The business case for performance tuning

Any Cognos BI environment will only be of value if people are using it. Too often, I have seen companies make major investments in an enterprise-level reporting environment only to see it underutilized due to poor performance. Ultimately, this can be avoided. If you are with a client, or if you are a client, that is constantly dealing with complaints about how poor the performance is in Cognos BI, there is hope. Cognos BI is not a slow running system. Cognos BI is a worldwide enterprise reporting tool that is used by some of the largest companies in the world. So, how do you change that mindset? You performance tune your environment. The executives and key stakeholders in the business want reporting and analytics. However, let's face it; they don't want to wait on it. That is why, from a business perspective, performance tuning is essential.

To put it simply, the business case for performance tuning is that the tool will not be utilized without good...