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In this month's Tech Tips we'll run through a demo on how to display dynamic prompts based on user selection. This is especially useful if you want to offer a lot of functionality in a report without confusing the user with a myriad of unnecessary…
A Tool to Standardize The Look and Feel of Your Reports
In last month’s Tips and Tricks we discussed how to standardize a “skin” in each of your different Cognos 8 environments. This allowed all users to receive the same look and feel when interacting with Cognos Connection. We’re…
Understanding Star Schema
If your house is anything like mine, then it would be called Google. You have to search to get anything you want. Even if your house is well organized, to find a book by title or author you have to sift through the bookcase. …
How to Standardize Unique Default Skins for Each of Your Different Environments
Many organizations utilize multiple Cognos environments as part of their development process, such as development, QA and production servers. It is not uncommon for users (especially system administrators and developers) to become confused…
About Success and Failure: Continued
Almost every day I hear of cases where Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives in companies are achieving tremendous results (3,623% ROI in 1 case) or are dismal failures and are wasting money. In my experience, there are two very key…
Ironside Group Presented at IBM-Cognos Performance 2009 Boston with client Timberland
Gregory Bonnette, Senior Technical Consultant of the Ironside Group presented alongside longtime client "The Timberland Company" at IBM-Cognos Performance 2009 in Boston on November 20, 2009.
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Ironside Group Presented at IBM-Cognos Performance 2009 New York with client MassMutual
Tim Kreytak of the Ironside Group presented at IBM-Cognos Performance 2009 in New York.
Demystifying IBM Cognos 8 Security
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…
How to Implement a Dynamic Page Break Using an Optional Filter
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…
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…
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