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Performance 2007, Cognos' annual global event, launched in Palo Alto, California, on September 7th, with more 150 IT, BI, and finance professionals gathering to learn about Cognos Performance Management solutions. Held at The Four Seasons Hotel, the day-long event featured a keynote address — Enabling the High Performance Enterprise — delivered by Cognos President and CEO, Rob Ashe, nine breakout sessions presented by both Cognos product experts and customers, and a solutions showcase with hands-on demonstrations provided by Cognos partner Niteo.

by Maximilien de Chestret, Product Manager, Cognos Inc.

Introduction

Currently a Cognos Consolidator customer? You'll greatly benefit from migrating to Cognos Controller 8.2.

Controller 8.2 follows the same application strategy and principles as user-friendly Consolidator. It's finance-owned, requiring no arcane programming languages or costly IT support. Controller 8.2 features built-in financial intelligence, and is easy to set up and configure. It puts you in charge and provides the flexibility to allow customization in line with unique needs and requirements. Incorporating Consolidator features and capabilities, Controller 8.2 is built on an advanced platform to deliver richer functionality and greatly improve reporting and analysis.

The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has been entertaining British Columbians for 30 years with varied games of lottery, casino, and bingo. Since its inception, the BCLC has generated almost $20 billion in government income.

By Bob Deskin, Senior Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc.

This Product Roadmap communicates our current direction for Cognos Application Development Tools. This update supersedes all previous Cognos Application Development Tools' Product Roadmaps. Cognos will provide annual updates.

by Ronald Vogel, Genware Computer Systems

Introduction

The technique described below provides Cognos 8 users with the ability to drill through from a source report, which includes dimensionally modeled metadata to a target report, including relationally modeled metadata at any level of the hierarchy.