2 IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
1.1 Introduction to IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
With the advent of new data types and data sources, data warehouses are more critical than
ever. The information in a well-designed data warehouse contains the corporate memory of
an organization and the context to make sense of other data. For example, the contextual
value of your business products and locations will make social data from systems such as
Apache Hadoop much more relevant.
In addition, when new data is collected that provides insight, either from new sources or from
instrumented devices, the ability to store it for later reference is critical. Recording analyses
and point-in-time reports in an organized system provides this ability.
It is no surprise, then, ...