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Meta Data Development using Cognos Framework Manager - KPIC8MD

Framework Manager is the metadata modeling tool that delivers the BI metadata to business intelligence reporting, analysis, and scorecarding applications. A key goal of metadata for business intelligence is to leverage existing metadata while adding value in order to provide an intuitive end user experience characterized by predictable queries and results. Cognos tools enable reporting on transactional and dimensional relational sources as well as SAP BW. Framework Manager has many features that are designed to leverage a dimensionally designed relational data source. While a dimensional schema is not required to use Framework Manager or Cognos Reporting, many features have been added to assist metadata modelers and report authors to leverage the benefits of dimensional schemas.

Cognos metadata service lets you create a single metadata model that spans all enterprise data sources and applications. This gives you a consistent data view across the enterprise, and a common foundation for information sharing on an enterprise scale.

KPI consultants will allow IT to isolate report authors and report consumers from database complexities. Cognos metadata leverages your investment with a single model serving multiple audiences and locales. IT can set up enterprise standard business rules for data coming from multiple sources. Data reaches the business users in an easy-to-understand format.

Cognos accomplishes this through architecture that isolates the business rules from the data sources and the end applications. A single model can create multiple packages specific to individual needs. You can import from all major modeling tools (such as Informatica, ERwin, and others). In addition, Cognos lets you conduct an impact analysis to identify resulting changes in your metadata and import just these changes into the source model. 

KPI consultants can help you in building an optimum Meta data layer for your environment.