Appfluent is an IBM Cognos ValueNet partner delivering an integrated solution with the IBM Cognos 8 platform.

Appfluent Visibility for Data Warehousing is designed for managing data warehouses that support the IBM Cognos 8 BI platform. By integrating with IBM Cognos 8, Appfluent correlates users, reports and models with data usage and database query metrics. This solution, allows you to get complete visibility into business usage, exposes how data is used and what data is unused and tracks inappropriate user activity.

With Appfluent you can:

• Measure how your business units and departments are using your BI and DW infrastructure and deliver score cards and dashboards in IBM Cognos 8. View sample

• Easily track and report on the use of sensitive data to meet security and compliance audits. Set thresholds and get notified to proactively discover inappropriate or unauthorized IBM Cognos 8 user activity

• Respond faster to end-user issues with complete visibility. Easily find the most active IBM Cognos 8 users and reports that impact the performance of your data warehouse

• Quickly find problematic queries and isolate the sources including the IBM Cognos 8 users and reports responsible for the problem queries

• Identify frequently used Tables and Columns associated with slow running SQL generated by IBM Cognos 8. Discover patterns of repetitive complex operations and aggregation and the associated IBM Cognos 8 users, reports and models