Posts Tagged ‘Content Solutions’

Serviceability What is application serviceability?  “Serviceability (also known as supportability,) is one of the -ilities or aspects (from IBM’s RAS(U) (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Usability)). It refers to the ability of application support personnel to install, configure, and monitor an application, identify exceptions or faults, debug or isolate faults to root cause analysis, and provide […]

If you’ve ever attempted to perform a performance test on a TM1 application, you know that there is not really an effective way to manually create sufficient load on a model. Getting “real users” to execute application operations – over and over again – is nearly impossible. Thankfully, an automated testing product can solve for […]

In an earlier blog post, I pointed out a number of companies complete a BI Strategy but only to shelve it shortly after its completion.   One main reason is that companies let their BI Strategy atrophy by not maintaining it; however, the other main cause of shelving a BI Strategy is that it was not […]

I have been with a number of companies that have completed a BI Strategy, but have not followed and implemented the strategy.   Generally, we have seen two overarching reasons for this.  Either the strategy was allowed to atrophy OR there was something fundamentally wrong with the BI Strategy in the first place. I will focus […]

TM1 TurboIntegrator is the programming or scripting tool that allows you to automate data importation, metadata management, and many other tasks. Scripts built with TurboIntegrator or “TI”, can be saved, edited and, through the use of chores, be set up to run at regular intervals.  TI scripts can be used to process existing TM1 data […]

A few weeks ago, I got a gmail chat message from a friend telling me that my favorite sports team was having a great match and that i should definitely watch the match.  So I went to the sports portal to get the latest score and see what the team was doing. I found that […]

  After you launch Performance Modeler, the “Model Design” pane displays to suggest the steps you need to take to create a model. There are 4 steps, including: Defining dimensions Building cubes Creating “links” between your cubes and finally, Adding Rules and Processes. Defining Dimensions Using TM1 Architect you can select Dimensions, right-click and select […]

This post is a continuation to my previous post on changes to the Information Architecture in recent times with the advances in Big Data management. This post discusses the 2 common approaches to implementing Big Data in organizations which accommodate Big Data in existing Information Management framework. The two approaches are Knowledge pooling and Knowledge […]

Oracle’s last Data Warehouse reference architecture was released in 2010 and since then the industry has seen a lot of changes in handling data. This is a 2 part series covering the changes to the data warehouse reference architecture incorporating Big Data needs. As Oracle puts it What has changed in the last few years […]

I have been pleasantly surprised about the new startups which have emerged on predictive analytics  This year, i would be covering a wide range of predictive analytical tools and its usage techniques. We no longer need PHDs to understand statistics and to start using predictive models. We have to know how to use the tools and […]

Here are several general considerations for testing functional areas of a new release of IBM Cognos TM1; (keep in mind that it is not intended to be an exhaustive or “end to end” testing plan. It also does not intend to offer remediation options should testing uncover issues). Functional areas of emphasis covered are: Server […]

The last in the series about Data Discovery tools discusses the current product offerings.Links to previous posts in the series. (Visual) Data Discovery ( Beauty or a Beast ? ) Data Discovery – Part 2 – Use Cases Lets look at the features that are most useful for a data discovery platform and then identify […]