One of the most challenging aspects of establishing any enterprise business intelligence platform is the design and implementation of a security model that is flexible and extensible enough to meet the needs of your business while also remaining simple enough to administer and maintain. Every organization is unique in how they operate, so a structure… Read More »
Demystifying IBM Cognos 8 Security
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How to Implement a Dynamic Page Break Using an Optional Filter
October 27, 2009 By Susan Ma
Page Breaking is a useful feature to offer report consumers. However, it’s often difficult to do this if the item you want to break on is dynamic. Here we show you how to do this with cascading, optional prompts while page breaking on the lowest level chosen.
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About Success and Failure
Two very different articles came across my desk this afternoon. One described an IBM Cognos implementation with 3,623% return on investment just in 11 days. The other described how some UK firms are spending millions on Business Intelligence (BI) and seeing little in return. Clearly organizations are investing in the technology, but there are just… Read More »
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