Office of Finance
User Symposium
May 15 - 17, 2008
Las Vegas, NV

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Attendee Quotes from the
2007 Cognos Finance User Symposium
October 15 - 17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Princeton
Princeton , New Jersey
 
"Very enjoyable & rewarding conference.  The speakers and sessions provided real life examples and solutions that I can take back to the office and implement right away" 
Tony Fitzwater, Klein Tools, Inc.
 
"Very will organized event - Thank you"  A Martin - Simpson Associates, UK
 
"Thank you for putting this together it was well done & valuable"
Bob Kramer, GE
 
"Thank you for a very "well done" gathering. I gained some very valuable information and made exceptional contacts over the two days. Again, thank you for confirming what we already knew, that Cognos Finance is a powerful and versatile tool.  We absolutely love it!"
Susan LaBay, Stemco
 
"This was my first Cognos Symposium and I found it very helpful and enjoyable.  All parties involved were very helpful and supportive."
Michael Burton - Southwire
 
"Really great - glad I came!" - Karen Siefkas - GE Healthcare
 
"Very pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and useful this experience was.  Wonderful to interact directly with Cognos programmers (no salesmen) to obtain better skill set."  "[we] are “pumped” is an understatement ...we now have a renewed appreciation of Cognos Finance and its “hidden powers”. "
Mary Beth Klein - Boston Private Financial Holding
 
96.9% of Attendees said they found the symposium Extremely or Very Useful.
97.4% of Attendees were interested in returning to the next symposium.
 
Sample of Attendee quotes
*Great info. 
*Frank, free dialogue. 
*Excellent, entertaining, on point. 
*Brilliant, informative, encouraging & enthusiastic. 
*Entertaining. Made me fell more confident that finance is not going away & will be improved. 
*Great kickoff.  Excited about future. Cognos finance application more secure than externally communicated. Company plans going forward post-acquisition expected to be extremely beneficial to CF future.  
*Great sense of humor & expert knowledge. 
*Needed to be longer. 
*Great for understanding future & platform. 
*Helped to understand how finance fits into Cognos. 
*Concise analysis of where CF is and where it's going. Very interesting. 
*Good highlighted review of integration potential. Need more of this with CF base to determine direction to go to in future. 
*Some good advice on design for enhanced performance. 
*Very good presentation
*Looks good - on right track. 
*Great future clearly planned. 
*The web design looks great. 
*Web reporting could be quite powerful when refined and fully tested. 
*Good view. Very interesting in Concessio web add in. 
*Best description I've seen to date to compare/contrast EP & CF and how to integrate. 
*Looks great & easy to use. Can see application for this. 
*It's good to see what partners do to add value to the main CF product. 
*This looks great. With the few enhancements we talked about this will be very popular. 
*Interesting to hear how others are using CF & the problems they are having. 
*Good practical examples of product usage. 
*Great perspectives. Made a nice mix in agenda to get other customer perspectives. 
*Good overview of users impact from small to large business & their respective application of CF. 
*Good to hear about the large scale success stories. Development will be interesting.  
*Could spend more time on this topic. 
*Drill down stuff interesting. Will try some more & junctions too. 
*Not extremely pertinent to my current role, but drill through example very intriguing. 
*Mostly beyond my current usage & understanding, but interesting. 
*Very informative…
*Very useful - learned features we were not leveraging & can do more. 
*Excellent - given new info that I will test as soon as I return. 
*Good information - not used in our company. 
*Gave me some ideas, suggestions to try. 
*Some good advice - will definitely look into this & do some testing. 
*Good project overview, Intercompany elims too detailed for my needs. 
*Useful for CF/C8 integration. 
*Excellent speaker. 
*Very interesting. 
*Best description I've seen to date to compare/contrast EP & CF & how to integrate. 
*Great job. 
*Helpful to get current "official" position on near future of CF. 
*Great benefits in discussing with other users. 
*Extremely helpful & valuable. Got best practices benchmark. 
*Great to establish relationship, discuss future & align expectations. 
*Very appreciative for time & effort, although problem not solved. Continuing to work on problem. 
*Hugely important in addressing business specific issues & questions. 
comments:
*Very useful for a "newbie". 
*Really great - glad I came! 
*Excellent. Smoothly run, no glitches. You folks did a great job. 
*Very pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable and useful this experience was. 
*Overall an excellent experience with a good combination of tactical & strategic topics delivered by knowledgeable speakers. 
*Great to meet so many like-minded people, dispelled a few myths about CF's future get enthused about the product again. I will definitely be rattling some cages back in the UK to get CF back in the salesman’s arsenal. 
*Thank you for special diet consideration. 
*Thank you for keeping it on time.
*Great conference. 
*Thanks to Allen for putting this together it was well done and valuable. 
*Food was great. 
*Very well organized event. Thank you Concessio! 
*Everyone did a great job and was very friendly. 
*I enjoyed the assigned seating at lunch, it was nice to meet other users. 
*If possible, have some training or one-on-one sessions while presentations are going.  If a popular session is happening during this time, re-offer the session. 
*Well run. 
*I think that you did a great job. The conference was very enjoyable, the hotel staff was very accommodating. 
*Not enough chocolate. 
*My only real "problem" [is needing] more time [for the speakers] - I understand the constraints involved. 
*It was a very enjoyable and rewarding conference. The speakers and sessions provided real life examples and solutions that I can take back to the office and implement right away. 
*Truly enjoyed CF Symposium. 
*Great opportunity to meet other CF people, share stories and learn. 
*It is obvious that a lot of time and care went into the planning of the event - Good Job! 
*Meal rooms very loud. 
*Would be nice to get CPE credits for attending. 
*The sessions should be slightly longer - a full hour. 
*Forum has a very "personable" feel to it with having developers and execs of CF at the Forum. 
*Nicely put together and planned. 
*This was my first Cognos Symposium and I found it very helpful and enjoyable. All parties involved were very helpful and supportive. 
*The User Symposium format was good. 
*Very motivated about CF again!
 
Parts of the Symposium that helped the most, ranked in importance. 
*Tips & Techniques
*Networking
*Future of CF 
*One on One 
*Planning 
*What's new 
*Informal discussions 
*Product functionality 
*CF/BI8 integration 
 *CF Web reporting 
*CF/C8 integration  
 *Integration with other Cognos products- tips/traps 
 *Other companies use of CF 
 *Breakouts 
 *Demos
*User panel 
*Allocations
 *Intercompany eliminations
 *Library exchange

 



  
     

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