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Amazon Quick: Redefining BI with AI

When AWS first introduced Quick Sight, it transformed how organizations visualized and explored their data. For many businesses, it marked the beginning of a new era of cloud native analytics that is fast, scalable, and accessible. Now AWS…

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Business Analytics, Data Management

ETL vs. ELT – What’s the Big Difference?

ELT is a term heard increasingly in today’s analytic environments. Understanding what it means, and how you can make use of it, requires understanding the traditional nature of how data warehouses are loaded and how data movement tools work.…

Awards & Recognition, Business Analytics

Ironside’s Cloud-Based Netezza Solution Tops IBM Award Finalists

Ironside Recognized as 2015 IBM Beacon Award Finalist for Outstanding Information Management Solution This year, Ironside received the high honor of being placed among the finalists for IBM’s prestigious Beacon Award in the category of…

Awards & Recognition

Ironside’s Accomplishments: A 2014 Retrospective

Ironside's accomplishments were many in 2014. We expanded into new regions, brought on lots of new talent, and continued our development as one of the most trusted advisors in the industries we serve. To give you a quick glimpse into how we’ve…

Selecting the Right Cognos 10.2.2 Tool Kit Concept

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Webinar Series: Select the Right Cognos 10.2.2 Tool for the Job

On February 24th, Ironside hosted Select the Right Cognos 10.2.2 Tool for the Job: Real-Life Selection Process Leveraging Your use Case webinar, where Ironside's Senior Consulant De Hsieh, presented an in-depth look into which of the many…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Case Study: Migrating Cognos from Series 7 to Version 10 with SDK

Migrating Cognos is a highly involved process, especially when you're moving across multiple versions. When one of our clients needed this kind of migration completed, our experts turned to Cognos SDK to streamline the process and adjust the…

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Business Analytics

Alternate Hierarchies vs. Ragged Hierarchies

To a TM1 developer, alternate hierarchies are sometimes synonymous with ragged hierarchies. When designing cubes for Cognos BI, it’s important to remember that they are structurally different concepts. How you model them in TM1 will affect…

Business Analytics, Data Management

Top 5 Trends in Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics for 2015

In 2014, cloud data warehousing services led the information management category in increased adoption rate, jumping from 24% to 34% according to surveys by Information Week [1]. For organizations challenged by data urgency needs that can be…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Tabbed Reports in Cognos 10.2.2: The New, Easy Way to Make Clean, Consumable Multi-Page Reports

In Cognos 10.2.1 and earlier versions, the phrase that most accurately described a multi-page report was “wrestling match.” Long list reports would flow on for page after page until somewhere along the way you ran into that chart you knew…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Information for All: Watson Analytics and IBM’s Self-Service Revolution

You might have missed it if you weren’t closely following the situation or already using the platform, but around the middle of last month IBM forever changed the concept of self-service analytics when they quietly moved Watson Analytics…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Building Best Practice TM1 Cubes for Cognos BI Reporting

TM1 cubes have now become the OLAP solution of choice for many Cognos BI environments. Because of this emerging trend, there are some techniques and tips that TM1 developers should be familiar with when building a cube for Cognos BI reports.…

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Welcome to our blog.

Amazon Quick: Redefining BI with AI

ETL vs. ELT – What’s the Big Difference?

Ironside’s Cloud-Based Netezza Solution Tops IBM Award Finalists

Ironside’s Accomplishments: A 2014 Retrospective

Ironside Webinar Series: Select the Right Cognos 10.2.2 Tool for the Job

Case Study: Migrating Cognos from Series 7 to Version 10 with SDK

Alternate Hierarchies vs. Ragged Hierarchies

Top 5 Trends in Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics for 2015

Tabbed Reports in Cognos 10.2.2: The New, Easy Way to Make Clean, Consumable Multi-Page Reports

Information for All: Watson Analytics and IBM’s Self-Service Revolution

Building Best Practice TM1 Cubes for Cognos BI Reporting

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