The IBM Cognos BI applications tier contains one or more IBM Cognos BI servers. It is responsible for running all the services requested by a gateways. It receives requests from gateways and send it to appropriate service.
Applications Tier Components-
- Dispatcher, it operates services and routes requests.
- Content Manager, it manages the storage of customer application data.
IBM Cognos BI server runs requests, eg- report studio, analysis studio, query studio, which are forwarded by a gateway. Apart from that IBM Cognos BI server also renders the IBM Cognos Connection and Metric studio interfaces.
