The IBM® Rational® Insight
report server (Rational Insight
report server)
is an application server that hosts reports and report editors. It
embeds the IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence server (Cognos BI server), an integrated
business intelligence suite that provides a wide range of functionality
to help you understand your organization's data. The components
of the Cognos BI server are
used for managing the overall IBM Cognos server environment, for
creating and managing reports and metadata, and for accessing data
and reports.
The Cognos BI
server contains the following web-based components:
- IBM Cognos Report Studio:
Report Studio
is used for creating, editing, and distributing reports and for defining
report templates. With Report Studio, you can create multi-lingual
reports to analyze your business data according to your specific business
needs. You can create templates for reports, schedule the time at
which the reports are generated, and share reports.
- IBM Cognos Query Studio:
Query Studio is
used for quickly designing, creating and saving reports to create
on-the-spot queries and simple reports and charts for scenarios not
covered by the standard, professional reports created in Report Studio.
- IBM Cognos Connection:
Cognos Connection is a Web portal providing
a single access point for querying, analyzing, and organizing data,
and for creating reports, scorecards, and events.
- IBM Cognos Administration:
Cognos Administration is a central management
interface that contains the administrative tasks for the Cognos environment, and is accessible through Cognos Connection. It helps you
perform the following tasks:
- Server administration
- Data management
- Security and content administration
- Activities management
- Portal services administration
The Rational Insight
report server also
interacts with IBM Cognos Data
Manager (to
schedule ETL jobs exported by Data Manager), IBM Cognos Framework
Manager (using
the report design tools), and IBM Cognos Map Manager.