This book is intended for the new audience that has little knowledge of Business Intelligence, is familiar with system administration, and plans to learn more about IBM Cognos BI Administration. The IBM Cognos Administration section includes the components needed to administer the IBM Cognos software.
The software manual is included in the setup media, whereas product information and knowledge base are available at the IBM Cognos official website, http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r2m0/index.jsp.
IBM Cognos Administration helps to perform the following tasks once the Cognos software has been installed:
Security management
Content administration
Activities and jobs management
Server administration
Portal services administration
Scheduling and task automation
Monitoring Cognos and working with system KPIs
Setting up resources such as shared paths, printers, and fonts
Additional customizations (if required)
The chapters that follow will cover the IBM Cognos Administration capabilities in detail.