Here are the Cognos Glossary screen shots with explanation of the terms below. Crosstab Displa, Indented Crosstab,Pie Graph, Simple Bar Graph,Clustered Bar Chart,Stacked Bar Chart,Line Graph,Three Dimensional Bar Chart,Rows and Columns Per Page,Swap,Exception Highlighting,Zero Suppression,Prepare Bookmark,Export to .csv,Export to .pdf,Save View,Show...   Read Article.

Here are the Data Warehousing and Data Analysis FAq and Cognos FAQs with answers for the following questions. Please visit the site to read them. What is a data warehouse? How can data warehouses benefit schools? How will the data warehousing project help teachers and district administrators? What is eScholar? Will eScholar eventually take...   Read Article.

Cognos Axiant Frequently Asked Questions Does Axiant run on Windows 2000? Yes. Axiant 4GL will run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Axiant will also provide thin-client functionality to PowerHouse 4GL servers running on MPE/iX, OpenVMS, UNIX, Windows 2000 and Windows XP...   Read Article.

This document introduces you to Cognos Query Studio. Query Studio is a web-based reporting tool that allows you to bull; Create reports using your data. bull; Save and reuse reports. bull; View reports in a variety of formats. bull; Print reports. This class was designed using a desktop computer running the Windows XP operating system and using...   Read Article.

The topics within this article will include: An introduction to the features that are available within Cognos PowerPlay EP Series 7.0 and later, and options that provide for creating robust and flexible reports; Setup of the Cognos PowerPlay components to provide two distinct reporting options, PowerPlay Web and PowerPlay Client (AKA User Edition...   Read Article.

In this column, I will focus on a question that I frequently hear from clients and readers alike: “How can I use Cognos PowerPlay to report from my Microsoft Analysis Services cubes?” As virtually anyone using PowerPlay is aware, in a “typical” implementation the application forms the reporting component of an end-to-end OLAP solution, whose proprietary...   Read Article.

Welcome to the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection. The primary focus of this column will be the delivery of approaches and concepts to help you to meet real business needs using the Cognos Business Intelligence Suite. While the topics will center on the current version (EP Series 7) in most respects, many of the concepts can be extrapolated to...   Read Article.

This procedure provides a brief walkthrough of the process of creating a basic Microsoft Access catalog for the Northwind sample database. The purpose of the catalog is to provide a “jumpstart” catalog that we will use in many of the Impromptu articles that appear within the Cognos Business Intelligence Collection...   Read Article.

This article presents another option for using Cognos PowerPlay with an Analysis Services cube: it focuses on using the PowerPlay Web components to report and analyze cube data. Much as we do in the Using PowerPlay for Windows with an Analysis Services Cube article, we first set up connectivity with simple security, then overview using PowerPlay...   Read Article.

Cognos ReportNet White Papers: This white paper explains about the following topics. Factors driving the convergence of reporting technologies. How Cognos ReportNet satisfies all reporting requirements. How Cognos ReportNet integrates into your existing IT infrastructure. Breakthrough capabilities such as adaptive authoring and multilingual reporting....   Read Article.