Introduction

    I started programming long ago doing coding. I've coded Visual Basic .NET, PHP, ColdFusion, Javascript and other languages as well as some shell scripting. I was always a little partial to PHP and ColdFusion but in the end Cognos ended up being my career path. I rather like business intelligence as you can be technical but also creative. I mainly do metrics, scorecards, dashboards and reports. Mainly I use Report Studio, Metric Studio and Metric Designer.

    This is just a blog that I started from my experience in Cognos and things that I've learned. I've found it to be much more complicated to develop metrics projects than reports and dashboards and, over time, I'll have some tips on both. For some reason there doesn't seem to be a lot of metrics developers in Cognos and that's where I've been working with over the years becoming on of the very, very few in my organization with in depth knowledge of metrics development.