Business Optimization: Performance Management with Information You Can Trust This informative seminar is where experts from Cognos, an IBM company, and IBM will discuss the benefits of linking the information-centric approach of information infrsstructure with a user-centric approach to deliver complete, consistent, and timely information across the business through BI and Performance Management. Dates/Locations: July 15 – Detroit July 15 – Nashville July 16 – St Louis July 17 – Charlotte July 22 – San Francisco July 22 – Tampa July 24 – Chicago July 24 – Dallas

IBM Information On Demand - October 26-31, 2008 As the first major "coming out party" since Cognos has joined IBM, this year's IBM Information On Demand 2008 global conference promises to be both valuable and memorable for Cognos customers. This is the premiere information management event and it's your opportunity to gain a complete understanding of how the IBM Information on Demand framework can extend and enhance your Cognos implementation. Register Now

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Techtalk

• Meeting your Reporting Requirements within your Budget
  Description
  IBM Cognos 8 BI MidMarket reporting packages a single, affordable, Web-based solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle. These reports can be authored once and consumed anywhere, and are adaptable to any data source.
  
  Attend this Web seminar and learn more about how IBM Cognos 8 BI MidMarket reporting packages can help midsize organizations improve their decision-making abilities. Held on: June 25, 2008
  
  
• Leveraging your Oracle Investments
  Description
  Listen as Noetix and Cognos, an IBM Company, discuss and demonstrate a joint solution that enables operational reporting for OracleE-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise customers. Held on: May 8, 2008
  
  
• Continuous visibility into your operations with IBM Cognos Now! Monitor
  Description
  IBM Cognos Now! Monitor is an operational BI solution that provides continuous visibility into your operations. With IBM Cognos Now! Monitor, users can view graphically-rich operational business information, drill-down to examine detailed data, set thresholds to generate alerts, change graphs and metrics, and take corrective action when anomalies occur. Held on: April 2, 2008
  
  
• Performance Management in Action
  Description
  Hear from David Stoddard from Ventana Research and Leah MacMillan from Cognos and learn how Cognos provides the foundation for a successful performance management journey. Held on: January 31, 2008
  
  
• Why Deploying BI with Cognos 8 Special Edition and IBM Makes Sense
  Description
  Hear how Cognos customer Gordon Trucking leverages the Cognos 8 Special Edition today simplifying their BI deployment. Held on: December 12, 2007
  
  
• Discover the Value of Service-Oriented Architecture for BI
  Description
  Hear how Cognos customer MassHousing leverages the open IBM Cognos 8 SOA today in their enterprise BI deployment. Held on: November 29, 2007
  
  
• Driving Business Performance with IBM Cognos 8 Scorecarding
  Description
  Listen as Brent Winsor of Cognos shares how IBM Cognos 8 scorecarding enables organizations to effectively communicate strategy, provide employee focus, and ensure accountability and ownership. Held on: October 18, 2007
  
  
• The Road to Performance Management
  Description
  Join industry analyst and thought leader John Hagerty of AMR Research and Leah MacMillan, VP of Product Marketing at Cognos, as they discuss how the Business Intelligence and Performance Management markets are evolving. Held on: September 27, 2007
  
  
• The "Consumerization" of IT
  Description
  Listen in as the Product and Innovation team discuss new technology trends and how they affect business users and IT departments alike. Held on: July 19, 2007
  
  
• BI on the Move: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Mobile with IBM Cognos 8 BI on the BlackBerry
  Description
  The evolution of mobile applications and the overall consumerization of IT is moving business intelligence into the front lines of an organization. Allowing business users and executives anywhere, anytime access to the information they need is helping organizations become more competitive and strategic in their performance management approaches.
  
  View this on demand web seminar and learn more about the benefits of IBM Cognos 8 Go! and how to get Business Intelligence information and capabilities into the hands of your business users and executives, anywhere they go. Held on: April 25, 2007
  
  
• Cognos BI Reference Roundtable with Aviva USA
  Description
  In this reference roundtable web seminar you will hear Todd Neese, Director of Business Intelligence at Aviva USA, part of the fifth-largest insurance group in the world, discuss how Aviva USA is using Cognos BI Solutions. Held on: April 24, 2007
  
  
• Five Steps for IT to Drive Efficient, Effective Scorecard Development
  Description
  Scorecards are essential to effective and efficient decision making. However, getting alignment on the targets and metrics can be a challenge.
  
