Rational Common Reporting Report Server

The Rational® Common Reporting Report Server is an application server that hosts reports and report authoring tools. 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

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