Cognos Training in Coimbatore

Why Cognos professionals need?

A strong all-encompassing IT view of principles, best practices and available technologies with emphasis on knowledge of Databases/Data Warehouses, Metadata Modeling, network security, and web programming languages and techniques.
They have to know “a lot about a lot.” Overall tech experience in systems management, software development and coding are also super important. In the pool of IT people in general, only a subset of people have all the tools and experience needed to put together.

Cognos Developer Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and perform tests on various enterprises and provide dashboard solutions with help of Cognos software and assist all end users.
• Coordinate with data architecture and modeling team to design databases and prepare reports for same.
• Analyze all projects and prepare corporate strategies for same and provide support to all Cognos applications.
• Prepare all reports for management with help of Cognos Report Studio.
• Design all required excel and powerpoint templates and prepare all metadata models in coordination with framework manager.
• Investigate and resolve all data issues and analyze all business requirements and perform interview with all stakeholders.
• Coordinate with all customers and analyze test queries and analyze client issues and assist all application analysts to translate all workflow requirements to efficient data points.
• Prepare all designs and code for various Cognos reporting objects and ensure compliance to all best business practices in industry.
• Schedule and ensure compliance to all design code and test activities and prepare plans for same and design various dashboards and maintain required framework for all processes.
• Monitor work and ensure optimal utilization of all SQL scripts and documents all database requirements and analyze data anomalies and prepare reports for cycle.
• Prepare all documents for reporting objects and monitor and resolve all desk ticket issues and perform troubleshoot on all Cognos objects to prepare reports and ensure compliance to all schedule.
• Perform troubleshoot on all Cognos helpdesk tickets and resolve all queries for content and prepare standard reports and ensure accuracy of same.
• Provide support to all Cognos issues and maintain knowledge on all new techniques and prepare reports for all warehouse functions.

Cognos skills 

• Good Cognos people are paid very well and worth what they are paid (or more.) Speaking for myself, I am compensated at a high level so to get me to change would require a significant offer to get me to go to another firm.
• That’s something HR and management may not (at this time) be willing to pay to me or others because they don’t realize the value in acquiring top talent in this area and the real tangible benefit they can bring to the bottom line of their business operations.
• They still (mistakenly) view Cognos experts as just ‘another IT job position’ and more often than not, price/value it accordingly.
• To use an analogy, there are lot of people that play a musical instrument, play in a band, and can happily entertain and please an audience. But there are just a few performers that can fill concert venues worldwide.
• Using this analogy, HR and upper management think that all musicians (i.e. IT folks) are really just all the same

Cognos Professionals

• “Cognos is not the kind of technology background that produces a matching candidate in short time frame [few hours]. Simply put, there seems to be far more open Cognos jobs than there are candidates to fill them,” Rodrigues says.
• This article aims to delve deeper into the reasons why Cognos is such a difficult skill to find in today’s job market.
• When Rodrigues started looking for his Cognos superstar candidate, he looked for “someone that could work both the technical side and work well on the accounting or finance side,” he says. “The experience I was looking for wasn’t simply a Cognos Developer but more of a Finance Manager with a technical background and experience with Cognos TM1 implementations.”
• After using CyberCoders’ cutting-edge matching tech, he found the perfect fit who worked on the dev side but also acted as the “go-to” guy for the finance and accounting teams as well.
• We phoned in an expert to demystify the supply and demand of Cognos skills.
• Wayne Estrada was with IBM Cognos for almost 10 years and is currently a senior technical instructor who is highly certified on Cognos BI. Here’s what he had to say: