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Tonight I attended the launch event of Cognos version 8.3. It exceeded my expectations as 8.3 has some really big advances in administration. This alone is a reason to upgrade in my book.

The other cool piece was the number of people I knew and met at this event. There were 81 attendees. [...]

Here are my notes on Day 5.

The class was very good, I wish I would have taken it before I was thrown into the fire. Actually, I wish I would have taken the class and then worked more with the developers to model the data in a different way. I think I [...]

Here’s an overview of the entire Cognos 8 Environment (click here for larger picture):

Here’s my list so of acronym’s and terms used in Cognos 8 Authoring and Modeling FastTrack

Some of the standard onesMDX – Multidimensional ExpressionsOLAP – Online analytical processingSQL – Structured Query LanguageXML – Extensible Markup LanguageDMR – Dimensionally Modeled Relational DatabaseETL – Extract, Transform and Load

Cognos SpecificLCB – List Column BodyMUN – Member unique name (in [...]

Today things started to all come together at training. Some of the set up stuff made since while were were doing it, but the big picture all came together on why were were doing it. Here’s the notes.

One more thing that caught my eye that’s pretty simple is idea.

Another day in training. Here are my notes from Day 3.

Another day in training. Here are my notes from Day 2.

I’m taking the class Cognos 8 Authoring and Modeling FastTrack this week. Here are my notes from Day 1.