CoMetReporter is a metadata reporting layer on top of IBM Cognos BI to gain extensive insight into your Cognos BI environment. CoMet gathers Framework Manager model and Cognos Connection metadata and makes it available as a reporting layer embedded in IBM Cognos. CoMetReporter is NOT Cognos Audit and NOT Cognos Extended Audit, it’s complementary.

1. Introduction
CoMetReporter

2. About xplore+
• Software company since 2010
• Offers a toolset on top of BI platforms:
– Publish reports to other portals
– IBM Cognos data lineage and metadata reporting
– Advanced visualizations (e.g.: Geo Maps)
– BI mashups

3. CoMetReporter
Cognos Metadata reporting

4. • CoMetReporter is a metadata reporting layer
on top of IBM Cognos BI. It reads Cognos
Connection content as well as Framework
Manager model metadata and stores the
result in a relational database. The end user
can use a Cognos reporting package to report
on his IBM Cognos metadata.
What?

5. Data Lineage and more
CoMet is not Cognos Audit, not Cognos
Extended Audit but in addition of them:
• Extensive bulk data lineage:
– From report to framework and vice versa
– Through all Framework layers (DB, Business,
Reporting, ... layers)
– Through all queries in Report Studio reports
• Impact analysis
• Report on Framework changes

6. More reporting on...
• Packages/reports and related query items
• Packages/reports and related data sources
• Reports and their schedules, jobs and
reportviews
• Reports and their query items, queries,
reporting objects
• Other Cognos Connection objects
• ...

7. • CoMetReporter is a pre-packaged ETL tool for
IBM Cognos Framework Manager and Cognos
Connection metadata
• The resulting metadata is stored in a relational
DB (SQL Server or Oracle)
• The end user interface is a CoMet metadata
reporting package in IBM Cognos together
with out-of-the-box reports
Interface

8. • Very low footprint on the IBM Cognos System
– No Cognos SDK required
– No direct Content Store access
– No configuration changes in the IBM Cognos application tier
– Use CoMet independently in your team (no impact on shared
environment or Cognos servers)
• Metadata in DB  and is combinable with Audit
and Extended Audit!
• Both Framework + Cognos Connection objects
metadata
Advantages

9. xplore+ Services
• Setup POC
• Custom installation and configuration
• On-line support center (ticketing service)
• On-line knowledge base
• Training

10. Contact
Contact us anytime at :
+32 479 52 76 80
info@xploreplus.com
www.xploreplus.com