Entries by Ironside Group

IBM’s Information Management $20B Five Year Acquisition Budget

IBM has executed a total of 12 acquisitions since January 2010, proceeding with its strategy of continually enhancing their product portfolio with best-of-breed technologies that are complimentary to their present solutions. Most noteworthy are three of such acquisitions that have occurred since mid-August: Unica, a Marketing Planning company on August 13, 2010 OpenPages, […]

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7 Steps to Going Green with Enterprise Business Intelligence

Investing in a robust enterprise business intelligence platform like IBM Cognos can be a gateway to improving your organization’s performance in a multitude of ways. One such area of improvement which cannot be dismissed or overlooked is to respond to the call for greater corporate social responsibility. We now live an age where achieving success […]

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Understanding the Benefits of IBM Cognos 64-bit

The implementation of 64-bit infrastructures has become commonplace throughout most IT departments regardless of the size of the organization. Whether it is a corporate decision to utilize the opportunities available with the more powerful architecture or simply a question that arises when purchasing new hardware, it has become a common thread in all IT discussions. […]

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IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Fundamentals and Advanced Training – Nov. 15-19, 2010

The Ironside Group is excited to publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Framework Manager Training courses in back-to-back fashion for the first time. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth real-world technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this […]

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IBM Cognos Query Studio Training – Sept. 23, 2010

Unburden your IT department by giving end users the ability to easily create and share their own Web-based Ad Hoc reports! Query Studio the easy-to-use tool that is designed for non-technical and business users who want self-service reporting without having to understand relational database schemas and concepts. This type of reporting is essential in allowing […]

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New England Cognos Users Group Meeting – Sept. 16, 2010

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 […]

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Best Practices in Cognos 8 Framework Manager Model Design: Part 2 – Advanced Modeling Issues

Editor’s Note:  This blog was originally posted on August 1, 2010 and has been reviewed and updated on 10/5/2020 with Cognos Analytics 11.1.7.  We find that these best practice tips about metadata modeling are still very useful to build solid data foundation for reports, especially cardinality settings and stich query controls as they are critical […]

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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced Public Training Course

Report Studio Advanced, the latest public class offering from the Ironside Group, is now available. If you are looking to improve your report writing skills with advanced techniques and tips and tricks to further enhance, customize and manage your report offerings then this course is for you. Courses are facilitated by our own veteran consultants […]

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