Ankit Agrawal is a dynamic Cognos professional with over 4 years of experience in business intelligence and data warehousing. He has extensive experience developing reports, dashboards, and cubes in Cognos 8/10 and SQL Server. Currently he works as an Associate Professional at CSC India where he develops reports for John Hancock Insurance. Previously he created reports and dashboards for Reckitt Benckiser in Cognos 8.4 and 10.1.
1. ANKIT AGRAWAL
Mobile: +91 8008552670| E-mail ID: ankit_thebestguy@yahoo.com
BTech-Computer Science| Hyderabad
CAREER OBJECTIVE
Looking for a challenging career with high level of responsibility in a Business Intelligence environment with committed &
dedicated people in an esteemed organization where I can contribute my functional and technical experience, which leads
towards higher goals for organization and self-career growth.
Professional Synopsis
A Dynamic COGNOS professional with 4.8 Years of experience in Data warehousing with exposure to various BI
tools like Cognos 8/10 BI (8.4, 10.1.1, 10.2.1), SQL Server 2008 and Oracle 9i.
Worked in various stages of Data warehousing and expertise in Cognos 8/10 Report Studio.
Extensive experience in creating complex reports such as: complex Drill Through, Cross-Tab Reports, Bursting
Reports, Conditional Formatting, Master- Detail, Cascading and Summary Reports.
Created interactive and user friendly Dashboards.
Experience in setting up security at Cognos.
Experience in Cognos Report Developer in Business Intelligence.
Have adequate knowledge on Power Cubes using Power play Transformer and analyzed.
Good Experience in Development of Cognos Reports as per the user requirements.
Having the Experience in Relational and DMR Modelling to construct a warehouse using Framework Manager.
Expertise in Cognos 8.4/10.1 BI Suite(Report Studio, Query Studio, IBM Cognos administration, Cognos
connection, Framework Manager, Transformer).
Involved in installation, configuration and maintenance of Cognos Administration tool.
Administered several projects and completed them successfully through 'Cognos Administration' tool.
Prepared and maintained complicated reports through the use of Cognos tools.
Developed, managed and monitored testing and production environment.
Presented few POC to the client for the usage of Active Reports, Cubes, Dashboards and Business Insight
Ensured proper scheduling and administration of Cognos connection.
Experience in creating reports by implementing Multidimensional cubes using ‘Powerplay/Transformer’.
Create Powerplay cubes using Transformer and enhanced Power Cubes as per requirements.
Develop dimensions, measures and calculation using Power play Transformer for OLAP Analysis of data.
Migrated reports from Cognos 8.4 to Cognos 10.1 to Cognos 10.2
Experience in Data Extraction, Transforming and Loading (ETL) between Homogenous and Heterogeneous System
using SQL tools (SSIS, DTS, Bulk Insert and BCP).
Ability to gather and understand business requirements and translate into IT solutions with the use of Cognos.
IBM Certified Designer Cognos 8/10 BI Reports.(Certification)
Oracle Certified (Oracle 9i-- Introduction to ORACLE 9i SQL)[OCA].(Certification)
Work Experience
Current Company : CSC India Pvt Ltd
Designation : Associate Professional
Period : 24-Dec-2013 to Till Date
Company : NTT DATA India Enterprise Application Services Private Limited.
Designation : Programmer Analyst
Period : 02-Dec-2010 to 23-Dec-2013
Software Exposure
Operating Systems : Windows 9X/2000/NT
Languages : SQL/PL-SQL,C
Databases : SQL Server 2008, Oracle 9i
ETL Tools : Sql Server 2008 (SSIS)
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2. ANKIT AGRAWAL
Mobile: +91 8008552670| E-mail ID: ankit_thebestguy@yahoo.com
BTech-Computer Science| Hyderabad
OLAP Tools : Power play Transformer, Transformer, Sql Server 2008 (SSAS)
Reporting Tools : Cognos 8/10 BI (Framework Manager, Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio
. and Event Studio), SSRS, ProClarity
Training Details: August 2009 to October 2010
Oracle 9i DBA as part of Oracle’s workforce development from CMC Noida
• Modules 1: Introduction to ORACLE 9i SQL
• Modules 2: ORACLE 9i DBA Fundamental-I
• Modules 3: ORACLE 9i DBA Fundamental-II
• Modules 4: ORACLE 9i DBA Performance Tuning
Academic Credential
Year Degree Institution/University Subjects Score in %
2009 B-Tech College of Engineering Roorkee, Roorkee Computer Science 61.80
2002 HSC St. Pauls Senior Secondary School, Haldwani PCM 62.00
2000 SSC A.B.M. Higher Secondary School, Haldwani Science 71.00
1. Company: CSC India Pvt Ltd (Current)
PROJECT/CLIENT John Hancock (Manulife)
DOMAIN Insurance
ROLE Report Developer
DURATION December’2013 to Till Date
ENVIRONMENT Cognos 10.1 BI (Report Studio, Query Studio),SQL server 2008
DESCRIPTION
John Hancock is an Insurance company of USA having its head office in Boston, Massachusetts. This is a
Development, Maintenance, Production Support based project. Almost all the main flavours of Cognos are being used in
this project. This project can be divided into different.
