Drill-thru to Notes from BI Reports

Business Intelligence reporting tools like Cognos are optimized for structured data as contained in DB2, Oracle, etc. Notes, on the other hand, excels at managing rich documents consisting of formatted text of varying length, file attachments, embedded graphics and collaborative workflows.

Simply extracting data from Notes for BI reporting discards much of the compelling value that Notes provides.

The Data Modeler makes it easy to create drill-thru links in BI reports which allow the report viewer to move into the live Notes document with a single click.

Drill-thru links bring the complete capabilities of Lotus contextual workplace to BI reports, including document context, workflows, document management and presence awareness .

This makes it easy to create hybrid solutions which combine the advanced reporting and analytic capabilities of BI with the rich collaborative capabilities of Notes.