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Managing corporate performance
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The reason why management of performance in the corporate
world has received so much attention is that it determines the profitability and,
ultimately, the survival of the organisation. High performance organisations
are success stories because of the effectiveness and efficiency in managing
their operations.
There are a number of factors that influence corporate performance.
Organisational, managerial, leadership and environmental factors have all
been found to affect performance. The part played by leadership is probably
of greater significance in smaller organisations where the leader can exert
more direct power and influence.
While leadership is critical, it has been found to be effective in times of
organisational growth, development and crisis. For the most part, the
organisation requires maintenance. In such instances, the leader will,
therefore, make little difference to the organisation’s performance.
The subject of corporate performance has recently created anxiety and concern
to decision-makers and strategy makers in the private and public sectors
because of the economic challenges facing the country.
Managers at all levels need a clear set of performance indicators that will
assist them in managing the business. Unfortunately, in many organisations,
the issue of managing performance at all levels becomes critical only when
the organisation is in a crisis.
The major problem the corporate world faces today in managing performance
emerges when it comes to defining what to measure.
Performance is a difficult concept in terms of both definition and
measurement. Depending on the type of organisation, some treat performance as
an end result of an activity while others would want to treat it as a
process.
Whatever definition one prefers, managing corporate performance poses a
number of challenges for managers.
A good performance measurement and management system should be derived from
the company strategy and cascaded to the lowest level within the
organisation. The approach that has been found to be very effective in
managing performance is called the balanced scorecard.
This concept has not only helped organisations define what they want to
achieve, but has also helped many organisations to communicate key
performance drivers and indicators to staff.
A performance management system without the support of the top management
within the organisation would not bring many benefits. For any system of
performance measurement to work, the top people within the organisation need
to drive it.
Unfortunately, in many organisations, the issue of performance management has
been relegated to the human resources department. This does not support the
development of a performance culture in the organisation. All senior managers
need to take a keen interest in managing performance.
Employees in many organisations experience a lot of anxiety during periods of
performance reviews. This results from the uncertainty regarding how they are
going to be appraised. Despite an overdose of courses on performance
measurement and management, managers still find it difficult to give an
honest assessment of the subordinate’s performance. This problem has
been experienced more in organisations that do not have a proper way of
linking the performance system to the company’s strategy.
These are the same organisations that are still measuring things like
punctuality and other competency related dimensions. Unfortunately, when you
measure competencies and personality-related variables, employees become
defensive and do not cooperate as things of personality greatly affect an
individual’s self- esteem.
The best way to deal with this problem is to manage company performance
within the concept of the balanced scorecard. This concept will enable the
organisation to set goals and measures at each level of the organisation and
devise ways of giving feedback to staff. The balanced scorecard system can also
be used as a way of reporting corporate performance to the board of
directors.
Despite all these challenges, many organisations have gone a long way in
putting systems in place to manage performance at all levels. In order to
have effective performance management systems, organisations need to base
their performance measurement system on their strategy.
All this calls for more involvement by all stakeholders in creating a
performance measurement system that is going to be acceptable to all
employees.
With a bit of effort, the challenges outlined above can be turned into
opportunities for success. However, keeping leaders appropriately focused on
performance management can prove difficult. Three important tactics can make
a difference; keep the topic of performance management constantly "in
front" of leaders, keep them involved in the system and its
implementation. (courtesy of mnguwi)
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Re: Managing corporate performance
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You should start a BLOG.
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PowerHouse Web uber alles
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Having used PowerHouse and PH Web for over 10 year I think
it is one of the BEST app dev tools around. And PH Web makes it even
better. I can develop a robust app in PH Web in mucch less time than in
Java or VB or .Net.
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Re: PowerHouse Web uber alles
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uber alles?
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Re: PowerHouse Web uber alles
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I believe it is Deutsch for "above/over
all". :)
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Re: PowerHouse Web uber alles
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It is - only it spells with an "ü" or, on
an English keyboard ;), with "ue".
Cheers
Elisabeth (German and a PowerHouse-Junkie for more than 25 years now)
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Re: PowerHouse Web uber alles
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Fully Agreed! Now lets do a promotional image campaign.
What would be the best place to start at? Hm, maybe inside Cognos...?
Rgds
Andy
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Re: PowerHouse Web uber alles
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UberAlles sounds much better than ReportNet ;D
Short and succint (perhaps I should move this thread to 'Wishlist')
Welcome aboard guys - good to have a truly global membership.
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How does DecisionStream compare with Informatica?
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Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of using
DecisionStream vs Informatica please?
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Re: How does DecisionStream compare with Informatica?
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My initial thoughts are:
[b]DS strengths[/b]
- metadata management
- integration to COGNOS BI tools
[b]Informatica strengths[/b]
- flexibility
- better performance when dealing with extremely large volumes of data
- ETL is its primary business whereas COGNOS is a BI vendor that extended its
product range to include an ETL tool
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Re: How does DecisionStream compare with Informatica?
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What do you mean by flexibility?
Where can I see objective stats that show Informatica has better performance
than DS? Doesn't this also depend a lot on A) the RDBMS and machine use
and B) how efficient the designer has built the ETL logic?
Cognos is an ADT business that extended its product range to include
BI. It was doing ETL years BEFORE BI (see PowerHouse QTP).
It has now moved on and extended its product range to include CPM/BPM
applications. I think that to say Cognos is a BI business is to say
that Microsoft is an OS business or Oracle is a DB business or IBM is a
hardware business.
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Re: How does DecisionStream compare with Informatica?
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In my experience The key diferentiators for Informatica
are integration with data cleansing tools (like First Logic) and the ability
to scale to multi server environments in order to increase throughput.
DecisionStream has the ability to integrate with 3rd party apps, but only
through job control and command line interface, or through custom development
against an api (like creating a dll to reference within a function).
On the scalable architecture point...once you have done everything you can in
order to improve the efficiency of your etl code and application architecture
(network, SAN, database), the only thing you can do is add processors and
RAM. With Informatica you can add servers.
However, DecisionStream has some novel dimensional functionality that is
effective and easy to use. Managing surrogates, SCD's and late arriving facts
is fantastic.
