Welcome to our extensive, free library of past webinars, demos, whitepapers, presentations and helpful hints. Use the topic boxes to the right to filter through and easily locate content. We are constantly adding new materials, so please check back often to see our latest content. The release of IBM Planning Analytics 2. With this release, IBM adds an on-premise offering to the initial cloud version, allowing users to leverage the latest TM1 capabilities within their local environment.

Planning Analytics Workspace delivers a friendly web-based interface that allows users to organize, analyze and present TM1 content from a variety of sources. Workspace provides self-service interactive dashboards, visualizations and report books for web and mobile. Integration with Cognos Analytics allows authors to leverage their Cognos BI knowledge with TM1 cube data sources.

In this webinar recording, we look at new features in Planning Analytics 2. Ken has more than 20 years of hands-on experience architecting, implementing and delivering training for enterprise planning, business intelligence and data warehousing solutions.

Report authoring in IBM Cognos Analytics v11 delivers a radical new user experience. Report Studio and Workspace Advanced are gone. Thankfully, the core authoring techniques remain the same. Experienced authors will be able to master this new interface — and take advantage of some cool new features — with a little training. In this recorded webinar, we conduct a number of step-by-step demonstrations of the new reporting interface. Albert has spent the last 15 years as a technical trainer focused on business analytics and performance management.

Before joining Senturus, he was a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos. He is an IBM Cognos Certified Trainer and has his lifetime CTT and certification from CompTIA. Albert has served as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect and Director of Education for Senturus. Scaling Tableau beyond departmental boundaries introduces significant new challenges and risks around performance, data integrity, maintainability, security and training.

Relying on Tableau for enterprise-wide reporting and analytics requires a very different approach and mindset than using it as a desktop analysis tool. In this webinar recording, the Tableau gurus at Senturus discuss the things they wished they had known before rolling out Tableau to the enterprise.

John is the company's thought leader and visionary. John directs the delivery of all projects with Senturus, providing the bridge of technical and business understanding. Kyle has 20 years of experience in data analytics and 10 years working with Tableau. Cognos Analytics Release 6 went live on March 17, This webinar recording walks through the following enhancements:.

Nic is part of the Product Management team for IBM Cognos Analytics. His main responsibilities are focused around dashboarding and mobile capabilities. During this webinar, we get beyond the buzzwords and give you a better understanding of the Cloud options for your business intelligence infrastructure.

After explaining the Cloud and its pros and cons, we dive deeper into Microsoft Azure and its broad collection of cloud services. Shawn is well-versed across the entire Microsoft BI stack and its wide range of offerings, having built ETL, data warehouse, reporting and analysis solutions from the ground up.

In his various development and architecture roles, he often serves as the project manager and business analyst, partnering directly with the business to gather requirements and deliver insight. Jim has over 25 years of experience delivering business analytics solutions for organizations of all sizes and business models. He recently developed an Azure solution for survey analytics for a start-up company in San Francisco using Tableau and Azure SQL Server. Some organizations running Cognos have hesitated to widely deploy Tableau — with understandable reason.

Instead, they work directly with raw source data, going through a labor-intensive process of re-remodeling data. Aside from wasting valuable time, this method compromises data integrity, security and reporting accuracy. View a show-and-tell of the Senturus Analytics Connector, our simple, elegant solution that ties Cognos to Tableau as a data source. At Ixia, the Connector has replaced rerunning calculations in Excel for their weekly, monthly and quarterly reports saving many hours of labor per month.

The biggest benefit Ixia appreciates is knowing the data is trustworthy and not subject to human errors associated with Excel manipulations. Learn how your organization can enjoy the self-service visualizations of Tableau while preserving the benefits of your Cognos model. Michael Weinhauer Practice Area Director and Solutions Architect Senturus, Inc.

Michael Weinhauer heads up the Tableau Practice at Senturus. Michael comes to us from Oracle, IBM and SAP, where he spent over 20 years in different roles acquiring a wealth of hands-on, practical BI and Big Data experience. Rajat Sharma Financial Planning and Business Intelligence Specialist Ixia.

Rajat has over 10 years of experience as a Financial Planning and Business Intelligence Analyst. He is a motivated self-starter who is committed to looking for ways to improve processes and exceed expectations of customers.

Rajat manages multiple priorities and is always adjusting in the fast-paced environment in which he works. He continually strives to understand the data and present analysis in an engaging delivery. He has implemented numerous Business Intelligence and budgeting systems for financial institutions and High Tech firms. Cognos Analytics 11 Release 5 was released in November and contains great new features - including finally! In this webinar recording we get hands-on with some of the best features in Release 5 and discuss what to expect in Release 6.

Todd has over 15 years of Cognos experience and heads up the Senturus install, upgrade and optimization practice. View his webinar on the same topic. The value of data-driven decision making has never been greater, and the tools with which to deliver it have never been more powerful. Furthermore, the demand from business users for useful information continues to grow as organizations realize that good analytics enable them to outperform competitors by wide margins.

What can be done to dramatically improve your organization's chances of success when undertaking these high-value — and typically high-profile — projects? Senturus President, John Peterson, reveals the keys to business analytics success. Drawing on real-life experience with more than customers and thousands of projects, John distills the top actionable steps to help dramatically improve the outcomes of your BI and analytics initiatives.

Senior Executives; Operational and Finance Managers; IT Managers; Business Intelligence Managers; Business Analysts. Data Discovery and Democratization.

These are just some of the fashionable — and confusing — terms used to describe the diverse array of business analytic solutions taking hold in our organizations. In this webinar our experts from both the enterprise BI and self-service analytics practice areas explore the high-level benefits and drawbacks of each option. Among the topics under discussion:.

Albert has served as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect, and Director of Education for Senturus. The goal of good dashboard design is to provide a single actionable insight, not multiple. Achieving good dashboard design requires clarity: Working directly in Tableau, this webinar recording demonstrates Tableau design principles and best practices. We show you tangible instances of the good, the bad…and the downright ugly. Michael Weinhauer Tableau Practice Area Director and Solutions Architect Senturus, Inc.

System Administrators, BI Report Authors, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, IT Managers. Prep Now to Ensure a Smooth Upgrade Laterin which he explains a fast way to convert Query Studio reports now before you upgrade. The Microsoft front end tools for business analytics are rich and varied and have changed over the years, making it difficult to determine which tool is most appropriate for business scenarios.

In this webinar recording we examine each of the Microsoft front end BI tools, from Power BI to Excel, SQL Serverand SSRS to give you a confident grasp of the tools at your disposal. You have been creating dashboards and insightful analysis with Tableau Desktop. But now you want to share your work with others and allow them to interact with your worksheets. How do you do it?

What should you avoid? How do you manage your costs? The solution is Tableau Server. This recorded webinar reveals the perks of Tableau Server and reviews the top 11 avoidable pitfalls that impact performance, scale and user adoption.

Michael heads up the Tableau Practice at Senturus. Who needs them anymore…right? And gone are the days of 65, row limits in Microsoft Excel. Business managers can directly tap large information sources throughout the organization to create insight-rich visualizations and dashboards, often without the need to wait for IT resources to deliver data. Vendors of new technologies such as Hadoop often tout large cost savings by doing away with traditional ETL tools and data warehouse environments.

So why would an organization still want to invest the time and energy and dollars to create a centralized repository of data? And what processing and transformations are still prudent, if not mandatory, to do in a centralized fashion? He touches on topics ranging from security to performance to universal definitions to blending data sources to snap-shots and more. Learn self-service reporting features in Cognos Analytics: In this demo-packed session, we review the differences — and benefits — of each feature and provide how-to guidance for data acquisition and storytelling with these powerful visualization features.

Effective executives rely on leading indicators of sales revenue — such as pipeline growth and win rates — to keep their fingers on the pulse of company performance. Many firms have invested in sales pipeline tracking systems such as Salesforce and visualization tools such as Tableau to surface leading indicators to their executives.

However, if you are connecting your visualizations directly to your CRM system, you are missing some of the valuable indicators. Senturus explains how to capture, calculate and track the hard-to-get leading indicators, such as:. This information is most valuable to B2B organizations, those having sales teams entering and tracking multi-stage sales cycles in an opportunity database.

Greg founded Senturus in and today leads the demand creation side of the company. Under his leadership, the company has been on Inc. In addition, Senturus was inducted into the San Francisco Business Times "Fast " Hall of Fame. Greg has 13 years of hands-on experience with Salesforce and the application's underlying tables. Cognos Analytics Release 5 was introduced on November 25,and has some significant new visualization and analysis features. In this webinar recording, our guest IBM Cognos Analytics Product Manager Nic Leduc, demonstrates this new release and answers audience questions.

His main responsibilities are around the dashboarding and mobile capabilities. Salesforce and integrated ERP systems collect tons of valuable information, but the challenge is figuring out how to use that data to predict future sales.

