Cognos Shared Environment Standards

[dcbonnet]

I wanted to see if people had any input on the different types of standards/best practices a company should create in a BI shared environment.  For example, how to set up new users (security), how to deploy, naming stardards, etc, etc . . .

The most important thing here is that one teams "stuff" doesn't have any adverse reactions on anothers "stuff" (play friendly) within Cognos Connect, be it simply seeing folders/packages that don't belong to the team to screwing up the environment because a team deployed incorrectly.  My main concern isn't around actual BI development standards, for example modeling a FM package, but portal standards since we all share the same portal (for example what and how they display that package in Cognos Connect).

Thanks in advance!   

[Kattrix]

Also, be sure to check out the proven practice documents on the Cognos support page. There are a few public documents addressing this topic.