Cognos 8 Business Intelligence is licensed according to what a user needs to do in different Studios.  These groupings are called "Roles" within C8 and each is priced differently.

The following table summarises these by Function by Studio.  For example, you are a Report Author and you need to be able to use Report Studio, Analysis Studio and Scorecarding, then you would be classified with a Role as a "BI Professional".  If, however you only required the use of Report Studio, then you could be classified as a "Professional Author".

Cognos 8 Studio/Role Matrix

Function	Description	Cognos 8 Studio
		Report	Analysis	Metrics
Administrator	Manage Environment, Modelling	Cognos BI Administrator
Author	Create all BI Assets	BI Professional (use of all BI studios)
	Create a BI Asset	Professional Author	BI Analysis Studio	BI Metrics Studio
	Basic Authoring and Exploration	Business Author (Query Studio)	Business Analyst (Analysis Studio)	Business Manager (Metrics Studio)
Consumer	View, Filter, Schedule, Notify, Drill pre-authored reports	BI Consumer
Recipient	View inside portal	BI Recipient

 

Report Consumption Roles

Cognos 8 BI Recipient

This role is aimed at users who will need to view scheduled reports through the Cognos Connection portal it provides rights to:

• Access through Cognos Connection Portal solely to select reports, view reports and set personal preferences (for languages, time zones etc.)

Cognos 8 BI Consumer

This role is aimed at users who will view scheduled reports and run reports interactively through the Cognos Connection portal, it provides rights to:

• Access through Cognos Connection Portal to select reports, view reports and set personal preferences (for languages, time zones etc.);
  
  • Run and schedule reports created by a licensed Cognos BI Studio module, interact with prompts, output the reports to other formats such as PDF and CSV,
  • Subscribe to a scheduled report, create and manage report folders and personalized standard reports
  • Receive Event Studio notifications
  • Use Office Connection module and functionality (once released)

Author and Power User Roles

Cognos 8 BI Business Author

This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to create new reports, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Query Studio module and functionality;

Cognos 8 BI Business Analyst

This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to perform interactive analysis, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio module and functionality;

Cognos 8 BI Business Manager

This role is aimed at business users who need to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively, and need to manage corporate performance through the use of metrics, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Metric Studio and Metric Designer module and functionality;

Cognos 8 BI Professional Author

This role is aimed at technical users who need to create new reports on behalf of the organization and test them, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Query Studio module and functionality;
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Report Studio module and functionality;

Cognos 8 BI Professional

This role is aimed at technical users who need to create and maintain all types of business intelligence content on behalf of their organization, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Query Studio module and functionality;
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Report Studio module and functionality;
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio module and functionality;
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Metric Studio and Metric Designer module and functionality;
• Use the Cognos 8 BI Event Studio module and functionality;

Administrator Roles

Cognos 8 BI Administrator

This role is aimed at IT administrator users who need to administer sever environments, create and maintain metadata and create and maintain all types of business intelligence on behalf of their organization, it provides rights to:

• Use of all of the rights defined for the Cognos 8 BI Consumer role
• Use the Cognos 8 BI  Query Studio, Report Studio, Analysis Studio, Event Studio, Metric Studio and Metric Designer modules and functionality;
• Administer the Cognos BI Software environment in relation to server, security and report scheduling administration
• Model metadata via Framework Manager; and
• Design, create and maintain Cognos PowerCubes using the OLAP Builder and OLAP Modeler modules.
• Use the Map Manager modules and functionality