Data Modeler for Notes provides quick and painless integration of Lotus Notes with Cognos Business Intelligence. The Data Modeler generates Cognos Framework Manager models for you through a comprehensive and easy to use wizard interface.

Data Modeler makes content in Lotus Notes databases immediately accessible to Cognos BI and opens Notes to these powerful Cognos Enterprise BI capabilities:

• Reporting
  
• Scorecarding
  
• Analysis

Lotus Notes users do not need to master metadata modeling concepts. The Data Modeler’s step by step wizard takes you through the entire process.

Data Modeler wizard implements Notes metadata modeling best practices developed through years of experience at Sun & Son.

You don’t have to take the time and effort to learn these techniques through a trial and error process. You can develop usable metadata models for Notes with the Data Modeler in minutes instead of days or weeks.

Data Modeler provides a full set of tools for metadata modeling for Notes. Wizards can be rerun to support fine tuning and learning through doing.

Multiple models per database support alternate views of the same data. Clone models to support what-if tests. Clone and Retarget to propagate a finished model to other instances of the same database design.

Bring multiple data models together in Cognos Framework Manager and set relations based on common key values.

Data Modeler allows you to:

• Produce professional reports, scorecards and analysis from Notes data. Quickly build dashboards which integrate data from Notes and relational data sources.
  
• Produce powerful charting, aggregation, roll-up and drill-down for innovative new ways of visualizing Notes data in ways that transcend database and data type boundaries.
  
• Bring images and rich text objects from Notes directly into Cognos reports.
  
• Drill down from Cognos reports directly to live Notes documents to access rich text, embedded application logic and Notes workflow.

Utilize multiple data access strategies to tailor your Collaborative BI solution to your environment and your needs. Data Modeler optimizes query performance and automatically maintains Notes data type fidelity regardless of the data access strategy chosen.

Access Notes data using:

• ODBC for real-time access to Notes databases
  
• Externalized data using Enterprise DataBridge for data warehouse integration
  
• New! DB2 Access Views with Domino 7 and DB2