Calculations that Span Dimensions
Techniques for creating summary functions and calculations that operate across disjoint edges of a query. For example

Understanding an Analysis in Report Studio
Details on the data items and structures created when opening an Analysis created by Analysis Studio in Report Studio. Functions

Cognos 8 dimensional Functions
A list of the available dimensional functions in Cognos 8 with supporting example usage and output.

Writing Efficient OLAP Queries
Discussion on some of the common pitfalls that result in poorly performing reports. These are resolved using more appropriate filter expressions and by reducing the potential size of intermediate result sets through the use of filter functions.

Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring Part 1
a two-day, instructor-led course that covers an introduction to Cognos Connection, report management through Cognos Connection, basic and intermediate report building techniques, and ways of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports in Report Studio. Attendees will learn the report building process and participate in hands-on demos and workshops that illustrate key concepts while learning how to use the product.

Cognos BI Report Authoring Offshore Service
Meet your report authoring requirements in the most cost-effective, accelerated manner possible. Through a combination of onshore and offshore consulting services, Cognos delivers a high quality offering with lower blended hourly cost.

Cognos BI Report Migration Offshore Service
Meet your report migration requirements in the most cost-effective, accelerated manner possible. Through a combination of onshore and offshore consulting services, Cognos delivers a high quality offering with lower blended hourly cost.

Cognos BI Implementation Roadmap
Part of the Congos Solutions Implementation Methodology, this roadmap is your step-by-step guide for completing a successful BI implementation.

Filtering Reports Across Multiple Levels
In Cognos 8 BI, you can use a tree prompt to filter data using a dimensional hierarchy. This technique can be used when developing reports based on dimensionally modeled data or OLAP cubes.

Maximizing the Value of Analysis Studio
Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio contains many features that take users beyond simple data exploration to discovering results. This session focuses on the richer analytical features of Analysis Studio—including understanding the details, dealing with sparse data and effective analytical charts. You will learn how to share the results of an analysis with Report Studio and how to customize these analytical reports to meet the needs of your organization.

Dimensional Expression Advanced Report Authoring Best Practices
Ever need to write Report Studio reports against cube or dimensionally modeled relational data? Want to know how to leverage the OLAP query language, MDX, to get the results you want? This session will introduce MDX concepts as they apply to Cognos 8 Report Studio and demonstrate solutions to common OLAP reporting requirements using MDX. You’ll also discover what a “tuple” is, how you pronounce it, and why anyone would care.

Cognos 8 Reporting & Analysis for ReportNet Customers
This event will show how Cognos 8 takes the capabilities of ReportNet to new levels. You will learn how business users can put custom highlighting into adhoc queries; how to provide fully formatted reports with automatic drill-down and drill-up sourced from from OLAP or dimensionally modeled relational data and how to prepare *My Pages* centrally for use by multiple users

Creating Calculations Based on Dynamic Members Selection on OLAP Sources
With Cognos 8 Analysis Studio you can quickly create reports based on Dimensional Data.

How to Simulate Cube Joins for Calculations
Learn to create calculations based on the union of two queries from two different cubes in Cognos Report Studio.

It's a Parents' Job to be on Top of Things - Report Studio Tip
One of the benefits of using an OLAP data source in Report Studio, is the ability of users to explore the data by drilling up or down on a column or row that is based on a hierarchy.

Bursting Across Cube Dimensions
While reporting against a relational database it is often helpful, performance-wise, to burst reports against a certain grouping or user information. This feature can also be used for cube data when widely used reports take a significant amount of time and/or resources to process.

Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Report Authoring CBT
CBT covers an introduction to Cognos Connection, basic report building techniques, and how to enhance, customize, and manage professional reports in Report Studio.

Cognos 8 BI Multidimensional Report Authoring
A two-day, instructor-led course in which students will learn multidimensional concepts and how to apply multidimensional techniques to reports.