“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 […]
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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 […]
TM1 Modeling Best Practice – Optimally Locating Solution Logic
To insure that acceptable levels of performance and maintainability can be achieved, an “architectural purist” (like me) will want to recommend that when implementing your Cognos TM1 model, great care be taken when deciding where you implement the specific logic that the solution requires. Although there will always be “room for exception” (for example to […]
IBM Cognos TM1 Build Numbers
What is a build number? Should you ever have to contact IBM for support of your TM1 product, you will need to know your products specific “build number”. Although it is referred to as a “number”, this product identifier is actually a string. All TM1 build strings are formatted in the same manner. This will […]
Cognos TM1 Drill-Through
What is Drill-thru? Drill-through can be described as the “act of exploring related information” or the “act of moving between related data via a link of some kind”. More specifically, drill through usually exploits a relationship between “master” and “detail” information. (By clicking a master item in the master information the details of the clicked […]