What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2.1

IBM Cognos 10.2.1 RAVE Extended Data Visualizations

On June 11th, IBM announced the release of Cognos 10.2.1, billed as a refresh pack, but loaded to the brim with new features, enhancements and improvements. The Ironside Group participated in the 10.2.1 beta earlier this year and had the opportunity to fully vet these new and exciting features and we have been anxiously awaiting [...]

Calculating the Time-Weighted Rate of Return in a Cognos Report

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In the investment management or financial services accounting world, one of the most common calculations you encounter in is the time-weighted rate of return (TWROR). The time-weighted rate of return (sometimes called the geometric mean return) is a method of measuring historical performance of an asset or portfolio when external cash flows are present in [...]

What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2

IBM Cognos 10.2 Dynamic Cube Architecture

IBM Cognos 10.2 Enterprise was announced today, and with it comes increased usability, performance and a host of new features. Below we’ll take a walk through a few of these new features and highlight how they’ll impact your bottom line business. Cognos Insight 10.2 Cognos Insight, released in Early 2012, is the Personal Analytics solution [...]

A Comprehensive Guide to Cognos Insight for Existing Cognos BI Customers: Part 1

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So you’ve likely heard about Cognos Insight, the new and exciting self-service, desktop dashboarding and analysis solution that has been making waves since its release in Q1 2012. This incredibly intuitive and easy-to-use tool enables rapid arrival at answers and simple what-if analysis by allowing users to drag-and-drop their way to a personal TM1 OLAP [...]

Enhanced Tomcat Monitoring with IBM Cognos 10

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Some of the most common requests that we field from our clients are related to IBM Cognos application performance tuning. Most administrators have the desire to squeeze every last drop of performance out of their applications and make the most out of the hardware they are hosted upon and Cognos is no exception to this [...]