IBM Cognos Supportlink

OPG is an international retail and distribution company for pharmaceuticals and medical supplies and specializing in:

• operating pharmacies and wholesaling (pharmacies),
• medical supplies for home healthcare and related services (direct)
• marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to hospitals and nursing homes (institutional)

Managing Performance requires a collaboration between business decision makers and the IT departments that provide the information that drives decision-making. Whether IT is creating reports for one specific department in an organization — Marketing, Sales, Finance, Operations or others — or whether an organization is rolling out a complete BI or Performance Management strategy, the partnership between Business and IT is critical to success.

By K.Rama Chandra, Hexaware Technologies Ltd.

There are various requirements for prompts within a report including: Selection of a default value, multiple values, etc. Most of these requirements can be met with the Prompt properties. But, the selection for All values in a prompt can prove challenging.