Conferences/Seminars

Cognos Forum 2008

May 12 - 15, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV

Cognos Forum 2008 was a great success.Check it out! Another Success Story 

WHOI presented in a breakout at the Cognos Forum in Las Vegas. We believe you will find WHOI’s Presentation insightful and effective in demonstrating real user experiences. This will give you a chance to compare your situation, ask questions, and network with your peers.

IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Non-Profit Organizations

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Massachusetts is the world's largest non-profit ocean research organization. See how they made the transition to IBM Cognos 8 Planning in eight short weeks. Learn how they eliminated redundancies in their legacy processes, improved their operations for more effective decision-making, and won over a skeptical user community. Understand more about rapid prototype methodology, and take away tips for deployment in the non-profit sector. The session touches on government requirements for overhead rates, which non-profit organizations are required to submit with proposals, and demonstrates how overhead rate calculation can be automated for auditing purposes.

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Cognos Office of Finance User Symposium 2008

 Sponsored by Cognos Partners

Held May 15 - 17, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV

This symposium was designed to bring together users of Cognos Finance and Cognos Planning software for an exchange of ideas, problems and solutions and to educate them on how to better utilize their investment in business intelligence and planning software. 

 Sandy Midili presented the best kept design and reporting secret.  Attribute creation and reporting functionality was given in an interactive setting with demonstrations.  In addition, a review of the Consolidation Table module was given. This portion of the presentation focused on a review of the different consolidation types as well as how to set up the Consolidation Table Module.

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 Kim Weber’s session explored effective, efficient integration of Cognos Planning with Cognos Finance for metadata and data management as well as near real-time reporting.  This included updating metadata, e-lists and data across multiple Contributor applications and Cognos Finance systems.  Our practices and methodologies provided simple, efficient and effective administration of the integrated Enterprise Planning/Cognos Finance environment.

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