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A Web Service is created every time a Cognos report, analysis, ad-hoc query or metric is saved.
An application developer identifies the content to be included, and obtains the Web Service URL for that content.
The developer then specifies all or specific parts of the content required within the URL, as well as the output format to use (there are several available, including XML, HTML and JSON). Finally, the developer integrates the Web service URL into the third party application, alternate visualization or mashup environment.
Industry-standard protocols
- Applications can make requests to Cognos Mashup Service using industry-standard REST or SOAP protocols.
- Mashup Service adapts to fit Web 2.0 environments and works well with .NET applications and third-party SOAP toolkits.
Business benefits
- Extend BI to the entire organization and reach business users in the applications and processes that they use.
- Easily combine internal data with constantly changing external data (such as market data).
- Put a new lens on your existing BI data with different ways to look at BI information.
IT benefits
- Use existing Cognos Business Intelligence security, minimizing development time.
- Cognos Mashup Service accesses all the business logic within the content, including conditional formatting, prompts and drill functions.
- Have greater flexibility in terms of how the content can be used.
- Easily integrate BI content with alternate presentation technologies using modern Web 2.0 technology standards.
Who’s using IBM Cognos Mashup Service?
Business users
Sample scenario: A Customer Service Representative checks back orders and customer records in the data warehouse right from their CRM application, before calling a customer about a complaint, allowing the CSR to maintain context for key BI information.
Application developers
Sample scenario: Developers mandated to build integration between BI and CRM systems reduce the amount of code to be written by up to half.
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