  The IT department is often charged with gathering the requirements from the business users and deploying the scorecards in the performance management solution. Find out how you can optimize this process to bring the metrics to the decision makers quickly and efficiently. Held on: March 29, 2007
  
  
• Making Business Intelligence "End-User-Friendly" with IBM Cognos 8 Go! Search and the Google Search Appliance
  Description
  Scorecards are essential to effective and efficient decision making. However, getting alignment on the targets and metrics can be a challenge. Attend this Web seminar and learn the five step process that will enable you to give your business users the scorecards they need; and you the information to implement them. Held on: February 15, 2007
  
  
• Discover the value of Service-Oriented Architecture
  Description
  What gives our customers agility, flexibility, security, high availability, maintainability, productivity, and supportability on a global scale? Find out how our Cognos 8 service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the foundation for business agility and a more deployable, maintainable, and robust BI environment. Held on: January 30, 2007
  
  
• Just-in-Time Information: Event Management for Immediate Impact
  Description
  Learn how you can give your users portals with watchlists, alerts, headlines, and targeted emails with just the information they need to make immediate decisions using Event Management. Held on: November 30, 2006
  
  
• BI in Action: Alliant Energy Overcomes the Data Complexity Crisis
  Description
  Find out how Alliant Energy turned data complexity into one single view of the truth using Cognos. Alliant Energy utilizes Cognos to bring together a central view of its performance, drawing from Oracle (PeopleSoft) and 20 distinct datamarts. Held on: October 31, 2006
  
  
• Operational BI for the Performance Driven Department
  Description
  Learn how business intelligence can improve effectiveness across all departments and lines of business. Held on: September 20, 2006
  
  

Techtalk Insider

• Leveraging Upgrade Manager: From IBM Cognos ReportNet to IBM Cognos 8 BI
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join Mark Enslin, Practice Area Lead, Cognos Professional Services, as he discusses the benefits of Upgrade Manager as part of a successful upgrade from IBM Cognos ReportNet to IBM Cognos 8 BI. During this Web seminar, you will learn how to leverage Upgrade Manager to validate and execute reports, as well as compare results generated in the source and target environments. Also, you will hear about how this tool provides a mechanism for capturing test cases to send to Cognos Support for additional troubleshooting assistance. Held on: June 18, 2008
  
  
• Dashboarding with IBM Cognos 8 BI and WebSphere
  Description
  Best Practices
  Organizations are under constant pressure to make better, faster decisions. With diverse data sources and inefficient, time-consuming processes needed to turn this data into useful information, more and more organizations are turning to portals. Please join Andrew Popp, Product Marketing Manager, and Kirk Munroe, Director of Field Strategy and Support, as they demonstrate how you can quickly leverage your WebSphere Portal infastructure and have Cognos content made available in the portal. Topics that will be covered include Websphere and Cognos synergy, porlets, and publication to the portal. Held on: April 16, 2008
  
  
• Enterprise Planning on the Cognos 8 Platform
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join Terry Bird, Principle Solutions Architect at Cognos, an IBM Company, for an in-depth review of how you can use IBM Cognos 8 Planning in the wider Cognos 8 environment, increasing the value and reducing the total cost of ownership of your existing Planning investment. Hear how you can use Cognos 8 functionality to increase productivity and enhance the user experience. Understand how you can manage multiple applications, provide integrated workflow screens and application menus, and automate the whole process. Finally, learn how you can leverage IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to take the business benefit from your IBM Cognos 8 Planning applications to a new level. Held on: March 25, 2008
  
