Cognos Event Studio

IBM Cognos Event studio is the notification tool used to alert decision-maker in the organization, so that they can make timely and effective decisions on the occurrence of events.

Event studio used to create agent that monitor status changes, priority customers, to detect occurrence of business event, or any other factor which is important to organization or business.

When an event occurs in organization people are alerted to take required action.  Agent detect the event and perform the task like publish the detail to portal, deliver alert by email, run and distribute report based on events and monitor the status of the events.

Example of event- Cancellation of large order or return of product.

Cognos Analysis Studio

IBM Cognos Analysis Studio is the web-based analysis component within IBM Cognos Connection. User can explore, analyze and compare the dimensional data using Analysis Studio. Analysis Studio provides access to dimensional, OLAP( Online Analytical Processing) and DMR (Dimensional Modeled Relational) data sources.

You can use Analysis Studio to compare and manipulate data to understand the relation between data and its relative importance. You can view performance indicator of your business.

Example- revenue, growth, product cost, or top performer. Analysis Studio provides filter, calculations, sorting and drill up and drill down support you need for analysis.

Using Analysis Studio, you can perform following task-

• Find and focus on items which are important to your business.
• Understand the trends in the market.
• Compare the data, such as details to summaries, or actual results to budgeted results.
• Assess performance by focusing on the best or worst results.
• Establish relative importance using calculations such as rank or growth.
• Share your finding and analysis with management.

Analysis created in Analysis Studio can be opened in Report Studio and used to build professional reports.

Difference between Report Studio and Query Studio

Report Studio and Query Studio can be accessed from the cognos connection web portal. Report Studio is used to create sophisticated reports and charts with complex prompts and filters. Query Studio is used to create ad-hoc queries and simple reports and charts.

Report Studio has some special functionality like bursting, prompts and advance charts where Query Studio does not have these options.

Cognos Query Studio

Query studio is reporting tool used for creating simple queries and reports in IBM Cognos. Use of Query Studio is so easy any novice user can create report for business queries. Basically Query Studio is used for ad-hoc reports and it is the lighter version of Report Studio.

We can view data, author simple reports, change the report layout, filter and sort data, add formatting, and create charts with minimum steps. Query Studio can be also used to publish reports for audience who do not required complex layout or formatting.

Cognos Report Studio

Cognos Report Studio is the web product used to analyze and create (advanced) corporate or financial reports based on the requirements. Reports can be simple list reports, dashboards, charts, maps and other graphical elements with full drill through capabilities. 

Report authors can create, edit and distributed wide range of professional reports using Report Studio. Report design created in Query Studio can be read and edited in Report Studio (not vice versa). Creating reports depends on factors like target audience, business requirements, data sources.