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1/22/2019 1 Unit-2 Cognos Impromptu

Cognos Impromptu is a business intelligence and reporting tool that features an object-oriented architecture, a user-friendly graphical interface, and unified querying and reporting capabilities. It uses an Information Catalog repository to protect users from technical database aspects and simplify report creation. Governors allow administrators to control the enterprise reporting environment by managing activities, permissions, and security settings. Reporting is done through templates, headstarts, and other specialized options that offer flexibility and control.

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1/22/2019 1 Unit-2 Cognos Impromptu

Cognos Impromptu is a business intelligence and reporting tool that features an object-oriented architecture, a user-friendly graphical interface, and unified querying and reporting capabilities. It uses an Information Catalog repository to protect users from technical database aspects and simplify report creation. Governors allow administrators to control the enterprise reporting environment by managing activities, permissions, and security settings. Reporting is done through templates, headstarts, and other specialized options that offer flexibility and control.

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Cognos Impromptu

1/22/2019 UNIT-2 COGNOS IMPROMPTU 1


Cognos Impromptu
• Object oriented architecture
• Users access Impromptu through GUI
• Querying and reporting unified – so users get data
quickly and easily
• Database reporting tool – offers complete control
over all reporting
• Supports scalability
• User friendly interface look

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Impromptu Information Catalog
• Reporting begins with Information Catalog
• A LAN-based repository of business knowledge and
data-access rules
• Protects user from technical aspects of database as
SQL syntax, table joins and repeated queries &
unnecessary processing
• Creating impromptu catalog is simple

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Object-oriented Architecture

• Inheritance-based administration and distributed


catalog
• I.e changes to business rules, permission sets, query
activities cascade automatically throughout the
enterprise -> refers changes are global
• Governors allow admin to control enterprise
reporting environment

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Activities and process – controlled by governors

• Query activity
• Processing location
• Database connections
• Reporting permissions
• User profiles
• Client/server balancing
• Database transactions
• Security by value
• Field and table security

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Reporting
• To produce reports -> reportwise templates and
headstarts are used
• Apply data to produce report

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Impromptu’s - Reportwise templates -
Headstarts
• Impromptu’s predefined reportwise templates
• Templates for mailing labels
– Invoices
– Sales reports
– Directories
• These templates are complete with formatting, logic,
calculations
• Organizations can create templates for standard company
reports and then deploy to every user who needs them
• Templates are database-independent
• Variety of page and screen formats - Headstarts

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Special reporting options - Picklists and prompts

• User create reports by selecting from list of values


– Eg: select a picklist of all sales representatives with a single click of
mouse
• Too many values for single variable -> prompts
• Supply values at run time

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Special reporting options - Custom templates

• Standard templates with global calculations and


business rules created once and distributed

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Special reporting options –
Exception reporting
• Conditional filters
• Conditional highlighting
• Conditional display

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Special reporting options -Interactive
reporting
• Users perform querying and reporting by
Interacting with live data

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Special reporting options - Frames
• Building blocks used to produce reports that are
formatted with fonts, borders, colors, shading
• Frames know about contents and how to display
them
• Designing multiframe report saved as template and
rerun at any time with other data
– List frames
– Form frames
– Chart frames
– Text frames
– Picture frames

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Impromptu Request Server
• User request the server to execute query
• Server execute the request and generate the
sreport

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Assessment

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