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Cognos BI Roles

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The following are the roles and access as they have been configured by UCAR to be in compliance with the BI Licenses we own.  Note that there is a role for ad hoc report writing called BI Business Author but we have not implemented this yet and do not have any licenses for this role yet:

 

Cognos BI RoleCognos BI functions available in this RoleTypical Users
BI Admin 
  • Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos BI Enhanced Consumer role
  • Use the Query Studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio and Metric Designer modules and functionality;
  • Use the Business Insight module (standard and advanced mode)
  • Administer the Cognos BI Software environment in relation to server, security and report scheduling administration
  • Administer Search service, including scheduling of indexing operations
  • Model metadata via Framework Manager; and
  • Design, create and maintain Cognos PowerCubes using the Transformer modules on all platforms.
  • Use the Map Manager modules and functionality
  • Use the Virtual View Manager modules and functionality
IT Staff who support the application at the system level
BI Enhanced Consumer 
  • Access through Cognos Connection Portal to select reports, view reports and set personal preferences (for languages, time zones etc.);
  • Use the Cognos Connection Portal to create and consume portal pages, including use of all the portlet types provided with Cognos Connection.
  • Run and schedule reports created by a licensed Cognos BI Studio module, interact with prompts, output the reports to other formats such as PDF and CSV;
  • Subscribe to a scheduled report, create and manage report folders and personalized standard reports
  • Receive Event Studio notifications & set and manage personal alerts.
  • Use Cognos for Office module and functionality
  • Use the Business Insight module (standard mode only)
  • Utilize Cognos Search, for dynamic and static text search of BI content
  • Consume Cognos Active Report outputs
  • If customer has acquired Enhanced Consumer rights through licenses purchased by the “Authorized User” metric, then the ability to use Lotus Connections functionality to collaborate is included.
If customer has acquired Real-time Monitoring license(s) then the ability to assemble and consume Real-time Monitoring dashboard objects and the ability to use the Real-time Monitoring Dashboard is		Administrators and Manager who run reports, want to save selection critera.
BI Professional Author 
  • Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos BI Enhanced Consumer role
  • Use the Query Studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio and Metric Designer modules and functionality;
  • Use the Business Insight module (standard and advanced mode)
  • Design, create and maintain PowerCubes using the Transformer module and functionality on Windows platforms only.
Advanced Report Writers who create reports for use by any one in the institution.