Because of differences in product architecture and functionality, it is not possible to simply reuse
Cognos Series 7 metadata or applications in Cognos 8. Cognos provides migration and upgrade
tools to help you take advantage of investments you have made in Cognos Series 7. However, to
successfully move to Cognos 8, in addition to using the migration and upgrade tools, there is
additional work required to prepare for the migration, and to test and refine the migrated content
in Cognos 8.
As part of the migration planning process, we recommend that you move a subset of your
Cognos Series 7 content and then assess the results and the amount of work required to refine the
content in Cognos 8. Sometimes only minor updates, such as formatting changes, are required in
Cognos 8. In other cases you may find that a Cognos Series 7 feature that is important to you is
not available in Cognos 8.