The key problem for both is that it seems to take a certain kind of person to
want to dig into them and really learn how to use them. There are so few
quality developers out there...anybody here an expert level DS developer?
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Link to CPM article
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[url]http://www.businessforum.com/Comshare04B.html[/url]
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Looks good
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Nice site jonno! Love the colour scheme.
Very extensive product list too.
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Re: Looks good
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ditto
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Re: Looks good
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Thanks D and J, a lot of blood, sweat, tears and
obscenities went into this site
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Re: Looks good
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I've never even heard of some of these products. Are they
really COGNOS?
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Re: Looks good
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marvelous effort that ... congrats ... great to see
!!!
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Re: Looks good
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Gee...I was hoping that we would have something like this.
and now we have it.
Great job and a big thanks Administrators and Moderators !!
By the way, is there a training forum too? I have been working in Cognos
Powerplay and Impromptu for 8 yrs and want to learn Reportnet. Did a little
of that myself (Framework Manager, Query and Report Studios) but would be
nice to go to a training. I had been to COGNOS training years ago for
Powerplay, Impromptu, IWR, PPES, Upfront etc but now have to do it on my own
and since COGNOS training is too expensive so does anybody know of any
training center for Reportnet, preferably in California. Sorry if this
question is not proper for this forum.
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Re: Looks good
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Hi cognostechie,
Thanks for registering as well as the great feedback! (Keep those posts
coming)
Not sure what you mean by training forum - can you elaborate? But feel free
to pop any questions through the relevant board (or even an intro of
yourself/company in the Intros board).
Glad to have you on board.
The COGNOiSe team
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Re: Looks good
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I think the poster means a
discussion subject on Training.
Another one might be for bugs, patches and other "gotchas" general
to Cognos products or other software/hardware that one might use Cognos
products with. I don't mean a place to download patches from but rather
a place to mention a certain patch exists to be downloaded from Cognos'
site.
An example of a "bug" when using Cognos Impromptu and SQL Server
RDBMS that I don't believe is documented and may be affecting other tools is
if you use the data type MONEY in a SQL Server table the results in Impromptu
IWR will be unpredictable. E.g. $1,234,567 may be displayed on the
report as $1,567. Instead of MONEY use either FLOAT or DECIMAL as the
datatype and if you can't change the table use a view and a CAST() or
CONVERT() function of the column.
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Re: Looks good
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You are welcome Administrator.
What I meant by the training forum is a forum which people could use for
this:
1> Freshers who have no idea or very little idea about Cognos could
inquire on which products they should get trained on (we could tell them that
depending on their background/education/interest etc). Where to go for
training. Now this would be difficult as there are very few training centers
apart from COGNOS itself (atleast in US).
2> Institutes that provide training could post their ads here. This could
be good because their previous students could post their experiences so the
newbies get to know in advance what to expect and don't get cheated if the
institute is bad.
3> People could ask questions on certification etc. Ofcourse, no
copyrighted material to be transferred thru this forum. That is illegal
anyway.
Basically, for people who want to inquire something related to training and
who provide such trainings. It could be helpful for freshers mainly and also
for experienced Cognos experts who wish to expand their knowledge.
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Re: Looks good
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Many Cognos partners provide training, some even have their
own facilities.
My clients have used Sky Solutions in Chicago
for example even though Cognos has facilities there.
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Re: Looks good
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As Blue has pointed out in another thread, Cognos is *first*
an ADT company. So let's put the ADT section at the top of the home page so I
don't have to scroll halfway down the page to get to the important PowerHouse
section. Scorecarding? -- put it at the bottom!
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Re: Looks good
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;D Thanks for your feedback JWP. I must admit trying to
figure out the composition and order of the boards was a bit of a nightmare
so in the end we tried to follow the same outline as that used in
COGNOS.com. But the problem we found was that a lot of applications
were not shown and the newer products seemed to be "shoehorned"
into very broad (and sometimes unrelated) headings. So, being an democratic
site we took a vote and went with the current format - not to say that if
others express the same opinion that we are at all averse to moving ADT up
the order. So please post your opinions and we'll let the community have the
final say.
In the meantime, this link should save you the extra key/mousestrokes:
http://cognoise.com/community/index.php?action=collapse;c=6;sa=expand#6
PS. two of our moderators (Blue being one) are PowerHouse fanatics so I get
an earful everytime this topic is raised!
Thanks for the post JWP and welcome aboard.
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Re: Looks good
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Hi Administrator,
I'd just like to add to the chorus of voices saying "what a great
site". I think the current layout is intuitive and easy to use,
and as a long-standing PowerHouse fanatic myself, it's great to see it
included in the list of topics open for discussion, even if it isn't top of
the list! :-)
On the subject of a training forum, maybe we could suggest that these kinds
of questions initially get posted to the General Discussion area, and if
there turns out to be a big demand, maybe then we could consider setting up a
dedicated Training topic? In the meantime, I'm sure that there's
enough experience within the current list of members to be able to field most
of the enquiries from people new to Cognos products and unsure of which
training to take.
Thanks for all your hard work in setting up and running this site.
Best regards,
MF.
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Re: Looks good
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Aw shuks ::) You're
making me blush
Just for that I'll have to move PH up the order (at least for the the ETL et
al section)
Agree with your thoughts on the training forum but prepared to go with the will
of the Cognoids..
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Re: Looks good
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and how about changing the emoticons...ones that don't
have the tribal looks.
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Re: Looks good
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About the Reportnet training that I mentioned earlier, I
found out a way. Cognos has CBT's which are good. Problem solved.
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Re: Looks good
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Congrats to the COGNOiSe community -
[color=Orange][b][size=20pt]1000 high-quality posts [/size][/b][/color] since
13th of July 2005!
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Re: Looks good
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Let's have a drink on that :D:D Congrats to you
all!!!
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DecisionStream vs Informatica
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Should we include any others?
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Re: DecisionStream vs Informatica
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Perhaps. But Informatica appears to be the
"flavour of the month" right now and as this is a forum about
Cognos products I feel a comparison of just these tools is warranted. I
would like to hear from people who have used both tools professionally.
