IBM Cognos BI

In Watson, you can directly access data that is retrieved as an IBM Cognos list report. To allow users to access that data, Cognos must be configured by a Cognos administrator.

Integration can mean many things. In fact, if the data that you want to analyze in Watson resides in Cognos BI, the simplest way to analyze it is to integrate it:

  1. Log in to Cognos BI (this requires a Cognos user ID), as shown in this screenshot:
    IBM Cognos BI
  2. Run a report or query and format it as a Delimited text (CSV) file, as shown here:
    IBM Cognos BI
  3. Save the output, as follows:
    IBM Cognos BI
  4. Upload your file to Watson (as a new dataset):
    IBM Cognos BI

Voila! Simple integration!:

IBM Cognos BI

A Cognos data connection

Now that we know how to add and manage data connections and use them to access and upload data, we can point out that most (currently supported) data source options are set up in the same manner as we demonstrated in this chapter. One exception is IBM Cognos BI. In this section, we will walk through the steps required to integrate Cognos BI data with Watson.

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