Before you use Report Studio to design and create a report, some information is required. For each report, answer the following questions:
Who is the target audience?
What business question do you want to answer?
Which type of report will best answer the business question?
What are the data sources, and where are they?
Which data items and calculations are needed?
What are the security needs?
How will the report be distributed?
Answering some of these questions involves working with other Cognos 8 components. For example, Framework Manager is the metadata tool used to model your enterprise data. Models created in Framework Manager provide the data items that you use in reports.