By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
One of the biggest challenges for any Cognos Analytics administrator is maintaining operational uptime for all content in the Content Store. This can be a challenge...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
With the expanded growth and broadening of Cognos Analytics has come the need for more flexibility and options in the area of deployments. This is particularly true in...
By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.
Documentation for Cognos Analytics is one of those things that doesn’t come with it. You have to create it yourself or look for a third-party product that might meet...
By Gary Larsen, Envisn, Inc.
The new data sources in Cognos Analytics have actually been around for a while. They are, however, new to a lot of Cognos developers since many of them may not have had...
By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.
Change is constant in any Cognos environment and one of the more difficult challenges is managing routine day-to-day changes in a controlled manner. In most cases...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Nearly every Cognos environment that’s been operational for a period of time has a large number of scheduled reports. These reports are essential to managing day to day...
By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.
This blog is different from any other we have done. All of our previous blogs have been about Cognos Analytics on subjects that help Cognos administrators learn more...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Of all the areas of Cognos administration the one that appears to cause the most anxiety is security. This likely is the result of the fact that there are so many ways...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Most institutional data used for reporting purposes comes from one or more data warehouses which are typically aggregations of internal transaction systems like SAP,...
By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.
Triggers are widely used across many Cognos environments, particularly larger ones where reports are often scheduled based on one or more dependent events being...
