Cognos Business Intelligence User Group
Meetings
Spring 2010 Meeting Wrap-up
789 days
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
821 days
by Brian Lindner
in Meetings
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 membership <at> cbig-pittsburgh <dot> com 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.
December 2009 Meeting
917 days
by Brian Lindner
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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
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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.