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Re: DecisionStream vs Informatica
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Great topic, i surfed for comparisons between the two and
there aren't any
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Re: DecisionStream vs Informatica
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[quote author=legSPINNER link=topic=7.msg9#msg9
date=1121221068]
Should we include any others?
[/quote]
Ascential DataStage recently re-branded as IBM WebSphere DataStage should be
included. However, I've only had experience of DataStage so cannot offer any
comparison with the other tools mentioned.
nrh.
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Re: DecisionStream vs Informatica
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I agree, I think we should have a new poll that includes
DataStage, DTS, Data Junction, Oracle Warehouse Builder, are there any
others?
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Re: DecisionStream vs Informatica
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In 2000 I did some investigation for GE on ETL and EAI
tools available in the marketplace. There were over 400!
I think that we should just sick to comparing 2 tools at a time based on
forum member's interests.
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Drillthrough error
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I am trying to create a drill-through from PP cube to PP
report but keep getting this error message "The request failed because
there is no valid cube mapping to handle the request"
steps leading up to error:
* load cube with PP for windows and save my view as test.ppx
* in transformer, i open cube properties, tick 'allow drill-through', add a
custom report 'c:\cognos\cer4\bin\test.ppx'
* update the cube
* open PPES server administration and insert my new report
* insert cube, then open its properties and change drill-through settings to:
powerplay cubes= enabled
powerplay windows target: cognos:8010
powerplay web target: http://cognos/cognos/cgi-bin/ppdscgi.exe
Any ideas?
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Re: Drillthrough error
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Does the drill through work for client only use? ie
is it falling over when using though your Enterprise Server?
Ensure that the cube and ppx are registering with your PP Enterprise Server.
cheers
DW
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Re: Drillthrough error
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dwood09,
your absolutely right - i'm an idiot. i had it pointing to a local cube.
thank you
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COGNOS vs Business Objects
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COGNOS vs BO
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Re: COGNOS vs Business Objects
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not that we'd be biased or anything ;)
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Re: COGNOS vs Business Objects
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[move]BY FAR!!![/move]
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Re: COGNOS vs Business Objects
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Cognos has 20+ products in its inventory covering
everything from application development to data mining. Business
Objects is only reporting and even then only limited OLAP if you don't
include the recently purchased Crystal Reports. The latter is not much
better than Access for report writing and depends on the report writers SQL
expertise.
Cognos report writers (Quiz, Inquizitive, Impromptu, Query and ReportNet)
require only a limited knowledge of SQL (or even none at all) by the user and
rarely does the designer even see any SQL.
Cognos and Business Objects approach OLAP quite differently. Some
people I have spoken to prefer the BO technology and find reporting against a
BO cube easier/faster. I've been using Cognos PowerPlay for over 10
years so I a little biased towards it.
Business Objects has no application development, ETL, data mining, or purely
web based tools not does it sell applications and financial tools. That
being said, didn't Hyperion buy Business Objects recently?
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Re: COGNOS vs Business Objects
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Setting aside the brainwashing we have all received
:D, I do think Cognos is better. We have more breadth of tools and
possibilities. It is interesting however that if you talk to Cognos,
BO, and Hyperion users they are all happy with the tools and think thier tool
is the best. Which for us means that Business Intelligence rocks.
Without ReportNet however, I don't think Cognos would be doing well
now. As to the SQL knowledge in ReportNet specifically, while a
consumer and a business analyst does not need to be a guru, the admin and
developer surely do.
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Re: COGNOS vs Business Objects
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Neither.
I would point you in the direction of BIRT from the eclipse foundation.
This is an open source Java based reporting solution.
If you do not know how to drag and drop items onto a Report Studio report for
e.g. Cognos support would be happy to help you.
For anything more complex they simply fall apart.
With open source you can see the code and solve the problem yourself.
NKT
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CPM
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Corporate Performance Management (CPM) represents a
renewed focus on quantitative management, a "management by the
numbers," using insight gained from data analysis and performance
reporting. CPM has moved to the forefront of executive discussions for two
main reasons. First, dramatic increases in enterprise data make CPM more
practical. Second, and more importantly, stakeholders demand that management
deliver predictable execution, operational efficiency and corporate
accountability, which collectively make CPM more imperative.
Driven by technology and business, CPM combines management methodologies,
such as Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma, with long-standing business needs
for executive reporting and budgeting, plus newer business needs for financial
planning tools and enterprise-wide, Web-based analysis and reporting.
Reflecting this combination of analytical and operational needs, CPM
technology is provided by three vendor types: Business Intelligence (BI),
niche applications, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). With the
analytical and operational split for CPM technology at roughly 80/20, BI is
the dominant enabling technology.
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Grant access to active directory user
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How do I make a new user in active directory a report
writer?
Thanks
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Re: Grant access to active directory user
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Firstly, the authority for delegated administration needs
to be set up for Reportnet.
Ensure that the given server name or named account for starting the ReportNet
service is set up in the Active Directory properties as an authority for
delegated adminstration.
Without these permissions, ReportNet is unable to fully read all user
properties from the Active Directory server.
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Commentary
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Will Metrics Manager allow you to post commentary at the
KRA (parent level) as well as the KPI (child level)?
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Re: Commentary
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Commentary can only be entered at the KPI or Metric level
... however you could consider producing Metrics for your Key Result Areas as
well ... there would be no link between the two though!!!
cheers,
DW
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Re: Commentary
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Can anyone tell how to learn Cognos Matric Manager
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Re: Commentary
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I did the online course via cognos.com for about $100 and
it was pretty good.
http://support.cognos.com/servlet-cs/etraining?pg=desc&COURSECODE=41737&CBT=1
depending on where you are, there would be certified partners that run
courses.
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Re: Commentary
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We had a Cognos pre-sales techo assist with install and
prep for prototype ... It was a really quicjk product to pick up and run
with. I spent most of my time in the prototype phase preparing
automation procedures that facilitates the dynamic creation of scorecards and
metrics as the organisational hierarhcy changes. All in all, a pretty
good product out of the box! I suggest get a demo, install and play!
good luck. If you've got specific questions let us know.
cheers,
DW
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Importing User classes from Access Manager
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We have set up user classes in Access Manager for our existing
7.1 (pre ReportNet) installation, and am preparing for the big move to
CRN.
