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11.2 Tivoli Common Reporting Initiative

Tivoli Common Reporting is a new initiative from IBM designed to provide a set

of reporting services that can be used across the Tivoli portfolio consistently.

This initiative will provide three services:

򐂰 A flexible infrastructure made up of loosely coupled services that can be used

by individual products or in combined solutions for cross-product reporting

򐂰 A set of out-of-the-box reports that represent known best practices for the

products or solutions they are delivered with, as well as a mechanism (OPAL)

to share reports as experience of community grows

򐂰 Tooling that helps the customer or service provider modify or extend the

reports to meet their needs instead of having to submit product requirements

against development to make the changes