IBM Cognos Analytics from IBM with Data Warehouse Services (DWS) at Open Telekom Cloud combines the power of IBM Cognos Analytics for reporting, visualization, and data analysis with the data storage and processing capabilities of a Data Warehouse Service (DWS).
This integration offers significant value in several ways:
1. Comprehensive Data Insights
- Data Consolidation: With a Data Warehouse Service (DWS), data from different sources (like transactional systems, external APIs, etc.) is centralized in one place, allowing for better integration and analysis. Cognos Analytics can then provide powerful tools for exploring, reporting, and visualizing this data in an easily digestible format.
- Advanced Analytics: IBM Cognos Analytics offers features such as AI-assisted data exploration, predictive analytics, and machine learning, which can add deeper insight into data from the Data Warehouse.
2. Performance
- Data Warehousing: As business data grows, the integration with a Data Warehouse Service (DWS) ensures that the performance of Cognos Analytics remains high. This includes managing large volumes of data and running complex queries efficiently.
- Optimized Query Performance: Cognos can leverage the computational power of the Data Warehouse Service (DWS) to run queries against huge datasets without sacrificing performance.
3. AI and Automation Capabilities
- Automated Insights: IBM Cognos Analytics uses AI and machine learning to uncover patterns and trends in the data, making it easier for users to spot actionable insights without having to manually analyze vast datasets.
- Self-Optimizing Reports: As the system learns from users' preferences and behavior, it can automatically suggest reports, visualizations, and even recommend data transformations.
To enable Cognos, the following changes are mandatory:
- The DWS version must be upgraded to the latest version.
- The following two parameter values must be changed: server_version=13.1 and server_version_num=130001, as shown in the screenshot below.
