This content explains the purpose, content and
location of IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence samples and the
sample company, Sample Outdoors, its structure, databases, model and
packages.
The Sample Outdoors Company
The Sample Outdoors Company samples illustrate
product features and technical and business best practices.
The Sample Outdoors Group of Companies
To make designing examples faster, especially
financial examples, some general information about The Sample Outdoors
Company is useful.
Employees
The Sample Outdoors data contains a full list
of employees in all divisions, departments, and locations.
Sales and marketing
Data about sales and marketing is available
for all of the companies in the Sample Outdoors group.
Setting up the samples
To set up the samples, you must perform several
setup tasks, such as restoring the samples databases and creating
data source connections.
