Cognos Metadata Modeling with Framework Manager will teach you how to transform your the view of relational data . It will teach you how to create packages with metadata. As a result, the metadata will give a view in the in such a way that you can use it for making business decisions.

Framework Manager is a Windows-based client metadata modeling tool that operates in the IBM Cognos Analytics (ICA) platform. Framework manager is a metadata modeling tool. It is not a standalone product, but a core backend tool used to build a foundation for Cognos Analytics and legacy BI studios. And, it is one of several ICA modeling applications used to create metadata models and metadata packages. These packages can then be used by analytic reporting tools. One of the key components of Cognos Analytics reporting is metadata modeling through Framework Manager. 

Sometimes, authors have difficulty presenting business information to your end users (report authors and report consumers). For efficiency, it’s important to present the data in a simplified and easy to use format. Tthe raw data from various data sources very often needs to go through a thorough metadata modeling process. This process is – a metamorphosis form gathered data to presentable, predictable data. The models you create are then used by your report authors and business analytics consumers to build reports, dashboards, story boards, and explorations. To accomplish this, Framework Manager allows data warehouse developers and data modelers to configure the data in different ways. For example you can create relational data dimensionally, you can apply hierarchies for drill scenarios, apply member functions, and also query any of the supported data sources (RDBMS and text with SQL, or OLAP with MDX).

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