

How to Increase User Adoption with IBM Cognos 8 Auditing
One of the most daunting tasks for any Cognos administrator is the process of providing a sustainable and intuitive reporting solution that deciphers the often overwhelming user requirements into the simple question "What do they want?" Feedback…
Data Warehousing in an SAP-Centric Environment
SAP-R/3 is one of the most common ERP applications for manufacturing industries. The data warehouse for such installations has been Oracle. The biggest pain point for Oracle implementations has been getting the data out of SAP-R/3,…
TM1 and Report Studio – The Mystery of the Missing Levels
As many of you know, TM1 has become a major component of the IBM Cognos BI application offerings. As a corporate OLAP solution, there are a number of advantages to utilizing TM1 versus PowerPlay; from faster response times in larger cubes to…
Extend, Enhance and Integrate Your BI Solution: The New IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service
IBM Cognos 8 Mashup Service (CMS), a new web service shipped with the 8.4 Platform, is an API (application programming interface) that automatically and securely exposes BI content as a web service for use in operational applications, business…
Determinants – The Answer to a Framework Manager Mystery
Editor's Note: This blog was originally posted on February 1, 2010, and has been reviewed/updated on October 5, 2020. Quite some changes have been applied to Framework Manager tool over the past decade, we find that the tuning of determinants…
Understanding the Cognos Application Firewall
If you've spent any time administering or configuring an IBM Cognos installation, then you have likely encountered and possibly pondered the feature known as the Cognos Application Firewall (CAF). The name itself seems to attract attention,…
IBM Cognos 8 and SAP BW
IBM-Cognos 8 and SAP
One of the advantages that IBM-Cognos 8 brings to the table in any implementation is the ability to handle varying data sources. One particularly complex data source that is often encountered is SAP BW. IBM-Cognos has invested…
Dynamic Prompting based on User Selection
In this month's Tech Tips we'll run through a demo on how to display dynamic prompts based on user selection. This is especially useful if you want to offer a lot of functionality in a report without confusing the user with a myriad of unnecessary…
A Tool to Standardize The Look and Feel of Your Reports
In last month’s Tips and Tricks we discussed how to standardize a “skin” in each of your different Cognos 8 environments. This allowed all users to receive the same look and feel when interacting with Cognos Connection. We’re…
Understanding Star Schema
If your house is anything like mine, then it would be called Google. You have to search to get anything you want. Even if your house is well organized, to find a book by title or author you have to sift through the bookcase. …
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