Entries by Ironside Group

Understanding Cognos Audit Reports and Tables

The IBM Cognos platform provides complete auditing capabilities that enable auditing and managing system usage. By default, system messages, errors, and other product details are logged to flat files that reside in the log directory. IBM Cognos BI provides an additional option to output audit usage information to a relational database. With the usage audit […]

A Sales Perspective on Incentive Compensation and Sales Performance Management

On April 13, 2012, IBM announced the acquisition of Varicent, a leading provider of sales performance management (SPM) and incentive compensation (IC) analytics software. The Ironside Group loves this move as it further sets IBM business analytics solutions apart from the pack. This acquisition is continued proof of IBM delivering on its strategic growth objective […]

IBM Cognos Content Archiving with FileNet

In the past, administrators have responded to the challenge of managing report output history through various methods. That may have meant setting output version limits, creating deployment export .zip files, configuring outputs to write to file system directories, or simply increasing the capacity of the content store. While this challenge will always exist, a new […]

What’s New in IBM Cognos 10.2

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 […]

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Introduction to Predictive Modeling

Predictive Analytics 101 Business intelligence focuses on the identification and understanding of events that happened in the past; that is “what’s happened?” and “why has it happened?” Business imperatives and other constraints are increasingly driving organizations to look forward and use their data to ensure decisions that are being made today will lead to wins […]

How to Make the Most of Your Cognos Investment

Given recent innovations in the latest IBM Cognos toolset and the promise of business intelligence to provide a competitive advantage, more and more customers are critically evaluating their business intelligence strategy and roadmap, including customers who own earlier versions of Cognos and those looking to make an initial investment into the current version of the […]

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

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 […]

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BAO Inc. gets ahead of the competition with help from Ironside Group – Case Study

Overview Headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, BAO Inc. acts as a partner for sales and marketing teams in the high-tech industry, developing powerful, aggressive go-to-market strategies. BAO gives organizations the real-time insight, tools, and resources they need to transform their businesses – to drive new revenue while increasing the profitability of existing accounts; to optimize sales […]