Cognos 8 Mashup Service

Hi Guys,

This is very interesting stuff .You can now integrate your Cognos report with your regular webapplication .
Example is your internet banking .that is a web application .Consider you have a report showing your expenditure through year on various items .Now that report is made in cognos and is available on cognos portal but you dont even have cognos login you have only bank password . Still you are able to see that cognos report developed by some cognos developer and which is filtered on your account details

Now that is awesome right .You have the all the abilities of cognos into your web application .The web application just calls a webservice that provides you the report .Without the web application bothering about the performance of report , data structure and all that .


IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service (CMS), a new web service shipped with the 8.4 Platform, is an API (application programming interface) that automatically and securely exposes BI content as a web service for use in operational applications, business process management (BPM) workflows and mashups. With this capability, you now can extend your BI content into existing applications and processes that are critical to your business users as well as add new context by “mashing” content with other applications.

I have not actually used it till now , but we try to use it in future if i get some time and chance.