“Either positive or negative comments are good because it shows I am still relevant” – Justin Guarini In all of my years of coding and testing TurboIntegrator scripts, my biggest pet peeve has to be opening a TI script and seeing lines and lines of unstructured, un-commented code. I’ve heard all the excuses: “self-documenting”, […]
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Prototyping and Practical TM1 Architectural Concepts
“An Architect is the drawer of dreams”…Grace McGarvie IBM Cognos TM1 gives us the ability to quickly and effectively prototype a business solution demonstrating to users proposed functionalities and capabilities of a system design rather than relying on only discussions and theory. In some cases, it may seem like a good idea for your prototype […]
Cognos TM1 Tuning – Keeping your Model Fit
Architectural Best Practices and adequate Performance Testing will help insure that (at least) acceptable performance levels are met when a TM1 model is deployed. But as time passes, overall application performance may change -reducing effectiveness as well as user satisfaction. This can be caused by a variety of events, such as: A Changing User Community […]
Modifying Cognos TM1 Configuration Parameters
The Tm1s.cfg Server Configuration File The Tm1s.cfg file is an ASCII file that specifies environment information for a TM1 server. A default Tm1s.cfg file is created in the TM1 server data directory when you install a copy of the TM1 server. You can edit the Tm1s.cfg file to reflect the environment of the associated remote […]
Cognos TM1 Models – focusing on the “value add”
TM1 Models will all consist of 4 functional components. These will be Absorb, Configure, Calculate/Consolidate and Consume. Remember: Each component must be kept distinct! Components are purpose based not technology based! Focus on which components add value to the business not ones that are generic to any business! Now let’s have a look at each […]
Introducing the Concept of Practice IP
On the agenda of every Practice Center of Excellence must be: “Implement and formalize IP identification and development”. The first step in establishing a program of this type is to clearly understand the concept of “practice intellectual property” – keeping in mind that the “traditional” concept of IP is mostly outdated. Practice leadership must understand […]
A Data Mining Workbench
Data mining provides organizations with a clearer view of current conditions as well deeper insight into the future. In many previous posts, I’ve talked about IBM SPSS Statistics and Modeler. Here is some basic information: IBM® SPSS® Modeler Professional is the data mining workbench for the analysis of structured numerical data to model outcomes and […]
Expectations for a Center of Excellence
If your organization has implemented a center of excellence initiative, that’s great! But what should you expect from it? Here are 5 basic CoE objectives: Sharing Your Center of Excellence should continually strive to identify “practical assets” revealed during project work that could simplify or improve the efforts of the practice it supports. These […]
Virtual Cube: What to Consider with Your Next TM1 Implementation
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 […]
IBM Cognos TM1 and a Relational Mind
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 […]
Let Cognos TM1 Teach You To Design Cubes
After you have determined which dimensions your cube will contain you will need to consider the optimal order of your dimensions. Dimensional order can and will affect overall system performance and its memory consumption. At this point in the design phase, you should have practical samples of all your dimensional data. These samples should be […]
Cognos TM1 – Standard TM1 Clients
A typical IBM Cognos TM1 architecture usually will be a distributed, client-server design that will consist of TM1 Application Servers running on remote servers that your users can access using a variety of supported client tools. Cognos TM1 10.1 currently offers the following client tools: TM1 Client TM1 Perspectives TM1 Architect These […]