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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: andrew@kinnconsult.com on 01 Nov 2017 08:36:53 AM

Title: Does Cognos 11 support Azure Analysis Services cubes?
Post by: andrew@kinnconsult.com on 01 Nov 2017 08:36:53 AM
Client has Azure Analysis Services cube.  This is an SSAS Tabular cube hosted as a cloud service in Azure.  Otherwise, it is the same as an on-prem SSAS Tabular cube.  Does Report Studio or Framework Manager support a connection to Azure Analysis Services?  Does the latest version of Cognos Analytics support Azure Analysis Services connection?  I'm having a hard time finding documentation on this topic.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew
Title: Re: Does Cognos 11 support Azure Analysis Services cubes?
Post by: MFGF on 01 Nov 2017 09:21:14 AM
Quote from: andrew@kinnconsult.com on 01 Nov 2017 08:36:53 AM
Client has Azure Analysis Services cube.  This is an SSAS Tabular cube hosted as a cloud service in Azure.  Otherwise, it is the same as an on-prem SSAS Tabular cube.  Does Report Studio or Framework Manager support a connection to Azure Analysis Services?  Does the latest version of Cognos Analytics support Azure Analysis Services connection?  I'm having a hard time finding documentation on this topic.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

Hi,

I'm not an expert on Azure Analysis Services. If it's exactly the same as SSAS on prem, I guess you'd be able to use XMLA to connect. I've never tried though. However, as far as I'm aware, IBM supports only the Multidimensional model for access to SSAS in Cognos Analytics - ie they treat it as an OLAP cube. I don't know if there are any plans to support the Tabular Model - that would be something you'd need to log a PMR to ask, I imagine.

Cheers!

MF.