what it is and why it’s important. A Part II blog will follow this and focus on creative possibilities for using data lineage in multiple ways once you’ve broken the code.
Simply stated, data lineage describes the data’s origins, where it moves and what happens to it over time. In some environments there are specific requirements for the data lineage and its provenance. This is often the case with financial institutions that have to satisfy regulatory requirements relating to data used for investment purposes.
Topics: Cognos Audit Data, cognos data lineage
March 31, 2017 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
If you’re a Cognos administrator there’s lots of key information you just need to have access to, especially in the area of security. Here we’re going to focus on what some consider among the top needs. These are:
Topics: Cognos Security, Cognos BI Best Practices, Cognos BI administration
January 31, 2017 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Perhaps the greatest undervalued asset within Cognos Analytics is the audit data that gets generated for virtually everything that happens inside the application. In its native form it’s all but unusable for anything except rudimentary analysis. We’ve covered this subject in great detail in our Ebook, Expert Guide to Cognos Audit Data. Writing this prompted us to challenge the thinking that there’s only so much that you can do with this data as it comes from Cognos.
Topics: Cognos Content Store, Cognos Tools, Cognos Audit Data
January 5, 2017 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
With Watson having become the point of the IBM marketing spear an obvious question being raised by many Cognos administrators is how one relates to the other. Our focus here is on that audience primarily because there is a perception of an overlap between the two, and if there is, what is the extent of the overlap? Here we’ll try to address both questions.
Topics: Cognos BI administration, Cognos Analytics
September 8, 2016 by Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Our recent blogs on Cognos audit data have focused on getting it to where it can be used easily for anything you want to use it for. Once it’s been normalized this assumes that the data are consistent and capture everything within Cognos. Unfortunately this isn’t always true. So how do we address this?
Topics: Cognos Audit Data, Cognos Reporting
By Rick Ryan, Envisn, Inc.
In our previous blog article, Creating a Framework Manager (FM) Model for Cognos Audit Data, we talked about work that we’ve recently done to create dynamically modeled relational data in the form of a FM Model. Our intent was to capture all available audit data and align it along key data dimensions and couple it with reference data from the actual Cognos environment. Doing this required at least a couple iterations. As we started to actually use the data to create the vision we wanted of UniVisn being reflective of a real world Cognos environment we needed to tweak some things like relative time periods, object type dimensions and status and sources.
Topics: Cognos Tools, Cognos Audit Data, cognos workspace
By Rick Ryan, Envisn, Inc.
Our recently published eBook, Expert Guide to Cognos Audit Data focuses on sharing our knowledge on this subject while showing readers many of the possible uses for audit data. Based on feedback we received and our own ruminations, we took on the challenge of how we could take everything we know about Cognos audit data and use it in a way that maximizes what can be done with it using IBM Cognos’ latest technology.
Topics: Cognos Audit Data, Cognos Analytics, Cognos FM Model
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
The term Big Data is used everywhere today but does it really apply to your Cognos Content Store? It depends on what you mean by Big Data. The consensus definition of Big Data actually is something like this:
Topics: Cognos Content Store, Big Data
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Learning from our customers at the same time we’re helping them address a major issue is one of the most gratifying things we do. Here we showed a customer how to recreate the FM model they never had.
Topics: Cognos Framework Manager, Cognos Tools, Cognos Reporting