In this webinar recording, we share effective, pragmatic sales forecasting approaches. We describe best practices for organizing and preparing your Salesforce and ERP systems for predictive modeling, and reveal how to best use Tableau and R to visualize the future. Asa joins Senturus with over 10 years of experience in business intelligence and predictive analytics, having spent most of his career at Pearson Education. While there, Asa used multiple ERP and CRM systems to unify insight across all platforms to gain more understanding of issues, such as cost-to-serve and pricing model selection.

Asa began his career in the Microsoft BI stack, working with SQL Server and SSRS on ROI analysis for product customization. Greg has 13 years of hands-on experience with Salesforce. Up until now, demos of Cognos Analytics have been more about look and feel than its implications to users. In this show-and-tell, Nic Leduc, Product Manager of Cognos Analytics shows demos and covers topics that satisfy your curiosities:.

Cognos Workspace, Cognos Workspace Advanced, Cognos Report Studio, Cognos Dynamic Cubes, Cognos Transformer, Cognos Query Studio, Cognos Analysis Studio. Tableau 10 is here! This overview describes the exciting new features and capabilities, including:.

Michael leads the Senturus Tableau practice, oversees the development of the Senturus Enterprise BI Connector for Tableau, and teaches Tableau training workshops. He has worked with s of clients in a variety of industries providing him insight into the business requirements as well as the technology.

He has experience in predictive analytics, in-memory technologies, and enterprise BI platforms having worked at SAP, IBM, and Cognos. Working with the Query Model in IBM Cognos Analytics can be a tricky transitional skill, even for advanced report authors. The learning curve is made even more daunting by the shift to the new, significantly different user interface.

However, many fundamental analyses can only be addressed using a multi-query approach. Therefore, designing reports that use query joins and sets, such as unions, is an important skill for all professional authors. In this recorded webinar, we demonstrate Cognos Analytics v11 Query Explorer and teach techniques that help create sophisticated reports that are based on multiple queries.

Techniques and takeaways include:. The rapid growth in self-service business analytics has created tremendous value for organizations, but in many cases has created tension between technical and business users. Technical teams have spent years building solid data warehouses filled with trusted data from source systems such as sales, finance and operations. Business teams are gaining insights using new data discovery tools such as Cognos, Business Objects, Tableau and Power BI.

Informatica Cloud provides a solution that both business and IT users will appreciate. This demonstration shows a best-of-both-worlds solution that combines data integration for both business and IT users.

This recorded webinar helps Cognos developers and system administrators make the transition from v10 to Cognos Analytics v Blending demos and discussions, we explain dashboarding, data modules, and administration in Cognos Analytics. Want to learn more about data modules? If so, view our step-by-step demo on how to Create Data Modules in Cognos Analytics. But what has changed on the back end? Our Cognos installation and upgrade expert, Todd Schuman, describes the installation and configuration steps on the server side of Cognos Analytics.

BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, IT Managers, Program or Project Managers. Some data is more difficult to get at and analyze than others. Data coming from social media, emails and surveys is extremely hard to analyze owing to its complex, irregular structure and often times heavy use of text fields.

Adding to the challenge is the high cost of an industrial strength database with the horsepower for these kinds of complex analyses. Stop Meeting Like This SMLT share its success maximizing the impact of client survey responses SurveyMonkey, Zoho, Google Forms using the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, data preparation and the creation of Tableau visualizations.

BI Report Authors, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffIT Managers, Financial Analysts, Marketing Analysts, Start-up companies. This handy, straightforward guide from Tableau helps you easily determine the best chart to use for the data you have and the questions you want to answer -- or the story you want to tell.

In clear language and with excellent visual examples, Tableau outlines best practices for making effective visualizations. They also offer tips for combining related charts and filters to really boost the effectiveness of visualizations, and ultimately your business decision making. By now, you have heard about all the new features of Cognos Analytics. And while there are many good things in store, the truth is that its integration with Cognos BI v10 is not seamless.

We tell you what technologies you should be investing your resources in, and which ones you should stop using. Learn which reports you should convert now and what you can leave for later. We also demonstrate a new product that allows you to automate report conversions. Todd has over 15 years of Cognos experience and heads up the Senturus install, upgrade, and optimization practice.

Jeff is responsible for guiding strategic Cognos customers. Prior to joining Motio, he spent over 14 years with Cognos. The solution is secure, powerful — and equally important — easy-to-use from both the end user and IT perspectives.

If your company is using Tableau, view this webinar recording on Tableau Server to learn successful implementation, including:. Free Tableau Server Trial and Free Help with Installation Click here to access the day free trial and if you would like free assistance with installation contact info senturus.

He started Tableau's Professional Services consulting organization and was a Tableau Zen Master from He conducts training sessions on the use of Tableau Software products, and does speaking engagements on visual analytics, data warehouse design, and other business intelligence topics at both the technical and the executive levels.

Closing the loop to connect the two silo'd systems is easier to achieve than you may realize. Learn to use the right tools and maximize your expertise to easily surface critical marketing metrics to:. BI Report Authors, BI Report Consumers, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, Marketing Analysts, Program or Project Managers. Current data warehouses are not architected to meet current analytics requirements including end user self-service, multiple tools, huge data volumes, visualizations, and deeper analysis needs.

During this webinar, our special guest Mark Madsen, keynote speaker at the TDWI World Conference, shares his insights into the five major issues facing data warehouses and his solution to increase agility and flexibility. He is co-author of Clickstream Data Warehousing, and lectures and writes about business intelligence, emerging technology and data integration. Mark was the keynote speaker at this year's TDWI World Conference.

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Mark is the founder of Third Nature, a firm that researches and consults with companies on new and emerging technology and practices in business intelligence, data integration and information management. He is also a former CTO and CIO with experience working in both IT and vendors, including a stint at a company used as a Harvard Business School case study.

The reason is the complexity and diversity of data. Complicating matters is that users increasingly expect self-service, yet their organizations struggle to help them effectively work with data in a properly governed and secure environment. In this webinar recording, Trifacta explains how the emergence of new self-service data prep solutions for Hadoop are benefiting organizations.

Get a free trial of Trifecta Wrangler. There is confusion about how data science fits into the landscape of business…and IT. Understanding How Data Powers Big Business. Bill is responsible for setting the strategy and defining the big data service offerings and capabilities for EMC Global Services Big Data Practice.

He is a University of San Francisco School of Management SOM Fellow where he teaches the big data MBA course. Poll Results Where are you in the process of integrating Big Data with your existing data warehouse environment?

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Organizations that use the Microsoft platform to build their business intelligence and data warehouse solutions have a wealth of resources at their disposal. Understanding these assets and how they can work together allows users to build an efficient, integrated BI solution. During this webinar, we:. Knowing these functionalities allows users to come away with a solid understanding of the role of each product and how they work together to create an integrated BI solution.

Microsoft, all database, data warehouse, and business intelligence related products front and back end. Paul is an agile business intelligence and data warehousing junkie living in Austin, Texas. AZURE — SQL DATA WAREHOUSE MPP PREVIEW Data warehouse as a service using massively parallel processing architecture. You can do data discovery or rapid BI prototyping on large data sets without becoming a Hadoop expert.

Our webinar shows how you can enjoy benefits of big data and the ability to analyze it with standard BI tools, including Cognos. IBM BigInsights Product Manager Paul Yip demonstrates a cost effective, scalable solution that does not have the barriers to entry common with big data applications. Big SQL Technology Sandbox is a large, shared environment for data science.

You can use it to run R, SQL, Spark, and Hadoop jobs. It is a high performance cluster demonstrating the advantages of parallelized processing of big data sets. Click here to access. Paul has 15 years of hands-on technical experience with the design, implementation, and performance tuning of information management systems. Paul is the author of three books and has published dozens of technical articles. Learn how to strategically design analytics dashboards to bring actionable insights to light.

During this webinar, Senturus Co-Founder John Peterson explores the science behind creating effective dashboards, including the challenges, opportunities, and human factors that come into play. Using this science as the basis, John gives his top 13 tips to optimize dashboard visualizations.

Get unique insight into the most common Report Studio questions and obstacles to adoption. In addition to valuable information about Cognos BI v If you have been resisting cloud-based financial planning, it may be time to give it another look. Web-based solutions have matured considerably in the past few years, and offer significant benefits over traditional on-premise solutions, including lower cost of ownership and the ability to respond quickly and confidently in a volatile business environment.

In particular, we have been impressed with a solution that provides the robustness, agility, and data security that are critical to the office of finance while also providing end user self-service financial planning and reporting. During this recorded webinar, you can view a demo of Adaptive Insights, a cloud-based financial planning solution. A 15 year planning veteran, Ken is deeply familiar with traditional on-premise planning tools, the needs of the office of Finance, and the Adaptive Insights solution.

Ken shares frank comparisons between the solutions, and speaks about how Adaptive Insights can complement or replace on-premise solutions. Ken has more than 20 years of hands-on experience architecting, implementing, and delivering training for enterprise planning, business intelligence, and data warehousing solutions.

He has both a CPA and MBA. Are you looking to do more reporting than your Banner or PeopleSoft solution provides out of the box? Many colleges and universities are looking for self-service analysis but think it requires expensive new software, the need for more already hard-to-get dollars, or the addition of expert resources. By properly preparing your data and using modules found in your existing Banner or PeopleSoft solution, you can provide integrated insights across your entire organization and dramatically improve report creation time and accuracy.

