Flattening Dimensions
This document provides a technique for combining multiple dimensions into a single dimension to improve performance for large Cognos Planning models. The technique can also be used to reduce data sparsity in Cognos Planning models.

Cognos EP Best Practices
Cognos Planning Best Practices Guide. This document discusses a number of best practices in the design and implementation of Cognos Planning.

Java Garbage Collection
How to configure Tomcat to capture Java Garbage Collection logs to file

CRN and Java Heap
A detailed explaination of some fo the tunning settings available for the Java heap.

Performance Tuning Settings for Cognos 8
This document gives a detailed explanation of the configuration settings available for Cognos 8.

Cognos 8 Performance Tuning Cheat Sheet
A quick reference guide to some of the Cognos 8 configuration settings.

Tuning Cognos ReportNet for Performance
CRN tuning considerations for improving a deployment's performance.

Go to Production in Cognos Contributor
A detailed analysis of the Go To Production process in Contributor

Content Store Sizing
A customer facing Content Store sizing template. Use this when a DBA requests for guidance on estimating space for the Content Store.

Dealing with Prompted Reports
Samples on how to deal with prompted Cognos 8 reports including passing different values for different users. This zip file contains several JMeter sample scripts.

Cognos 8 Stability Test
This file contains a JMeter testplan and a document describing how to use it. This plan runs several Cognos 8 sample reports and demonstrates how to use standard JMeter to stability test Cognos 8. No knowledge prerequisits required.

Running a Simple Report with Anonymous Access
Shows how to run a report using JMeter scripting. This zip file includes a sample JMX file.

Logging into Cognos Connection
How to enable authenticated access to Cognos Connection from a JMeter script. Includes how to use an input file to provide a list of users. This zip file contains a sample JMeter script.

Accessing Cognos Connection
A step by step guide on how to access Cognos Connection from a JMeter script. The zip file also contains a JMeter sample script.

Access Manager Administration
A one-day instructor-led course that teaches you how to apply security to Cognos applications and data sources. The course emphasizes the integration of security within your network environment. You will learn how to use the Access Manager tool to design, administer, configure, and maintain a user class structure for your organization.

Cognos Scoping and Planning Service
Receive project initiation deliverables, including the project charter, project success plan, timeline, and resource estimate. This enables a smooth transition to the design, build and deployment phases of your implementation.

How to Get the Best Performance Out of IBM DB2 & Cube Views
IBM DB2 Cube Views adds dimensional awareness to IBM DB2, it creates a unique dimensional platform for Business Intelligence solutions. We shall discuss the metadata integration that populates the Cognos 8 metadata layer and how Cognos 8 BI SQL takes advantage of query re-routing performed by the DB2 optimizer by hitting MQTs instead of the base table(s).

BI Architecture: Advanced Performance & Scalability
Want some in-depth IT information on how to fine-tune your BI architecture for best results on both the server and reporting sides of the equation? This on demand web seminar will explore advanced infrastructure strategies that will help you plan for, develop, and monitor your Cognos 8 BI environment. Gain insights into how to identify the request flow in your business intelligence architectures and how to optimize them for higher performance. Learn new techniques for JVM optimization, heterogeneous queries, local processing, metadata caching and callbacks, minimized SQL, and parameter map considerations.

Enterprise Planning design & sizing diagnostics
Enterprise Planning models are dynamic in nature; they reflect the changing (and usually growing) dimensions of an organization such as its chart of accounts, products and customers. It is important that models are designed with this in mind. This seminar will demonstrate design approaches and diagnostic tools that will help customers to build robust and appropriately sized models.

Model Performance in Framework Manager
How data is built and modeled impacts how quickly reports run and the overall performance of the application. Learn techniques and modeling approaches to minimize SQL generation. A brief overview of how minimized SQL plays into using indexes and materialized query tables will be presented prior to discussing the flexibility of using prompts and parameters in a model along with the associated considerations for their use.

Cognos ReportNet: Server Performance Tuning and Advance Configuration
Looking to make the best use of your infrastructure and Cognos investment? Join us for this Web seminar to gain a deeper understanding of the Cognos ReportNet request flow and where and when to tune a Cognos ReportNet solution. Cognos consultants will use a real-world example to explain the implications of this request flow, and provide the concept and considerations which led to the customer solution, addressing the failover and performance requirements.

Cognos ReportNet: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning and Sizing
The combination of Cognos ReportNet plus Cognos PowerPlay allows you to analyze and report on your performance from any perspective with complete accuracy. Gain valuable practical insights from a Cognos field consultant who will share technical best practices for using ReportNet with PowerPlay – including integration points like common security, shared meta data, and effective designs.

Cognos ReportNet - Report Design Technical Tips & Techniques
Is Report Design part of your responsibilities? Join us for this web seminar and learn the Cognos best practices for Report Building using Cognos products. Specifically, gain enhanced understanding of overcoming common roadblocks for efficient design, including; Impromptu practices that are incompatible with ReportNet, local performance issues with cross-product queries, splitting and merging cells to ensure accurate layouts, and more.

Cognos 8 BI: No Limitations; No Imitations
A customer-only Web seminar covering the major innovations and new capabilities available to customers in Cognos 8 BI. Dimensional reporting, dynamic dashboards, and deep comparative analysis capabilitues, are just a few of the topics highlighted in this 1-hour session. Join Cognos Senior Product Management to drill into the key differences between Cognos 8 BI and your existing platform and how it fully leverages and extends your existing Cognos investment.

Cognos 8 BI Version 8.2 Focuses on Performance and Conformance
Cognos 8 BI Version 8.2 will be available in late February 2007 and will be shipped automatically to supported customers at that time. The focus of this release is on performance, conformance and quality enhancements. Here are some of the highlights.

Testing Cognos 8 BI Scalability
Cognos 8 BI Version 8.2 demonstrates predictable scalability and mission-critical reliability required to enable customer success.

Cognos 8 BI Scorecard Application Development
A two-day, instructor-led course in which scorecard application developers learn how to plan, create, set up, and maintain scorecard applications using Cognos 8 BI Metric Studio.

Cognos 8 BI Server Administration
A one-day, instructor-led course that provides practical skills on administering the Cognos 8 BI server environment.