Event Studio is a component of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. It allows users to keep track of events that they consider important. An event can be any change in data; for example when a metric you have been watching falls below acceptable levels.

It does this by allowing you to create agents to monitor events you are interested in. there is no limit to how many events you can set up. Agents can be scheduled to run at any time or frequency.

A task can be set up to do a number of actions, including send an email, run a report or job (ie several actions) or update a database.

Each agent has a subscription list of users who will be notified when the agent is activated.