In this webinar learn about the potential that already exists in current reporting system. Portland State University demonstrates how they were able to quickly obtain ROI by dramatically improving their report performance. Learn proven practices and industry standards for setting up your Cognos servers to handle anything you can throw at it.

Business analysts deal with multiple types of data from a variety of internal and external sources, including behavioral data, census data, sales data, and predictive data. These burdens often mean missed opportunities regarding the richness of the information. In this webinar, learn how Alteryx empowers analysts to deliver deeper insights to the organization.

See how self-service data analytics help organizations to:. Download a free trial of Alteryx Designer. BI Report Authors, BI Report Consumers, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, Financial Analysts, Marketing Analysts, Program or Project Managers, Predictive: John manages the Alteryx Partner Ecosystem for the West Region.

He has been working with technology leaders in BI and analytics, helping clients and partners, for over 15 years. Assisting individuals succeed in leveraging transformative solutions, such as Alteryx, is a passion. Kim has served in a variety of customer and partner enablement roles.

She enjoys helping organizations unleash the power of their data through analytics and is most excited when new users see for themselves how Alteryx can transform their day-to-day data needs. With Cognos Analytics v11, IBM has taken self-service analytics head on. In this recorded webinar, our guest from IBM previews the new functionality including the user-friendly interface with great visualizations.

IBM Cognos Analytics is the new name for, and the next version of, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. You can think of it as version This document, authored by IBM, discusses various aspects of the Cognos Analytics product. The topics covered include: Licensing Unified User Experience Quirks and Standard HTML New Portal.

Tableau version 9 includes powerful calculation functions that are more complex than the usual functions. This webinar covers the following topics:. Our Tableau expert, Chuck Hooper, shows how these functions are useful for solving database issues for example: For a free, day full version trial of Tableau, click here. BI Report Authors, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffFinancial Analysts, Marketing Analysts, Predictive: Chuck Hooper's career includes over five decades of business and IT experience.

He started Tableau's Professional Services consulting organization and is one of the few individuals officially designated as a Tableau Zen Master He conducts training sessions on the use of Tableau Software products, and does speaking engagements on visual analytics, data warehouse design and other business intelligence topics at both the technical and the executive levels. Cognos Analysis For Excel CAFE has become popular among business and financial analysts as a way to combine enterprise information with local data in an Excel spreadsheet that can be refreshed as server information changes.

In this webinar, we take a look at the capabilities of CAFE, compare them when using the tool with TM1 versus Cognos BI as a source, and share a number of useful tips and caveats along the way. BI Report Authors, BI Report Consumers, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, Financial Planners, Financial Analysts, Finance Managers, Marketing Analysts.

As an IBM Cognos licensee, you probably already own IBM Cognos for Office. This means that you can leverage dynamic content developed in Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced inside your PowerPoint, Word and Excel applications, showing trusted data that can be updated with the push of a button!

In this eye-opening webinar we teach proven practices for developing reusable report artifacts that can be used in Cognos Workspace dashboards as well as within Microsoft Office applications.

In this session, we review fundamental report authoring concepts and showed how to create clean and lightweight report artifacts. Following a modular approach, participants:. IBM COGNOS BI, Cognos Workspace, Cognos Workspace Advanced, Cognos Report Studio, Microsoft Office. Albert has spent the last 15 years as a technical trainer focused on business intelligence and performance management. Before joining Senturus, he was a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos for five years.

SinceAlbert has acted as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect and Director of Education for Senturus. In this webinar, the business analytics experts at Senturus take an unbiased look at the pros and cons of switching. Drawing on our own experience and providing real client anecdotes, we examine:.

Learn fundamental techniques and best practices to turn critical data into meaningful insights in a matter of hours using Tableau. In this webinar, we demonstrate how to use Tableau to take raw data, both from the desktop as well as from a typical enterprise data warehouse, to quickly create engaging, actionable visuals. Learn more about what the Tableau platform and philosophy, and how self-service solutions can complement a traditional, centrally managed BI initiative.

Learn important tips in order to successfully upgrade to Cognos BI version During this free webinar, our experts provide attendees with a better overall understanding of the core Cognos architecture, plus discuss common pitfalls and misconceptions. The traditional data warehouse is under pressure from the growing weight of explosive volumes of data, the expansive variety of data types, and the real-time processing velocity of how data is being used. The biggest, possibly most elaborate data management system in IT is changing.

This whitepaper provides a discussion of the necessary capabilities needed for DW to evolve to fit modern BI and analytics needs along with a look at the Microsoft modern datawarehouse solution.

Included are case studies, an examination of Hadoop and various deployment options and hybrid scenarios. With technology advances and an increasingly attractive price-performance, in-memory technologies have proliferated from their early days to take center stage on buzzword bingo cards. You may be wondering, what is in-memory, and what can it be used for, particularly for the enterprise? In this webinar, we address these questions and more, as we discuss the origins and history of in-memory technologies with a review of high-level architectures.

We also dive into several primary applications and use cases, including transactional, operational, and analytical, and examine the different ways this technology may benefit the enterprise by providing a competitive advantage. IBM has recently announced that both Query Studio and Analysis Studio will be deprecated after the Cognos With this announcement, it is important to plan an eventual migration away from Query and Analysis studio usage, as Cognos Workspace Advanced will serve as the new environment for future ad-hoc queries or analysis type capabilities.

This webinar provides an overview of the Cognos Workspace Advanced user interface and capabilities against both relational and dimensional data source. In addition, we compare and contrast Workspace Advanced against Query and Analysis Studio, including a review of any current functionality gaps. Pedro brings over 20 years of business intelligence experience to his engaging and informative presentations. Query Studio to CWA Gaps — CWA has most of the capabilities of Query Studio — IBM is intending to fix the following gaps in the next release:.

CWA has most of the capabilities of Analysis Studio — IBM is intending to fix the following gaps in the next release:. IBM has worked with customers and determined the following gaps are NOT critical and will not be addressed in the next release:. IBM has stated the existing Analysis Studio reports will NOT be editable in Cognos Workspace Advanced. Existing Analysis Studio reports will be able to run from the portal. New analyses will be created in CWA as required.

Chock full of tip-and-trick demonstrations, this webinar helps boost productivity and makes reports more dynamic. Albert Valdez, Vice President of Learning Solutions at Senturus, provides a number of demonstrations using the Cognos BI version Executive managers and analysts are frequently turning to Tableau to get to actionable insights stored in their business intelligence environments. In many companies, Tableau is complementing existing business intelligence tools, such as those from IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, Oracle and Microsoft.

We build an actual dashboard, and also demonstrate how this applies across multiple industries, including manufacturing, retail, healthcare, education, and banking. Chuck Hooper is the former head of Tableau's consulting organization. He conducts training sessions on the use of Tableau Software products and does speaking engagements on visual analytics, data warehouse design, and other business intelligence topics, at both the technical and executive levels.

His career includes over five decades of business and IT experience. Exponential growth in data volumes and data velocity is stretching the limits of traditional business intelligence tools and architectures. Furthermore, most organizations are aware of the increasing value of their data, but are having a hard time finding the right and cost-effective place to store the dizzying array of new data types.

And amidst all this, business users are growing ever more frustrated at not being able to get at the information they need to run their organizations. During this presentation, John Peterson gives a brief overview of some of the tools and technologies that are poised to dramatically alter the fabric of business intelligence in the next few years.

Particular focus is placed on how and why Hadoop is changing the data warehousing paradigm and the implications on system architectures from a pragmatic point of view. Hadoop is changing how businesses fundamentally operate. As Big Data processing becomes mainstream, more and more applications have begun to process data from click-streams, social media and application logs. This means applications have to accommodate data sets that are real-time, semi-structured and large-scale in nature.

In this webinar, we delve into the emerging technology stack, the role that SQL queries play for Big Data, and how SQL-on-Hadoop technologies enable organizations to leverage their existing SQL skills and investments in business intelligence BI tools to dramatically improve:. Jack leads worldwide marketing efforts for MapR, the provider of the top ranked distribution for Hadoop. Jack has over 20 years of enterprise software marketing and product management experience in defining and delivering analytics, storage, and information delivery products.

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Discover the top trends in business intelligence forincluding:. This webinar, hosted by Tableau, provides an overview of the following new features in Tableau version 9. Learn the fundamentals of professional report authoring with IBM Cognos Report Studio. This webinar is perfect for those just getting started with the platform, or for colleagues new to the team who need to get up to speed on building reports for your organization.

Albert Valdez, Vice President of Learning Solutions for Senturus, provides a number of live advantages of binary option probability calculator using the latest Cognos version Extensible visualizations in Active Reports does not replace the existing static charts that are in use today.

Demonstrate New Visualization Capabilities for Active Reports: TM1 can be a high performance dimensional data source for Cognos BI. Learn more about how these two product suites can work together to improve the BI report building process in this webinar, as we share examples of key TM1 capabilities.

