The business case for Cognos Report Studio

Cognos Report Studio is a tool that is designed for building advanced, complicated, and production-worthy reports. Any business that has a need for this type of report will need access to Cognos Report Studio. You can often think of these as reports that are going to be shared outside of your organization or that have been developed for internal end users. Cognos Report Studio is also used many times for developing advanced reports that are used within an organization. In the following sections we will discuss how each of these two areas might use Cognos Report Studio.

Reporting inside of the organization

We often see Cognos Report Studio used to report inside the organization. Unfortunately, this audience is often overlooked. Most reporting groups inside of an organization have their primary customers as internal customers (meaning other employees within different groups of their organization). In order to be an effective report developer, it is...