If you want to use Cognos to its maximum potential, knowing how Cognos is being used within your user community is vitally important. You need to know who’s using it, how often, and what content is utilized most often.So how do you make user adoption thrive in Cognos?
Read MoreAn often requested feature in Cognos is the ability to make a list with expandable rows. There are a few different scripts to support this in Cognos 10, but they do not work in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreThis is the first article in a series that will take you through my 20 tips for career success. Each month, I’ll be releasing a new tip.
Read MoreDid you realize that you can connect your Cognos Analytics system to a cloud-based big data analytics warehouse? You can, and it’s not that difficult to set up Google BigQuery in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreBACon is PMsquare’s signature Business Analytics Conference of the year. If you are on the fence, here are 21 reasons to attend BACon 2017:
In this article I continue to explore ways to use custom JavaScript in Cognos to modify prompts.
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Read MoreBig data is often seen the enabler of continual competitive advantage. But it’s no big surprise that big data can be unwieldy. To help you convert big data to smart data, here are some recommendations and guidelines to help you tweak your knowledge and industry experience to make them your own.
Read MoreYou might be wondering what options are available now that World of Watson is Cancelled. Many organizations value analytics events like World of Watson for the high caliber of content, presentations, and hands-on access to the latest analytics developments.
Read MoreA well designed page should include some form of notification explaining why certain actions are, or are not working. So let’s dive back into some custom JavaScript in Cognos to resolve.
Read MoreAs the number of reports generated by a company continues to grow, it becomes harder to maintain a uniform look and feel across them all. But by using Cognos layout component references, you can maintain professional and uniform reports.
Read MoreIn the previous article, we talked about controls via custom javaScript in Cognos Analytics. We created a select prompt that dynamically generates list of field names in a specified list, and allows the user to toggle the visibility of individual columns. In this article, we’ll spend some time on date prompts and datasets and look at cases where we don’t need to generate an interface control, and go over a practical example.
Read MoreThere are many times when an end user might want to see the same data in multiple formats, all in one email. Let’s take a look at this kind of Cognos Report Customization together.
Read MoreWhat’s new in Cognos Analytics Release 6? One might as well ask what isn’t new in Cognos R6! OK a bit of an exaggeration, but for those charged with getting information into the hands and in front of the eyes of those who need it there are several new and improved features which make this release compelling.
Read MoreConducting a performance test is a great way to validate an environment after changes have been made. Fortunately, there is JMeter for Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreIn every new release of Cognos, there are some ups, and there are some downs. And while some people may have a lot to complain about in Cognos Analytics, there are some shining advances that force me to forgive all the questionable design decisions (even the loss of the menu and button bars in Report Studio).
Read MoreIn this article I will show you how to use prompt macros in Cognos to accomplish this goal and many other more complex reporting requirements.
Read MoreAt the beginning of each year, we evaluate how we can better serve our clients and the professionals we interact with. This year we are expanding our support of the IBM Analytics community as a whole, with a focus on providing free technical and business knowledge in easy to find, easy to consume formats.
Read MoreWhen authoring reports in which you have one or more Tree Prompt controls most often you do not present the hierarchy path for specific data sets. We can accomplish this using a series of Singletons and queries; we will construct the Breadcrumb trail.
Read MoreThere are many times when an end user might want to see the same data in multiple formats all in one email. Let’s take a look at this kind of Cognos Report Customization together.