Featured demonstrationsusing the latest Cognos BI and TM1 versions BI Report Authors, BI Report Consumers, BI Power Users Developers, Support StaffBI Managers, Financial Analysts, Finance Managers, Marketing Analysts. Aero Precision, a fast-growing military aircraft parts and distributions company, had hit a significant wall with their initial Excel-based business reporting system. Mired down by a manual process that was time consuming, prone to errors, inflexible, and extremely limited in terms of user adoption, it was time to make a change in order to stay on track as the industry leader.

Aero Precision President Frank Cowle shares how the company doubled sales and gained a competitive edge as a result of their new business intelligence system.

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SinceFrank has also held the position of Senior Vice President of Distribution for DAC International and Benefits forex trading, two additional divisions of Greenwich AeroGroup. Greg originally founded Senturus in He now heads sales, recruiting, marketing, human resources, and new ventures.

Predictive analytics has been a hot topic in the BI world, particularly over the last year. In this webinar, we explain how it can work to your advantage. Join our experts as we review a case study on how a large U. We also demystify predictive analytics across the board, and define predictive models, including how to develop and apply them to create measurable Return buy used pro stock hockey sticks Investment ROI.

This session includes a demonstration of IBM SPSS Modeler as well. Eric leads the predictive analytics practice for Senturus, and carries gmcr stock price year track record of improving profitability for some of the world's interactive brokers futures symbol lookup firms by applying data mining, predictive modeling, customer segmentation, experimental design, and optimization.

Tableau Desktop is a data analysis environment that can be used to quickly create and publish visualizations, dashboards, and reports in multiple output formats to see patterns, identify stock market bid and ask price, and extract actionable Business Intelligence insights.

This easy, quick start guide from Tableau explains how to use version 9. Is your organization getting the full value from your investment in IBM Cognos BI? In this free webinar, we provide an overview and demonstration of how IBM Cognos We also offer a variety of Cognos training courses, including classes specifically for business users. Visit our training club penguin money maker quick download free 2016 to learn more link to: Specifically, Lawrence introduces BEAM business event analysis and modeling: Maximizing business stakeholder involvement during BI solution development coupled with early and repeated solution releases, results in more business benefits early and better BI user adoption.

This separates the first useable solution delivery from the requirements and design phase so far in time, that often major gaps and surprises that compromise usefulness and adoptability occur. Shortening the solution release cycle so that useful business data is incorporated earlier and business users continually interact to test and refine the delivered solution in each release, eliminates most surprises and provides incremental business banc de binary wiki early and often.

Lawrence Corris a leading data warehouse designer and educator. Early in his career, he was invited by Ralph Kimball to become an associate and teach data warehousing classes for Kimball University in Europe and Africa. He now regularly teaches agile dimensional modeling courses and has taught dimensional BI skills to thousands of students in Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Africa. Using his proven techniques, he has helped optimize DW architectures in healthcare, telecoms, engineering, broadcasting, financial services and retail sectors.

He is the author of Agile Data Warehouse Design: Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schemaan Amazon.

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:. How many or how much? And relating this to the star schema data model:.

A new methodology and documentation technique for doing agile business requirements gathering, analysis and data modeling with business stakeholders:. If the focus of requirements gathering, analysis and subsequent design is on business processes more so than on a current, point-in-time perception of needed reports, then the basic business dimensions and needed granularity comes out and usually stands the test of time and future releases.

Subsequent requirement changes then are mostly about additional and augmented dimension attributes and only rarely do new dimensions or major changes to granularity come about to cause major development rework.

A rich date and time dimension in a well-thought out data model supports flexible reporting without the need for lengthy, report specific SQL date calculations that need to club penguin money maker quick download free 2016 developed for each report. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version This webinar highlights the latest and greatest offerings, including the Report Studio preview modes making authoring for Active Report and other mobile consumers much less cumbersome.

Our special guests Stefan Constantinides, Solution Advisor North America for IBM, and Don Davis, Client Technical Professional in Business Analytics for IBM, also demonstrate and discuss:. Additionally, we touch on Cognos Disclosure Management CDMwhich can be a huge time saver when generating reports, along with Watson Analytics.

Stefan Constantinides has Expert level certification within IBM as a Solution Advisor and technical pre-sales solution architect. With over 6 years at IBM and almost 3 decades of enterprise level experience, Stefan is now working with large companies to ensure their success with IBM products and helping to guide their business into the future.

Don Davis is a Client Technical Professional in IBM's Business Analytics software group, residing in the Seattle area. Don has daily pivot calculator forex helping clients with Cognos BI sinceand with business intelligence and enterprise reporting technology since You can download the complete Questions Log from the right hand side bar at the top of this page.

Just looking at the However, I only see TM1 and Business Insight as actual Is there actually a Framework Manager Can you go over the actual products that were updated, and if not, what their packages may be i. Is the space consumption shared across all users? Can we put limit on the size for users? What would be the size of the database? If the spreadsheet has multiple worksheets, will it import all of them and create multiple tables?

Will the package have all the metadata? Can we upload multiple Excel files and get one model published that is inclusive of data from all the uploaded Excel files? Is the default that everyone can use My Data Sets, or do you have to specifically give a user access? Can relationships be set between two My Data Sets or between two external files in creating one My Data Set?

Can data published out ever be refreshed? Or do you need to create a new package each time you want current data? As an Australian example, is there a way to display labels on the chart, so we could see Australia category without coming stock market crash over?

Any info on Analysis Studio capabilities in workspace? I understand that Analysis Studio is depreciated in If you have both relational reliable forex brokers in australia dimensional widgets on a page, will the global filter work for both?

Is possible to use dynamic filters if the other charts don't have the filtering element visible? Will dynamic filters work on any two fields with the same name or only on base package fields? Does the Excel file need to be present on the BI server, or it can be local to user's machine?

Does this new integrated DB2 component included in What is the difference between charts and visualizations? Are visualizations just more options for displaying data? With the upgrade from Can the built in DB2 engine shipped with If so, does that replace the Apache database used in the previous versions? Does My Data Sets have to be uploaded to its own DB2 database? Is that separate from the content store? Is it possible to upload multiple spreadsheets and then perform stock market on mlk as in Framework Studio?

Get an overview of our favorites, with the following demonstrations:. Greg originally founded Senturus inand currently heads sales, recruiting, marketing, human resources, and new ventures.

Prior to Senturus, Greg established over 20 years of experience at Quovera, Oracle, and Accenture. March release of MotioCI allows you to better plan, budget and manage Cognos upgrades. In this webinar, our guests from Motio demonstrate and discuss the following MotioCI functionalities:.

The best data analysis experience is one that allows users to focus the majority of their time deeply engaged with the actual data and less time thinking about how the mechanics of tool they are using to extract the information. Working with the aggregated data on different levels of detail can lead to tool functionality questions. To address these types of queries, Tableau 9. This whitepaper from Tableau provides insights into how LOD Expressions work, along with an in-depth look at the different types of LOD Expressions and their respective use cases.

Demands on business intelligence systems are growing, and with increased usage, we often see a corresponding rise in performance issues. During this webinar, we discuss the various layers that can contribute to performance issues, from the presentation layer to the database and host server architecture.

We review some of the OS-level and Cognos-specific tools that are available to help gather relevant information to pinpoint the causes of performance issues. With a case study, we also show you how to use an integrated performance testing method, along with how tuning changes can be used to reach the target level of performance. One of the tools highlighted is the automated Cognos testing system, MotioCI.

MotioCI is an iterative testing tool that enables repeatable, automated testing in order to evaluate changes in report execution performance as tuning changes are make quick money forex. Steven Reed-Pittman Practice Director — Systems Integration and Optimization Senturus, Inc. Steve leads the installation and upgrade team at Senturus.

He has installed, and configured, and bull stock market apush hundreds of Cognos instances from Cognos Series 7 through Cognos 10 on the Windows, UNIX and Linux environments. John has nearly 20 years experience in business intelligence, database architecture, and software development.

He is an IBM Information Champion, has led workshops and been invited to speak at numerous national events including IBM Information On Demand, Cognos Forum, Cognos User Groups, and the Composite Software annual conference.

Keys to Improving Performance: Three-Phase Methodology for Performance Testing and Tuning. Tableau Server is an online browser and mobile-based resource that allows users to share, distribute, and collaborate on content created in Tableau Desktop, including workbooks and views, dashboards, and data sources.

This easy, quick start guide from Tableau explains how to install and configure version 9. In summerIBM announced some dramatic changes in the IBM Cognos user roles and definitions.

In this webinar, Jim Frazier, Vice President of Client Solutions for Senturus, takes you through the details and the implications for your business environment. We demonstrate how these changes will make it easier for the Cognos customer base to use Cognos 10 capabilities, such as Cognos Workspace, Active Reports and mobile.

We also explain how the existing user roles will automatically be migrated to three simplified roles with increased functionality. Also, as a complimentary service, Senturus can take you through the new licensing, recommend the most appropriate and efficient options, and advise on the implications for your environment. Support for Data Manager will be withdrawn on Sept. You will be able to continue to receive technical support from IBM for DataManager until the announced end of support of DataStage which is currently July of You just need to site your DataStage entitlement when calling in for support.

