Why is TM1 in limelight?

Only product in market that can be used for “OLAP Analysis” & “Planning” using “Multiple cubes” stored “in-Memory” .
Earlier, TM1 was available in 32bit technology. Limitation is 2 GB RAM. Targeted at solutions having limited data.
With introduction of 64 bit Technology, the available RAM is upto 1TB. This enabled TM1 to target solutions that handle large amount of data.
Sparcity removing algorithm.
Post Cognos Acquisition, TM1 is on long term road map of IBM.

Learning and sharing: CAFE (Cognos Analysis for Excel) Basic

Learning and sharing: CAFE (Cognos Analysis for Excel) Basic: "Just wanted to share a video about the integration of Cognos8 with Excel."

Business intelligence for all Cognos 10

Cognos 10 BI

IBM Cognos BI provides users with many options to access information. Each
option uses common functions and interfaces. Executives can take IBM Cognos
Active reports offline to keep working while out of the office. Information
consumers and executives can access reports, charts, and other business
intelligence objects using dashboards from IBM Cognos Business Insight. IBM
Cognos Advanced Business Users and Professional Report Authors can use
IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced to create new IBM Cognos BI objects
and to analyze information from any source and from new perspectives. Users
familiar with office productivity tools can use IBM Cognos Analysis for MS Excel
to blend the power of IBM Cognos BI information with the personal workspace of
Excel. Users on the go can use IBM Cognos Mobile to stay connected to their
IBM Cognos BI information.

Stay connected I am going to expalin each feature in details ......

IBM Cognos 10 Redbook link and new features detail...

Face The Truth: IBM Cognos 10 Redbook link and new features detail...: "IBM Cognos 10 RedBook Link to the Book http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247912.pdf Some of the Feature I like: New dynamic qu..."

IBM Cognos 10 Redbook link and new features details

IBM Cognos 10 RedBook
Link to the Book
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247912.pdf


Some of the Feature I like:

New dynamic query capability. Optimized caching, in-memory calculations, 3x faster query

Cognos admins can export all system metrics to a RDBMS and then analyze with Business Insight(new Dashboard tool integrated in COgnos 10).

The UI works very well and looks very well thought out.

Allows end user to manage their own login credentials reducing the load on IT.

we should more intensively use upgrade manager

Improved content manager performance through caching and faster olap in memory caching

New external data wizard for Cognos10 Report Studio. A feature that supports and encourages agile development

No more messy javascript to modify prompt object text - they are now modifiable properties in cognos10 (this is the best)

http://ow.ly/i/4UH1




Go! Search looks to be included in #Cognos10.

Cognos 10 -Bussiness Insight

Business Insight provides an integrated business intelligence experience for business users. This webbased tool allows you to use IBM Cognos content to build sophisticated interactive dashboards that facilitate collaborative decision making. These dashboards can include traditional business intelligence assets, along with Real Time Monitoring information, TM1 Websheets and CubeViews, as well as external data.

To Add Connection to LDAP sever:

• Right click on ‘Directory Server’ and say ‘Add connection’.
• A pop-up will appear as shown in the snapshot below.
• Add the following details in the pop-up
Add host: Cognos url
Port : 389
Base DN : o=organization.com

The connection is added.

Now we see the ‘Default’ namespace under the Directory Server.

Under the default namespace we see

• User
• Root User Class
• Application Server
• Data Source

To make LAE :

Right click on the namespace and say ‘Export to .LAE’