We are regularly asked what parts of Cognos Express can we use with each licence type. Cognos Express comes with four modules:
...John Vaughan
Managing Director at InfoCube, dad of 3 boys, rugby fan, photographer, reader - not much time for much else!
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InfoCube has been invited to participate in the annual CFO Summit at Royal Pines on the Gold Coast from 10-12 March.
The CFO Summit has been developed via a profound dialogue with key market players and Marcus Evan's extensive proprietary research.
What is the best BI Cubing engine from IBM - TM1 or PowerPlay/Transformer? Here is a comprehensive analysis of the two dominant Cognos methods IBM uses for creating cubes for use in Business Intelligence.
Cognos Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) is an intelligent data caching mechanism which can dramatically improve the performance of OLAP style queries over a range of OLAP sources, such as SAP BW, Essbase, Analsys Services and TM1 and also over Relational Sources.
This document is intended to provide a single point of reference fortechniques and product behaviours when dealing with SAP NetWeaverBusiness Warehouse® (SAP BW) as a data source for Cognos 8.4. It is is a highly detailed cook book for connecting IBM Cognos 8.4 to SAP BW and most of the detail contained herein is applicable to connecting Cognos 10 to BW as well.
This document is intended to provide a single point of reference for techniquesand product behaviours when dealing with SAP® NetWeaver® BusinessWarehouse® (SAP BW) as a data source in IBM Cognos 10. This is a detailed update to the existing Cookbook for integrating Cognos 10 with BW and is to be read in conjunction with the Cognos 8.4 Cookbook for integrating with SAP BW.
Why would you battle with the problems inherent in Excel? From no web interface, to the inability to have the information centrally stored in a database, through to auditability, workgroup usage, inflexibility (yes) and lack of workflow, all create problems.
IBM Cognos 10.2 Enterprise was announced recently and it brings a bunch of improvements,with a significant improvement to the graphing capabilities of the personal analytic tool, Cognos Insight, A rebadging of Business Insight to Cognos Workspace along with a nice set of enhancements, a new cubing engine that is builds further on the integration of TM1 into the Cognos stack and then on the back end, a full 64 bit environment, Dynamic Query support for Salesforce, SAP ECC and big data engines amongst other things. All in all, it seems like a great release.
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We are extremely proud to advise that John Vaughan, Managing Director of InfoCube has been invited by CPA Australia to present in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra two presentations - The Death of Budgeting and The Pillars of Planning.
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Fully Functioning Cognos Examples Featured
Analytics Zone, the specialist site set up for Business Analytics by IBM, has some wonderful examples of the use of Cognos tools with real business applications. These are all fully functional tools ready to use with Cognos Insight, IBM's new personal analytics solution. All you need do is install the trial of Cognos Insight, download the examples (called Accelerators) and away you go.
...Cognos Insight Free Download Featured
Cognos Insight, IBM's new personal analytics solution, now has a free download of the personal version. 
I was invited to present on the topic "The Death of Budgeting" at CPA Week in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane over May and June 2012. The discussion was primarily around the problems inherent in traditional budgeting, for accountants to become more forward focussed, to escape spreadsheet hell, to try and eradicate the gaming that happens at planning time and to introduce InfoCube's five Pillars of Planning - to plan with the frequency that matters, to the horizon that matters, to the level that matters,with the people that matter and use the drivers that matter.
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Check out the latest book on Performance Management written by Steve Player and the late Jeremy Hope. It’s called Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance
. I just ordered my copy and will post a review soon.
. I just ordered my copy and will post a review soon.
IBM have recently announced that the 100 user per module limit available with Cognos Express will cease on 1 July 2012 and be replaced by a 100 total user limit.
This impacts most customers and prospects.
...What makes a successful BI Centre of Excellence or BI Competency Centres as they are commonly known? We were recently asked this and came up with the following.
Christoph Papenfuss from the Performance Ideas Blog posted this excellent narration on Cognos Insight. Here is the full text of his article:
This was originally written by Christoph Papenfuss at the Performance Ideas blog and I thought it was a great summary of the importance of What If analysis...
Here is a copy of the TM1 version 10.1 New Features Guide from IBM.