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Hopefully you all had the chance to read my last posts on the “Basics of Infosphere DataStage”  This post will go through the install of IBM’s Infosphere Suite with tools such as DataStage, QualityStage, Infomation Analyzer, Business Glossary, FastTrack, Information Services Director, and MetaBrokers and Bridges.  In addition, to installing the Infosphere suite applications this […]

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First Happy New Year and I hope you all had a chance to read my first posting on “The Importance of Data Governance and Which Data Governance/Organizational Model is Correct for Your Business.”  As the prior posting is important, as you would first need to understand the different data governance models before you can truly […]

In TM environments that have models to plan employee-based salaries, dummy names are used as placeholders. As positions are filled, the intention is to replace the place holders with the actual employee code or names. This is only an isolated example. Similar needs would exist in multiple ways within an implementation. To support this, TM1 has […]

Enterprise portal solutions allow businesses to increase employee productivity by allowing users access to key applications and content from one location.  Many companies are turning to portal solutions to serve as a front end to backend processing systems and presenting one standard face to its employees and customers.  Portal solutions continue to evolve to fit […]

Social Commentator, Will Rogers famously stated, “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” The once predictable & stable world of business has transformed into an unpredictable jungle that’s no place for the complacent finance organization. Our new normal environment requires finance to maneuver obstacles on an […]

One pattern that I’m seeing arise more often lately is cloud applications integrating with cloud applications. As such, programmers are skipping the use of an ESB all-together, with the reasoning being, “why should I enter the trusted network only to have my request go out again?” While this maybe a valid reason, I suggest that […]

Industry Challenges Are you struggling with how to manage and control data in your organization? Are you trying to stay abreast of the new leading trends in data management and just spinning your wheels? Well don’t feel bad, this is common in many industries and organizations. Data is growing at an amazing speed and becoming […]

Author: Jim Miller “For a long time relational models have supported the ability to create virtual tables known as “views” to provide a mechanism that allows developers to customize how their users can logically view data stored in base tables. There is a similar concept in Cognos TM1 known as “virtual cubes”. A virtual cube […]

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IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

What is IBM’s Infosphere DataStage?  Well to some it up, it’s a ETL tool, which extracts data, transforms it and applies business rules and then loads it to any target.