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Cog No S License Descriptions

This document describes different Cognos license types, the number purchased, and their purposes. It provides details on administrator, developer, author, and viewer licenses. Administrator licenses allow managing content and setting up the BI system. Developer licenses are for creating data models and cubes. Author licenses include professional and business levels for advanced and basic reporting. Viewer licenses are for running existing reports with basic prompts and formatting. Skills required and equivalents from Brio products are also noted.

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Cog No S License Descriptions

This document describes different Cognos license types, the number purchased, and their purposes. It provides details on administrator, developer, author, and viewer licenses. Administrator licenses allow managing content and setting up the BI system. Developer licenses are for creating data models and cubes. Author licenses include professional and business levels for advanced and basic reporting. Viewer licenses are for running existing reports with basic prompts and formatting. Skills required and equivalents from Brio products are also noted.

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Cognos Version 8.

2 License Descriptions
Number of Licenses Type of Install

Software License

User

Skills Needed

Description of Purpose
The administrator will schedule tasks, manage and deploy content, and set up Cognos Office Connection and Map Manager. The BI Administrator suite of three licenses provides rights to BI Consumer, BI Query Studio, BI Report Studio, BI Analysis Studio, and BI Event Studio.

Brio Equivalent

Administrator

Web

Developer

Technical staff with fundamental skills in administering servers and content in Cognos BI. Ability to set up a Cognos 8 BI system, implement security, and manage the server components. It is a plus to have knowledge of web application server architectures, and security system administration.

New Feature

BI Administrator Framework Manager

49 Client Data Modelers

Framework Manager is used to create Technical staff with skills in modeling both the underlying data models/table joins. operational and star schema metadata, as well as This tool is used in the beginning of creating a dimensional model to be used for deployment and as tables are added or OLAP style querying. data models change.

Developers who currently have Brio Designer to create data models or Brio Explorer users who do ad hoc joins and reporting against external data sets.

Transformer

Client

Technical staff with fundamental skills in Transformer is used to create data Data Modelers and designing, building, and maintaining PowerCubes cubes that summarize commonly technical analysts for use with Cognos 8 BI and PowerPlay requested information. applications. BI Professional Author is used to create ad-hoc and managed reports. This tool makes use of the data models created in Framework Manager. BI Professional Author provides rights to BI Consumer, BI Query Studio, BI Report Studio, BI Analysis Studio, and BI Event Studio. BI Business Author is used to create queries on the fly and some basic managed reports. BI Business Author provides rights to BI Consumer, BI Query Studio, and BI Analysis Studio.

New Feature

Report Studio BI Professional Author Query Studio 300 Web Managed Report Authors

Users with advanced skills in creating, modifying, and distributing professional reports using Report Studio. They must be able to examine and create query models, burst reports, set up drill-through access, and author advanced reports.

Users who currently create new reports in Brio Explorer and have primary responsibility for distributing reports to others in organizational unit.

BI Business Author

Query Studio

300

Web

Query Authors

Users with basic/intermediate skills in report building techniques, and ways of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports.

Users who currently create ad-hoc queries in Brio will use this tool.

BI Consumer with Analysis Studio and Event Studio

1500

Web

Report Viewers

Used to run reports created by others, view reports via web browser, respond to multiple prompts, save reports, schedule reports, output reports to PDF, Users with skills in running reports, responding to Excel, and CSV. Also Viewers of cubes multiple prompts, exporting reports, scheduling created in Transformer and ability to reports and viewing reports via a Cognos cube. broadcast/burst the results to the appropriate data consumers. This license provides right so BI Consumer, Analysis Studio, and BI Event Studio. BI Consumers is used to run reports created by others, view reports via web Users with skills in running reports, responding to browser, respond to multiple prompts, multiple prompts, exporting reports, and save reports, schedule reports, output scheduling reports. reports to PDF, Excel, and CSV. This license provides rights to BI Consumer only.

Users who now download standard Brio queries and run them, or download standard Brio queries and change the filters, limits, and/or formats of reports.

BI Consumer

600

Web

Report Viewers

Users who now download standard Brio queries and run them, or download standard Brio queries and change the filters, limits, and/or formats of reports.

11/14/2008

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