Can anyone advise if there is a way of using these Access Manager user
classes as Groups, rather than the default reference made as Roles.
For example we have Finance, Payroll, Engineering user classes, which we
would like to bring through to CRN as Groups, rather, CRN is seeing them as
Roles.
Hopefully we don't have to re-create all the groups in CRN and convert all
Access Manager User Class' to Roles!?!
thanks,
DW
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Re: Importing User classes from Access Manager
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Based on Q&A in a webinar I attended a couple of
months ago I think there is no easy way to migrate your security info from
Access Manager.
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Re: Importing User classes from Access Manager
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Does CRN have an embedded Access Manager-type module?
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Re: Importing User classes from Access Manager
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Thanks Blue ... I was afraid
of that :( ...
Chias,
CRN uses external LDAP services / interfaces, such as Access Manager to
confirm that a user is who they say they are, and then facilitates the
creation of roles and groups (similar in concept to User classes) to define
what the will have access to.
cheers
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Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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Most of the Cognos demos I've seen use Viz as a
scorecarding tool. Shouldn't it be grouped under that classification?
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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I'm not so sure that it would be classed as purely a
scorecarding tool. I think the key selling point of Viz is the graphical
modelling of one's data. Whilst scorecarding may incorporate a graphical
component, it is much more than having pretty pictures to go with the
numbers.
My 2 cents..anyway
The clients I have don't really use Viz much. I'm interested to hear about
client takeup rates.
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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Hi Blue,
Viz is a visualization tool. It is a multi-colored, three dimensional
cherry on top. It gives you ability to view the data in colorful
displays and gages instead of simple crosstabs. It is integrated with
other Cognos tools and gets its data from PowerPlay for instance so you can
do drilling.
It is not however a scorecarding tool and from what I have heard it is
"going away". Its functionality is built into Cognos 8
directly into Report Studio.
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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OK, now I'm puzzled.
What do people define as a scorecarding tool? AFAIK scorecarding
involves:
1. identify KPIs (key performance indicators)
2. collect and formulate data to measure KPIs and store in an accessable data
store.
3. report the KPI values collected
3a. if by number in an OLAP tool, or some web based reporting tool like IWR
or CRN.
3b. if by graphic in a visualisation tool such as Vizualiser.
Can someone correct me if my assumptions are incorrect?
Can someone give me an exemple of a tool that is designed PRIMARILY for
scorecarding?
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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G'day Blue,
If you look on the Cognos website, Cognos Metrics Manager is listed as a
scorecarding tool. It allows metrics to be grouped within metric types, and assembled
onto scorecards at various levels. It includes its own diagrams etc,
and allso allows links through to underlying reports in Powerplay etc.
Best regards,
MFGF.
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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You've got MM for scorecarding.
Yet it's very interesting to hear about successful implementation stories
bout it.
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Re: Isn't Viz a scorecarding tool?
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Visualizer = Dashboarding
High level, highly visual, interactive presentation of data. Uses lots of
colorful charts and navigation.
Metrics Manager = Balanced Scorecard
Logical groupings of metrics. Assigns accountability, tracks history, allows
for collaboration and shows cause and effect. Tries to tie business process
to results rather than overall outcome.
CRN = Flexible reporting
But the flexibility of the reporting allows you do do some things that
replicate both scorecarding and dashboarding. I doubt they will even migrate
Viz to series 8 because adding a few charts and mutidimensional datasources
and you can do more than you could in Viz.
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Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard or
dashboard?
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From what I've seen CRN has been used as a replacement for
Impromptu. I don't see how it can be called a scoredcarding or
dashboard tool.
Has anyone out there seen it used for these purposes?
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Re: Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard
or dashboard?
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Blue,
Youre a controversial one!
What really stood out for me when I first saw the CRN demo was the composite
reporting functionality. So from that point of view, I will not just call it
a BI tool.
Keep em coming!
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Re: Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard
or dashboard?
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I think CRN is BI + scorecard/dashboard tool.....
but don't take my word for it, COGNOS.com has categorised it as the latter
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Re: Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard
or dashboard?
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Hi Blue,
CRN can be used to create dashboard and scorecard like reports now in the
current version. It will however, from what I heard, have much more
Viz like capability built into the Report Studio and have a separate studio
for Scorecarding in Cognos 8.
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Re: Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard
or dashboard?
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hi,
with crn 1.1mr2 we coul'd not use PowerCubes as data source so crn is still
an reporting tool. The underlaying technice allow to use it for buliding
dashboards and balanced scorecards. have a look here:
http://applications.apparo-network.com/html/applications.html
Regards,
Jens
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Re: Isn't CRN a reporting (BI) tool rather than Scoredard
or dashboard?
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You can use it for both.
It can be used for dashboarding in that you can display information from
different datasources in the same report (which you could not do in previous
products such as Impromptu). You also have a great deal of flexibilty in
layout and can provide the information in various graphical formats as well
as data listings.
You cannot use OLAP data as a datasource in this version, and you can't
structure metrics in the way you can in Metrics Manager (or at least, not
without a lot of work), so it's probably not the only tool you would want to
build an overall scorecarding solution, but it can certainly form part of
one.
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Where can I find some good themes to get ideas from?
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Upfront is highly customisable. Where can I find
some interesting themes ot get inspired by?
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Re: Where can I find some good themes to get ideas from?
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Check out Hewitt's presentation form October 2004 Chicago User
Group meeting available at this URL:
http://www.brightstarpartners.com/CIUGChicago/October2004/ug0410.html
If you need something like it, let me know. I've been known to take Upfront
to its limits. I wish I could post what I've done for Telus here, but I am
bound by an NDA.
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Packages
|
I'm a newbie to COGNOS - in ReportNet, is a Package
similar to a Catalog?
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Re: Packages
|
Packages contain the business information and is the
definition of the underlying database(s). If you click on the package explorer
you can see the structure. Business info/rules can be included into these
packages that cannot normally be included into databases eg. the calculation
of profit.
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Re: Packages
|
That description sounds very much like an Impromptu
catalog to me, at least in functionality.