MODULE I) ACT IMPLEMENTATION:
Team Size: 5
Description: This is based on Cognos SDK and Report Studio .There were plenty of burst reports should be
scheduled on particular criteria. After running each report, output should be downloaded and merged with the
help of Java to deliver to particular LAN path of user.
MODULE II) POC ACTIVITIES:
Team Size: 7
Description: I have been involved in many POC activities at this project for example Focus Dynamic Parameter
based report running from SDK, RPS Demo for FM model and package-cube, Dashboard, Active reports, Create
One Package Development for Mutual Fund, Mars demo ,LTC Demo etc.
MODULE III) UPGRADE FROM COGNOS 8.2 TO COGNOS 10.1.1 TO 10.2.1:
Team Size: 5
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BTech-Computer Science| Hyderabad
Description: This is the upgrade project from Cognos 8.2 to Cognos 10.1.1, then from Cognos 10.1.1 to Cognos
10.1.2. We have upgraded almost 2000 reports, 30 cubes in 16 servers for 3 different environments.
MODULE IV) COGNOS ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:
Team Size: 3
Description: I have been involved in many Cognos Admin activities like implementing the Security levels in
framework Manager Level, Data Source creation in Cognos Connection, package migration across development
and production environment, Scheduling Report Studio reports in Cognos, Deployment Data from one
Environment to Another Environment, troubleshooting etc.
MODULE V) PROVIDING PRODUCTION SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE:
Team Size: 6
Role: Provide Production Support and Fix issue
Description: This is periodic activity. One person has to provide each month Production Support and fix issues
related that. There is a Scheduling Tool (CA Automation Tool) available which schedules reports, Cognos Jobs,
Cube Generation, triggers etc.
2. Company: NTT Data EAS Ltd
PROJECT Daily Sales
DOMAIN Retail
CLIENT Reckitt Benckiser
ROLE Report Developer
DURATION January’2012 to December’2013
ENVIRONMENT Cognos 10.1 BI (Report Studio, Query Studio),SQL server 2008
DESCRIPTION
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), the global CPG major has successfully implemented a sales tracking system –
DAILY SALES, which is designed to be used by local businesses to provide local management, Marketing Managers, Sales
Managers and executives with sales information of their products daily and control critical business performance. Daily
Sales application has been built using Microsoft Analysis Services running on SQL server 2008 database and Reporting Tool
– COGNOS.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Development of Model in Framework Manager as per the Client Requirement.
Created and Published Packages to Report Studio.
Created complex reports using Report Studio including prompt pages, conditional blocks
Created of Basic and Advanced Reports like list, Cross tab, Chart and Rank reports
Designed and developed Prompted reports, Drill Through reports
Created a Master Detail query report
Development of new reports in the Reports.
Designed complex List, Crosstab and Chart Reports.
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Created various types of prompts and filters.
Daily Communication with the customers.
Production Support activities including – trouble shooting, scheduling reports and administration
Performed unit testing of Reports
3. Company: NTT Data EAS Ltd
PROJECT Remedy Management Dashboard
DOMAIN Retail
CLIENT Reckitt Benckiser
ROLE Developer
DURATION December’2010 to January’2012
ENVIRONMENT Cognos 8.4, Sqlserver2005, windows server 2003
DESCRIPTION
The Remedy Management Dashboard project for Reckitt Benckiser is aimed to provide crucial business
information on the business of the client. The source data comes from JD Edwards, Hyperion and other sources which are
loaded into staging environment. Reports are generated using Cognos tool.
MY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Requirement gathering and document the requirements.
Analysis of the specifications provided by the client.
Involved in generating various types of Dashboard reports, List reports, Cross tab reports, chart reports and Drill-
through reports.
Created various types of prompts.
Created various types of filters like detail and summary.
Has done extensive formatting to get the desired output.
Has created reports by Area, Region and also by Month and Week.
Has moved the package from Dev environment to Prod environment.
Scheduled the reports as per the user requirement.
Managed scheduling of reports, maintenance of public and individual folders, distribution lists, users, groups and
roles using Cognos Connection.
Trained users on Query Studio for Ad-Hoc reporting.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth : 15-Oct-1985
Passport No. : J6668665
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Married
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5. ANKIT AGRAWAL
Mobile: +91 8008552670| E-mail ID: ankit_thebestguy@yahoo.com
BTech-Computer Science| Hyderabad
I hereby declare that all the above written information is true to best of my knowledge.
Date – Ankit Agrawal
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6. ANKIT AGRAWAL
Mobile: +91 8008552670| E-mail ID: ankit_thebestguy@yahoo.com
BTech-Computer Science| Hyderabad
I hereby declare that all the above written information is true to best of my knowledge.
Date – Ankit Agrawal
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