A multiple-tenant environment is another new feature of Cognos BI Version 10.2 has.
After the introduction of cloud computing, one cloud service provider had to deal with multiple customers or organizations at a time. A feature was also added in Cognos to support multiple customers or organizations on the same (single) deployment.
By using the multiple-tenant feature for Cognos, organizations can only see their own data. Data for other organizations running on the same deployment is invisible to each of the other organizations. This is an efficient use of resources and money. Existing authentication providers can be used to manage users and groups, resulting in no additional administration tasks. Cognos also supports sharing of content between two tenants (organizations or customers) by declaring them public and setting suitable access and tenancy permissions.
To configure multi-tenancy, there are two steps: