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.