Workshops
Oracle Financial Analyzer Transition Workshop - Part I, II

Like many organisations you are migrating from your existing Oracle Financial Analyzer system and are keen to learn how Cognos technology really works and how to ‘migrate’ your existing processes to the Cognos suite.

 

We have developed an OFA to Cognos workshop based on our combined 20+ years as former OFA gurus to address your questions at this vital stage.

 

Part I – Discovery

 

  • Do I have to break-up the OFA process and match them to various Cognos tools or can I do it all in Planning ?
  • What will I gain from Cognos technology that’s not in OFA ?
  • What does Cognos mean by BI ?
  • What are the basic modelling techniques ?
  • Is there a 4GL programming language to learn?
  • How do I write a data loading routine to Cognos Planning ?
  • How does Cognos handle QDRs ?
  • How many dimensions can I have on a cube ?
  • How is sparsity managed ?
  • How big is big ?
  • Hierarchy maintenance ?
  • What other questions should I be asking ?

 

Part II – Re-engineer the process

 

  • Develop a process map of your existing systems
  • Map Cognos tool-kit to your current processes
  • Develop New Cognos Process Map

 

Resource Retention and X-training

The good news for your existing development team is that former OFA developers make very good Cognos Consultants – we are testimony to that.