IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding
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...
View ArticleTM1 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...
View ArticleDesktop analytics – IBM Cognos TM1 and Insight
So just how easy is it to perform simple forecast modeling using Cognos Insight? Let see. First, I took an MS Excel file and did a “Get Data” and “Import Data…” On the “way in”, Insight let me examine...
View ArticleLoading Cubes – with Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler
So we’ve created a sample, simple cube in Modeler (this cube has only 2 dimensions) and we want to load some data. To do that, you can (like in TM1 Architect) right-click on the folder “Processes”: And...
View ArticleLeveraging Existing Cognos TM1 Components
Abstract Eventually, you will (hopefully) have developed and delivered something in TM1 that is unique enough (and adds significant value) that you’ll want to leverage it in other models. Leverage...
View ArticleIBM Cognos TM1 Server Environments and Model Migration
IBM Cognos TM1 employs a distributed, client-server architecture that consists of the IBM Cognos TM1 server to which a combination of different clients can connect. The TM1 Server manages access to the...
View ArticleUsing IBM SPSS Statistics to Analyze Your Data
No matter what the tool or technology used, data analysis always involves 4 simple steps: Pull together data, Pick the appropriate analysis process or procedure to be performed on that data, Point out...
View ArticleCognos TM1 – View and Subset Maintenance Considerations
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...
View ArticlePerformance Testing TM1Web Applications with HP LoadRunner
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...
View ArticlePrimary Practices for Examining Data
SPSS Data Audit Node Once data is imported into SPSS Modeler, the next step is to explore the data and to become “thoroughly acquainted” with its characteristics. Most (if not all) data will...
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