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Chapter 1. Overview of Cognos Dynamic
Cubes
This chapter provides an overview of IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes: how the solution extends
the scalability of the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence platform and uses the core strengths
of an enterprise data warehouse. This chapter also describes the architecture of Dynamic
Cubes: the IBM Cognos Cube Designer, the IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes Server, and the
Aggregate Advisor, a part of IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer.
This chapter contains the following sections:
1.1, “Introduction to IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes” on page 2
1.2, “Skillset requirements for IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes” on page 6
1.3, “When to use Cognos Dynamic Cubes” on page 7
1.4, “System requirements” on page 7
1.5, “Comparison to other IBM cube technologies” on page 8
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