We're still buzzing from the IBM Smarter Analytics Live event yesterday. Mary-Jane Goddard gave an interesting demonstration of RAVE (Rapid Adaptive Visualisation Engine) and IBM Many Eyes, which is a data visualisation tool that creates a new way of looking at real-time data, social, and big data. Very exciting indeed, watch this space....
We are regularly asked what parts of Cognos Express can we use with each licence type. Cognos Express comes with four modules:
...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.
...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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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:
Here is a copy of the TM1 version 10.1 New Features Guide from IBM.
According to an IBM website in Switzerland, there is a Business Analytics Round Table in Zurich on 27 March 2012. At this event the following will be reviewed:
...This excellent summary was written by Dan Hess of the Ironside Group. It provides insight into the use of levels from a TM1 dimension for use in Report Studio (and indeed Cognos Express Xcelerator and Cognos Express Reporter).
As many of you know, TM1 has become a major component of the IBM Cognos BI application offerings. As a corporate OLAP solution, there are a number of advantages to utilizing TM1 versus PowerPlay; from faster response times in larger cubes to the capability to handle vast volumes of data. The expectation of course is that the application will work within the IBM Cognos BI infrastructure, specifically within the user facing studios that make Cognos a best of breed solution. While this is true in most aspects, there are a couple of “work arounds” that must be implemented in order to optimize the user experience with TM1 as an MDX based data source.
This article was originally posted by Rick Ensign from The Ironside Group and we thought it to be an excellent article, especially for those of us who come from an EP backgroup originally!
When you first begin to use TM1, especially if you came from the EP world as I did, you can quickly become enamored with how well TM1 can handle large cubes with ease. You can create multiple hierarchies within a cube and within those hierarchies TM1’s sparse consolidation algorithm aggregates values at light speed. You can reach out to virtually any data source with a Turbo Integrator (TI) process and create a dimension, create and populate a cube with data, or a myriad of other tasks only limited by the developer’s imagination. The challenge comes when you need to write rules governing more complex calculations or movement of data between cubes. No intuitive D-Links or BiF’s here. Everything must be coded, and getting the calculations to work properly requires mastering the art of feeders.
The IBM Redguide for Cognos 10 highlights the features of IBM Cognos BI version 10.
...IBM publish their own books for use with their products. The IBM Cognos 10 Redbook is available here.
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