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BSP Announces Southeast Region Expansion
Southeast Regional Office Opens in Atlanta, Georgia
BrightStar Partners is pleased to announce the opening of our Southeast Regional Office as we continue to grow our professional services and implementation-based solutions offerings to our customers. Our Southeast Regional Office, centered in Atlanta, GA, offers full Cognos Performance Management professional services to the southeastern region and Texas. As BSP expands, our customers in the southeast region can look forward to the same excellent quality service BSP is known for in our other geographies.
"Our southeast expansion will enable BSP to better partner with a larger number of companies to create competitive advantage in the marketplace by deploying best practice, technology-enabled solutions to their performance management challenges. We now offer our full suite of services to the southeast and south central areas, partnering to help our clients reach new levels of capability. Currently these services include Cognos BI and Scorecarding, Enterprise Planning, Data Warehousing, and Integration.", said Neil Morgan, President.
To find out how we can help you with your Business Intelligence and Performance Management professional services needs in the Southeast Region, please contact Chris Nossett at 888.915.6200 ext.723. We look forward to speaking with you. |
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See You at Cognos Forum
BrightStar Partners is proud to announce Silver Sponsorship of the 2008 Cognos Forum held in Las Vegas May 12th - 15th. Please join us at booth 15 in Performance World where we'll be showcasing updated and new implementation-based software solutions as well as our professional services' offerings.
Use our code 'PPBRIGH' while registering for the forum to save additional money.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference this year! | |
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Save a Report as a 'Report View'
Contributed by Bonnie Hsueh, BSP Consultant
A Report View is an important element of Cognos that lets you save a report specification such that you can store prompt values and schedule it independent of the schedule of the original report. You can save multiple report views of a single report. All report views, while sharing the original report specification, will allow for using a different set of prompt values, report format and schedule. This can be very powerful in situations where such flexibility is required. You can save the report view of a report in following different ways.
- From Run with Options in the Actions Section
- Select the Play button (Run with Options) ->Select Advance Options
- In the Delivery section of the Advanced Options screen, Select 'Save the report, print it, or send an email'-> Select 'Save the report as a report view'->Select 'Edit the save as options'
- Rename the report and chose the location to store the report. Press Ok twice.
Clicking on the icon at the top of the report after the report is run
- After the report is run, click the icon "Save as Report View"
- Rename the report and chose the location to save the report
From Cognos Connection in the Actions section of the report
- This does not give you the ability to save the report criteria. It only allows you to save the report view under a different name.
Additional Information
Keep in mind that if you use Report Studio to copy the original report to clipboard, modify the specification, and then open from clipboard, this will require you to save the modified specification in place of the existing specification, creating a new unique identifier to the specification in the content store. The result is that all Report Views will be broken, as they will no longer be able to find the referenced report specification. One way to avoid this common issue is through MetaManager's copy / paste report specification, which puts the modified spec in place of the old, preserving Report Views. |
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MetaManager 2.1 MR2 is Right Around the Corner
Please visit our booth at Performance World in Las Vegas in May to see MetaManager 2.1 MR2 or contact us for a preview. With MetaManager you can...
- Document both Framework Manager and Content Store by selecting the objects you want to document and the level of detail.
- Schedule report validation, automatic updates to all content store content when your Framework Manager model changes, search and replace for objects within reports, and the creation of archives of any selected content store content.
- Export your FM model to Microsoft Excel, make changes, and import it back into Framework Manager.
- Much more!
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Did You Know...
In Cognos 8...
- Events can be used to schedule tasks that can be executed automatically.
- The tasks can be scheduled to be executed for New, Ongoing or Ceased events.
- For ongoing events, tasks can be scheduled to execute on value change for a parameter.
In Our Universe...
- Planets, meaning wanderers, are named after Roman deities:
- Mercury: messenger of the Gods;
- Venus: the God of love and beauty;
- Mars: the God of war;
- Jupiter: King of the Gods;
- Saturn: father of Jupiter and God of agriculture;
- Neptune: God of the sea.
Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a God.
Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 29.79 km/s (18.51 miles/sec), or about 107 000 km/h (about 67,000 miles/hour).
Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.
Plates carrying the continents migrate over the earth's surface a few centimeters (inches) per year, about the same speed that a fingernail grows.
Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
The ozone layer averages about 3 millimeters (1/8 inch) thick.
All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise. |
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