IBM Cognos Livestock auction in ripley wv Manager and Homepath earnest money deposit DataStage MVS Edition. In the latest Cognos TM1 releases While this GUI can save significant time and effort for some fairly common tasks, IBM did not extensively document the techniques required for doing so.

This includes ragged hierarchies, where there are null or repeated strings at the intermediate levels, as well as unbalanced hierarchies, which includes null strings at the lowest levels. In this short video, Albert Valdez, Senturus Vice President of Learning Solutions, shows how end users can easily modify existing content within IBM Cognos Workspace to obtain data and conduct analysis. And it is now clear that companies with well-designed, enterprise-wide business insight capabilities consistently outperform their peers by wide margins.

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BI Managers and Professionals; Business Analysts and Business Managers responsible for Enterprise Performance Management and Improvement. Learn how to quickly, accurately, and safely create collaborative reports, while reducing costs, risks, and data inaccuracies with Cognos Disclosure Management CDM. In this webinar, we demonstrate the following key benefits:. James is a senior member of IBM's technical team. He combines functional and technical requirements to create game changing software solutions.

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Learn how to copy data from one cube to another using a link, a new capability within Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler. This copy option can prove to be a better alternative than rule based implementation for situations such as when there are cube dependencies or user activity with frequent cache and validations.

We also examine the two types of possible mapping matches, manual and automatic, and how the latter creates a parameter for each of the dimensions, thus allowing secretbuilders money maker flexibility to copy all the data or specific slices.

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We also review the latest advantages with Active Report, along with some overall best practices for report development. Originally presented during IBM Insight by Albert Valdez, Senturus Vice President of Learning Solutions, and Patrick Powers, Senior Instructor for Senturus. Discover how to fine-tune the system performance of your IBM Cognos servers to maximize overall speed and efficiency. We demonstrate how to improve the performance of sorted reports, as well as changing dispatcher settings.

Our experts will also take you through horizontal versus vertical scaling, along with common infrastructure issues. In this recorded webinar, we take a step back and provide a holistic look at the platform from 30, feet. We break down the many moving parts, and set focus on what you need to know, as our IBM-certified experts pinpoint where the greatest 1 minute binary option autotrader strategy in this tool set lies.

Below is a summary of the changes. You may also view the videos-all listed on the right sidebar-- on each subject. Performance Modeler is a graphical user interface GUI that works to make modeling more efficient and intuitive for Cognos TM1.

Understanding the relationship between IBM Cognos Workspace and Report Studio is fundamental in order to efficiently and successfully focus your development efforts. Education on rapid fire the binary options strategy - how these tools can most effectively work in tandem, including a demonstration of how to create a fixed size widget and add it to your workspace.

One of the most important factors to consider when defining BI success is a full understanding of true business requirements, not just what a company initially asks for or thinks they want, but what they really need. In this short video, Senturus CEO and Co-Founder John Peterson shares what to consider in order to thoroughly define all requirements, based on his real world expertise with over 1, BI implementations.

Joins are useful for creating relationships between queries that may not exist in the model. In this short video, we show how you can create a join within the IBM Cognos Report Studio tool using a list report canada life investment options an example.

During this webinar, we examine the IBM Cognos landscape of self-service data discovery and report authoring. This webinar will prepare you to take full advantage of the functionalities across Workspace, Workspace Advanced, and Report Studio. We demonstrate how you can extend dashboards into deep data exploration and leverage self-service authoring to free yourself from the traditional constraints of the information consumer.

We also touch on the role of the advanced report author to illustrate the limitless potential of the IBM Cognos 10 platform for delivering professional reports. Albert has spent the last 13 years as a technical trainer focused on business intelligence and performance management.

His Senturus training courses have received numerous accolades over the years, such as:. Before joining Senturus, Albert was a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos for five years. Year-to-date, trailing 12 months, this month, this week, etc. With Cognos Business Intelligence, relative time definitions can be managed in either the metadata or the reporting layer.

During this webinar, we demonstrate three different techniques for managing relative time: Demonstrations include how to manage the 1 minute binary options trading signal services relative time definitions, as well as how to create your own custom definitions.

SinceAlbert has acted as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect, Director of Education and Vice-President of Learning Solutions for Senturus. Our guests from Meyer Corporation, the largest cookware distributor in the United States, share why and how they successfully migrated to TM1 in order to education on rapid fire the binary options strategy - their planning cycle.

Learn how this tool can be used on a more complex level to transform and improve your entire cycle, including how to make money reselling supreme planning, capital planning and retail assortment.

We also discuss how TM1 is uniquely suited for large, sophisticated models and data sets. Income statement reporting presents challenges when doing BI reporting, because the business requires that both revenues and expenses be shown on the balance sheet as positive numbers. However, debits need to be negative numbers to do rollups correctly. In this short video, the experts from Senturus show you how to solve this problem by using the Reverse the Sign Rule for both standard and ad hoc reports in any general-purpose business intelligence software.

IBM Cognos Report Studio offers a number of predefined templates to make authoring basic reports a simple, straightforward process. In this short video, the experts from Senturus show how you can leverage these templates for your needs, add data packets, and create more tailored reports with just a few clicks. During this webinar, our expert trainer Albert Valdez breaks down the role of metadata modeling with Framework Manager.

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Almost all business intelligence systems benefit significantly from using OLAP as part of the overall system architecture. Blazingly fast reports, interactive dashboards, instantaneous drill-down and speed-of-thought analysis are just a few of the reasons to use cubes in your BI environment. For almost 25 years, PowerPlay cubes and PowerPlay Transformer have played dominant roles in BI systems as the OLAP tool of choice for Cognos BI environments.

However, due to limitations of its bit architecture, PowerPlay has been unable to keep pace with the growing data volumes common to BI systems today. The good news is that there are several excellent alternatives for OLAP in your BI system. In fact, these 60 seconds binary option strategies advisors now have features long desired by PowerPlay users.

The challenge is determining 1. This session outlines important criteria that should be considered before investing significant hours and dollars in development. As always, we give a candid review of relevant tool capabilities, show key features in action, and provide some pragmatic decision-making tips on how to make the right choice for your BI environment.

This webinar features some of our most frequently requested advanced reporting techniques. We focus on some of the more sophisticated foundational techniques for creating user-friendly IBM Cognos Active Reports.

Building on our foundational Active Reports training, we showcase the following hands-on how does craigslist make money quora during this minute event:.

Effective Active Report development techniques give the growing mobile audience the ability to explore data using intuitive, native gestures on the most commonly used mobile devices. Are deficiencies in Report Studio skills holding back the analytics potential of your organization? Are you comfortable working in the Query layer in order to expand the scope of analysis within a single report? Are you leveraging proven practices to achieve report standardization and increase productivity?

During this webinar, expert Senturus trainers, Pat Powers and September Clementin, share their expertise on advanced Report Studio techniques. They start off by exploring the magical world of working with multiple queries in a single report, and then journey further as they show how to improve the presentation layer with reusable components.

Many organizations have made big investments in Business Intelligence, deploying sophisticated reporting systems and performance dashboards. Yet for most companies, translating "interesting insights" into quantifiable business benefits is more the timeline events leading stock market crash 1929 than the rule.

Predictive analytics can be the next logical step in the evolution toward achieving dramatic improvements to the bottom line. In this webinar, Eric Zankman demystifies predictive analytics by explaining what predictive models are, how to develop them, and how to apply them within a customer management framework to create measurable Return on Investment ROI.

Predictive analytics can greatly improve profitability when part of a comprehensive analytics solution. Business executives, managers and analysts who are responsible for devising and implementing a range of strategies that would be applied to different customer, product or other market segments to improve profitability.

Zankman is an analytics and business intelligence consultant with a year track record of improving profitability for some of the world's largest firms by applying data mining, predictive modeling, coming stock market crash segmentation, experimental design, and optimization.

Zankman heads the predictive analytics practice for Senturus. He has founded Zankman Solutions, a provider of analytics consulting services, and served as Analytics Practice Leader, Coordinator of CRM Knowledge Center, and Senior Subject Matter Expert at American Management Systems AMSa global business and IT consulting firm.

Zankman has given numerous presentations at major industry conferences related to customer analytics. He has authored several white papers and thought leadership articles, including a Gartner publication on customer loyalty. Zankman earned a BS degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Executive sponsorship is the 1 most important factor in implementing successful business intelligence projects. Active Reports, Cognos Workspace Standard and Advanced, the traditional studios Query, Report, etc. In this presentation and demonstration, we highlight the important differences in features between the various Cognos Studios, ancient egypt trading system well as the newer tools, such as Cognos Workspace Advanced.

This session outlines important criteria that should be considered before investing significant hours and dollars in development, and provide tips on how to make the right tool choice. Leveraging our experience installing Cognos hundreds of time across all versions of Cognos 8 and Cognos 10, Senturus shares the common issues and how-tos for a successful upgrade to Cognos This presentation covers the common issues and how-tos, such as: Steven Reed-Pittman Practice Director — Systems Integration and Optimization, Senturus, Inc.

