10 Core Principles of Report Studio Development

This booklet contains 10 essential principles all beginning and intermediate Cognos Report Studio developers need to understand in order to become advanced BI developers. The are not techniques but instead orienting principles about how you should (and should not) approach problems when building reports with Report Studio. You will not find screen shots showing you how to construct a report, what property you should change etc. Reading this will not teach you how to use Report Studio and it is assumed you know the basics of report construction and primary capabilities of Report Studio. This concise booklet is written by an experienced Report Studio trainer (Ex-Cognos trainer), and hands on developer with over 30 years of hands-on IT experience and 8 years of in class and virtual technical training experience who consistently gets positive reviews for simple technical explanations. Ray has taught at least 500 people how to use Report Studio and from that experience, has learned how to explain it for maximum understanding, and more importantly, has come to see the underlying principles so important to becoming and Advanced Report Studio Developer. He shares the most essential principles here in this booklet.