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Re: Packages
|
Yes, a package is equivalent to a catalog.
It has a lot more flexibility, but does not do everything the same way as
catalogs (not that that's a bad thing).
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Repeaters
|
What's a repeater? I can't find anything on it.
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Re: Repeaters
|
repeaters are tables that contain cell information that
display data for individual query items. Only list reports can be converted
into repeater reports. They're often used to create mailing labels. I can't
think of anything else that it might be good for......
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Re: Repeaters
|
business cards ... know anyone who needs business cards!!!
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Re: Repeaters
|
You can also use repeater cells to control layout.
For example, a list has a bunch of records where the fields are spread out
across the page horizontally. You can use a repeater to spread the fields
vertically down the page instead.
Sometimes people like this sort of thing. ;-)
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Drill through reports in Reportnet
|
I can't seem to get the drill through functionality to
work. I created the parent report (I assume this is the source report) and
then the child report (the target report). Selected drill throughs,
selected the target report, method=execute but it doesn't drill through.
HELP!!!!!
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Re: Drill through reports in Reportnet
|
Have you added a filter on the child report?
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Re: Drill through reports in Reportnet
|
you also need to be certain you are set to drill on a
correct column. Make sure that it is the same one as your filter.
By default it will select the column you clicked on for drill through
setup. Verify that it is the right one. For instance, you may
want to drill on Item Name but the filter in the child is for Item Number.
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Re: Drill through reports in Reportnet
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Make sure the data types dont mismatch too 8) :D
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Re: Drill through reports in Reportnet
|
Hi Merchant, is it working now? Can you provide more
details? How many parameters are you passing to the child report?
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Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Dear Cognoids,
Due to Framework Manager's "interesting" makeup I find it difficult
to model transactionally in it. Has anyone had success doing
it? Everything I do, FM tries to force me to model dimensionally and
then I run into bugs with stich queries for instance.Â
Also, how do you force FM not to try to join based on indexes and primary
keys but instead listen to you and the join strategy you create? It
seems to keep the indexes and primary keys on file (I assume in one of it's
XML files) and if I don't use them it creates a cross join.
Any best practices would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Hi cognosguru,
Hmm - thorny topic this! :-) You're right about Framework Manager forcing you
to model dimensionally. It makes inherent assumptions about what is a
Fact Table and what is a Dimension Table based on the cardinality of the
relationships defined. Within the context of a query, any Query
Subject that is only at the many end of a relationship will be treated as a
Fact Table, and any that are at the one end of a relationship will be treated
as Dimension Tables. Unless you model dimensionally, you could inadvertently
end up with a query containing two "Fact Tables", which would
result in a stitch query being generated (full outer join using
first-non-null).
Stitch queries are not bugs - they are the right thing to do when querying
two fact tables which share common dimensions, possibly linking at different
levels. The art of modelling in Framework Manager is to rearrange the
data into virtual fact and dimension query subjects where stitch queries
would never be used within a package (ie all your measures are within the
fact, and all your descriptive data is within conformed dimensions).Â
You will need to do this by merging query subjects together, then rather than
leaving the merged query subjects as Model Query Subjects, convert them back
to data query subjects with their own self-contained SQL. For the
dimensional query subjects, you will then need to set up dimensionality to
specify the hierarchical levels and their attributes within the dimension.
Best practice is to define an import view where you model things
transactionally (exactly as in the underlying database). Then create a
"star schema" view in a different namespace where you merge query
subjects from the import view into new Fact and Dimension data query
subjects, and set up the relationships between these, then define
dimensionality for the dimensions, then create star schema groupings.Â
Lastly create a business view in another namespace, where you select relevant
parts from a star schema and put them into model query subjects as per the
requirements of the end users. Do not create relationships at this
level - FM will use the relationships from the star schema level.Â
Publish your package(s) using query subjects from this view.
If you don't do this, you will have problems, one of which you've already
encountered in that the underlying key definitions are stored in model.xml
when the import is done from the database. You could edit this if you
wanted to, but probably best not to! :-)
Best regards,
MF.
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Thanks MF,
To clarify I know stich queries are not bugs, but we have found at least 2
bugs with them (on DB2 for certain).
Why is it better to convert the model query subjects into data query
subjects?
Thanks,
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Hi cognosguru,
If you don't convert your Model Query Subjects into Data Query Subjects,
ReportNet will resolve how to code the SQL for report queries by looking back
at the underlying Data Query Subjects upon which the Model Query Subjects are
based. This means your queries will still use the SQL and
relationships defined in your import view, and you're no better off.
Best,
MF.
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
MF,
I thought that if I define the relationship at the Model Query subject level,
ReportNet will use that join structure not the underlying one. Am I
mistaken?
Thanks,
|
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Hi cognosguru,
In simplistic terms, that's correct, but there's a bit more to it than that.
If each Model query subject is built over one single Data query subject, and
you specify the relationships between the Model query subjects, then what you
are saying is true. However, your Model query subjects will be based on
multiple underlying Data query subjects. In order to retrieve the data
you have asked for in any Model query subject, ReportNet will have to run the
queries in the underlying Data query subjects, using the relationships you
have defined between those Data query subjects to figure out how to build the
data set to return into the Model query subject. Once this has been
done, the relationships between the model query subjects are used in queries
that span more than one model query subject. Net result of all this is
that the "merging" you thought you'd done to prevent unwanted
stitch queries hasn't done so, as your query still ends up making use of the
relationships in your Import View.
If you convert the Model query subjects into Data query subjects, this
changes things. Since each merged query subject now contains a SQL
query, there's no need to go back to the Import View to find out how to
retrieve data, so only the relationships you define between these merged Data
query subjects are used.
Regards,
MF.
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
MF,
Thank you very much for your detailed responses. I will try your
suggestion. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find someone who
really understands what is going on with Framework Manager thus I appreciate
it all of your help.Â
Cognoise rocks!
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Thanks MFGF - the COGNOiSe team appreciates your insight
and the assistance you provide us all (especially on ReportNet!)
Thanks for the feedback too, cognosguru!
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
You're welcome! Happy to be of help where I can.
