Posts Tagged ‘TM1’

            Thursday, October 18, 2012 – 1:00 – 2:00PM CT REGISTER Join Perficient and Premier Healthcare and hear how Premier is integrating business processes with social and analytical tools from IBM to create a competitive advantage and pioneer a better way of providing care. Learn how to leverage IBM Social […]

  Exchanging Information  Most enterprise TM1 applications will need to exchange Information with external systems. With TM1’s TurboIntegrator, you can setup a direct connection (with supported datasources) and move information in and out of TM1 objects at scheduled times or “on demand”. An alternative to going the “direct route” is using a method referred to […]

      A typical IBM Cognos TM1 architecture usually will be a distributed, client-server design that will consist of TM1 Application Servers running on remote servers that your users can access using a variety of supported client tools. Cognos TM1 10.1 currently offers the following client tools: TM1 Client TM1 Perspectives TM1 Architect These […]

          Using the TM1 Replication feature, you can copy cubes and other associated objects from a remote server to your local server, or between two remote servers. This can be done by synchronizing the data bi-directionally among the copied cubes. Replication creates a relationship between two cubes and between two servers. […]

 Vision To build a CoE, it is absolutely essential to have a clearly defined vision. History proves that this grand, overall vision (or    plan) is critical to developing dominance in a specialty area. Once you establish a plan, specific strategies can then be developed based upon this plan. If strategies are not utilized in connection […]

Another advanced (and handy) feature to be aware of is the TurboIntegrator ExecuteProcess function. This is a very useful function. It allows you to execute a TI process from within a TI process. (Obviously, you cannot have a process call itself). The format is as follows:

I recently spent some time in Hilton Head, SC with my family recharging and refocusing. Although the company and the scenery were more than inspiring enough to me, I came across the following article “6 Steps to Become Amazingly Inspirational” by Mr. Simon Stapleton, July 18, 2012 and would like to share its message. In his […]

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 […]

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 […]