CoRePublisher is a powerful, yet lightweight, file distribution tool to publish your IBM Cognos BI reports to SharePoint and other enterprise CMS & file sharing systems.
It features dynamic and conditional logic to transfer reports to other content management systems. Any report metadata, such as author, prompts and report name can be used to manage the report publication process in a smart and secure way. These data can also be filled out automatically in the CMS fields.
Currently the following target systems are supported: Microsoft SharePoint (2007/2010/2013), an FTP server, a folder or network share, Dropbox, Box.net, Liferay, WebDAV, DB Blob field, HTTP Put service. And, thanks to CoRePublisher’s open API, every other CMS, Version Control or Auditing system that also has an API which allows you to programmatically access it, can be addressed by writing your own target module.
Frequent Use Cases
- Publish to corporate portals, SharePoint, FTP
- Publish to non Cognos stakeholders
- Enable access for mobile users
- Archive for legislative compliancy
- Use data as source on other systems
- Manage smart file distribution
- Automate manual processes
Smart Publications
CoRePublisher can use any report metadata to define publication rules and target parameters. You can use the report author, report name, report folder, burstkey and even prompt values selected when running the report in Cognos Connection, to dynamically and conditionally publish to your targets. This makes it easy to work with, yet very versatile.
Extended File Functionality
Once published to a target system, the report can be handled like any other file in that system. In Microsoft SharePoint for example, you can make use of automatically filled out metadata columns, lists and views, or Microsoft SharePoint’s versioning capabilities.
Demo
This demo movie provides you with an overview of CoRePublisher’s functionality.
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Technical Specs
Lightweight
The CoRePublisher software has a very small footprint on the IBM Cognos system:
- it uses no Cognos SDK
- it does not connect to the Cognos Content Store
- it does not require any changes in the IBM Cognos application tier
- it does not need to be installed on the IBM Cognos server
- from within IBM Cognos, default functionality is used to physically save reports on the Cognos server
Also on the SharePoint target system, CoRePublisher has a small footprint:
- it does not connect to the SharePoint repository
- it does not require any changes in the SharePoint application tier
- it does not need to be installed on the SharePoint server
- from within SharePoint, default functionality can afterwards be applied on the reports
Requirements
Runs on:
- Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, all versions, all editions (32bit/64bit)
- Windows Server 2003 all versions, all editions
- Windows Server 2008 all versions, all editions (32bit/64bit)
- Windows Server 2012 all versions, all editions (32bit/64bit)
Requires the .Net Framework 4.x to be installed.
Supported Cognos Versions:
- Cognos BI 8.x and 10.x
Supported target types
- IBM Cognos Folder and Share integration.
- IBM Cognos FTP integration (incl. sFTP and FTPs).
- IBM Cognos SharePoint 2007 integration.
- IBM Cognos SharePoint 2010 integration.
- IBM Cognos SharePoint 2013 integration.
- IBM Cognos SharePoint 2013 Online integration.
- IBM Cognos SharePoint List integration.
- IBM Cognos DropBox integration.
- IBM Cognos box.net integration.
- IBM Cognos Database BLOB integration.
- IBM Cognos WebDAV integration (eg. for publication to Liferay Portal).
- IBM Cognos HTTP PUT integration.