Cognos Forum ‘08 (Last Day)
For me, the last day of the Cognos Forum ‘08 was solely about the new Powerplay functionality that might be released in Cognos 8.4. I attended a session that featured a demo of this new functionality, and provided some more information about this new Cognos version. First of all, the new powerplay functionality seems to […]
MDX Basics - part 2
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article named MDX Basics - Part 1, of course, this title already suggested a second edition. In reaction to a comment on the first post (by Johan), this MDX is mainly targeted at Cognos products, although I believe it should be roughly the same for other […]
Hail! King of BI tools…
I find it interesting to read about the differences between BO and Cognos. A couple of days ago I was present at an MS SSRS training. (I will not be tempted to state that MSSSRS is a better tool, because it simply is not.) However, I have worked with all three tools and interesting enough, […]
Superficial
Call me superficial if you want, but I find the GUI of a reporting tool an important aspect. Whereas performance and feature richness are important, so is the way in which these properties are presented. I believe this is an important selling point for the Cognos 8 BI environment. In the past few months I had […]
MDX Basics - part 1
MDX is short for Multi-Dimensional Expressions and is a concept just as popular as Business Intelligence, it is a language used to query OLAP ( Online analytical processing) datasources. Concerning OLAP Wikipedia explains that: “In the core of any OLAP system is a concept of an OLAP cube (also called a multidimensional cube or a hypercube). It consists of […]
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