Cognos 8 Business Intelligence data integration for SAP R/3 provides a complete solution for accessing, extracting, and transforming SAP R/3 data for your BI environment:
Streamlined Integration and Delivery—extract, merge, and deliver all SAP R/3 data and metadata in your working language for use in data warehouses, data marts, and analytic applications.
Consistent Organizational View—integrate all of your information for better reporting and analysis across the organization.
Increased Operational Efficiency—eliminate the need to generate ABAP to access R/3 data, freeing up valuable IT resources.
Existing Security—leverages the SAP R/3 security environment to ensure confidence in extracted data.
A COMPLETE SOLUTION
By extending the data integration capability within Cognos 8 BI to the SAP R/3 data source, you can extract SAP R/3 data to consolidate and transform disparate data sources. This data can then be loaded into an enterprise data Support for Unicode: IT can interact with data and metadata that contains multiple, simultaneous locales so global organizations can integrate SAP R/3 data from all locations. Non-Unicode environments are also supported for organizations that are migrating their SAP R/3 applications.
Easy to Use, Maintain, and Install: Starting data integration for SAP R/3 only requires simple SQL coding. You don’t need complex scripts or ABAP expertise to access rule-based SAP data. With few components, it is easy to install and run.
Fast Extraction: Universal data access (UDA) determines table joins for three different SAP table types—transparent, pool, and cluster—and then pushes them to the database. The capability includes a compression utility to automatically compress data from the application server and decompress it at the data integration server to minimize network traffic and accelerate the extraction process. Dependable Security: All components reside within the SAP security environment and work within the R/3 security model. Users experience the same, reliable security they expect from SAP.
COGNOS AND SAP—A HISTORY OF SUCCESS
As a certified mySAP.com Software Partner, Cognos is one of SAP’s key business intelligence partners. Cognos was the first mySAP BI partner to establish its own
WEB-BASED DEPLOYMENT
Cognos 8 BI uses a zero-footprint, Web-based deployment model. This helps reduce the administrative burden on IT while improving user adoption. With centralized deployment and administration, IT does not have to install and manage client desktop software, minimizing deployment and maintenance costs.
This open, Web standards-based environment is built on the proven Cognos ReportNet™ architecture. This design allows organizations to take full advantage of their existing IT infrastructure and skill investments. The reach of the Web means users can easily access and distribute their BI data from anywhere in the organization with continuous availability.
Cognos 8 BI is built on a single, native Web services architecture for maximum flexibility. It works with your existing application and Web servers, portals, browsers, enterprise applications, platforms, databases, and security models. It supports Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems in uniform and mixed platform deployments. A single, fully documented API allows developers and IT users to customize, integrate, and rebrand the reporting interface to suit their organization. Designed for enterprise-level deployment, Cognos 8 BI offers proven scalability to hundreds of thousands of users through an N-tiered, multi-server, multi-threaded architecture. This design provides full failover recovery and dynamic load balancing.
BETTER PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Cognos 8 BI is the only solution that provides complete BI functionality in one product, on a single, proven architecture. It delivers seamless reporting, analysis, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management. This simplifies your IT environment and the way everyone works with information. The result is high user adoption, better decisions, and greater agility across the organization. Cognos 8 BI is the clear choice for BI standardization and a cornerstone of better performance management.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
· Cognos Data Manager 8.1
· SAPGUI - for SAP Network Interface
· SAP R/3 on one of the following platforms: Windows NT, HPUX, AIX, and Solaris ABOUT COGNOS
Cognos is the world leader in business intelligence and enterprise planning software. Our solutions for corporate performance management let organizations drive performance with planning, budgeting and consolidation, monitor it with alerts and scorecarding, and understand it with business intelligence reporting and analysis. Cognos is the only vendor to support all of these key management activities in a complete, integrated solution. Founded in 1969, Cognos now serves more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. warehouse, dimensional data marts, or other delivery structures, extending the data sources available to the Cognos solution. SAP data can be easily integrated for use with Cognos 8 BI and enterprise planning capabilities.
A SOLID ARCHITECTURE
Cognos data integration for SAP R/3 provides an open SQL interface for accessing SAP R/3 data by going through the SAP Application Layer. It is the only way to access all of the tables within SAP. SQL code entered into the Cognos data integration platform is interpreted and resolved using pre-built, out-of-the-box ABAP functions. Data extraction, merging, transformation, and dimensional management are optimized to deliver dimensional data warehouses that are ready for business reporting and analysis. Cognos data integration for SAP R/3 delivers dimensional data warehouses from your SAP R/3 applications in the shortest possible time.
KEY COMPONENTS OF COGNOS 8 BI DATA
INTEGRATION FOR SAP R/3
The platform has the following components:
· The Cognos 8 BI data integration for SAP R/3 application.
· A Cognos dictionary and table utility allowing application developers to view R/3 tables and columns with descriptive names in the language of your choice.
· Cognos ABAP Programs that reside on the SAP server.
BENEFITS FOR IT
Access R/3 within a Familiar Environment: Work within the Cognos 8 BI data integration framework for easy SAP R/3 data extraction.
Proven solution for Multi-Platform Support: Data integration for SAP R/3 supports all SAP modules and has been tested against SAP R/3 4.6 and 4.7. It also supports a range of platforms including Windows NT, HPUX, AIX, and Solaris.
Cognos 8 BI
Data Integration
SAP GUI
Data Compressor
Cognos ABAP Interface
Connector
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