  
• IBM Cognos 8 Planning Integration with SAP
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join Johnathan Hodge, Senior Product Manager for Planning at Cognos for an in-depth review of how IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 can now interface directly with SAP, increasing the value and reducing the total cost of ownership of your Planning investment. Hear how IBM Cognos 8 Planning uses packages from Framework Manager as a direct data source for dimension and cube data, enabling you to access your existing enterprise data assets via IBM Cognos 8 or leverage your data modeling assets already on the platform. Learn how this integration provides the data administrator the control they need, while offering the business user the flexibility they desire. Finally, hear how our improved data access allows IBM Cognos 8 Planning to access data directly from SAP BW and mySAP ERP, and how our interface specific to BW has been optimized for greater performance. Held on: February 20, 2008
  
  
• Advanced Charting Techniques with Report Studio - Part 1: How to create a Microline chart
  Description
  Best Practices
  This demo will provide you with a step by step guide on how to create a microline chart. The charts are useful when designing dashboard-style reports where a lot of information is required to fit on a single page. They can be used to supplement the information in headings, titles or lists in addition to the crosstab displayed in this demo. Held on: January 24, 2008
  
  
• Advanced Charting Techniques with Report Studio - Part 2: How to link two charts in order to show the appropriate data when drilling up or down
  Description
  Best Practices
  This demo will show you how to create a dynamic charting application using IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio. Dynamic charting is a report where all the charts in the report are filtered when a user drills down on any individual chart in the report. Held on: January 24, 2008
  
  
• Data Quality for Performance Management - Do you trust the data driving your business?
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join the Cognos resident expert, Jennifer Schmitz, as she shares her insight into data quality challenges based on a decade of experience in the data quality market. Jennifer will show a demonstration of the Cognos Data Quality solution and discuss the different roles and activities to drive successful data quality initiatives. You will learn how to manage your data like any other corporate asset, how to mitigate cost, risk and delay in implementation associated with poor quality, why data quality is essential to reporting, analysis and dashboarding, and how data quality for performance management, and performance management for data quality can engage your business to partner on DQ projects. So join us to understand more how tackling data quality in your performance management initiatives can drive confidence in the data that drives your organization. Held on: December 5, 2007
  
  
• What's New in IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join Sr. Cognos Product Manager, Leonard Oppenheimer, for an in-depth review of IBM Cognos 8 Planning version 8.2 and hear how it can increase the value and reduce the total cost of ownership of your planning investment. Learn about the new capabilities, including the speed and flexibility of real-time reporting, direct access to all Cognos 8 data sources (including SAP BW), and automatic event triggering to drive enhanced workflow alerts and planning actions. Hear about new enhancements that let users validate plans to enforce business goals and rules, and insert and control attachments. Finally, learn how the unified and streamlined Cognos 8 security, deployment portability, and architectural choices inherent in the Cognos 8 suite will reduce your effort and costs. Held on: November 7, 2007
  
  
• Deternining an Effective Data Sourcing and Management Strategy
  Description
  Best Practices
  Looking for the most effective data sourcing and management strategy for your organization? Join Sr. Cognos Product Management Directors, Harriet Fryman and Alan Greenhalgh, as they share some alternative approaches for data sourcing - including direct access of transactional data to using federation to build data marts. See comparison charts and detailed product demos that illustrate these methods and discover the benefits and tradeoffs of each approach. You'll gather tips that will help you develop a sound basis for evaluating the best data sourcing strategy for your evolving Cognos environment. Held on: October 11, 2007
  
  
• Maximizing the Value of Analysis Studio
  Description
  Best Practices
  IBM Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio contains many features that take users beyond simple data exploration to discovering results. This session focuses on the richer analytical features of Analysis Studio—including understanding the details, dealing with sparse data and effective analytical charts. You will learn how to share the results of an analysis with Report Studio and how to customize these analytical reports to meet the needs of your organization. Held on: September 12, 2007
  
  
• Cognos as a Data Source for Reporting
  Description
  Best Practices
  This session demonstrates tips and techniques on how planning data can be integrated as a data source based on your reporting requirements. Learn how IBM Cognos 8 Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI address the reporting requirements of your organization with methodologies for accessing and combining planning data in IBM Cognos 8 BI. Through a review of Cognos Data Server (CDS) and Publish Tables, attendees will explore proper uses cases and techniques that will ease the development of reporting in your organization. Held on: August 8, 2007
  
