One of the goals of the Cognos Framework Manager modeler is to build a model that makes report authoring easier. To accomplish that, you “build in” business logic” (a loosely defined term here) into your meta model. This business logic can be simple (like simply renaming or hiding a database table column) or quite complex […]
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Cognos Framework Manager, Transformer & Metric Designer
During a recent project of mine, I jumped “head first” into IBM Cognos Framework Manager. Yes, it is an awesome tool, but where exactly does it “fit” into the Cognos environment? Are there similar or alternate tools that can be used? I just had to have a quick look! The Cognos Components […]
IBM Cognos Framework Manager – Proven Practice
A proven practice for Framework Manager Meta Modeling is to divide your model into a series of layers, each layer having a specific purpose. (Originally IBM recommended the use of two layers (data and modeling), but later added a presentation layer, and (optionally) a separate dimensional layer). The layers should be: The top layer – […]
IBM announces Cloud Business Solutions: A new packaged offering
IBM announced yesterday a new all-in-one packaged offering to enhance their current cloud based solutions for the enterprise. This is in addition to their existing cloud-based solutions such as IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. Here is a snippet from the announcement Called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, the portfolio includes multiple components packaged into a single client agreement and delivered […]
Flexible Meta Models and IBM Cognos Framework Manager
A metadata model is “a gathering of Meta information that includes both physical information and business information for one or more datasources and is the foundation for both future modelling and report development within an organization”. Meta-model flexibility can be defined as the ability of a (Meta) model to: Easily expand and grow (to support […]
Save $$$, increase efficiency: Use Config Wizard in WPS v8.5
If you are anything like me – you have probably ignored the Configuration Wizard capability in WebSphere Portal since it was first introduced in v6.x. It was a feature with much promise … yet it was pretty much unusable in most real-world installation scenarios. Over the years IBM made great strides to simplify base WebSphere Portal […]
WebSphere Portal v8.5 First Look: Install
IBM announced the release of IBM Digital Experience Suite 8.5 on earlier this month. Today, I had the chance to download the software images from and I am writing this as I install WebSphere Portal v8.5 Extend edition on Windows 7 OS. I went ahead with the Extend edition because I wanted to get a hold of all the […]
In-Memory Database Solutions
After attending many marketing sessions on In-Memory database like HP Vertica, Oracle Exalytics, Kognitio, SAP HANA, and SQL*Server 2014 with in-memory capabilities, finally I got an opportunity to look under the hood. I attended the SAP HANA training, and had the firsthand experience in playing with the In-Memory database. Gartner says, at least 35% of […]
Perficient at IBM Vision 2014
Perficient and the Chickasaw Nation will co-present at the IBM Vision 2014 conference, the premier conference for financial and operational performance management, sales performance management, disclosure management and risk analytics professionals, which is being held May 18-21 in Orlando, FL. DMF-1269: Transforming the Management, Analysis and Delivery of Critical Data at Chickasaw Nation with IBM […]
Customer Analytics with IBM Tealeaf
At the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014, Ken Bisconti, IBM’s Business Leader for IBM Customer Analytics (formerly known as Tealeaf), spoke about continuous customer engagement and he focused on three themes: Lifetime of customer journeys Cultural / organizational challenges Customer experience and analytics channels x technologies x individuals x data x LOB = vast amount of […]
IBM Marketing technology and Merchandisers
This week I’m at the IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit 2014. The opening ceremony was fairly lackluster, and offers of back stages passes to the Bare Naked Ladies (a Canadian rock band) was met with lukewarm response from the audience of hard-nosed retailers, marketeers, and technology professionals. Jay Baer did a great job as Master of […]
IBM ExperienceOne comes to the fore
At IBM Smarter Commerce in Tampa, Florida, IBM VP Robert LeBlanc announced ExperienceOne, a a portfolio of cloud-based and on premise solutions to help users make moments matter by combining marketing, sales and services capabilities. Essentially this offering combines: WebSphere Commerce IBM Enterprise Marketing Management IBM Customer Experience Suite (part of the IBM Digital Experience offering) […]