IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10: The Official Guide

Acknowledgments

This is the second IBM Cognos book written by John Daniel Associates. The only experience that we can compare this to is drinking (too much) tequila for the second time. Live and learn. The first book, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide, started out as a new, exciting adventure. None of us had written a book, so when Dan posed the question, “How hard can it be?” we all bought in. About nine months later, when the last round of editing was returned to McGraw-Hill, we all swore that we would never do that again. As time goes by, however, the memory of first experiences fade, and we convinced ourselves that this time it will be different. The writing of this book was different from the first experience in some ...