CBIG Pittsburgh
Cognos Business Intelligence User Group
June 20010 Meeting
May 18th
Meeting scheduled for June 4, 2010
Hosted by PPG Industries
Lunch sponsored by PPG Industries
Location:
PPG Headquarters
One PPG Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15272
One PPG Place is located between Third and Fourth Avenues and Stanwix Street. Use the East Lobby plaza entrance.
Parking at PPG
PPG Place Parking Garage
Third Avenue entrance
Take the elevator for One PPG place –first floor
Nearby Pittsburgh Parking Authority Garages
Third Avenue Garage – entrances on both Third and Fourth Avenues
Wood Allies Garage – entrance on the Blvd of the Allies
Cost: We will collect a $10.00 fee at the door per our usual meeting fees.
Space is limited so please register for the event by Wed June 2, 2010.
Details:
Please note that at this meeting there will two presentations from members of the group. This information may be of interest to others in your organization, and you are encouraged to invite them. However, seating is limited, so please register early.
Agenda:
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 1:45 pm | Welcome, Treasurer’s Report , other Misc assoc topics |
| 1:45 -2:15 pm | Mark Johnson and Josh Giesy of Jennmar will talk briefly about their Cognos environment and deployment but most importantly their recent upgrade experience. They will cover the good and the bad they encountered going to Cognos 8.4. If time permits they would like to also discuss new financial initiatives currently in progress.” |
| 2:15 – 2:30 pm | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:00 pm | John Torquato will discuss a series of DOS scripts created by the Cognos Administration team at Highmark that automate the management of the Cognos 8 environment. This process includes stopping and starting services, reboot of servers, clean up of unwanted files, and back up of log directories. These processes have become invaluable in the administration of the environment. |
| 3:00 – 4:15 pm | Discussion Groups (Any topics members want to discuss) |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Closing remarks. |
As with all CBIG events space is limited so please register for the event so we can make sure you have a seat.
Spring 2010 Meeting Wrap-up
Mar 22nd
That you everyone for making our spring 2010 meeting a success. We had a very nice turnout and some interesting discussions. So far everyone has seemed to like the new meeting setup of shorter presentations (where possible) and plenty of time for group discussions and Q&A sessions.
At the meeting we learned how Multiserv, Inc. is using Report Studio with some special report interactions to flag database record status fields and insert data into the database.
You can get a copy the presentation here: CBIG Spring 2010 – Insert Data Using Report Studio
Thank you to Gordon Lucht of Multiserv, Inc for the presentation and allowing us to post it online for the members.
As always let us know how we are doing and what you may want us to discuss, learn about, or maybe even present at future CBIG meetings. You can contact us here.
March 2010 Meeting
Feb 19th
Our spring meeting has been set for March 5, 2010. The meeting is being hosted by UPMC.
At this meeting we will be having a presentation by Gordon Lucht of Multiserv, Inc on using Report Studio to insert data into a database. (yes, you read that right) We will also be continuing our group discussions on various Cognos and reporting related topics so come prepared to both ask questions and give advice with our knowledgeable group.
Meeting Location:
Room 151
UPMC/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Quantum Building 1, W381
2 Hot Metal Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Meeting Start: 12:30PM
Please RSVP to or register on-line using the meeting registration form by Wednesday, March 3, 2010 to reserve your place at the meeting. We will need a firm number of attendees by that Wednesday for the lunch count and seating.
Welcome to the new CBIG website!
Feb 2nd
Welcome to the updated Pittsburgh Cognos BI User Group website. A small refresh of the site and content for the new year.
We hope 2010 is an even better year and look forward to being able to share more ideas and discussions at our meetings.
If you have ideas for the website, tips or tricks you wish to share, or just want to say hello, feel free to use our contact us page.
We are still planning our spring meeting so stay tuned for upcoming announcements.
December 2009 Meeting
Nov 15th
Our next meeting scheduled for December 4th, 2009
Hosted by Del Monte Foods
Lunch sponsored by Del Monte Foods
December 2009 CBIG Meeting
Date: December 4, 2009
Time: 12:30 – 4:30pm
Location: Del Monte Foods on the North Shore
More >
September 2009 Meeting
Sep 1st
Meeting to be held September 11, 2009
Hosted by Heinz
Fist Presentation
Andy Rachmiel and Stephen Burd from BrightStar Partners / BSP Software (BSP) presenting Integrated Version Control for Cognos 8
Second Presentation
Santosh Chitakki, co-founder of Appfluent to present ‘Appfluent Visibility for Data Warehouses’
June 2009 Meeting
Jun 7th
Meeting Sponsored By UPMC
First Presentation
NetVisn Productivity Tool for IBM CognosBI – Rick Ryan and Kathie Davis of Envisn, will present NetVisn 2.0 a productivity tool for IBM Cognos BI that makes it easy for administrators and authors to easily manage all aspects of Cognos 8 including documentation, security, dependencies and change management. Rick is the President of Envisn, and Kathie is the director of support.
Second Presentation
Lou Fedel is the Associate Director for Patient Business Services (PBS)
His presentation will cover advanced prompting techniques that he has used to greatly reduce report volumes:
· Prompt macros
· Passing the entire filter in a prompt
· Selecting columns from prompts
· Selecting tables from prompts
· Free form SQL prompts
· Dynamic Crosstab from prompts