Benefits and features of the Cognos BI architecture

The benefits and features of the Cognos BI architecture are as follows:

  • It provides zero footprint on a client machine (in other words, it takes no space on a client's machine)
  • It supports load balancing not only by scaling up, but also by scaling out by adding new server-machine instances, even without an external load balancer
  • It integrates with web farms
  • It is platform independent
  • It has a common dispatcher
  • It is open and extensible
  • It supports the leading RDBMS to persist data that is related to content management and reporting
  • It is multilingual

Note

The information provided in this chapter was gathered and verified with the official manual of IBM Cognos BI.

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