First a background:One of the reasons why i was exposed to Cognos Reporting Development was when one of the projects i got involved with had some reporting requirements. We used to have the reports published via Intelliprint Reporting Software (owned by Synaptris) in our Domino Databases until the company where i work for decided to purchase Cognos 8 BI Platform. This decision only means one thing. We have to migrate the Intelliprint Reports to Cognos Platform. I got mixed emotions. I thought i would lose my job since i dont know much about Cognos. Fortunately, the company considered my Notes Skills and trained me with Cognos 8 development. Learning a new platform i.e. Cognos 8 is something new to me. Don’t get me wrong though, Intelliprint Reporting Software is an excellent reporting tool which is one-of-a-kind (we used this mostly in our client side reporting). But Cognos offers more than just a reporting solution. It is actually a business intelligence (BI) and performance management software which is diverse, perfect for a distributed computing (for n-tier environment). Cognos offers dozens of other products, mostly they are known for PowerPlay online analytical processing (OLAP) tool, its Impromptu report and query language but i am currently exposed to its Reportnet Environment. In general, Cognos Products allows users to extract corporate data, analyze it, and then assemble reports for analysis, business decision making, scorecarding, dashboards, and event management.... Read More

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