Cognos 8 BI for Consumers
According to leading analysts, Business Intelligence (BI) has been a top priority for worldwide organizations over the past five years, and will continue to be a priority in the near future. With a global user base of millions, Cognos is known as a leading provider of Business Intelligence tools. Cognos’s latest release is Cognos 8 BI, a powerful suite of modules that share one common infrastructure for creating, managing, and deploying queries, reports, analyses, scorecards, dashboards, and alerts—all designed to support an organization’s Business Intelligence objectives.
A consultant with more than 10 years of Cognos BI experience, Juan A. Padilla is an expert in helping organizations develop and implement Business Intelligence solutions. In the first in a series of books on Cognos products, Cognos 8 BI for Consumers, Padilla provides a step-by-step introductory guide for the key component of the Cognos infrastructure: Cognos Connection. This book walks the reader through the fundamentals of Cognos Connection, the powerful web portal that is the foundation for all users of Cognos 8 BI, from end users to administrators. The guide relies heavily on screen images that demonstrate product workflow and available features; even readers who do not have “live” access to Cognos software can learn about it!
This guide has been designed for the following:
- Companies evaluating Cognos as a potential BI solution, who need to know the module’s capabilities before purchasing
- Those planning to use Cognos products professionally, e.g., job-seekers or consultants
- Organizations using previous versions of Cognos who need to evaluate the latest version before upgrading or migrating
- Novice “hands-on” Cognos users, for whom this guide will be an “anytime, anywhere” tutorial and reference source
In this book, you will discover the following:
- How Cognos Connection functions
- How to work with reports, including setting parameters, scheduling, and changing formats
- How to customize the look and feel of the interface to your preferences
- A simulation of Cognos’s security features
- Report samples that show the powerful reporting capabilities of Cognos 8 BI
