About the Extended samples

The Extended samples are based on the Sample Outdoors Company database. The following topics describe the company, its structure, databases, model and packages.

The Sample Outdoors Group of Companies
To make designing examples faster, especially financial examples, some general information about The Sample Outdoors Company is useful. To look for samples that use particular product features, see the individual sample descriptions in this section.
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.
Sample Outdoors Company models, PowerCubes, and packages
The sample Outdoors Company Framework Manager models that are included with the extended samples illustrate modeling techniques and support the samples. The models are based on the GO data warehouse and the GO sales transactional databases and are the basis for the sample reports and queries. Each model contains two packages for publishing analysis (dimensional) and query views of the data.
Sample audit model and audit reports
IBM Cognos Analytics audit samples include a sample model and sample audit reports.
Sample reports for the dynamic query mode
Sample models and reports that are optimized for the dynamic query mode are included with IBM Cognos Analytics.
IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting samples
The sample reports for IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting are based on the fictional retail company that is named the Sample Outdoors Company, or on uploaded files.
Using the Java samples
The IBM Cognos Software Development Kit includes Java™ program samples that show you some of the types of applications you can design. These samples include source files so that you can test changes to the sample code, and batch files or shell scripts for compiling and running the samples.
Sample Outdoors organization and schemas
Under the holding company GO Consolidated, there are six distinct sales organizations, each with their own departments and sales branches.

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