Posts Tagged ‘Cognos’

Every system that was ever implemented requires routine chores to be regularly performed to “keep it current and healthy” or to “deal with anticipated events” -and TM1 models are no different. Some of these chores might include: The loading of updated data pools from source systems; updating system security; closing an accounting period; updating conversion […]

        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 […]

– 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 […]

This webinar is now available for on-demand download here. Perficient will teamed up with Romano’s Macaroni Grill to present a retail analytics case study webinar on Leveraging Analytics for Decision Support and Improved Performance. The Macaroni Grill, a leader in upscale, casual dining with more than 220 locations, is going beyond basic financial reporting and using Perficient’s […]

Our firm does a considerable amount of work with IBM technologies for our clients. Cognos TM1 software produces “planning, analysis and reporting to help Finance drive timely decision-making” and experts in TM1 are in particularly high demand at the moment, and for good reason. And here’s why: “It ties Finance to operations to help uncover new business […]

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 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 […]

Recent studies have shown that a high correlation exists between an organization’s ability to create timely and accurate financial reporting and analysis and the increased performance of that company. But why? If you think about it, it makes sense. Companies that embrace automating finance processes can redirect their finance resources to perform more value-add analysis, […]

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 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 […]

So what exactly does it mean when Cognos performs a stitch query? Let’s start with a business scenario and question:  A Manager asks a Report Developer to provide a report showing a comparison between Actual Sales and Forecast Sales for any years we have data. But these measures come from two completely separate facts: the […]

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 […]