Cognos Business Intelligence User Group
Announcements
March 2012 Meeting
90 days
Meeting scheduled for March 2, 2012
Hosted by American Eagle
Location:
American Eagle
77 Hot Metal Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Cost: We will collect a $10.00 fee at the door per our usual meeting fees.
Please RSVP By Wednesday February 29, 2012 as seating is limited Meeting Registration Here
Agenda:
| 12:30 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 1:15 | General Welcome and Introductions |
| 1:15 – 2:15 | Presentation by Rob Unterreiner of IBM on the new release of Cognos 10 and TM1 10.1. Time permitting a demo of Cognos Insight |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Break |
| 2:30 – 3:30 | Presentation on Predictive Analytics by Claye Green of Technology Blue (partner of Newton Consulting) |
| 3:30 – 4:00 | Demo by John Cusack of Analytica IQ on “how-to” create a useful prompt page without the use of JavaScript |
| 4:00 – 4:15 | Closing remarks and additional discussion |
Parking at American Eagle
There are a number of parking garages in the vicinity of American Eagle.
If your organization would like to sponsor an upcoming CBIG meeting, please send an email to chairman {at} cbig-pittsburgh {dot} com
September 2011 Meeting
264 days
Meeting scheduled for September 9th
Hosted by Heinz.
Location: Heinz 57 Center.
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Cost: We will collect a $10.00 fee at the door per our usual meeting fees.
Please RSVP By Sept 7th as seating is limited Meeting Registration Here
Agenda:
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | General Welcome and Introductions |
| 1:45 – 2:45 | Presentation Brad Brockman of IBM will give a product overview with Q&A session on TM1. IBM Cognos® TM1® provides a complete planning, budgeting and analysis environment for critical company-wide performance management activities driven by Finance. Cognos TM1 supports a full range of business requirements: from high-performance, financial analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise contribution for a broad range of users—from manufacturing, sales and service to human resources and marketing. |
| 2:45 – 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Presentation – TM1 vs. PowerPlay – Brian Wolfe of IBM |
| 4:00 – 4:30 | Closing remarks and additional discussion |
Directions:
Located on 6th Avenue between Smithfield Street and Wood Street
If your organization would like to sponsor an upcoming CBIG meeting, please send an email to chairman <at> cbig-pittsburgh <dot> com
June 2011 Meeting
374 days
Meeting scheduled for June 3rd, 2011
Hosted by PPG Industries
Location:
PPG Industries Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA 15272
Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 1, 2011 to reserve your place at the meeting as space is limited.
Meeting Registration Here
Meeting Details
During our meeting in March there were was much discussion regarding the use of the audit database within Cognos 8. Those in attendance asked CBIG members share examples of how they use the audit database. Share any custom reports your organization has developed to manage reports, jobs, users or the environment using the Cognos 8 audit database.
We will also have a general open discussion where any and all topics are welcome. Bring questions, tips or any other knowledge to share.
Agenda:
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 1:45 | General Welcome and Introductions |
| 1:45 – 3:00 | Presentation of custom Auditing reporting by members of the group. |
| 3:00 – 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:00 | Open Discussion |
There is a $10 fee for attending the meeting to cover costs.
Directions:
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
If your organization would like to sponsor an upcoming CBIG meeting, please send an email to chairman {at} cbig-pittsburgh {dot} com
Sept 2010 Meeting
643 days
Our next meeting is being hosted by American Eagle at their south side location on September 3, 2010 from 12:30 – 4:15 pm.
Please RSVP to membership@cbig-pittsburgh.com or register on-line at http://www.cbig-pittsburgh.com (use the Upcoming Events tab) by Wednesday, September 1, 2010 to reserve your place at the meeting.
Please note that at this meeting there will three 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 – 1:00
Lunch – Provided by SON Systems International
1:00 – 2:00
Scott Kramer of American Eagle will present two topics: Macro substitution in the framework model, which involves passing parameters down from the report to the query subject as a way to speed up queries. He will also discuss how to use the Audit database to monitor run / complete / success / fail status of triggered reports.
2:00 – 2:45
Linda Torquato, Manager of Business Intelligence at the Institute for Transfusion Medicine, will present a Metric Studio Scorecarding application that is being developed for senior management. This application will facilitate Business Performance Management by allowing decision makers to monitor and analyze their key performance indicators.
2:45 – 3:00
Break
3:00 – 4:00
Rich Nemeth of American Eagle will discuss the use of 8.4 to save report files to an output location. How to use Event Studio to call a web service that moves files from an output location to a new server location and emailing users that files have been moved.
How AE used the Cognos Upgrade Manager to help validate reports when moving from 8.1 to 8.4.
4:00 – 4:15
Closing Remarks
There is a $10 fee for attending the meeting to cover costs.
We welcome vendors to provide information regarding their Cognos related products and services. A table will be available to distribute these materials. If your organization would like to sponsor an upcoming CBIG meeting, please send an email to chairman@cbig-pittsburgh.com.
Address, Parking and Site Instructions
American Eagle – South Side location
77 Hot Metal Street
Pittsburgh, PA
Parking at American Eagle
In the gray American Eagle parking garage next door you can have your parking validated.
We would like to express our thanks to American Eagle for hosting this meeting, Eric Burling of SON Systems for providing the lunch, and to Rich Nemeth and Scott Kramer for making the arrangements.
Welcome to the new CBIG website!
838 days
by Brian Lindner
in Announcements
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.