IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes

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Preface

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) provides a proven enterprise BI platform with an

open data strategy, providing customers with the ability to leverage data from any source,

package it into a business model, and make it available to consumers in various interfaces

that are tailored to the task.

IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes complements the existing Cognos BI capabilities and continues

the tradition of an open data model. It focuses on extending the scalability of the IBM Cognos

platform to enable speed-of-thought analytics over terabytes of enterprise data, without

having to invest in a new data warehouse appliance. This capability adds a new level of query

intelligence so you can unleash the power of your enterprise data warehouse.

This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2 and

specifically, the IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities. This book can help you in the

following ways:

򐂰 Understand core features of the Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities of Cognos BI V10.2

򐂰 Learn by example with practical scenarios by using the IBM Cognos samples

This book uses fictional business scenarios to demonstrate the power and capabilities of

IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes. It primarily focuses on the roles of the modeler, administrator,

and IT architect.

Information about IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.0 is in the information center:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m0/index.jsp

Also see the Dynamic Cubes User Guide, v10.2.0:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m0/nav/5_6