IBM Cognos has officially released Cognos TM1 10.1, improving the company’s flagship Financial Budgeting and Forecasting software. The new features guide can be found here (PDF). The main takeaways we at Perficient have as we have been in Partner Sessions, the TM1 10.1 Beta Program, and various other IBM learning opportunities are these: Improve Market […]
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Digital Dashboards and Stone Cairns
Guideposts An intelligent, data driven digital dashboard might be described as a corporate guidepost providing insight for an ongoing journey towards profitability. An interesting comparison might be found in the form of ancient store cairns found throughout many countries including Scotland, Ireland, Tibet, and the Arctic. These sculptures were often created as directional markers pointing […]
Cognos TM1 User Experience
The Quandary I’ve literally written a ton of VBA code over the years to “enhance” my end user’s experience. For example, I’ve often slapped a button on a worksheet or toolbar and used the E_PICK to pop-up a dimension subset editor allowing a selection of particular element and then using that selection to drive changes […]
Navigating Cognos TM1 Cube Types
navigation Cubes are to TM1 what tables are to relational databases. Almost all data stored in TM1 is stored in and accessed from cubes. Do you know the difference between the types of these basic objects? Let’s explore! First, each and every TM1 cube must have at least two and up to […]
Integrate Cognos with Portal
My colleague Mike Porter blogged recently about Integrating OBIEE with Portal. This inspired me to take a look at how to integrate Cognos with Portal. I spoke with another Perficient colleague, Dave Jones, about his experience with Cognos and Portal. Dave provided some useful options that I’ve published below. I think one of the biggest […]