Cognos Delivery

Link to interactive in-portal report

HTML

-Follows UCSD Security best practices

-Consumer can interact with prompts, creating their own filters

-Data is refreshed nightly

-Report can link to other reports or non-Cognos locations

-Single location for all consumers

-Consumer responsible for any data downloads

-May not be the format (email attachment) consumer is used to

-Large reports may take longer to run than the consumer wants

Link to saved in-portal report

PDF, Excel, Excel Data, CSV

-Follows UCSD Security best practices

-Single location for all users

-Data refreshed with each report run and save

-Quick load time

-Consumer responsible for any data downloads

-Can be scheduled to run before consumer starts work

-May not be the format (email attachment) consumer is used to

-Cannot save full history of every time the report is run

Email link to report

HTML, PDF, Excel, Excel Data, CSV

-Can be used to notify consumer that report data has been updated

-See all benefits of link to interactive in-portal report and link to saved in-portal report

-Email clutter if the consumer isn’t looking at the report every day

Email attachment

HTML, PDF, Excel, Excel Data, CSV

-What the consumer is used to

-Email address can be set up to save attachment to file location for external access

-Does NOT follow UCSD Security best practices

-Report developer is responsible for data download and distribution of attachment

-Email limit on size of attachment

-Stagnant data

Save report as external file

PDF, Excel, Excel Data, CSV

-Allows for file pick-up and movement to non-Cognos file storage location

-Does NOT follow UCSD Security best practices

-Requires set up by ITS-BIA and ITS-AP

-Saves to single location, available to all using this delivery method

-Limited control over file name

-File system must have third-party encryption

-Not available in Cognos cloud

Send report to mobile device

Not supported at UCSD

Print

Not supported at UCSD