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By Tracy Harris, Campaign Manager, Product Marketing, Cognos Inc.

In the first two articles in this four-part series, we described steps 1 and 2 in the Cognos Reporting-led Performance Management roadmap.

Recently IBM has announced its Dynamic Warehousing Initiative.  Given our strategic positioning with IBM, Cognos is committed to supporting this platform, and we do so from many different angles. To give some background, here is a brief overview of what the Dynamic Warehousing platform entails.  IBM’s Dynamic Warehousing is not a product, tool or simple one-off solution.  It is an approach that enables customers to deliver business insights by integrating, transforming, harvesting and analyzing insights from structured and unstructured information.

Timely and accurate data collection about your system environment, Cognos product configuration and settings information are crucial to speeding issue resolution and improving productivity of your IT team.

It has been a few months since the last Application Development Tools (ADT) update so I wanted to share the latest news and provide some information on the upcoming release.

by Becky Smith, Senior Product Manager, Cognos Inc.

Data Manager 8.2 introduces new capabilities that provide increased integration with the Cognos 8 BI infrastructure. In previous releases the delivery to data marts and enterprise data warehouses had to be managed separately. Commonly the Data Manager process would be managed via a scripted environment and an external third party scheduler, with no direct or easy integration into the production reporting environment.