:-)
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Dear Cognosguru
I had a similar problem with FM ignoring my joins and going in for cross
joins when I did not use all indexes that made up the composite key in the
underlying table.
My workaround was to import database tables one at a time instead of
importing all of them as one normally does. This approach worked fine for me.
Note we do not have to do this all the time only in cases where underlying
database tables use composite primary keys.
HTH
Regards
NKT
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Thanks Freelancer,
Another method that seemed to work was to choose the last option when
importing tables (matching column names only).
Can't wait till Cognos 8.
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
What do you think about the Cognos FM Best Practices
document?
http://support.cognos.com/supported/docs/en/reportnet/1.1/bestpractice_modeling_fm.pdf
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Re: Modeling in Framework Manager
|
Hi Darek,
I have read through it and it helps clarify some issues. In my opinion,
it does not however go into the real crux of it. I was able to pick up
a number of good things but it left me with more questions then answers.
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Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation
|
I've come across an interesting issue with Upfront NewsBoxes
and automation...
to ensure that a newsbox is listed first, I have put a space in front of it's
name ... eg " Prior Year" newsbox appears before "02-03"
and "03-04"...
the issue that I have come across is that I have noticed that some of my
automated processes see this item as
"//NewsIndex/History/Newsindex", rather than
"//NewsIndex/History/ Prior Year" ... it seems that when a space is
used as the first character in a newsbox name then it is recognised
internally as "Newsindex" ...
I suppose I could test for a space first and then work with the newsbox, but
that's a bit ugly.... any thoughts on why this phenomenon exists would be
much appreciated.
cheers,
DW
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Re: Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation
|
If you used an underscore instead of a space how does that
sort?
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Re: Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation
|
thanks Blue ... underscores, dashes, dots ... all are fine
... just that damn space ... ???
cheers,
DW
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Re: Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation
|
If content sorting is what you crave, there might be a
better solution. I'd like to refer you to an article yours truly wrote ages
ago and which is available at this URL:
http://www.brightstarpartners.com/tech_corner.htm
Have fun. I did.
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Re: Ordering of Newsboxes in Upfront ... and automation
|
Thanks Darek,
brilliant ... food for thought, thats for sure ... I'll have a look at this
in a week or so and let you know how it goes.
thanks again!
cheers,
DW
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|
Cross Tab Reports in Cognos
|
I want to create a CrossTab report in Cognos ReportNet,
however my data is Text instead of numbers as:
Table#1
AcctID   QuestionData   AnswerData
------Â Â Â Â ------------Â Â Â
   ----------
100006   Name    Â
   Keith
100006Â Â Â Address1Â Â Â Â Â
51 West Road
100007   Name    Â
   Ray
100007Â Â Â Address1Â Â Â Â Â
21 Grey Street
I want CrossTab report like this from the above Table#1:
       Â
 Name       Address1
100006   Keith    Â
 51 West Road
100007   Ray    Â
  21 Grey Street
When I use any of the Aggregate functions as Max or Min ( which works with
SQL Server ), I get the following output
        Â
Name       Address1
100006   #!Error    Â
 #!Error
100007   #!Error    Â
 #!Error
Is there any way of generating the report as above ? Most of the examples in
Cognos ReportNet Help says about Numerical Data, which is not the case
here...
THANKS A LOT 8)
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Re: Cross Tab Reports in Cognos
|
I would create an Alias table ,and the following SQL.
[code]
select distinct T1.ID, T1.DESC as name , T2.DESC as address
from `test23.tab` T1, `test23.tab` T2
where T1.ID = T2.ID
 and T2.TYPE = 'Address1'
 and T1.TYPE = 'Name'
order by 1
[/code]
Then the result is:
[table]
[tr][td]ID[/td][td]Name[/td][td]Address[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]100006[/td][td]Keith[/td][td]51 West Road[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]100007[/td][td]Ray[/td][td]21 Grey Street[/td][/tr]
[/table]
It's not exactly a cross-tab, but the output is what you are looking for.
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Re: Cross Tab Reports in Cognos
|
1 create a query
2 create a tab. model (named 'all')
3 within that tab. model you place two tab. models (named 'name' and
'address')
4 in the left (of the two) add: acctid, questiondata (rename to
'questionname') and answerdata (rename to 'answername')
5 in the left (of the two) add a filter questiondata=name
6 in the right (of the two) add: acctid, questiondata (rename to
'questionaddress') and answerdata (rename to 'answeraddress')
7 in the right (of the two) add a filter questiondata=address1
8 in the first tab. model ('all') get the acctid, questionname and answername
from the tab. model 'name' and add questionaddress and answeraddress from the
tab. model 'address'
9 add a filter to 'all' by dragging the acctid from step 8 to the
filtersection and equal it to the acctid fom address. it should look like
this [acctid]=[address].[acctid]
10 in the cube items add acctid as a dimension and the other fields as
measures.
11 create a list and assign it to your query.
12 Drag from query items the item 'acctid' to the list and after that, place
the two other fields (answername & answeraddress) from the query items on
the list.
14 now edit the listheaders to see the desired header names (for acctid you
can click the text-property and leave it blank and press ok.
Good luck!
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|
Plugins?
|
Hi there,
Are there any plugins or extentions available to ReportNet? I'm looking for
additional design features for the Report Studio, in particular, an ability
to position columns in a list object across a page (like colspan in html
tables)?
|
|
Re: Plugins?
|
You could fake the desired functionality provided that
you'll use absolute object sizes.
|
|
Benchmark tests on Cognos Powerplay
|
Hi All,
    I am new to this group. We are evaluating
features of OLAP tools to suggest our client which one is best suitable. In
this process I tryed a lot to get information on benchmark tests and their
results that were done on [b]Cognos Powerplay7.3[/b].But I didn't get any
information.So please let me know if anyone has any information on this.
thank you,
with regards,
s.ramesh
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Re: Benchmark tests on Cognos Powerplay
|
Powerplay is an absolutely wonderful tool. According to
the statistics, the only one competitor is Informatica, though I don't know
about Imformatica but Powerplay is absolutely wonderful in terms of functionality,
ease of use, the power it has.
It's not like SAP BW which in my opinion is not even worth calling BI tool.
