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Commented on Cognos BI is fairly easy to use provided you have a good data structure/framework under the hood.
Bob, I was told the same thing as far as the mapping engine and the FWM packages. I heard there would probably be two releases - one at the end of this month and another by the end of the year. The FWM package update would be at the end of this month, and mapping at the end…
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Commented on Cognos BI is fairly easy to use provided you have a good data structure/framework under the hood.
All very good questions, Joop. I'll answer them one at a time
1) What was the source of the success? I think the success of our implementation was two-fold. First, it was championed by a combination of IT and Finance, so buy-in from the rest of the company was easier…
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Contributed a review of IBM Cognos: Cognos BI is fairly easy to use provided you have a good data structure/framework under the hood.
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Managed award-winning BI implementation that saved the companyManaged award-winning BI implementation that saved the company over $650k/year
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I currently work as the Business Intelligence Manager for Mspark, an advertising company. My responsibilities include data integration from the company's various systems into a data warehouse used for reporting, report requirement gathering, task delegation, BI administration, as well as some report and dashboard authoring using IBM's Cognos Business Intelligence.
I have previously worked as an application analyst and developer for Deltek products since graduating from college. I have also developed internal applications and web interfaces that tie to Deltek Costpoint.
At Dynetics, my responsibilities included database and business report administration. Our systems include Deltek's Costpoint, Time and Expense with Employee Self-Service, wInsight, and Cobra as well as IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (v 10.2) and an in-house proposals and contracts management system. I am a primary developer of new reports and I am responsible for making sure that our reporting systems are secure and reliable.
Specialties: database administration, IBM Cognos BI (versions 8-10.2), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2008, Windows Server 2005, Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8), Deltek Costpoint, Deltek Time and Expense with Employee Self Service, Deltek Performance Management, Cognos Impromptu, PHP, T-SQL, SQL, ASP, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Lightroom 5
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