Living on the east coast while working on the west coast presents the problem of what do to on the bi-weekly 6 hour plane rides. Fortunately, I was offered the opportunity to be a technical reviewer of Ankit Garg’s IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook (PACKT Publishing, 2012, July). Garg […]
Jim Miller
Mr. Miller is an IBM certified and accomplished Senior Project Leader and Application/System Architect-Developer with over 30 years of extensive applications and system design and development experience. His current role is National FPM Practice Leader. His experience includes BI, Web architecture & design, systems analysis, GUI design and testing, Database modeling and systems analysis, design, and development of Client/Server, Web and Mainframe applications and systems utilizing: Applix TM1 (including TM1 rules, TI, TM1Web and Planning Manager), dynaSight - ArcPlan, ASP, DHTML, XML, IIS, MS Visual Basic and VBA, Visual Studio, PERL, Websuite, MS SQL Server, ORACLE, SYBASE SQL Server, etc. His Responsibilities have included all aspects of Windows and SQL solution development and design including: analysis; GUI (and Web site) design; data modeling; table, screen/form and script development; SQL (and remote stored procedures and triggers) development and testing; test preparation and management and training of programming staff. Other experience includes development of ETL infrastructure such as data transfer automation between mainframe (DB2, Lawson, Great Plains, etc.) systems and client/server SQL server and Web based applications and integration of enterprise applications and data sources. In addition, Mr. Miller has acted as Internet Applications Development Manager responsible for the design, development, QA and delivery of multiple Web Sites including online trading applications, warehouse process control and scheduling systems and administrative and control applications. Mr. Miller also was responsible for the design, development and administration of a Web based financial reporting system for a 450 million dollar organization, reporting directly to the CFO and his executive team. Mr. Miller has also been responsible for managing and directing multiple resources in various management roles including project and team leader, lead developer and applications development director. Specialties Include: Cognos/TM1 Design and Development, Cognos Planning, IBM SPSS and Modeler, OLAP, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Forecasting and Planning; International Application Development, Business Intelligence, Project Development. IBM Certified Developer - Cognos TM1 (perfect score 100% on exam) IBM Certified Business Analyst - Cognos TM1
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Doing the impossible
– It’s kinda fun to do the impossible – Walt Disney Doing the Impossible Everyone’s been involved in a seemingly impossible situation. Sooner or later as a professional consultant, we find ourselves there. Impossible deadlines, endlessly changing requirements, lack of skilled resources, technical limitations – whatever. In these circumstances, what makes the difference between success […]
A Case for a Center of Excellence
Center of Excellence (CoE) A Forrester survey (“The EA View: BPM Has Become Mainstream”, Forrester Research, Inc.) indicated: “Of companies experiencing clear measurable improvement in FPM, 49% have a CoE in place” With that in mind, I attended a presentation by Sandy Kemsley, (an accomplished FPM Analyst and Consultant) entitled, “Maximizing FPM […]
Team Building…
Team Building A few weeks ago I had the privilege of participating in the 2012 Philadelphia Color Run with my oldest daughter Shelby who was home from college for the summer. The color run is an original experience that takes place in cities nationwide. Each location picks a local charity that the events proceeds will […]
Leadership
Poolside on the 4th of July (in between tossing the football and taking diving lessons from my daughter Paige), I read an interesting article written by Dr. Jeff Focht, vice president for academic affairs at the community college I first attended before going on to Penn State. In his article, “at the end of the […]
TM1 TurboIntergrator
TM1 TurboIntergrator TM1 TurboIntegrator (or TI) is the programming or scripting tool that allows you to automate data importation, metadata management, and many other tasks. In my recent book: IBM Cognos TM1 Developers Certification Guide- (http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Cognos-Developers-Certification-Guide/dp/1849684901), I discussed advanced techniques for TurboIntegrator (TI) scripting in regards to the current IBM Cognos […]
The IBM Cognos TM1 Developers Certification Exam
The IBM Cognos TM1 Developers Certification Exam As stated on www-03.ibm.com/certify: The IBM Cognos TM1 Developer exam covers key concepts, technologies, and functionality of the Cognos products. In preparation for an exam, we recommend a combination of training and hands-on experience, and a detailed review of product documentation. Those looking to become a certified […]
IBM Cognos TM1 Certification
Certification The benefits of earning a certification in Cognos TM1 are many. These include: A self-assessment of your skills Identifying areas of greater strengths and/or weakness Building a killer resume, industry acceptance and prestige. With Cognos TM1, the COG-310 (developer certification) is the exam you’ll want to prepare for. It […]
Predictive Analytic Evangelism
Research In a recent post (SPSS – Making good on an investment), I spoke about a study on the ROI of SPSS. This time, I would like to call out a study performed by Ventana Research of San Ramon, Calif. in March 2012. This study reports on organizations already using predictive analytics: March 7, 2012 […]
SPSS – Making good on an investment
Research (for example, “The Real ROI from SPSS”, NUCLEUS Research 2005), shows that IBM SPSS is a safe investment and indicate that 94 percent of SPSS customers achieve a positive return within less than a year! These returns are found by way of reduced costs, increased productivity, increased employee and customer satisfaction and greater visibility. […]
BI Strategy Basics
Recently while waiting for a flight, I had the opportunity to review “Driving Business Insight with Effective BI Strategy” (April 30, 2012) from Forrester, a global research and advisory firm. The article reminds that a business (any business) cannot survive today by relying on ERP systems and spreadsheets. In fact, it goes further and proposes that […]
Cognos TM1 Rules – how do they really work?
Since Cognos TM1 uses a very efficient data compression algorithm to allow large datasets to fit in relatively small amounts of RAM, TM1 calculates the values only when needed by TM1—resulting in improved performance and reduced storage requirements. Here is the sequence of events: A value is requested from (a […]