Framework Manager is a metadata modeling tool that drives query generation for IBM Cognos 8. A model is a collection of metadata that includes physical information and business information for one or more data sources. IBM Cognos 8 enables performance management on normalized and denormalized relational data sources as well as a variety of OLAP data sources.
The first section of this document discusses fundamental IBM
Cognos 8 modeling concepts that you need to understand
about modeling metadata for use in business reporting and analysis .
The next section discusses building the relational model .
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