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Keeping bit Tools Separate, Disabling the Query Service to Save Memory. In this webinar, we objectively discuss Roambi and give a demonstration Roambi for Mobile Business Intelligence. Deploying business intelligence results and capabilities to mobile devices provides significant benefit for managers and analysts because it is often more timely and interactive than connecting to enterprise data with a computer. Existing BI infrastructure SAP Business Objects, IBM Cognos, Oracle OBIEE and Microsoft BI ; Roambi.

Portals supported include sources that hold BI reports, documents and cubes directly. Also, xls, xlsx and csv sources are supported. Roambi can also pull data from Excel and csv files as well as direct connectivity via ODBC to data bases.

Can Salesforce be used as a live source as opposed to having to extract data and have cme equity index option market duplicate copy of it apart from the source? Soon an HTML5 version will be released, so that Android and desktop devices will be supported as well.

Many reports and files are in the 5MB or less size range and take a few seconds over WiFi and 4G networks. Over 3G and LTE can take seconds or even 1 minute. When sourcing a Roambi mobile rendering from a Cognos report, does the report have to have been previously refreshed in the Cognos environment? The Roambi application assumes that either the report has been run and has data in it; or if it is associated with a query, then the query is executed and the resultant data is used. Is there a specific format that source data needs to be in for Roambi to render?

Not just one, there are a number of formats for data: The application may be locked by a remote user or a remote administrator; and a block-and-wipe capability is also available to the administrator. Yes, but others are available also: It can, but using prompts in a Roambi report requires the persistent connectivity with the company data base for the back and forth communication.

Light-weight, small scope, free POC involving a few examples with no on-site software installation. The fee can be credited towards the software license. This overview demonstrates several exciting new functionalities, including end-to-end Visualization workflow, Cognos Workspace on Sks stocks marketwatch, Active Reports with Visualizations, Report Booklets, Theme Designer, and embeddable workspaces.

We discuss performance enhancements and extended support for big data, along with a preview of several products first announced at the IBM Information on Demand IOD Conference.

This includes IBM Concert, which gives users a simplified way to collaborate and work on content,anywhere, anytime. The enhancements in IBM Cognos Version Are you looking for a way to reach your growing mobile and BYOD Bring Your Own Device audience, while leveraging your investment in IBM Cognos? Experienced authors can deliver interactive reports and dashboards to decision makers, regardless of their location or choice of device through IBM Cognos Active Reports. Active Reports build on existing skills in the IBM Cognos Report Studio, creating a minimal learning curve for your developers.

Native Apps for Apple and Android devices make consumption and administration of content simple and intuitive. IBM has invested heavily in architectural improvements to make Cognos IBM Cognos Report Studio Improvements to the Active Report engine streamline performance, and result in improved memory consumption characteristics.

Smartphones and Tablets are only growing in use, and they are used for both personal and work purposes. Companies need to develop a mobile strategy that incorporates business user needs to online stock trading websites india worker productivity and collaboration.

Senior Executives; Finance Managers; IT Managers; Business Intelligence Managers; Business Analysts. Smartphones are changing the way in which people work and access their coming stock market crash. The major limitation of the smartphone is its screen size.

Tablets are only growing in demand and its larger screen size makes it a viable alternative to the desktop. Personal mobile devices and other technology are being used for both work and life. IT will have to deal with a greater variety of data types and increased security requirements. The key question is which mobile operating systems and which mobile applications will be supported.

Business Intelligence will definitely be part of the mix. Companies are considering ways to support social networking and business collaboration tools to encourage information sharing and teamwork. Organizations should consider business mobility as part of its strategy. There is a huge potential to improve employee productivity and competitive positioning. It is important to involve employee input while developing your mobile strategy to ensure the right BI capabilities are incorporated into your plan.

Includes demonstration of Maps feature. Key techniques demonstrated are applicable to Cognos V8 and V An in-depth look at some key Cognos report authoring techniques that go beyond the standard "out-of-the-box" functionality. During the webinar, we also discuss licensing tips for Business Insight mode vs. Albert has spent the last 12 years as a technical trainer focused on business intelligence and performance management.

Business Users have long needed a dashboard that allows them to easily interact and explore their data. IBM Cognos Workspace is a desktop dashboard that allows business users to do report authoring without assistance from I. During this webinar, we explore Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced.

We demonstrate techniques and evaluate its features. There are significant improvements in the The income statement is the most widely used financial report in the world. Finance grows frustrated, as they have not been given the software tools needed to dig into the numbers and slice and dice the income statement in greater detail. Meanwhile, IT also becomes frustrated as they have invested in world-class business intelligence tools — tools that are purpose-built for drill-down and slice and dice — but user-adoption in Finance remains elusive.

In this minute session, experts from Senturus discuss and demonstrate key tips and techniques for using general-purpose IBM Cognos Business Intelligence tools for income statement reporting. Specific issues addressed include:. We also share tips and techniques for configuring your IBM Cognos Transformer models to enhance OLAP-based income statement reporting and ad hoc analysis.

Additionally, this webinar includes a demonstration of business end user income statement reporting and analysis using Cognos Workspace Advanced. Income Statements with General-purpose IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

Putting it to Work: Income Statement Demonstrations Using IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced. During this webinar, we explore ways to take full advantage of the authoring capabilities available within the IBM Cognos 10 platform.

Evolving a traditional report consumer into a self-service author is a persistent challenge. He is an IBM Cognos Certified Trainer, and has his lifetime CTT and certification from CompTIA. SinceAlbert has acted as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect and Director, and Vice President, of Education for Senturus.

The relationship between retailer and customer is changing as customers are becoming more knowledgeable and empowered by information provided through the web, mobile technologies and social media. Read this paper to learn how retailers are challenged to adapt to these changes and adjust their business model to stay connected to their customers. Senior Executives; Marketing, Operations and Merchandizing Managers; IT Managers; Business Intelligence Managers; Business Analysts.

Retailers today are facing more technology-savvy, demanding customers and more sophisticated competitors, which are forcing changes in retail business models driven by three imperatives:. The types of insight that retailers can use to serve their customers better, and ultimately drive business success. Retail CIOs and line-of-business managers should consider adopting a Smarter Analytics approach if:.

Given the current economic climate, there is continued pressure for companies to limit capital and operational costs. Some companies have focused on specific capabilities and technologies to predict equipment or asset failure so they can avoid costly downtime while reducing maintenance costs.

Read this Analyst Insight based on responses from executives to learn how they use data and analytics to manage the reliability and predictive maintenance of their assets. Predictive Maintenance can help companies with assets or manufacturing operations reduce costs and maximize Return on Assets RoA for Best-in-Class performance.

Senior Executives; Finance, Operations and Supply Chain Managers; IT Managers; Business Intelligence Managers; Business Analysts. Starting small and building incrementally is one of the ten most important keys in implementing successful business intelligence projects.

With increased cost and productivity pressures, asset-intensive companies are trying to maximize their competitive offerings while reducing operational risks. Leading companies are using predictive analytics to reduce operational downtime and anticipate repair costs.

During this webinar, we will show how you can use powerful analytics and data integration to help:. The growth of online transactions and communication, the increased use of mobile devices, and the fluctuating economy highlight the many dynamic forms of threat today. In this paper, you will learn about the growing prevalence of threat and fraud and why it is a top priority for businesses. In order to address the ever-changing landscape, businesses need a systematic approach to identify their own risk.

They need insights that identify existing trends as well as future exposure. This paper identifies how to incorporate business analytics into your decision making and how to build a proactive threat and fraud strategy. Authored by IBM, this whitepaper includes examples of how organizations apply IBM Business Analytics solutions to minimize the negative impact of risk and maximize positive results. Companies that get ahead of threat and fraud save significant costs while preserving their reputation and customer satisfaction.

Organizations that utilize predictive analytics in addition to business intelligence achieve an average return on investment of percent source: The business value of predictive analytics, June Senior Executives; Risk and Finance Managers; IT Managers; Business Intelligence Managers; Business Analysts.

This webinar includes the latest features of Performance Modeler, and how they can streamline your development and administration efforts. Companies can attain better business outcomes when many different business users can access complete, consistent and trustworthy information the way they want, e.

Business users want self-service BI, so they do not have to rely on IT for important reports or data. This paper covers how important it is to address the needs of different BI users, so they have insight when and where they need it.

Business Intelligence is used more pervasively by all business user types. A comprehensive BI solution addresses all user needs, when and where they need information.

BI Solutions are no longer limited to a select user base. The expansion of business intelligence allowed managers to access to timely, detailed reports needed to do their job.

What businesses need from business intelligence BI is the full picture — BI should help you not only describe and diagnose your past and current performance, but also predict future performance. Predictive analytics enhances the value of deploying BI reports, dashboards and scorecard capabilities, and identifies future risks and opportunities for business success.

Using the full range of BI solutions can help your company anticipate forward-looking trends and improve overall performance and ROI. In this webinar, we discuss the underlying architectural challenges of reporting from SAP. We present a number of options for connecting SAP to Cognos, along with pros and cons for each. View this webinar to hear John Peterson, Senturus co-founder, draw from case studies of how these innovative architectural approaches were implemented successfully at our clients.

