Chapter 11. Streamlining Common Administrator Tasks

This chapter will go into detail about the tools that my current company has developed to improve the lives of Cognos administrators, and fulfill regulatory requirements around source control within your reporting environment.

In this chapter, the tools we'll talk about are tools that every Cognos administrator I have ever spoken with wants. Each and every tool makes sense and makes Cognos BI a better product. With that said, they are not free. If you are one of the many customers out there that already have these tools in conjunction with your IBM Cognos BI installation, then congratulations. This will be a great chapter for you to better understand what you have. If you are one of the customers out there that does not yet have these tools, I encourage you to prepare yourself to be amazed by how much better it can be.

In this chapter, we will look at common Cognos administrator tasks and how they can be streamlined or automated using third...