Cognos Presentation

[cogdev]

Hi
We are using Cognos version 7 IWR PPES and Upfront, of course.

I have been asked to do a one hour technical presentation on Cognos. I will probably talk a bit about our hardware/software environment, and what cognos tools is installed where. That will be about 5 minutes. Do you know what else I can talk about in the next 55 minutes :-(?
Anybody ever did this before?
Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Tuskyny]

CogDev,
Do you try borrowing some ideas from the Cognos website and fashion it to meet your specific presentation needs...your are promoting their product for them so I don't see any infringement in that....Goodluck...when I did my presentation there was no time limit...but there was alot of questions from the audience and that kept it going for awhile....goodluck

Thanks,
TuskyNy
IT/Programmer
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"Everyday, I keep thinking about why I'm thinking too much..." TuskyNy

 

[esselinj]

Cogdev,

Talk about the following:
- The Cognos portfolio (many pictures are on their website)
- The development lifecycle (how do I build a cube, what is catalog etc., how do these components interact)
- What tool is used for what kind of analysis/ reporting ??
- Talk about the technical advantages of using a web deployment like zero footprint and stateless sessions
- Show them !! Show how easy it is te create a cube and make it webenabled. Show them how to create powerful reports.
- Give them whitepapers with technical specs which you can donwload from the Cognos website
- ....

I think one hour is very short

Cheers

Jack

 

[cogdev]

Thanks Guys. Both excellent suggestions. I am currently searching the cognos site, hopefully I can fill the hour. My greatest fear is that it becomes too application focused, 90% of the audience will be people who discuss fermat's last theorem over lunch......