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      Understand the existing reports and code:

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    Documentation
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  Reverse Engineering

Fix/Update existing reports, develop new reports

Improve performance of reports

Reconcile reports with Data Mart and ODS data

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 Challenges

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 Amit's Comment

1. Team need to understand about the Business logic /Calculation in FWM

2. Need to understand the "how many FWM is in place" and "how many reports"
are associated with those FWM.
3. Once FWM and Reports has been identified then its easy to identified about the
related Dashboard/Scorecard . Need to open the Dashboard and check that how
many reports has been used in those Dashboards.
4. If client is using "Scorecard" (Standard way ), then i believe that person should
have good knowledge about the "Matrix Studio" in Cognos
5. Open the Cube (in Analysis Studio) and identified that which cube has been
associated with which particular FWM Package.
Honestly, Documentation part can be carried over step by step when resource
actually involve in project

1. To Understand the Reverse Engineering stuff person need to understand the

"Fact" , "Dimensions" and "Measures" in DWH.
2. Once FACT/Dimensions/Measures has been identified then understand the
business logic behind this.
3. According to business logic then identified the "Pain area"/Issue and then
resolve those defects/bugs
4. Document the business calculation and related "Query Subject" so that it will
easy to understand about the populated data in Reports/Cube/Dashboards.

1. Identify the report those having problem (like performance/wrong calculation

etc.)
2. Correct the code at FWM level (in Query Subject) or in SQL stuff (in Report
Studio)
3. Develop the new Cognos report as per this new calculation or newly created
FWM.

1.Performance of Report cannot be only dependent upon the code of report(SQL

Queries) & FW Model but also it depends on Cognos Server tuning like Dispatcher
setting, Report Server setting , Batch job setting , number of users (in peak business
hours) setting etc.
To configure and maintain all these it’s good if a person should have Cognos Admin
knowledge too

1. Identify the report those having problem (wrong calculation etc.)

2. Correct the code at FWM level (in Query Subject) or in SQL stuff (in Report
Studio)
Cognos Resource has to understand the Framework of SSIS and its code. Simply
copy paste of SQL code from SSIS (or its related package) cannot be helpful for a
long run. So I believe that Cognos person should have good understanding of SSIS
Framework too .So that he/she can replicate the same business rules (or say
Transformer) into Cognos native code