Sunday, November 9, 2014

Cognos Powerplay Transformer

Cognos Powerplay Transformer or Cognos Transformer is a windows based GUI tool provided by IBM (COGNOS acquired by IBM) for creating multidimensional cubes for business analysis.

A Powerplay Cube or Transformer cube cintains pre- calculated data for mentioned dimensions and measures later used in Analysis Studio a Web tool or Powerplay Client a windows based tool for creating complex business reports.

Cognos Transformer or Powerplay Transformer tools main components

  • Data Sources
  • Dimension Map
  • Measures
  • Power Cubes
  • User Classes
  • Signons
Read above links to read more about specific component.