Business Intelligence, Analytics and Cognos

We often need to collect data by using Survey Tools. Lot of pre -sales, post-sales, marketing data can be collected by surveys. However, it is important to choose the best survey tool before sending out the links to audience. Below article aims to help ask the right questions before making a choice of Survey software. http://ezinearticles.com/?Choosing-the-Best-Survey-Software-For-Your-Business&id=3967858 It is written by Tim Coombe who has been an IT Professional for 20 years, specialising in Media and Business Intelligence. He has written a very nice and robust survey tool that can be accessed at: http://www.cicerosurveys.com/

Finally I got chance to write this book on Cognos 8 Report Studio to provide practical and real-life resource to my fellow report developers and super-users. While there has been some manuals and guides out there in market to tell you what each component does, this book will tell you how to use them. The main feature of this book is it will tell you how to over-come many limitations of Report Studio !! Over 90 great recipes for taking control of Cognos 8 Report Studio Learn advanced techniques to produce real-life reports that meet business demands Tricks and hacks for speedy and effortless report development and to overcome tool-based limitations Peek into the best practices used in industry and discern ways to work like a pro Part of Packt's Cookbook series-each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible To read more about the book and to buy it, please refer to this link: http://www.packtpub.com/ibm-cognos-8-report-