Reach business users in the applications and processes they use

Cognos Mashup Service exposes content from Cognos Business Intelligence (such as reports, queries, analyses and metrics) as a Web Service.

This allows advanced business users and/or application developers to embed all or parts of this content into other business applications, processes or data visualizations. With an easy way to combine this information, IT can quickly provide BI to users in the systems they are most familiar with.

• Easily combine internal data with constantly changing external data (such as market data).

• Put a new lens on existing BI data with different ways to look at BI information.

• Use existing Cognos Business Intelligence security, minimizing development time.

• Have greater flexibility in terms of how the content can be used.

Features and benefits

A Web Service is created every time a Cognos report, analysis, ad-hoc query or metric is saved.

An application developer identifies the content to be included, and obtains the Web Service URL for that content.

The developer then specifies all or specific parts of the content required within the URL, as well as the output format to use (there are several available, including XML, HTML and JSON). Finally, the developer integrates the Web service URL into the third party application, alternate visualization or mashup environment.

Industry-standard protocols

• Applications can make requests to Cognos Mashup Service using industry-standard REST or SOAP protocols.

• Mashup Service adapts to fit Web 2.0 environments and works well with .NET applications and third-party SOAP toolkits.