Too often we find that, despite following vendor recommended practices, companies continue to suffer from poor analytics performance and usability, crippled features, lack of self-service BI, and very high development and maintenance costs. Innovative architectural approaches have been shown to quickly and cost effectively overcome those difficulties and shortcomings.

Want to know which interface tools your users will have available to them in Cognos Curious to know exactly what your licenses entitle you to? This deck presents the IBM Cognos 10 Platform in the context of a Corporate Performance Management CPM solution with simple visuals and concise descriptions. Developed by senior solutions architects to help you get the most out of your investment or to help you evaluate your decision to take your performance management initiative to the next level.

Predictive Threat and Fraud Analytics: Meeting the Challenges of a Smarter Planet Read examples of how organizations apply IBM Business Analytics solutions to minimize the negative impact of risk and maximize positive results. Learn what the new IBM Cognos The webinar includes a new features overview with several product demonstrations, a question and answer session, and an explanation of the increasingly complex role-based licensing model.

Improved Business Intelligence report and dashboard development efficiencies and end-user capabilities means faster and more effective information in decision-makers hands more quickly.

Realization and timeliness of the business benefits are accelerated with the IBM Cognos Timely distribution of small to medium sized, targeted, interactive performance reports to mobile devices greatly improves the effectiveness of business decisions and speeds the response potential for decision makers.

IBM Cognos has expanded the reach of Active Reports in the During the webinar, Senturus explains the Active Reports strategy: The webinar begins with a review the other major new features of Cognos IBM Cognos Report Authors, Consumers, and Users, including Executives, Managers and Analysts; Business Intelligence Managers; IT, Cognos and BI Support Staff.

Understanding what is really required -- and what is just nice to have -- is one of the ten most important keys in implementing success in business intelligence projects. John Peterson, Senturus Co-Founder, uses examples of his experience of over 1, BI implementations to discuss the importance of appropriate project scope.

The shift in IBM's OLAP solutions is described, plus an in-depth look at IBM Cognos Many business information analysis and visualization needs require the interactive manipulation of very large amounts of data. These processes have been made much more effective and responsive with the provision of in-memory and aggregate aware methods, specifically Cognos Dynamic Cubes and the Dynamic Query Mode. Business users can now use these techniques for gaining information insights to support their operational and strategic decisions.

IBM Cognos BI Developers; Business Intelligence Managers; IT Cognos and BI Support Staff; ETL developers. Mobile rights are now included for your Cognos Enhanced Consumer or higher licenses. During this webinar, we show the new mobile features of the Also we clearly explain which features of Cognos 10 are included at no additional charge and which require license trade-up. Specifically, we share tips and techniques for configuring your IBM Cognos Transformer models to enhance OLAP-based income statement reporting and ad hoc analysis.

We also demonstrate business end user income statement reporting and analysis using Cognos Workspace Advanced. We help finance users understand the data challenges IT faces, and help IT understand the fundamental accounting concepts that require unique technical solutions.

One of the keys to business intelligence success is user adoption; do you know who is using your BI system? Of all those Cognos reports you have to administer, how many are really being used? Do system updates, migrations or outages require undue efforts due to the large amount of reports that need to be moved or recovered?

By implementing an audit database, you will be able to gauge the success for your BI system and tell which reports are really being used, how often and by whom. During this webinar we show you how easy it is to implement an audit database and deploy the Cognos-supplied audit reporting package. We teach how to create custom, dynamic audit reports using Report Studio.

We also demonstrate how to create an Agent using Event Studio that can trigger an alert to administrators when specific events occur. Knowing the details of the BI system usage supports informed decisions that improve performance, increase user adoption, help plan future capacity needs, and put on-going administration and maintenance efforts where they are most beneficial.

Details such as identifying bottlenecks, under and over used system resources, unused reports, problem queries or reports, users in need of training, etc. Troubleshooting queries relative to the data base being accessed using the data base log versus auditing the native query. Consuming Active Reports on a iPad can be easy. Designing those reports takes some thought. Learn from our hands-on experience as Senturus shares some practical considerations, limitations and recommendations for Active Reports and reporting on the iPad.

Senturus reviews all the major new features of Cognos 10 from a pragmatic viewpoint. This presentation includes a matrix which clearly lays out which new features require additional fees and which ones are free for supported Cognos 8 customers. Demonstrations of Business Insight and Active Reports are shown.

The presentation ends with guidance on how to maximize the value of business intelligence by setting a solid data foundation. Cognos Report Studio 10 is full of new features that simplify report authoring. In this webinar, see demonstrations on how to create a conditional drill-through, freeze column headers, prompt for a date range in a dimensional report and drill-through to details in an ad-hoc studio while using Cognos Report Studio version Also, see a demonstration of creating an Active Report with data-driven controls.

Jump directly to any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen. Self-service BI is the situation in which business decision-makers are readily accessing, analyzing and reporting on virtually all the information they need -- without regular assistance from the IT group. The session also includes an unbiased, under-the-covers look at QlikView. The goal of the QlikView demonstration is to provide information sufficient for you to decide for yourself whether QlikView can enable self-service BI in your organization.

Slow user adoption of Business Intelligence BI solutions and capabilities can delay or even prevent a business from realizing the benefits of putting data access, visualization and discovery in the hands of decision makers and analysts.

Multi-purpose tools and an understanding of the keys to success can jump-start that adoption and speed benefits.

Our guest speaker is John Horner. John is a renowned expert with 15 years of experience working within the business intelligence and data warehousing industry including five years of hands-on experience with QlikView. John leads the BI Practice at Armanino Consulting, a Senturus Business Partner. Migrating a Cognos instance between authentication sources can be a scary experience, it's not as simple as moving from point A to point B.

Some forces that drive the need for migrating a Cognos instance from one authentication source to another are:. Business user security and ease of access to enterprise information, reports and BI infrastructure is enhanced with a centralized user identity approach. Reducing security risk often mandates a change from multiple, legacy security systems to centralized LDAP or Active Directory systems.

A Motio software-assisted migration that is efficient, timely and stress-free from one authentication source to another can minimize business user access interruption and be done with minimal impact on IT resources.

Therefore the migration options are:. The Motio software is not left with the client with this option. With a change from Access Manager to Active Directory, does the access to My Folders change? They will be authenticated to Active Directory, even though Cognos is looking at the Persona IQ data base.

In the demonstration, Active Directory was the authentication source. Does it also perform as the authorization source after the migration? The security namespace Active Directory, LDAP, Access Manager, etc. The authorization source what can the user access and what can the user do is still contained in the content store. Yes, but if there are a very large number e. No special network access credential is needed, but access to the namespaces involved and to the Cognos dispatcher is required.

In the conflict identification step of the migration, will a source security system entry of John Lock be matched to a target system entry of Lock, John? A number of pre-defined as well as custom mapping criteria can be used to match and to identify conflicts.

For example, use of some or all of: Can the software help with a migration from Active Directory to Tivoli Security? Can Persona IQ handle multiple Active Directory namespaces concurrently, including single sign-on SSO?

Yes, both SSO and multiple Active Directory instances can be accessed as multiple, top-level nodes. After migration is complete, how long does the intermediate Persona IQ data base need to be maintained?

It is permanent and persists within the Cognos security system and looks like an additional security provider to the ones initially provided in the Cognos software when installed: Series7, LDAP, Active Directory. An in-depth look into the new Dynamic Cubes capability that is available with IBM Cognos Details of the technology are presented that enables Dynamic Cubes and the advantages and value that the new capability provides.

By using bit in-memory technology that builds on the proven IBM Cognos dynamic query architecture, Dynamic Cubes are a compelling solution that allows leveraging existing data warehouse infrastructure to provide more analysis on greater volumes to a larger audience with better reliability and responsiveness.

Some of the challenges facing business intelligence reporting and business analytics delivery include:. These challenges can make achieving a robust business analytics vision difficult if not impossible.

John has over 20 years of IT experience. He has been working as a Senior Solutions Architect with Senturus since helping clients that include Kaiser Permanente, Franklin Templeton Investments, Sephora, Fremont Bank, and more. He has an in-depth knowledge of the entire BI stack from server hardware, database design, ETL, and metadata modeling. MDX is a the Multi-Dimensional Expression language used to query data from an OLAP cube or DMR Dimensional Model Relational that is generated off of an RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System.

Some key dimensions of businesses are always changing: While helping clients overcome these challenges, Senturus has found that IBM Cognos Business Viewpoint gives the business user the self-service of hierarchical management they need while offering control and stability. During this webinar recording we give a case study of how Business Viewpoint was implemented for one of our clients and show a demonstration of the product.

The business benefits of dimension ownership and management by business data owners in a shared, visible and auditable way are:. Every dollar invested in inventory counts, and there are always trade-offs to be made when choosing which is in fact the "best" product or product line to stock. Gross Margin Return on Inventory GMROI is a valuable-and sometimes overlooked-tool that can help companies decide how to "get the most bang from their inventory buck" and understand how to manage inventory so as to increase company sales and profitability.

