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