Report Design: Excellent analytical and report design skills for creating detaileddashboard and report design from high-level specifications, including visual layouts,
master-detail and drill-down/drill-through relationships, report filters (e.g. drop-down
lists, from/to date ranges etc.), sorting options etc. Ability to create visualizations
for reports from business requirements, using productivity tools like Word, Excel
and Visio. User Interaction: Ability to work independently with users for design
finalization, and to assess user requirements and advise on technical feasibility
during user meetings. Framework Manager: Experience with installing Framework Manager,
connecting to various data sources, and creating Cognos data model(s) using Framework
Manager consistent with the reporting requirements and the data mart (star-schema)
database design Report Development and Deployment: Expertise in developing reports
of varying complexity, including master-detail and drill-down/drill-through reports,
multi-level aggregate views/reports (e.g. salesperson - sales manager - regional
manager - country manager views of sales data); applying security to reports and
to control user views; developing burst reports Administration: Experience with
setting up project/folders across multiple environments (development, test, production);
sharing environments with other Cognos project teams; performance tuning of Cognos
environment and reports General: Good communication skills, must be able to speak
up and present report designs to users, and discuss user requirements and Cognos
limitations with users. Should have good understanding of data (e.g. fact and dimension
tables, data relationships, data aggregation, data analysis in SQL Server 2005)
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