“I’ve just been emailed an updated set of comments. How can I update the spreadsheet in Cognos?” A great feature in COGNOS Analytics 11 is the ability to supplement your enterprise data with personal or external information. This is a tangible time saver when you have supplemental information for a report or dashboard. In the…

“How can I make sense of this information?  It’s too much detail!” The example above shows sales information by Branch and City.  However, this type of list report does not clearly tell us the story or answer the questions we may have. (i.e. What is the highest revenue earning city, what is the gross profit…

Cognos Analytics JavaScript modules are useful tools to customize reports with JavaScript and JQuery. Whether integrated into pages or custom controls, these modules can be reused to tailor your report precisely to your needs through the use of JavaScript’s extensive library. In this video, we’ll be showing you the ability of JavaScript to create custom…

“OK, I have a data dump.  What is this supposed to tell me? The example above shows sales information by product.  However, this report is no different than a spread sheet.  Sure, I can dump the data into an Excel Pivot table, but it is time consuming and fraught with human error.  I want the…