Event Management and Reporting - Incremental Scan, prior values, stored procedures
Introduces some advanced techniques useful for high volume transaction systems for monitoring new data creating a constantly changing dashboard.

Event Management and Metrics - Enhancing the WatchList
How to use Event Management to enhance the WatchList capability: More complex conditions, news items, reports and other tasks.

Event Management and OLAP cubes - Monitoring OLAP data
This article shows users, new to accessing OLAP data, how to define conditions, emails and news items against OLAP data.

Event Management : Email Bursting
Email bursting is very flexible and this web seminar explains the rules and the effects that can be achieved.

Event Management and Reporting : Alert on audit file
Audit and control of C8 BI environment; the article shows how to use event management to monitor and alert on report run failures.

Event Management and Reporting : Conditional report delivery
Report on need rather than just to schedule. The article explains how to move the organization from a scheduled to an event driven approach to BI consumption.

Event Management : A worked example
Taking the Debt collection example and take user through building the solution.

The Place of Event Management in BI
Cognos 8 BI has a new capability called event management - this article/session explores why it is needed, how you can exploit the capability in your BI and performance management initiatives.

Use Event Management within BI and performance management initiatives
This session outlines what an event driven BI solution would look like introducing 3 use cases; Financial institution - Event significance, escalation, closure; Manufacturing organization - Alignment around an event - different people, different information and Debt collection - different actions at different times.

Event Management and Reporting : Report Summaries
This web seminar shows how to build a news item summary of a report to be presented in a mypages portal from which the user can go to the full report and provides a complete discussion including portlet set-up.

Using Cognos 8 Special Edition to add value to your Cognos 8 BI Deployments
This webinar will focus on what the Cognos 8 Special Edition contains and how you can use it for your Cognos deployments. We will discuss the recent enhancements that include the addition of a new wizard that installs and pre-configures both Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM infrastructure components for distributed component installation leveraging load balancing and distributed architecture topologies.

Cognos Planning as a Data Source for Reporting
This session demonstrates tips and techniques on how planning data can be integrated as a data source based on your reporting requirements. Learn how Cognos Planning and Cognos BI address the reporting requirements of your organization with methodologies for accessing and combining planning data in Cognos 8 BI. Through a review of Cognos Data Server (CDS) and Publish Tables, attendees will explore proper uses cases and techniques that will ease the development of reporting in your organization.

Cognos 8 Reporting & Event Management for ReportNet Customers
This event will show how Cognos 8 takes the capabilities of ReportNet to new levels. You will learn how users can conditionally deliver reports rather than just to schedule, how to provide report summaries in the portal and how to alert administrators if a report fails to run.

Event Management and Reporting
This article introduces a number of interesting techniques which can be used with Event Management

Using Cognos 8 Special Edition to add value to your Cognos 8 BI Deployments
This webinar will focus on what the Cognos 8 Special Edition contains and how you can use it for your Cognos deployments. We will discuss the recent enhancements that include the addition of a new wizard that installs and pre-configures both Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and IBM infrastructure components for distributed component installation leveraging load balancing and distributed architecture topologies.

How to Leverage Your Lotus Notes Data for Your BI Deployments
If you are challenged with ODBC connectivity to Lotus Notes data and want a more efficient way to access Lotus Notes data for your BI deployments, then you should attend this webinar as we will be discussing in detail the Cognos data modeler and how it easily navigates single or multiple Lotus Notes databases, creates Cognos 8 metadata and how it optimizes query performance.

Cognos 8 Scorecarding for ReportNet Customers
This event will demonstrate how Cognos 8 Scorecarding is a natural extension to your Cognos Reporting applications. You will learn: how to embed live Cognos BI (reports, dashboards, analysis, etc.) in your scorecard, how to create and track key initiatives to improve performance and how to set up a "watchlist" that enables users to quickly set up alerts on their own.

Quick tip - Cognos 8 Go! Office
Inserting a meaningful name for report objects will allow you to pick and choose which items you insert into Cognos 8 Go! Office more easily.

Navigating Via Shortcuts in Cognos 8 Go! Mobile
Once a report is open, the following shortcuts are available

Using Cognos Series 7 Authentication with Cognos 8 BI: Common Pitfalls
This article discusses some precautions to take when building Cognos 8 security based on Series 7 authentication.

Cognos 8.1 Enterprise Planning - Cognos 8.1 BI Integration Project
Learn how to integrate Cognos Planning models into Cognos 8 BI for reporting & analysis.

Event Management - Email bursting
Learn how Event Management can improve the user experience by using email to deliver focused content - both context and status wise.

Group Consolidation and Corporate Reporting
This Blueprint streamlines the close, consolidate, and reporting process. It keeps reporting numbers for European IFRS in one place, in the same format, for faster, more reliable management and regulatory reporting.

Life Sciences: Sales Quota Allocation
This Blueprint leverages Cognos 8 Planning and Cognos 8 BI to enable incentive compensation analysts and sales managers to determine the proper sales quota for each territory, addressing changing market conditions while meeting corporate revenue objectives.

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.