Dynamic Dashboarding
This document will demonstrate how to create a dashboard style report so that when a user drills down on a Query Subject in one chart

PowerPlay Cell Notification in Event Studio
This document shows how a user can recreate the PPES cell notification feature from 7.3 of PPES in Event Studio

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.

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.

Report Design and Makeovers
Need some quick tips and best practices on how to create attractive yet informative reports? Attend this Web seminar and learn techniques that can be applied to either Impromptu or Report Studio to create readable and interesting reports. Learn how to apply layout rules, what questions to ask to make a report more informative, and tips for being more productive with Report Studio.

Performing Tasks Using Parameterized URLs in Cognos 8
Using URLs, users can perform many common tasks, such as bookmarking reports, executing reports and schedules, opening different studios, etc. One popular use of URLs includes integrating Cognos content into external applications. In this presentation, you will learn how to construct and use these URLs to integrate Cognos into external business applications.

Regent Medical: Best Practices for Creating Sophisticated Business Reports
This Cognos customer led Web seminar will show how Regent Medical went from a manual process of extracting and formatting data to sophisticated business reports with Cognos ReportNet created in a fraction of the time. Based on one of the most popular sessions at the June 2005 Cognos Forum, in this session you will learn how the BI experts at Regent Medical saved 300 hours of report preparation time by implementing ReportNet. You will learn best practices for automating the process of creating, bursting and emailing business reports to field reps with no manual intervention.

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 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.

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

Drill-through on a Bursted Report
This technique explains how to enable drill through between a Report Studio report and the bursted output of another report. This technique is useful when a drill through target takes a long time to run therefore making it faster for users to pass through from the source report to pre run target report.

Drill Throughs with Crosstab and Parameters
This technique demonstrated how to allow the user to drill through to subsequently lower levels of detail within a report. This is done by creating the following reports

One Click Dynamic Column Sorting in a Report
This technique allows you to dynamically sort a report by column by clicking on the column header plus it also enables you to change the sort order by repeating the click. This technique works with ReportNet as well as Cognos 8.1 and 8.2 reports. No Java Script or SDK is required to achieve this.

Populating the Report Studio Tree Prompt
ReportStudio's Tree prompt is a powerful means for browsing through dimensions and choosing members.

Cognos 8 Dimensional Drill Through Technique
This technique provides Cognos 8 users with the ability to drill through from a source report, which includes dimensionally modeled metadata to a target report, including relationally modeled metadata at any level of the hierarchy.

Dynamically Hiding Items with Flair
The following technique dynamically hides and displays report items with some visual flair using transition filters. The technique identified in this document was implemented using build 43.229 of Cognos 8.2.

Redesigning Processes, Redesigning Decision Making
The Finance department's responsibility is no longer just tracking numbers. It's connecting operational cause with financial effect across the organization and delivering critical information to end-users who need it. But what are the right numbers to ge

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.

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.