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Spring 2010 Meeting Wrap-up

Mar 22nd

Posted by Brian Lindner in Meetings

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.

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June 2009 Meeting

Jun 7th

Posted by Admin in Meetings

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

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