cognos8 reporting arctecture

[jd]

Hi,

any body can explain me about the cognos8 reporting arctecture.

[david.stachon]

IBM Cognos 8 is a solution designed to address the challenges of enterprise-scale reporting, analysis, scorecarding, and event notification.

The IBM Cognos 8 architecture was designed for scalability, availability, and openness. It uses platform independent, industry proven technology, such as Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Web Services Definition Language (WSDL). For this reason, IBM Cognos 8 can integrate with and leverage your existing technology infrastructure on multiple platforms.

The IBM Cognos 8 architecture features a consistent, zero footprint, Web-based user interface for viewing, creating, and administering reports, analyses, scorecards, and events. It has a common dispatcher and supports leading relational databases as well as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) and dimensionally modeled relational cubes. It ensures dynamic load balancing and provides failover recovery for 24 x 7 operation. It also provides a single point of administration, as well as Web-based delegated administration. IBM Cognos 8 is fully open to third-party products and custom development. It also integrates with Web farms and supports multilingual reporting and scorecarding.