IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide

The Only Authorized Guide to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Develop, deploy, and maintain a complete BI solution across your enterprise. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide shows you how to take full advantage of the robust service-oriented architecture and simplified role-based user interfaces. Learn how to create, share, and analyze data-rich reports that lead to increased productivity and better business decisions. Featuring real-world insight and expert tips, this is a must-have guide for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence users of all levels, from administrators to end users.

Measure and monitor performance using dashboards and scorecards
Assign user roles and privileges
Provide complete and consistent access to a broad range of data sources via Cognos Connection
Use Cognos 8 Go! to extend BI to Office applications, mobile devices, and search engines
Enable business users to create reports with Query Studio
Develop new insights by exploring data in multiple dimensions and perspectives with Analysis Studio
Build Dimensional Reports with Report Studio
Use Event Studio to identify and deliver mission-critical information
Create, modify, organize, and publish a model from Cognos Framework Manager
Implement sound security measures
Take advantage of the management tools in Cognos Administration to ensure maximum reliability and availability

Customer Reviews:

This book will not "guide" you to become a good Cognos developer

By David Christopher "dmc" - June 29, 2009

I cannot say I have read this book completely, but I am currently trying to learn how to use Cognos 8.4 and as I work with the product I find myself turning to this book to clarify something or teach me something. Each time, I come up empty.

This books appears to have only the most high level information, it goes into no detail whatsoever. It spends only a page or two on some very big topics.

There seems to be a lack of Cognos BI books out there, but trust me, this book is not going to help you all that much. If you want a very high-level overview of some of the Cognos features, without going into too much detail on how to really work with the tool, and if your company is paying for the book, then by all means pick this up. Otherwise, steer clear of this book, it's useless for in-depth details on how to use Cognos 8.4 BI.

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By G. J. Ruppert "GDog" - July 18, 2008

I found the book to have a ton of useful examples on how to write reports using Cognos and on how to use some of the more complicated features. For example, creating a union in a report and how to use a Master-Detail relationship in a report. There are examples for just about everything.

Book is terrible

By Renee Wright - January 14, 2010

Some of the reviews warned me about the content of this book being inadequate but I wanted to try it anyway. They were right- this book is terrible. But I was so starved for some type of documentation I remained hopeful. Dont waste your money