Google Maps in IBM Cognos Reports - Part 3
Posted by Chris Ovens on Wed, Feb 23, 2011
For those of you joining this series in progress (now a trilogy!) this article says why we believe consumer mapping solutions should not be used with enterprise BI.
In solid Boolean logic: NOT Cognos BI AND Google Maps.
Thus far we've covered maps as simple consumer visualizations versus as tools for data analytics, and thematic shading. In our recent webinar (which incidentally had almost 1,200 registrants... we may have hit upon an important topic...).
But I digress.
Ease of Authoring
In our recent webinar, the main point we wanted to get across was that for a map-enabled reporting initiative to succeed it needs to be driven by the report author, not by developers working with APIs. The professional report author needs to be empowered to add interactive maps as part of their natural content development workflow. The alternative results in ongoing higher costs, in both time and money, and reduced responsive to the businesses information needs.
Not good.
A couple of moving pictures to give you a sense of what the empowered Cognos report author can accomplish:
As always, let us know what you think.
- co