Overview The purpose of this post is to provide a strategy for approaching and resolving a “concern” that has been identified within a application. Overall, the idea is to “add structure” to the process of responding to defects (remediation) in your application. Steps to Remediation Using a resolution methodology referred to as CERT, the steps […]
Posts Tagged ‘reporting’
Cognos TM1 Reporting Solution Strategy
Solve, then Evolve All Cognos TM1 implementations require a strategy to deliver an appropriate reporting solution. This is the plan that will ensure that each business user will have access to all the TM1 data that they need, in the most usable format and in a timely manner. This plan must be based upon environmental […]
CFO Performance Insight – Déjà vu?
Recently, I attended the IBM Vision conference in Orlando. At the conference, I watched a presentation on what our friends at IBM are calling one of their “signature solutions”: CFO Performance Insight. This reminded me of various blog posts of mine, such as: Reengineering the Forecasting Process with Predictive Models (Nov 2nd 2012) and Forecasting […]
Use The Cloud To Run Your Services Business
A services business is highly dynamic. New projects can land all at once, existing projects get put on hold, and projects often require additional resources to hit a deadline. Without strong visibility to the pipeline of new projects, work in progress and open resource capacity, many services organizations find themselves operating between resourcing fire drill […]
Reengineering the Forecasting Process with Predictive Models
Reengineering the Forecasting Process with Predictive Models Forecasts usually start as historical performance which is then reviewed and adjusted based upon anticipated events. More mature forecasting may also incorporate generally accepted business rules “programmed in” to help “drive” the data into a forecast. Over the years I’ve deployed uncountable applications which provide the ability to […]
Make the Best of Current BI First
A recent article on Computerworld.com, “15 tips on how to get more from Business Intelligence data,” brings up a great perspective when looking at Business Intelligence initiatives. While the popular topics of big data and self-service BI may resemble the shiny new mountain bike in the window, what sort of polishing can you do to […]
Dresner claims ‘Business Intelligence Renaissance’
Dresner Advisory Services has recently completed and published its 3rd annual ‘Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study.’ The report itself highlights the shift towards emergent consumer-oriented BI. As part of the analysis vendors within the bi reporting and analytics space are given scores based on 33 criteria and 7 categories as well as an overall average score. They also broke vendors […]
InsightSquared Focuses on SMB Market
InsightSquared is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that is focused on bringing traditional business intelligence solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. They recently completed Series A funding of $4.5 million led by Atlas Venture with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, NextView Ventures and salesforce.com. Some product features include: Activity Tracking Sales Forecasting Data Quality Monitoring Ratios & KPI’s Nightly Status Emails […]
Social Software Reporting
IBM announced a new reporting tool for the social collaboration tool, Lotus Connections. You can find more information on the IBM site of just ping me and I can get more information for you. The Reporting Tool for Lotus Connections enhances and extends Lotus Connection’s built-in reporting tools: Snapshot and trend reports showing adoption, usage […]