Successfully made it to the second year of COGNOS conference at Hyatt Residency, Boston. The day was pretty interesting from driving all the way from Westborough to Cambridge which took me one hour and ten minutes with all the traffic and the rain pouring badly.
Started with the Key Note presentation where the concentration was majorly on the new COGNOS iPhone app and the COGNOS integration with SAP. They were also showing COGNOS Express and COGNOS Go Dashboard which were already shown in the previous conference.
The first session I sat was the Report/ Dashboards and Scorecards. There was only one report that really impressed me. All the other stuff that they were demoing where the regular ones.
The second session was the COGNOS Express Manager – Integration of excel sheet with IBM COGNOS. The new feature they showed was the updation of the data from the excel creates immediate effect on the reports that are generated from the excel sheet. The COGNOS Express had some good featuers like the Scorecards (which have interesting features like the charts with default values and calculator, just like a computer app.) and COGNOS Configuration and Log files and ODBC and Users list; are all added to the Xccelator GUI at the Home level. Ifelt it is a Fantastic approach, especially to the install team at my company who can have much faster and easier way to update clients. So the installation and configuration will just a click away.
Third session --- experience of COGNOS USER. Big client with 85 million records who use Teradata. Not the best of presentations but was OK. They seem to be using the cubes rather the live DB due to their humungous data. This session also spoke about how important is it to maintain global standards and documentation, centralization of things.Fourth and the final session – balanced scorecard methodology… I have no clue and I need to ready about it. Case study about Eneco (GATNER) . This was more about Metric Studio.The most funny part was that, in each of the presentation they had the same dashboard and everyone was explaining it in their own way. It actually shows us that how we can interpret one single report into so many ways.
After seeing all these people presenting on the stage… I strongly believe I can give a better presentation of COGNOS .
From query studio to a pdf link from the right click property called Glossary
Apache and IIS as default webserver and not Web Sphere.
The default DB which comes with COGNOS is Informix and Not DB2.
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