Dasari Balaram

Title : Project Gold (HKD)

Customer : Allied World

Role : Cognos Developer

Team Size : 6

Environment : Cognos 12

DESCRIPTION:

Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, Ltd, through its subsidiaries, is a global provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions. We operate under the brand Allied World and have supported clients, cedents and trading partners with thoughtful service and meaningful coverages since 2001.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepared the reports using prompts, cascading prompts, filters and variables in report studio.

· Involved in unit testing of the reports and verifying the correctness of report data with the data from the back end.

· Provide timely and effective technical support to end users resolving Cognos report related issues

· Diagnosed and resolved performance bottlenecks and data accuracy problems in Cognos.

· Conducted toughly testing and validation of reports to ensure accuracy and reliability.

· Expertise working with end users to gather requirements and provide training for developed Reports

· Analyzed business requirements and translated them into effective Cognos reporting solutions

· Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issue in timely manner

· Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights.

Title : Suncorp BTP

Customer : Suncorp

Role : Cognos Developer

Team Size : 8

Environment : Cognos 11.2.3(R7)

DESCRIPTION:

Suncorp Group Limited is an Australian finance, insurance, and banking corporation based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of Australia's mid-size banks (by combined lending and deposits) and its largest general insurance group,[5] formed on 1 December 1996 by the merger of Suncorp, Met way Bank and the Queensland Industry Development Corporation (QIDC).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Worked on migration of the reports and models from Cognos 10.2.2 to Cognos Analytics v11.

· Worked on Controlling and Validating the Java Scripting on Cognos 11 Analytics reports and dashboards.

· Worked on reports migrations and deployments in Cognos 11(Cognos Analytics).

· Performed various Admin parts like Cognos security, backups and troubleshooting in Cognos 11 Analytics.

· Involved in the Cognos installation &Configuration on Distribute Server’s environment.

· Involved in unit testing of the reports and verifying the correctness of report data with the data from the back end.

· Involved in Unit Testing of Reports and involved in preparing the Design Documents and Test cases.

· Worked on Control-M Jobs Scheduling for Triggers, Parse file and Transfer File

· Scheduled and Distributed reports using Schedule Management in Cognos Connection.

Must be able to perform duties with moderate to low supervision.

Title : FCCI In-Report Development

Customer : FCCI Insurance Group

Role : Cognos Reports Specialist

Team Size : 10

Environment : Cognos 11.1.7(R7) (Report Studio, Data Module)

DESCRIPTION:

FCCI Insurance Group providing commercial property and casualty insurance since 1959. taking care of people, managing risks, and providing comprehensive coverage and caring, efficient claims service. FCCI business insurance coverage, services and surety are available exclusively through independent agents who you can trust to know you and your business. believe local presence, knowledge and service are the keys to providing the right insurance coverage for each business.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Extensively worked on creating IBM Cognos Dashboards which help in keeping track of core operational process.

· Created List, Crosstab and Chart Reports by applying Dynamic prompts to restrict the data fetch.

· Worked with Condition Variables for switching between multiple objects on a condition to show different data

· Developed the Complex Reports by using Conditional blocks and variables in Report Studio.

· Worked on migration the reports and models from Cognos 10.2.2 to Cognos Analytics v11.

· Worked on the Controlling and Validating the Java Scripting on Cognos 11 Analytics reports and dashboards.

· I have trained end users in Cognos analytics v11.

· Generated Active reports for offline users based upon variety of requirements by using Cognos 11.

· Provided POC by creating dashboards using Cognos Analytics v11.

· Worked on reports migrations and deployments in Cognos 11(Cognos Analytics).

· Performed various Admin part like Cognos security, backups and troubleshooting in Cognos 11 Analytics.

· Generated List, crosstab, chart, and Dashboard reports in Cognos 11 analytics.

· Created various visualizations dashboards by using Cognos 11 workspace.

· Developed Complex Reports by using Java/HTML Scripts and implementing the same.

· Prepared the reports using prompts, cascading prompts, filters, and variables in report studio.

· Involved in unit testing of the reports and verifying the correctness of report data with the data from the back end.

· Created the Reports with Drill-through and Master Detail Relationship

· Involved in Unit Testing of Reports and involved in preparing the Design Documents and Test cases.

· Worked on conditional formatting by creating variables and applied conditional styles.

· Scheduled and Distributed reports using Schedule Management in Cognos Connection.

· Must be able to perform duties with moderate to low supervision.

Title : Wall-Mart

Customer : Wall-Mart

Role : Cognos Reports Specialist

Team Size : 4

Environment : Cognos 11(R7) (Report Studio,

Framework Manager, Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Event Studio)

DESCRIPTION:

Wal-Mart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. The largest discount retailer in the world. Wal-Mart has 11,718 stores and clubs in 28 countries, operating fewer than 59 different names. The main aim of the project is to implement Data warehouse for execute the reports and analyze the business so that which is useful for decision making for improving the business and customer services.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Migration from Cognos 10.2.2 to Cognos Analytics 11.0.12.

· Creation of calculated items at the report level as well as model level in the framework manager.

· Creation, Validation and testing of reports, cubes, and dashboards.

· Gathering requirements from users for new reports, dashboards etc.

· Daily day to day reporting/data issues.

· Prepared the reports using prompts, cascading prompts, filters, and variables in report studio.

· Generated reports using Business Object functionalities like queries, cross tab etc.

· Generated reports enhancements by creating variables, alerts, and grouping Data.

· Generated reports using the Business Object functionality like Slice and Dice.

Using breaks, Sorts, Sections, Calculations and filters.