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September 2009 Meeting
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
1078 days
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
December 2008 Meeting
Paul Gundersen, President, FirstQuarter, Inc. presented on security across the IBM Cognos BI platform. He will discuss FirstQuarter’s security roadmap and considerations across the security continuum. He demonstrated FirstQuarter’s software that: aids clients with rapid security deployment, centralizes security administration, and reduces administrative burden by more than 90%.
March 2008 Meeting
Our meeting was held on March 7, 2008 and was hosted by Del Monte. The forum for this meeting was to two parallel break-out sessions for the first part of the meeting and two other break-out sessions for the second half of the meeting.
December 2007 Meeting
Our meeting was held on December 7, 2007. It was hosted by American E agle and Marketsphere. It was held at the Southside headquarters for American Eagle. We had 2 excellent presentations. The first presentation was given by James Stevens of CIBER and was entitled ‘ A Balanced Scorecard and ITIL-Focused Competency Center’. The second presentation was given by Randy Brumbaugh of Marketsphere and was centered around ‘Meta Data Modelling Best Practices’.
March 2007 Meeting
Our meeting was held on March 7, 2008 and was hosted by Del Monte. The forum for this meeting was to two parallel break-out sessions for the first part of the meeting and two other break-out sessions for the second half of the meeting.