Cognos reports request checklist

[danii64]

Hi,

Apologies if this question does not belong here.

Anyway, i support a lot of teams for all their Cognos reporting needs. They all have report ideas and requirements for me to build a report for them using Cognos. What i have often times found is that a lot of their report needs are not a good candidate for Cognos reports. i.e. they want a report with thousands of or rows of data with close to 50 or more columns, which ends being a data dump. And i have to tell them  that Cognos is not good for these types of reports. Of course these this is an extreme example.

I was wondering if you any of you guys have some sort of standard you follow or share with business to educate them on what type of reports or dashboard are best suited for Cognos Analytics. or some sort of check list, they can go through to see their requirement can be crosses examined with, which will allow them to focus on only sending me requirements that will actually be suited
for Cognos.

I also dont want them to create a BRD for each report idea they come up with, only for me to reject it, its their time wasted no good reason. I thought if i had a check list, then i can have them review it before creating a BRD for those reports that meet the criteria.

You're welcome to throw any suggestions, recommendations or if you have something similar for your project that you can share with me, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!