• Maximize productivity with Impromptu: Practical tips and tricks!
• Automate standard reports and create fast, accurate ad hoc reports
• Master "power user" techniques: drill-through, crosstabs, subreports, and more
• Covers Impromptu 6.0 -- the latest release!

The first complete reference & tutorial for Cognos Impromptu!

If you're one of the 1.5 million professionals who use Cognos Impromptu for enterprise/data warehouse reporting, here's the book you've been searching for! Business intelligence expert, Brian Olah, walks you step-by-step through every technique you need to get the timely business answers you need -- in both standard and ad hoc reports! You'll find solutions to your most crucial reporting questions -- information you simply won't find in the documentation ! Coverage includes:

• The Impromptu interface and toolset: a complete, productivity-focused tour
• Hands-on examples based on the sample Cognos database you already own
• Tips, techniques, and solutions for today's most common enterprise reporting problems
• Formatting, filtering, and functions
• Sorting, grouping, and calculations
• Step-by-step guidance for automating standard reports

Through hands-on examples, Olah helps you master "power-user" Impromptu techniques -- including prompting for results, advanced formatting, drill-through, crosstabs, subreports, and more. If you've invested in Impromptu, get the one book that'll help you make the most of it: Impromptu Startup!