Help advice As Soon As Possible About Cognos 8

[amrali]

Dear friends

I need your help about how to start learning and working with Cognos 8
i want to build a career as Business Intelligence Developer and i want to learn Cognos to use it in my career

Please i need your advice what to do ?? how to start ?? what to learn first ??

i downloaded the book "Cognoc Official Guide"  ...........can i use it or no ??

and i downloaded trial version of cognos 8 from IBM site to use it to learn it as self study

please if there is any steps to follow or sites to refer to to learn as i want to be able to use cognos to extract data from heterogeneous sources and making it into one Data warehouse and making reports based on that extracted data.....simply i want to build BI systems and i want to learn cognos to be able to do that.

please any help ..........!!!

[technomorph]

Hi,

There is no quick route to becoming a BI Developer. You can learn the theory from books, and even go on courses, but these can never substitute the experience, knowledge, and skills which are developed and refined over time while actually getting your hands dirty.

The problem is that BI is such a broad area. Business analysis, data modelling, data warehousing, project management, databases, ETL, SQL, HTML, architecture, programming....the list goes on. And even when you have a solid grounding in the core skills you then need to develop specific knowledge of different industries if you want employers to consider you.

The best way to get into the industry (if you're a complete newbie) is to do your military service in a graduate type position. Perhaps target one of the large consultancies where you'll pick up a lot of experience quickly. Whatever way, it will take time and effort, but there are certainly worse jobs you could do.

Good luck.