Ironside Group 2011 Annual Golf Event
New England Cognos Users Group Meeting – Hartford, CT – May 12, 2011
The New England Cognos Users Group is an amazing opportunity to network and collaborate with other IBM Cognos Professionals in the Northeast Region. Each event is packed with informative talks and demonstrations from local organizations that highlight their own applied experiences with IBM Cognos software. Experts from the Ironside Group are always in attendance more… Read More »
Best Practices in Cognos 8 Framework Manager Model Design: Part 2 – Advanced Modeling Issues
Last month’s article described the overall approach for best practice model design using the 4 layer architecture. In this month’s article, I’ll describe some advanced issues which arise during model design, and how best to deal with them. Given the limitless and complex situations that can come up during modeling, these techniques may or may… Read More »
IBM Cognos Analytic Applications
As consultants the first question we are often asked by our customers is can we build reports directly against our transactional systems. While there are some exceptions our general best practice is to recommend against this type of architecture. The reasons are long and detailed, but simply put, some high level reasons not to build… Read More »
Creating Dynamic IBM Cognos Reports with jQuery
There is a growing need to provide more dynamic and interactive reporting for technically savvy consumers that have elevated expectations for how their data should be presented to them. With the arrival of IBM Cognos 8.4 comes Cognos Mashup Services, an API that empowers us to build modern looking and feeling web applications using IBM Cognos… Read More »
