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