Cognos BI Architecture
The Cognos BI Architecture is web based.
The user interface can be web based or windows based. The web based components is IBM Cognos Connection and the windows based components are framework manager, dynamic cube designer, transformer, metric designer
The web server tier is the IBM cognos BI gateway, the application component is the IBM Cognos BI server and the data tier consist of IBM Cognos content store, IBM cognos metric store and query data sources.