Cognos
Optimize scheduling for your business intelligence (BI) and analytics activities. IBM Cognos Analytics is a BI platform used to create reports, dashboards and visualizations to analyze and interpret data, ultimately enabling better decision-making.
Derive even more quality insights from Cognos
Manage tasks, dependencies and more with Tidal.
Use a single pane of glass
Define, launch and monitor Cognos activities in business processes.
Achieve easy integration
Integrate Cognos workflows with other enterprise data applications.
Schedule without limits
Apply advanced scheduling functionality to BI processes.
Elevated analytics via orchestration
Integrating IBM Cognos with Tidal simplifies your BI workflow scheduling, management and monitoring regardless of the number of dependencies, systems and applications you need to involve. Define, launch and track Cognos tasks, then use Tidal to manage the moving parts in the right order to deliver results at the right time to the right person.
Get centralized control and visibility of Cognos BI, reporting and analytics processes. The Tidal adapter works through Cognos APIs, allowing you to manage activities in the embedded scheduler through Tidal with more advanced scheduling functionality. You can also define cross-application dependencies and triggers.
What the adapter enables
- Automating existing Cognos Jobs
- Bursting reports
- Creating and updating IBM Cognos analytic cubes
- Executing reports
How it works
The Tidal adapter for Cognos simplifies BI workflow scheduling, management, and monitoring by leveraging Cognos APIs to control activities within its embedded scheduler. This provides centralized control and visibility of Cognos processes, allowing you to integrate them into your broader enterprise automation strategy. With this adapter, you can:
- Control jobs with Hold, Resume, Abort, Rerun, and Delete functions or make one-time changes
- Define jobs to run Cognos pre-existing jobs, reports, and queries
- Monitor the jobs as you would any other type of job in Tidal, giving you a unified view of all your automated processes
- Run Cognos tasks as pre-scheduled or event-based jobs
This integration lets you orchestrate Cognos activities as part of complex, cross-system workflows. For instance, you can automate the sequence of extracting data, loading it into a data warehouse, triggering Cognos reports, and distributing the output, all from Tidal. This helps to ensure timely report generation and distribution, reduces manual intervention, and improves the overall reliability of your business intelligence processes.
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Tidal and IBM Cognos integration FAQs
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What is Cognos used for?
IBM Cognos Analytics is a software suite designed to help businesses understand their data and make informed decisions.
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How do you schedule jobs in Cognos?
You can define Cognos tasks with the help of the Tidal adapter for Cognos. Tidal manages the execution and scheduling, offering advanced scheduling options beyond what's available in the native Cognos scheduler.
You can organize related jobs into groups to simplify management and inherit properties like calendars and dependencies. Tidal also provides a variety of calendars, including custom ones, to schedule jobs across time zones and handle complexities like Daylight Saving Time changes. The result is centralized control and visibility of Cognos processes, allowing you to monitor and manage your BI workflows.