Ebook: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook by Abhishek Sanghani is certainly the best Cognos authoring book. IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook is a mostly easy and fun read providing you with many insights and best practices on how to use Cognos Report Studio effectively.

I've been Cognos authoring since 2004 and sometimes think I know everything I need to know about working with the language. "IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook" made me realizes that there's always much, much more to learn.

This book is packed with incredibly useful information that every single Cognos developer should know. The best part is that Abhishek is simply organizing and presenting tried and true Cognos reporting and methods

In IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook, Abhishek does a great job describing best practices that you as report author will find useful on a daily basis. For example, I really found his example of the Abhishek (Chapter 3, page 79) quite interesting. Another Item that fascinated me, was Item 15 (page 73) Overriding crosstab intersection drill-through definition.

While the vast majority of the book was very easy to read and to understand, Overall, I highly recommend IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook, which will continue to serve me, and likely you too, as an excellent reference resource.