BIA for Cognos Front-end

Hi,
We are in the process of migrating BW front-end tool as Cognos. Is anyone know if we implement BIA, Cognos will use it and get better result?
Thanks for your reply.
Regards
Ramesh

Hello Ramesh,
Cognos (as well as any other 3rd party front-end) will benefit from BIA. How much faster your queries will be depends on how much time is spent on the data selection.The higher the time now, the faster these queries will be with BIA.
Regards,
Marc
SAP NetWeaver RIG

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http://blog.avtex.com/2012/07/26/understanding-lync-2013-server-failover/
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