Opening an Insight 'Cube' in report studio

[Robl]

Cognos has renamed the tools a lot recently and reused the word Insight a few times.
I'm asking about the Insight that is a standalone installation on the PC that's a mix of Transformer and Powerplay Client.

If I was to create an Insight workspace is there any way to open it in Report Studio?
If not, can it be opening in workspace or workspace advanced?

Thanks.

[MFGF]

Cognos has renamed the tools a lot recently and reused the word Insight a few times.

Hi,

Yep - there was a time a couple of years ago when we had Cognos Insight, Cognos Business Insight, Cognos Business Insight Advanced and Cognos Consumer Insight. I'm so glad that has been fixed now! :)

I'm asking about the Insight that is a standalone installation on the PC that's a mix of Transformer and Powerplay Client.

Ummmm. None of them are based on Transformer or PowerPlay in any form. I'm guessing you mean Cognos Insight, which is essentially a desktop TM1 instance?

If I was to create an Insight workspace is there any way to open it in Report Studio?
If not, can it be opening in workspace or workspace advanced?

Thanks.

Yep. You can use the "Publish and Distribute" option from the File menu to publish your workspace up to your TM1 server and your BI server. The data in the local cube gets sent up to TM1 and added as a new cube in a new server, and you can choose for BI whether to have your Cognos Insight workspace published directly into Cognos Workspace or alternatively you can have each widget in the Cognos Insight workspace published as a separate report that can be edited using Report Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced.

You do have to have both TM1 and Cognos 10 BI, though.

Cheers!

MF.

[Robl]

Great, Thanks.
It's the last part "You do have to have both TM1 and Cognos 10 BI, though." which is the last piece of the puzzle for me.
We don't have TM1.

[MFGF]

Great, Thanks.
It's the last part "You do have to have both TM1 and Cognos 10 BI, though." which is the last piece of the puzzle for me.
We don't have TM1.

Ah. That's a bit of a showstopper, then. When you bring data into Cognos Insight, it spins up a TM1 cube in memory on your local machine (under the covers) and loads the data into this. You're then building your content in Cognos Insight over this TM1 cube. To be able to publish the content to Cognos BI, you also need to be able to move the data from your locally spun-up TM1 cube within Cognos Insight to a "proper" TM1 cube on a TM1 server, and the published BI content then points to this. Without a TM1 server, there's nowhere to publish your data to, and the Publish option won't work.

Cheers!

MF.

[bdbits]

No translation to RS or WS without TM1, but ... If you provision Insight on your BI server (see the link below), you can File > Share a Cognos Insight workspace via a Cognos BI server. When the user clicks on the saved workspace within Cognos Connection, Insight launches and opens it.

If necessary, Insight will automatically be installed on the local machine, and it updates the local install if the server side gets updated.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.coginsight_ig.10.2.1.doc/t_coginsight_ig_install_cci_ci.html%23t_tm1_inst_installingcognosinsight?lang=en