--- title: Envisn's IBM Cognos Blog | Cognos Content Store description: Cognos Content Store | Envisn's Cognos Blog provides best practice and IBM Cognos specific tips. --- [![envisn](https://www.envisn.com/hs-fs/file-15282154-gif/images/logo.gif?width=120&name=logo.gif "envisn")](https://www.envisn.com) [![Request a Demo](https://hubspot-no-cache-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/70307/973f9256-ef61-4ab8-ab2d-a004a90a18be.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/70307/973f9256-ef61-4ab8-ab2d-a004a90a18be) [![New Call-to-action](https://hubspot-no-cache-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/70307/3166c389-8135-4d84-9988-99dc8d523426.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-na2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/70307/3166c389-8135-4d84-9988-99dc8d523426) # Envisn's IBM Cognos Blog [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/data-profile-cognos-store-store.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/data-profile-your-cognos-content-store) ### [Data Profile Your Cognos Content Store](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/data-profile-your-cognos-content-store) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on April 1, 2021 *By Paul Hausser, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* One of the most frequently asked questions of Cognos administrators is, *“What databases are we using, and where and how are we using them?”* Virtually every manager wants... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/data-profile-your-cognos-content-store) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/cognos-documenation.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/life-cycle-documentation-for-cognos-analytics) ### [Life Cycle Documentation for Cognos Analytics](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/life-cycle-documentation-for-cognos-analytics) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on February 2, 2021 *By Paul Hausser, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* Documentation in Cognos, where it exists at all, is generally thought of as something that is nice to have but is often only an afterthought. And if it’s being done... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/life-cycle-documentation-for-cognos-analytics) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/uptime-in-cognos-analytics.png) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/maximizing-uptime-in-cognos-analytics) ### [Maximizing Uptime in Cognos Analytics](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/maximizing-uptime-in-cognos-analytics) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on October 29, 2020 *By Paul Hausser, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* One of the biggest challenges for any Cognos Analytics administrator is maintaining operational uptime for all content in the Content Store. This can be a challenge... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/maximizing-uptime-in-cognos-analytics) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/images/Metadata-Universe-1080.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-vii-what-drives-metadata) ### [Cognos Metadata Universe – Part VII – What Drives Metadata](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-vii-what-drives-metadata) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on August 27, 2018 *By Elwood Philbrick, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* [Previous blogs in this Cognos Metadata series](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-access-to-everything) focused capturing the metadata, the need to persist it and how to use it. Here we’ll be focusing on metadata drivers... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-vii-what-drives-metadata) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/cognos-content-store-slide.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-access-to-everything) ### [Cognos Metadata Universe – Part VI - Access to Everything](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-access-to-everything) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on June 29, 2018 *By Rick Ryan, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* One of the goals we set at the beginning of this blog series on [Cognos metadata](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe) was to access all of it and to be able to use all of it to answer virtually any question... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-access-to-everything) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/Metadata-Universe-Data-Trans-D.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-iii-capturing-deep-data) ### [Cognos Metadata Universe – Part III – Capturing Deep Data](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-iii-capturing-deep-data) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on February 28, 2018 *By Rick Ryan, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* In the [first couple of blogs](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe) in this subject series we covered the major elements of the **[Cognos metadata universe](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe)** and how to harness them for use. And one of our goals was... 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[Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/cognos-metadata-universe-part-ii-designing-the-future) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/images/key-lock.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/uncovering-hidden-value-in-your-cognos-content-store) ### [Uncovering Hidden Value in Your Cognos Content Store](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/uncovering-hidden-value-in-your-cognos-content-store) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on September 29, 2017 *By Paul Hausser, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* #### *In reality the value is only hidden from those who cannot easily see it. It’s more waiting to be discovered than hidden.* This is something we began to explore with our... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/uncovering-hidden-value-in-your-cognos-content-store) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/images/cognos-analytics.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/audit-data-dashboards-as-cognos-intended) ### [Audit Data Dashboards as Cognos Intended](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/audit-data-dashboards-as-cognos-intended) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on January 31, 2017 *By Paul Hausser, [Envisn, Inc.](https://www.envisn.com/)* 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... [Read More](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/audit-data-dashboards-as-cognos-intended) [![](https://www.envisn.com/hubfs/images/big-data-wordcloud.jpg) ](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/your-content-store-is-big-data) ### [Your Content Store is Big Data](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/your-content-store-is-big-data) by [The Envisn Team](https://www.envisn.com/envisn-cognos-blog/author/the-envisn-team) on May 26, 2016 *By Paul Hausser, *[*Envisn, Inc.*](https://www.envisn.com/) 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... 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