  
• BI Architecture - Advanced Performance & Scalability
  Description
  Best Practices
  Want some in-depth IT information on how to fine-tune your BI architecture for best results on both the server and reporting sides of the equation? This on demand web seminar will explore advanced infrastructure strategies that will help you plan for, develop, and monitor your IBM Cognos 8 BI environment. Gain insights into how to identify the request flow in your business intelligence architectures and how to optimize them for higher performance. Learn new techniques for JVM optimization, heterogeneous queries, local processing, metadata caching and callbacks, minimized SQL, and parameter map considerations. Held on: July 18, 2007
  
  
• Using IBM Cognos PowerPlay in your ReportNet/Cognos 8 Environment
  Description
  Best Practices
  This session explains how PowerPlay interoperates in either a ReportNet or Cognos 8 environment. Learn how to take advantage of your existing investment in PowerPlay while investing in the future with the new architecture of CRN and IBM Cognos 8. Through a review of the architecture and options, attendees will come away with confidence that they can get the most out of their Cognos investment. Held on: June 13, 2007
  
  
• Sun One Directory Server Replication
  Description
  Best Practices
  This Web seminar describes the practices associated with data replication between two separate Sun One directory servers and the procedure you can use for fail-over capacity. We’ll also discuss how information is synchronized between directory servers, explain data replication and show replication procedures, illustrate backup and recovery, as needed and walk through a replication agreement and the replication of the Cognos schema, if used.
  
  PLEASE NOTE: this session will only focus on Sun One and not Microsoft Active Directory. Held on: May 9, 2007
  
  
• Dimensional Expression Advanced Report Authoring Best Practices
  Description
  Best Practices
  Ever need to write Report Studio reports against cube or dimensionally modeled relational data? Want to know how to leverage the OLAP query language, MDX, to get the results you want? This session will introduce MDX concepts as they apply to Cognos 8 Report Studio and demonstrate solutions to common OLAP reporting requirements using MDX. You’ll also discover what a “tuple” is, how you pronounce it, and why anyone would care. Held on: April 11, 2007
  
  
• Migration Strategies to IBM Cognos 8 BI: Compress and Optimize
  Description
  Best Practices
  Are you currently migrating or considering migrating your Cognos Series 7 environment to IBM Cognos 8 BI? This on-demand Web seminar will provide some ideas and ways to compress and optimize your application while migrating it to IBM Cognos 8 BI. Held on: February 14, 2007
  
  
• Report Design Principles
  Description
  Best Practices
  Need some quick tips and best practices on how to create attractive yet informative reports? Attend this Web seminar and learn techniques that can be applied to either Impromptu or Report Studio to create readable and interesting reports. Held on: January 17, 2007
  
  
• IBM Cognos Series 7 and IBM Cognos 8 BI Interoperability
  Description
  Best Practices
  This on-demand Web seminar will show you how to run IBM Cognos Series 7 and IBM Cognos 8 software together. Held on: December 13, 2006
  
  
• Getting the Most Out Of Your Planning Investment Through SIM
  Description
  Best Practices
  This session will provide a methodology and tools for IT to better meet the needs of the Office Finance through a review of Cognos Solution Implementation Methodology (SIM). Held on: November 8, 2006
  
  
• New Release in Action (Cognos Series 7, Version 4)
  Description
  Technology Update
  This on demand Web seminar will show you the highlights of the newly released Series 7, Version 4 (7.4) in action. You will also learn about Cognos' ongoing commitment to Series 7 and how this relates to the Cognos 8 product line. Held on: October 11, 2006
  
  
• Migrating and Upgrading to IBM Cognos 8 BI
  Description
  Best Practices
  Join Cognos product management for this primer on what everyone should know about migration and upgrading to IBM Cognos 8 BI. Hear about best practices and approaches to attain best success with your migration project, including when to consider migration, ideal upgrading scenarios, and more. Held on: September 13, 2006
  
  

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