IBM Cognos Mashup Service Overview

IBM Cognos Software Provider Strategy Series: Application and Business Intelligence Mashup

Agenda
Integration Opportunity
Cognos 8 Platform
Cognos Mashup Service Overview
Demonstrations

Most Important Strategies for Expansion Source: AMR Research, 2008 Source: AMR Research, 2008

Software Provider – Business Optimization Maturity Model Moving from Reporting and Business Intelligence to Actionable Decision Support System Reporting Data Query Intelligent Systems Data Access Collaborative Decision Making Contextual Analytics Monitoring and Trending Benchmarking/ Scenario Modeling Application User Strategy/Analyst Users

Broad Purpose-built End User Capabilities
Flexible, Adaptable metadata and metric definitions
SOA Platform
Service API: Open Web Service Interface
Contextual Content API: Cognos Mashup Service (REST, SOAP)
Pervasive, Timely Access to Information
Adapt to changing business conditions and process
Extendibility to new environments
Seamless Integration – UI and Workflow
Partner/Customer Needs Cognos Invests

Query Service Movement Service Calculation Service Presentation Service Event Service Streaming Service Shared Set of Purpose-Built Services Security Service Cognos 8 Bus – Dispatcher SOAP, XML Scheduling Service Modern and Legacy Sources Application Sources OLAP Sources Message Sources Relational Sources Open Data Access Common Business Model System Content Metadata, Events Search Index, Audit Logs, System Metrics Optimized OLAP 64-bit in-Memory High Performance Streaming Cache Reporting Authoring Dashboards Scorecards Analytics Security Providers Partner Applications Go! Mobile Go! Office Go! Dashboard Go! Applications Active Directory LDAP NTLM Single Sign On Netegrity Custom Security Provider Mashup Service Analysis Reports Metrics C8 Services API

IBM Cognos 8 BI Mashup Service Overview

Cognos 8 Mashup Service
INTEGRATE : into Application UI and Workflow
ENHANCE : application with RIGHT BI at Point of Decision
EXTEND : Reach of your application, through domain visualizations

ENHANCE EXTEND INTEGRATE

Mashup Service REST, SOAP Request XML(LDX), HTML, JSON IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service Service Interface
Content
Providers
Reports Analysis
Metrics
Cognos 8 Bus (SOAP, XML) Partner Applications
Selection Filters
Full Report
Report Parts/Objects
Parameters Selection
Resource Representation
XML (Layout Data)
Simple XML
HTML
JSON

CMS -vs- SDK
CMS
Access Existing Report Content
Quickly Deliver Output in Difference Formats
Integration With Other Applications
Easy Upgrades and Portability
Ease of Filtering of Data
Leverage Report Logic (e.g. Conditional Formatting)
SDK
Generate Report Specifications
Custom Security Provider
Generate Schedules
Framework Manager Model Modifications
System Automation

What’s in CMS
API interfaces supported
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) interface
Generic doc/lit web service (WSDL (Web Services Description Language)) to LDX based report structure
Dynamically generated WSDL and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) for per-service “simplified” web services
WSIL (Web Services Inspection Language) discovery of per-report services
Operations on reports supported
GetReportContent – run report, get latest saved version, or get named version
Filters results (by list of report objects, or even a set of cells with a context selection)
Result format representations (LDX, HTML, HTMLFragment)
Prompting support:
Support prompt parameter passing to CMS for prompted reports
DescribePrompts – XML abstraction of prompt controls for a given report
Access to reuse Cognos8 HTML prompting controls in a CMS scenario
Drill support
Drill-through targets and definitions
Simplified drill up/down support

Web Service Discovery
How does an integrator find the report web service they want to use?
WSIL (or Web Service Inspection Language)
As opposed to UDDI (e.g. no “publishing” of services to a centralized directory), WSIL is decentralized and dynamic in nature
User asks a server about what web services it has
Cognos Mashup Service responds with WSDL URLs for each report, and another WSIL URL for each folder/package
To get the top-level wsil, use the following syntax
<cognos 8 gateway URI>/rds/wsil

IBM Cognos 8 BI Mashup Service Samples

Cognos 8 Mashed up with Adobe Air application

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