Cognos Forum 2007

Breakout Sessions - So Many Ways to Learn HOW

With more than 120 sessions across seven tracks, Cognos Forum offers something for everyone, regardless of your role or level of Cognos expertise. You'll return to the office with a wealth of know-how you can put into practice right away!

Browse the Breakout Session Catalog

This year tracks include:

• Reporting & Analysis - Designed for IT professionals and power users of Series 7, ReportNet, and Cognos 8 BI, this track will show you how to maximize your current Cognos BI investment, including insight on how to manage large rollouts. Learn how to conduct advanced reporting off both relational and OLAP sources, create more efficient queries, and put new, advanced analysis techniques to use in your organization.



• Beyond Reporting - Learn about new reporting techniques and how you can leverage your Cognos BI investment to support them. Designed for both IT and Finance professionals, this track is for anyone who wants to expand their Cognos BI and planning capabilities. Topics will also include practical approaches for scorecards, dashboards, business intelligence competency centers (BICCs), standardization, and information on our new access modes that bring the power of BI to your enterprise search engine, your mobile device, and your Microsoft® Office environment.



• Planning & Consolidation - Designed for Finance professionals, this track focuses squarely on the best practices you need to help improve the day-to-day use of your Cognos Planning and Consolidation deployments. Join Cognos product experts, partners, and customers as they highlight how to increase efficiency and effectiveness with Cognos 8 Planning, Cognos Controller, and Cognos Performance Blueprints. You'll also hear about all about the best practices for modeling, financial management & control, and more.



• Analytic Applications - Learn about Cognos Analytic Applications, an entirely new class of analytic applications, that help you monitor and measure areas such as workforce performance and cash and close analytics. This session is designed for both IT and Finance professionals who want to deliver ready-built reports, analysis, and metrics for key business functions and rapid ROI.



• Infrastructure - Take a technical deep dive into the Cognos platform and architecture—from Cognos 8 BI, Cognos Planning, Series 7, and more. Designed for IT professionals, topics in this session will include large deployment issues, metadata and data management, ERP data access, security, and configuration management.



• Migration and Upgrade - Looking for the most effective way to migrate your Series 7 and ReportNet applications to Cognos 8 BI or upgrade your Cognos Planning environment? Learn about the migration and upgrade paths Cognos recommends and the ones our customers have found most effective. Join Cognos product experts and customers as they discuss product interoperability, migration and upgrade strategies, and the quick tips you need for any upgrade or migration.



• Performance Management Practices - Hear about how you can take your reporting, scorecarding, or planning deployment to the next level by creating a robust Performance Management system. Learn about strategic, phased approaches to Performance Management, design and implementation best practices, and how Cognos customers have jump-started own their Performance Management initiatives.