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|
Re: Benchmark tests on Cognos Powerplay
|
The are a couple of web sites
dedicated to BI and OLAP inparticular. Maybe you can find benchmarks
there.
www.OLAPreport.com
www.datawarehouse.com
www.intelligententerprise.com
software review sites
www.zdnet.com
www.cnet.com
research companies
www.techdata.com
www.gartner.com
etc.
and don't forget search sites like google and ask.
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|
Cube & Fact table size
|
PP, being a MOLAP and file-storage tool, suffers from fact
data size increase.
Therefore:
1 what was your cube\fact table maximum?
2 query response time (complex Advanced Subsets i.e.)
3 did cube groups help you with this issue?
Mine, for start:
1 200 Mb \ 10 GB
2 30 sec
3 Nope, that was week's data
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|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
I doesn't matter how big you cube.. it depends on the
number of dimension and measurs.. if number of dimension increases then the
query response time will increate and please check the optimization tips from
Cognos PDFs...
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|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
Surely it's so. But there surely is a correlation between
table size & quantity of dimensions :))).
And usually client's ask: "We've 0,5 Pb datawarehouse, what your cubes
maximum?"
Yet I can bring dimension chart as well. Is it interesting?
|
|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
I've been successfully running cubes in excess of 2.5GB,
even before COGNOS officialy supported such monster. There are many factors
that will decide how big your cubes is:
1. # of dimensions
2. # of measures and their storage type
3. # of partitions (auto or manual)
Having the cube time-partitioned helps performance as well, but there are
limitations on what a time-partitioned cube can contain (like only one real
time dimension, but you know, there are fake ones, too).
Reponse times are usually within 3-30 seconds range, depending on query
complexity, if running on an Intel platform. Any RISC hardware would be a
waste of time, regardless how good the industry think it is.
|
|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
Additional comments:
1. There is a direct correlation between a cube size and its run-time
performance. 5MB cube will perform much faster than a 5GB.
2. There is no physical limit on how big a cube can be. In my experience I
used cubes as large as 10GB with decent performance.
[To other moderators: If you think the next paragraph is of self-marketing
nature, please remove]
I'd like to invite everyone around Chicago Land interested in more details,
to a presentation on this very subject during Performance 2005 on Oct 14th.
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Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
Darek, do you, be any chance, know anything about PP's
internal processing algorithm?
I still hope on having time someday to perform rather a dull, but very
informative test of loading the same table with different sorting. Results
should vary, if any optimization techniques are used :)
Just a remark: rather fast molap engines are being devised in science(exp
QC,DWARF), but it seems not to have any issue with Cognos. Pity.
|
|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
Unfortunatelly, I don't. But that DWARF thing looks
promising.
|
|
Re: Cube & Fact table size
|
Yet a lot o work to do.
No incremental updates, no multi-measuring.
See Quotient Trees & Quotient Cubes -- brilliant idea inside.
|
|
view/convert .imr files?
|
I have been sent some .imr files. I do not have
impromptu or reportnet, but I understand that that is the application to open
them from. Does anyone know of a tool that I can use to view or convert
these files?
???
Thanks!
|
|
Re: view/convert .imr files?
|
Hi misscrf,
You will need a copy of Impromptu to be able to open .imr files. Also,
unless they are snapshot reports which contain the data as well as the report
definitions, I'd hope you also have more than just .imr files too - you'd
normally need either some hotfiles (.ims) or a catalog (.cat) and relevant
instructions to connect it to it's database.
If you can get a copy of Impromptu (and if your reports are snapshots, or if
you have a catalog, or if you have the hotfiles), you will be able to open
the reports and save them in another format such as pdf, csv,excel,html etc.
Best regards,
MF.
|
|
Re: view/convert .imr files?
|
You'll also need the correct version of Impromptu to read
the IMR files. E.g. 7.0 won't read 7.1.
Use a text editor like TextPad (www.textpad.com) to inspect the contents of
the file. IMR files are essentialliy semi-compiled instructions that
tell the Impromptu report engine what to do. As a poster has already
said, sometimes an IMR file may also contacin data that the developer has
saved with these instructions. A pure text editor, unlike MS Word and
MS Wordpad, will allow you to see the contents of the file without altering
it. In this way you should be able to see the version number near the
start of the file.
Good luck.
|
|
Power2000
|
I actually used this tool for a Y2K project. It was
kind of cool. Is it still actually for sale? :o
Mark Stewart
Consultant
Windsor, Ontario
|
|
Re: Power2000
|
Was Power2000 a patch/upgrade for the then PowerHouse? Or
did P2k supersede it?
But to answer your question, it appears to be an obselete product :
http://support.cognos.com/en/support/products/obsolete_products.html
nichS
|
|
Re: Power2000
|
Power2000 was a tool written in Delphi which assisted
customers with PowerHouse applications to find all potential problems which may
arise from the new millenium (remember all the scare stories in the late 20th
century about disasters as a result of the millennium bug?)
It was essentially a global edit and change facility which could be
programmed to find any syntax which may need to be changed because of date
problems. It also came with a set of Impromptu reports. However, as you know,
it is no longer supported.
Also, it was completely separate from PowerHouse and only ran on Windows.
However, it could be programmed to find any problem areas, not just problems
relating to the millennium.
|
|
Re: Power2000
|
Nice short description.
While Power2000 is from Cognos' point of view "obsolete" and no
longer sold it may be that there is a second hand market for it. It
really requires no support, is self-contained, and does a great job at making
complex (as well as simple) code to changes to many source files at once.
I don't remember exactly how many copies were sold but ther must be quite a
number of companies out there with a copy gathering dust on a shelf.
Where not sell or trade it online?
Also if we lobby Cognos enough it might see the light and make the tool
available on demand.
|
|
[Solved] Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Has anyone being able to effectively use tooltips in the
reportnet reports? Here is the scenario. I would like to display to our user
metadata information via tooltips about our reports and data. However this
displayed metadata information needs to be centralized for ease control. When
user passed cursor over a column name for instance, then information about
the column would be displayed. Has anyone attempted anything like and
if so how did you manage it, since based on best practises tooltips
can only be imbedded by reporting authors and not Metadata Admins who does
not write the reports
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
If you add values in the "Screen Tip" property
in Framework Manager, this will be displayed in Report Studio when you mouse
over the model item.
