Understanding the IBM Cognos Planning technical architecture

As an administrator or a modeler, you need to understand how the IBM Cognos Planning architecture works, and how the various components of the Planning System communicate with each other. To illustrate these concepts, we will describe an analogy, and then relate it to the IBM Cognos Planning architecture. Later, we will describe the role of each component of the Planning System architecture.

Understanding the IBM Cognos Planning technical architecture

Let's assume that a shipping company (named Budget Shipping Company) has a branch office, where it stores packages to be dropped off and picked up. This branch has a Front Desk Host, and his role is ...

Get IBM Cognos 8 Planning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.