Publishing and reporting planning data

Contributor, by design, is a planning data collection tool and though it creates, aggregates, and summarizes the data well, business planners will still need a robust reporting solution for querying and reporting planning data. IBM Cognos, as a BI leader, provides various tools, such as Analysis Studio, Report Studios, and Query Studios, to meet business users' reporting and analysis needs. The following paragraphs highlight the processes of integrating the planning data with the BI tools.

In the initial stage of a IBM Cognos multi-tools implementation, both the Business Intelligence (BI) modeler and you, as a planning modeler, work together to understand the users' reporting and analysis requirements. After ...

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