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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide Specs:
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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
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McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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$69.99
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9780071498524
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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
Latest 6 Reviews Here is what people are saying about the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
"This book will not "guide" you to become a good Cognos developer"
2009-06-29
- Reviewed By User: A1H0PXIX18MATF
I cannot say I have read this book completely, but I am currently trying to learn how to use Cognos 8.4 and as I work with the product I find myself turning to this book to clarify something or teach me something. Each time, I come up empty.
This books appears to have only the most high level information, it goes into no detail whatsoever. It spends only a page or two on some very big topics.
There seems to be a lack of Cognos BI books out there, but trust me, this book is not going to help you all that much. If you want a very high-level overview of some of the Cognos features, without going into too much detail on how to really work with the tool, and if your company is paying for the book, then by all means pick this up. Otherwise, steer clear of this book, it's useless for in-depth details on how to use Cognos 8.4 BI.
"Kindle Review"
2009-04-07
- Reviewed By User: A3F1NMVLCOM01G
This is a joke on kindle? where are the samples?? so i can at least follow up with the exercises! and where the pictures??!!!
simply => don't the buy the kindle version
I wasted my money on nothing!!!
"Some Samples Don't Work"
2009-02-27
- Reviewed By User: A13B6KDQRBUCOJ
Like an idiot, I spent $75 on this book (Barns and Noble). I would have got a better deal on Amazon here going thru one of the used book dealers. Please don't buy this book new like I did - you'll be wasting your money. They call this book the official guide and I'm really surprised they did that. I had problems with several of the examples as they seemed to have left out important information. Specifically the examples on pages 277, 259 and 329. Those pages deal with placing totals on subgroups when using a union query, editing a query on a singleton and inserting hierarchies into reports. Another important example they should have included is using a drill through to details on the same report. On some of these examples, you are better off using the "Try it yourself" sections in the Cognos help file. Some of the book's sections are really good like Framework Manager. To make matters worse, they have no online reference for the corrections like Wrox publications does. Overall, shame on McGraw Hill for putting their name on such a rag of a book!
"A massive help guide!"
2009-01-06
- Reviewed By User: AS1RDGHCZYVSC
Having been a user of Cognos products back to Impromptu version 4, this is the first comprehensive guide/manual that delivers what it promises! Well worth the price!
"Good Product"
2008-12-08
- Reviewed By User: A69A796177G6J
While I have not read this book completely. It is a good book for those who want more insight in Report Studio, Framework Manager, Analysis Studio and etc. However, this book is not a good resource for Cognos Administrators. Administrators should stick to the Cognos documentation and resources.
This book gives you a fast overview of all aspects of Cognos and is written in language you can understand. You are going to need the Cognos reference manuals once you start developing but the book will help clear up areas the manuals do a poor job explaining.
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