Cognos Forum ‘08 (Last Day)
Posted on May 15, 2008 by hessel
Filed Under Cognos, Reporting | 6 Comments
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 be positioned as a sort of legacy feature; a way to get existing Cognos 7 users onto the new Cognos 8 platform. It was confirmed that this studio would not be the center of attention when it comes to new developments. Concerning these developments; it was mentioned that the new version of Cognos will support an improved zero-suppression functions; based on the zero-suppression of the old Cognos 7 series. Other improvements are for example changes in drill-through behavior and improvements in the cube-swap process. A lot of interesting new features in short; especially the changes in zero-suppression seem like a godsend to me!
Cognos Forum ‘08 (Second Day)
Posted on May 15, 2008 by hessel
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Today the Cognos Forum continued for me with several sessions. These mainly covered some new features in the Cognos 8v3 environment such as Reporting Express mode and the use of Cognos 8 Datasources in the new version of Transformer. Also, I attended sessions that covered some advanced techniques for both framework - and report building. Mostly these techniques used macros, although the basics of macros are wellknown to me, the way they were used was pretty innovative. I’ve registred for a session tomorrow that covers the new powerplay functionality for Cognos 8, so I hope I can exaplin something more about that tomorrow.
Cognos Forum ‘08 (Sidenote: Sin City)
Posted on May 14, 2008 by hessel
Filed Under Editorial, Super Fancy Sexy | 4 Comments
As mentioned in my previous post; I’m currently attending the Cognos Forum ‘08 in Las Vegas. Since this is my first visit to Vegas, I will share some pictures and experiences with you. I’m staying in a hotel just off the Strip, and have had the opportunity to photograph the ‘main attractions’.
Cognos Forum ‘08 (First Day of the Conference)
Posted on May 14, 2008 by hessel
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This year I’m attending the Cognos Forum conference in Las Vegas. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Cognos Forum; its a gathering of a large part of the Cognos community. Conference session cover the entire Cognos platform as well as business cases, third-party solutions and much more. I will try to post some experiences on a daily basis; starting today!
Testing ETL or: Some More Fun with the Informatica Repository
Posted on April 8, 2008 by Thomas
Filed Under Data Warehousing, Informatica, Tips 'n Tricks | 8 Comments
Family and friends sometimes ask me (although usually not more than once) what exactly it is that I do. Sure, you’re a Business Intelligence slash data warehouse slash ETL specialist, but honestly; do you honestly expect us to know what that means? Management information? Huh? I usually answer the question by explaining that, on a very basic level, I create database tables and the fancy programs that fill them from other tables. The very basis of any BI environment in a nutshell.
Those that didn’t stop listening somewhere halfway - and understood what I was trying to tell them - are generally rather disappointed. Filling tables with data? Is that all? What’s so complicated about that?
The rest of the conversation I will spare you, but truth be told: it took me a while to come up with a satisfying answer to this often-asked question. What is it that an ETL developer does all day? Really, what is it about our job that is so damn complicated? I thought about writing an article about the necessary steps for building a proper ETL flow, or perhaps about the challenges that we face… HOWEVER… Saying it like that makes them seem like an awfully boring subjects for an article.
So: now for something completely different. Let’s put a spotlight on one of the ETL development phases - testing - and talk about how Informatica Repository SQL can make that task a little easier.
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