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By Elwood Philbrick, Envisn, Inc.On any listing of topics related to Cognos BI, security is almost always at or near the top. This subject area consumes more time and effort of administrators than...

Archiving Cognos Content

by Rick Ryan on August 29, 2012

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc. With the release of version 10.1.1 IBM Cognos announced the ability to archive Cognos content. Up to this point the only option has been to retain content in the Cognos...

By Elwood Philbrick - Envisn, Inc.This blog article is focused on some of the key things you need to know in order to effectively manage Cognos BI.

Key Trends in Cognos BI

by Rick Ryan on June 29, 2012

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.At some point in the not too distant future we may well look back on this period as the golden age of business intelligence. BI is universally accepted as having value...

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc. Is your Content Store like a black hole where even light can’t escape? Don’t even know how much content you have or if it all works? You’re not alone. Most Cognos...

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc. Of all the Cognos subject related searches that are done on the web the one that usually tops the list is security. That subject is also number one in terms of the most...

The only constant is change

By Elwood Philbrick - Envisn, Inc.Envisn has been providing administrative solutions for Cognos customers for nearly all of our thirteen years. During that period the...

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.This blog could easily focus on the typical BI admin tasks that Cognos administrators have to deal with. The usual stuff like change management, security, license...

Is Cognos 10 a Big Deal?

by Rick Ryan on January 19, 2012

By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.In an interview two weeks ago, IBM’s new president, Virginia Rometty, cited Analytics as the single most important focus for the technology company going forward. Analytics

November 18, 2011 by Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.It would be easy to talk about what’s new in Cognos 10 from the recent IBM Information on Demand (IOD) 2011 event in Las Vegas only in terms of new user...