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Migration from Cognos Enterprise Planning to TM1

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John Vaughan
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Cognos Planning to TM1 migration case study.

Modifying Framework Manager Query Subject over SAP BW Query

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John Vaughan
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on Tuesday, 06 September 2011
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Method for modifying a Cognos Framework Manager Query Subject where SAP BW is the source.

Cognos 10.1 Fix Pack 1

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John Vaughan
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on Thursday, 19 May 2011
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IBM have released Cognos 10.1 Fix Pack 1.

Cognos Express Integration with Microsoft SharePoint

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John Vaughan
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IBM Cognos Proven Practices: IBM Cognos Express SharePoint Integration

TM1 9.5.2 Released!

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John Vaughan
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on Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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TM1 9.5.2 includes major changes that will support very large numbers of parralel users and massive improvements to performance when used as a source for Cognos 10.

Despite the small increment in the version number, (from 9.5.1 -> 9.5.2), our understanding is this is a major release with significant changes to the database locking mechanism, multi-user access and parallel processing.

IBM Finance Forum in Sydney 12 May, Brisbane 10 May and Melbourne on 11 May

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John Vaughan
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Learn about corporate planning from a Global Expert: Steve Player, North American Director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table will present in Sydney on 12 May, Brisbane on 10 May and Melbourne on 11 May 2011 in a free half day seminar. 

Cognos RTM Folder Cleanup

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John Vaughan
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on Thursday, 17 March 2011
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Cognos BI can create an enormous set of files and folders for Run Time Models (we have seen over 20Gb).  This discusses those files and how to delete them.

Cognos Temporary File Cleanup

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John Vaughan
Managing Director at InfoCube, dad of 3 boys, rugby fan, photographer, reader - not much time for much else!
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on Thursday, 17 March 2011
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Cognos BI can create a huge volume of temporary files that can consume very large amounts of disk space. Here is a discussion regarding what they are and how to clean them up.

Cognos Express 9.5 Released!

Posted by John Vaughan
John Vaughan
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on Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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Now includes Cognos Express Planner - Full web based solution for planning, budgeting and forecasting with the Cognos Contributor client.

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence and Cognos 8 Planning Upgrade Checklist

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John Vaughan
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on Wednesday, 02 February 2011
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This check-list was recently used at a client to upgrade them from Cognos 8.3 BI and Cognos Planning 8.3 to 8.4.1.