Professional reports in Cognos 10.2 followed by the rules of success

Today, I want to present a pretty cool cognos report based on the rules of success (http://www.hichert.com/de/success).

The data in this example is based on a Adventureworks SQL Server 2008 R2 Cube.

As you can see the rules of success are a great way to optimize the report output for readiness and understandability.

Succes report in Cognos 10.2

Optionally you can combine this with the BICommentor which gives you the opportunity to post back any textual comments (utf-8 - including line breaks) and to re-display these context specific comments back in any report.

In this example the procedure works as follows.

You click on edit.

illustrates a writeback functionality within Cognos

Now you can enter a comment. (as above)

Click then on "save".

Don´t worry. The status says updated but currently we do not see the output yet.

So, lets re-run the report and see what happens.

Great! We see our comment. By the way. The same comment could be seen in different reports. The level of context granularity is self defined.

But happens if I run the same report in pdf? Will the comment go away? Let´s have a closer look...

Great thing!

Also interested?!

Just let me know.