Were you referring to tool tips in Report Studio or in finished reports?
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Hi All,
i have another scenario. I have two tables, one table contains column name,
description of column, another one is table related to first one(that
is all the column name eg. prod_name,prod_cate,prod_price etc). i want to
display column description(for eg. for prod_name, it has to display
"product name") as tool tip in report studio whenever mouse move on
particular column. how can i achieve this?
thanks in advance.
vsudaya
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Have you tried it using javascript.. That's not gonna be
very difficult.
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Yep,
Can be done using Java scripts.... we used it in the past. This week I'm
abroad but will search for it in the weekend...
Regards, vincent
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Is it that what you are looking for?
[img][/img]
Cu Jolly
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
This is exactly what is describe in a
[url=http://support.cognos.com/supported/supportlink/14n4/techreview10.xml]SupportLink
Article.[/url]
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
[quote author=jolly link=topic=29.msg2112#msg2112
date=1129637291]
Is it that what you are looking for?
[img][/img]
Cu Jolly
[/quote]
Yes, exactly what i am looking for?, how can i do that? any articles?
thanks in advance
vsu
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Hi vsudaya,
look at the link posted from Draoued. This is an Article from Cognos.Â
I have attached a simple List Report which solved your Problem. Look at the
two HTML-Items. Be sure you hav the GO SALES AND RETAILERS Package.
CU Jolly
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
hi,
thanks for reply. i dont have access(account) to cognos support forums
so that i can get the article.
Can i have the description of that article so that i can get more idea on
that.
thanks in advance
vsudaya
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
if you are using a Cognos application and paying the
yearly fee , you must have an access.
I would suggest that you contact your reseller and ask for an access.
There is much more than this case describe in SupportLink Magazine, and you
ll get at the same time access to Cognos Knowlegde database , which is also a
good source of information.
|
|
Re: Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
Vsud: Read the board rules (I've just updated them)
|
|
Re: [Solved] Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
I have tried using the supportlink technique, but the html
doesn't pick up the values from the query, just prints a small dash in the
field. Can someone help?
Thanks
|
|
Re: [Solved] Using tooltips in ReportNet Reports
|
[quote author=jeffnichuk link=topic=29.msg2875#msg2875
date=1131972171]
I have tried using the supportlink technique, but the html doesn't pick up
the values from the query, just prints a small dash in the field. Can someone
help?
Thanks
[/quote]
Are you using the HTML item in a list or somewhere else on the page? It
would have to be in an area associated with a query.
Are you using the fully qualified item name ([querysubject].[itemname]) or
just the item's name as shown in the query?
Regards,
Mike
|
|
Configuring ReportNet
|
Hi Guys,
I never worked on Cognos ReportNet before, help me out in configuring the
ReportNet into WebSphere AppServer.
|
|
Re: Configuring ReportNet
|
I have configured ReportNet with BEA Weblogic 8.1 SP4 and
let me tell you this was one of the most difficult tasks I ever carried out
support from Cognos consultants not withstanding.
Essentially you create a p2pd.war file which is the jar file of a web
application and you then deploy it the Websphere server.
One hard earned lesson: Do not ever install ReportNet in a folder path that
has names with spaces in it for e.g. 'Program Files'. BEA Weblogic did not
recognize the existence of Cognos CRN under such circumstances.
For specific info. on the steps for integration you will need to refer to
www.cognos.com
Regards
NKT
|
|
Re: Configuring ReportNet
|
Hi,
Here is my situation: I've got to have ReportNet Server on one node and
Content Manager on another node. First i configured the ReportNet server node,
generated the war file and deployed the war file into WebSphere. Later on
configured the Content Manager node, generated the war file and deployed into
WebSphere. But i dont see any tables being created in the database. Can you
please send me the exact procedure to do this. I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
vinod
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Hmm!
Your configuration is a bit different from mine.
Is it possible for you to host the content manager servlet on the same
computer as the ReportNet server. The actual content store can be put on any
box.
A few points to note.
1) you only need to generate one .war file called P2PD.war. You should not
deploy two .war files to the J2EE server
2) Make sure you deploy the .war file to the managed server and not the admin
server
3) Tables in the content store get created after you re start the managed
server and not when you simply deploy.
4) The procedure I follow is applicable to BEA Weblogic and may not be suited
to IBM Websphere. Let me know if you still need it.
Can I attach files to this post
Regards
NKT
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Thanks for your prompt reply.
1. No, i can't put the Content Manager in the same node as that of Report
Server node as the design is so. So, i just need to deploy only one jar file,
the one generated from ReportServer node.
2.Could you send me the docs, which u used for whole process.
I appreciate you help.
Thanks,
vinod
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Hi Vinod
Unfortunately my attachment exceeds the size limit of 128 KB
NKT
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Here is my mail ID: *email address removed* you can mail
me to this ID.
Thanks,
vinod
*sorry guys - email addresses are not a good idea because of the spam factor.
We've already had a few nasty bots go through our site (and it's only been
Live for 2 weeks!). I'll bump up the attachment size limit however feel free
to email me with the attachment and I will pass it on.
Cheers
Jon
COGNOiSe administrator
[email]email@cognoise.com[/email]
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I've upped the attachment limit to 5Mb - let me know if
you have any probs.
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We have a people friendly administrator ;D
The new limit is more than enough.
Here comes the attachment.
Regards
NKT
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Hi,
I configued the Cognos ReportNet, build the war file and deployed it into webSphere.
When I stop and start the AppServer, I found follwoing errors under
AppServer logs:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
com/cognos/accman/jcam/crypto/misc/JNISystemProperties
[8/3/05 15:13:31:591 CDT] 70541535 ServletInstan E SRVE0100E: Did not realize
init() exception thrown by servlet dispatch: javax.servlet.ServletException:
com/cognos/accman/jcam/crypto/misc/JNISystemProperties at
com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.servlet.StrictServletInstance.doInit(StrictServletInstance.java:99)
And I don't find any tables created in the Content store. Could you figure
out what e |