Corporate Reporting Solution Implementation, Basic Principles and Solutions in Cognos 8 BI

This thesis is focused on problems of reporting. Its goal is to provide a basic overview of concepts and technologies associated with reporting and demonstrate its unusual use on real-world example of a betting agency. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is focused primarily on getting insight into the subject. Concepts, basic principles and technologies used for reporting are defined here. In this part the optimal reporting structure is described and also an analysis of current state of the market of commercial reporting tools is prepared. The real-world problem of reporting is described in the practical part. Two exemplary reports are the output. The first analyzes the bet ticket and the other helps determine the courses of bets. On these practical examples there is shown the development consecution of the report from its business submission, business structure definition, ETL arrangements in IBM InfoSphere DataStage, development of the report using IBM Cognos 8 BI toolkit, till the analysis of the final report