Cognos ReportNet

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Cognos ReportNet
Original author(s) Cognos, an IBM Company
Initial releaseSeptember, 2003
Final release
8.1.2 MR2 [1] / March 31, 2009;10 years ago (2009-03-31)
Operating system Multiple
Platform Multiple
Available inMulti-lingual
Type Business Intelligence
Website www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/products/reportnet/

Cognos ReportNet (CRN) was a web-based software product for creating and managing ad hoc and custom-made reports. ReportNet was developed by the Ottawa-based company Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated), an IBM company. The web-based reporting tool was launched in September 2003. Since IBM's acquisition of Cognos, ReportNet has been renamed IBM Cognos ReportNet like all other Cognos products.

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ReportNet uses web services standards such as XML and Simple Object Access Protocol and also supports dynamic HTML and Java. [2] ReportNet is compatible with multiple databases including Oracle, SAP, Teradata, Microsoft SQL server, DB2 and Sybase. [3] [4] The product provides interface in over 10 languages, [5] has Web Services architecture to meet the needs of multi-national, diversified enterprises and helps reduce total cost of ownership. Multiple versions of Cognos ReportNet have since been released by the company. Cognos ReportNet was awarded the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) 2005 Codie awards for the "Best Business Intelligence or Knowledge Management Solution" category. [6] CRN's capabilities have been further used in IBM Cognos 8 BI (2005), the latest reporting tool. [7] CRN comes with its own software development kit (SDK).

Launch

Early adopters of Cognos ReportNet for their corporate reporting needs included Bear Stearns, BMW and Alfred Publishing. Around this same time of launch, Cognos competitor Business Objects released version 6.1 of its enterprise reporting tool. Cognos ReportNet has been successful since its launch, raising revenues in 2004 from licensing fees. [8] Subsequently, other major corporations like McDonald's adopted Cognos ReportNet. [9]

Controversy

Cognos rival Business Objects announced in 2005 that BusinessObjects XI significantly outperformed Cognos ReportNet in benchmark tests conducted by VeriTest, an independent software testing firm. The tests performed showed Cognos ReportNet performed poorly when processing styled reports, complex business reports and combination of both. [10] The tests reported a massive 21 times higher report throughput for BusinessObjects XI than Cognos ReportNet at capacity loads. [11] Cognos soon dismissed the claims by stating Business Objects dictated the environment and testing criteria and Cognos did not provide the software to participate in benchmark test. [12] Cognos later performed their own test to demonstrate Cognos ReportNet capabilities. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Cognos Supported Products
  2. ↑ Cognos ReportNet in news
  3. ↑ Data sources Archived 2007-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ CRN Environment details
  5. ↑ CRN Features Archived 2008-03-30 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Cognos ReportNet wins award
  7. ↑ Cognos 8 BI Archived 2008-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ Cognos ReportNet delivers $30 Million in License Revenue in one Quarter [ dead link ]
  9. ↑ ReportNet and fries
  10. ↑ BO XI Vs Cognos ReportNet
  11. ↑ BO XI outperforms Cognos ReportNet
  12. ↑ Cognos dismisses the Test results Archived 2008-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Cognos scalability results Archived 2008-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ Refer definition in introduction page Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ Refer Introduction page Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Framework Manager Services Archived April 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ Refer page9 Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ ReportNet on Linux
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