Read this short whitepaper to learn how to make better inventory investment decisions. A quick comparison of which features of the Cognos Business Insight Standard Mode are included in the Cognos Enhanced Consumer license, versus which features of Cognos Business Insight Advanced Mode are included in the Cognos Advanced Business Author and above licenses.

Business Insight Standard Mode included in the Cognos Enhanced Consumer License. Business Insight Advanced Mode included in the Cognos Advanced Business Author and above licensing. This technique describes how in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Any user with Enhanced Consumer rights or greater can complete this technique using the standard IBM Cognos 10 sample materials. Is exporting your enterprise data to Excel getting old? Why not integrate your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence platform directly with your Microsoft Office tools?

You can explore and slice-and-dice data using the CAFE interface and reference live data from local expressions.

IBM Cognos for MS Office allows you to embed any report object, such as a chart or crosstab, directly in an MS Office document, presentation, or workbook. Simply open the file to refresh the data — no more manually embedding values or images into your standard briefing books or desktop reports! During this webinar one of our clients speaks about how her organization implemented these tools and was able to eliminate redundant, manual processes.

Reasons why many business prefer MS Office for final reports and distribution to business end users:. Therefore, integrating BI data with Excel and other MS Office products for direct, refreshable updates may be the best solution.

Yes, but there are analysis and sampling requirements for making observations and getting attribute values that usually require multiple snapshots and date stamping them so that values can be obtained for a specific point in time. Such as the values on a day that a customer defaults on a payment, or the values on the day a customer cancels an account, or the first day of each month to obtain trended historical values in the observation period.

Plus we review all the other major new features of IBM Cognos 10 and we explain which new features are included at no additional cost and which require trade up fees. These are new techniques we learned in the field, they are not out of the box. New report development features increase the productivity for report development. It also means shorter IT queue times for information service requests from business users.

Are the performance improvements available from upgrading from Cognos 8 to Cognos 10 only available if there is also a change from bit to bit processing? There are significant performance improvements from the architecture and methods changes in Cognos Are some of the features shown in the demonstrations also available in Active Reports?

Probably except for promptsbut not all of them have been tested. Because the Active Report is rendered on the server and then distributed as an MHT file, additional server-side processing would not be possible once the report is distributed. Also, Active Reports do not use prompts, but use Active Report Controls — which is different and not demonstrated today. Are the features of Cognos Workspace available when running in the native iPad application?

Probably, but not sufficiently tested yet. What license type is needed to consume as opposed to design and create dynamic cubes? No, this is only available in the widgets of Cognos Workspace and Cognos Insight.

Other Report Studio methods still need to be used to get this type of behavior in Report Studio. One option is to create the report in Report Studio and then push it into a widget in Cognos Workspace where the freeze column header can be used.

When moving from Cognos No, there has been minimal affect — assuming that there are no or very few custom objects imbedded in existing, standard reports. Use the Lifecycle Manager to create a parallel upgraded instance for validation. Not really as there is for Active Reports which support dynamic column sorting. The prior method of passing a sort parameter in a drill-through request — which results in re-querying a self-drilling report — provides the same result.

IBM made significant changes to TM1 in the version See demonstrations of the new functionality including:. Implementing a scorecarding solution is a long-term objective of many organizations, regardless of size. Scorecards are not just a new way to present performance management information, but part of a larger strategic initiative. IBM Cognos Metric Studio integrates your existing data assets with a powerful, full-featured, scorecarding interface which provides tools that allow executives, line managers, and other stakeholders to align their day-to-day activities with larger strategic objectives.

Gain an in-depth understanding of the new TM1 modeling technology, Performance Modeler. You can see the new version In this webinar, you will see demonstrations on how to use key Performance Modeler functionality including working with cubes from Cognos Insight and developing rules without coding. Learn a best practices approach that eliminates the need to open or change D-Links from forecast to forecast or at year-end. In this webinar, Senturus will teach you how to place business rules in easily maintained D-Cubes and to code the D-Links to use the D-Cube Allocation technique for dimensional mapping.

Once developed, the D-Links do not need to be opened or changed from forecast to forecast or at year-end. Learn how to seed new rolling-forecast versions with a dynamic combination of actual and prior forecast data; convert calendar year data to fiscal year data; reorganize the history of consolidated or closed departments; and reclassify miscellaneous or closed account expenses into planned accounts in less time and without having to open and maintain D-Links.

A five minute demonstration that shows the step-by-step instructions on how to install Cognos Insight 30 day Free Trial. We share a few tips to make the install go smoothly. During this webinar, we demonstrate IBM's TM1 Enterprise planning tool-including an overview of version We show how TM1 can be used to perform complex planning such as revenue planning, capital planning and retail assortment.

We discuss TM1's exceptionally fast performance for large, sophisticated models and data sets. Plus, we share a case study on how one of our clients implemented TM1 and the impact it had on their business. Upgrading to and installing Cognos 10 is a lot smoother once you have done it hundreds of times. During this webinar, Senturus shares the common issues and how-tos to streamline an upgrade. The presentation covers Cognos 10 BI Server core components, common installation issues, Cognos 10 search index required post-install and navigating the maze of 32 vs 64 bit.

IBM Cognos Insight empowers users to solve problems on their own without relying on IT assistance. End users can import, merge and update data without scripting; create custom dashboards and applications; and perform "what-if analysis". This 12 minute video demonstrates analytic capabilities of Cognos Insight by demonstrating how a Business Analyst creates a Cognos Insight file, how IT publishes the output file and applies security, and how a Regional Manager updates the plan in Cognos Insight through a TM1 contributor.

The second part to the demo illustrates how a person can get data into Cognos Insight and published to the Business Intelligence BI server. The datasheet highlights the Insight capabilities. Relying on spreadsheets, and even ERP systems, for consolidation tasks, such as multiple chart-of-accounts, foreign currency translation, and journals and reporting, is cumbersome, error prone and lacks compliance with government regulations. CCRF, which stands for "Close, Consolidate, Report and File," is a process that encompasses the use of best-of-breed software and a more focused flow of information from the very transactions that are posted all the way to reporting information in a productive, collaborative and efficient manner.

Gary Kantz, expert in CCRF with over 29 years of experience in the Office of Finance, addresses how to automate the Close and Consolidate processes and gives a demonstration of IBM Cognos Controller. Read this Analyst Insight by the Aberdeen Group based on responses from executives to learn how they use data and analytics to manage the reliability and maintenance of their assets.

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During this webinar, we will show you how to gain insight into the true drivers of profitability across your enterprise. See how Acorn's Profitability and Cost Management software allows for the allocation of costs to specific products and customers. In this webinar learn how to reduce costs and increase accuracy of your financial reporting.

See a demonstration of IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting FSR which provides collaborative reporting and electronic filing of financial reporting documents K, Annual Reports, Regulatory Reports etc.

This webinar is one part of a series of Senturus webinars in the Close, Consolidate, Report and File CCRF series, IBM Cognos 10's major new initiative. Increase productivity for data model development.

Metadata Modelers now have even more tools to guide them through proven design practices in IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager. The Framework Manager Model Design Accelerator is a new feature of IBM Cognos 10 that can significantly reduce the development cycle times for relational metadata models.

Other major new features of IBM Cognos 10 are reviewed. The new features are explained, indicating which new features are included at no charge and which new features require license trade-up. See demonstrations of TM1, IBM Cognos financial planning tool. Learn key elements of financial planning best practices and how your organization can implement them. The first half of this webinar is a demonstration of TM1, an IBM Cognos high-performance enterprise planning software for budgeting, forecasting and analysis.

The second half of the webinar is a presentation outlining the key elements of financial planning best practices based on experience across hundreds of clients. These best practices are software platform independent. Pre-built business intelligence applications are sold as the full solution out of the box, but what is the reality of their fit for your business? Traditionally pre-built BI applications have been hard coded to specific ERP systems, but there is a new generation of pre-built applications that allow organizations to configure the application to generate the transformations and reporting specific to the business.

In this session, Senturus will review the history and current state-of-the-art of pre-built BI applications and discuss the key success factors as they relate to build versus buy.

The session will include a demonstration of the new generation of configurable analytics platforms. Business intelligence BI has become increasingly more strategic in organizations. IT departments are looking for ways to manage and support deployments across divisions, regions, and functions through the standardization of technology.

A Business Intelligence Competency Center BICC can provide the centralized knowledge and best practices to help make these broader BI initiatives possible. This whitepaper will help you strengthen your understanding, planning and communication of the value of a BICC and its usage in your own organization. In addition, this document may help act as a catalyst to assisting you in establishing an initial plan to define your BICC charter.

IBM Cognos Metric Studio integrates your existing data assets with a powerful, full-featured, scorecarding interface which provides tools that allow stakeholders to align their day-to-day activities with larger strategic objectives. During this webinar, we discuss:. As Cognos IBM has two planning products: EP and TM1, what is the future for EP?

What does the new EP Version 10 offer? How does EP stack up to TM1?

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