The OnCommand Insight enterprise reporting data models provide data elements and interactive relationships among data elements that yield business views of the data. Using the data elements and relationships, you can create reports using the IBM Cognos Analytics report generation tools recommended by NetApp.

OnCommand Insight also provides data marts that can be used to develop your own SQL queries. There is a distinction between these SQL query data marts and the data models used in reporting. The individual OnCommand Insight reporting data models use the underlying OnCommand Insight database schema provided in the data marts; however, the data models use additional tables and sometimes new elements in the tables. For instance, the data model includes a Monthly Capacity Fact table in the Storage Capacity data model that is based on the Capacity Fact table from the database schema and data mart. The data model filters out the values from the database schema table to show only month information.

Another example of a difference between the database schema used in data marts and the data model is in the Violation table and the Violation Type column. The data model translates programmatic-named values in the database to match the text displayed in the OnCommand Insight web UI.