What is the difference between Cognos and eScholar?
Cognos is a reporting tool that includes the cubes and web reports. Cognos is one of the many software packages that you can use to see and manipulate information from the database. eScholar tools will be responsible for automating the ‘behind the scenes’ work of creating the data warehouse while it provides templates for loading district data from a variety of spreadsheets, databases, and other data sources such as outside testing services. Additionally, eScholar will greatly improve the data cleansing process by automatically identifying inconsistencies within the data submitted by districts. For more information on how these tools function, visit eScholar on the web.
