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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 15, 2016

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their Hadoop data. Since Wells Fargo is already using Cognos BI for other data sources, they asked the IBM account team whether Cognos Analytics can connect to MapR Hadoop via Apache Drill. The response from Product Management is that they have no plans at this time to have such functionality in CA.
  • Guest
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    May 23, 2019

    We also use MapR Hadoop Environment and have built Data Lakes and are using Cognos Analytics for reporting needs.  We would also like to provide t self service reporting capability  using Apache Drill connector on the MapR data lthat resides in the data lake.

  • Guest
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    Mar 15, 2019

    We are waiting for this functionality and would enhance the capability of using Cognos. These connectors are available in Tableau and other Analytics Tools which make them little more attractive for self srviicng capabilities.