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From BI to Data Science: An Interview with Tom Clancy

At Ironside, we believe that data science is a team sport, and should be accessible to and enable as many players as possible. We work with clients on a regular basis to make data science accessible within their organization. But we also do…

FP&A

Solving for the Top 3 Financial Planning Challenges in Higher Education

The process of creating a new fiscal year budget or long range plan, especially for Higher Education, tends to be overly complex, fraught with strategy misalignment and riddled with errors. I know this all too well as a former Budget Manager…

Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Monitoring Your Cognos Analytics Environment

Maintaining system availability is an important aspect of every Cognos Analytics administrator's job. Monitoring your Cognos Analytics environment is a key part of maintaining this availability. You’re likely already monitoring the IBM Cognos…

Business Analytics

Fixing Requirements: It's Not What You Build, It's Why

We're often asked how "our methodology" helps drive better user adoption. The key to user adoption is satisfying users’ needs, within the context of their environment. This sounds obvious, but it’s surprisingly easy to miss the mark. And…

Data Management, Featured

Implementing a Successful Master Data Management Solution

Any discussion of Master Data Management automatically includes a discussion of Data Governance. The two go hand in hand. Successful MDM implementations require understanding data ownership, stewardship, and security, as well as determining…

FP&A

End the Fighting (Over Disconnected Planning Models)

I hope no fists are flying at your office over budgeting and forecasting, however conflict is likely to occur. In this case, opinions and facts from different stakeholders can help. At the same time, impactful decisions at organizations that…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

3 Ways to Modernize Your Cognos Environment

The last several years have represented an interesting journey for organizations and teams leveraging Cognos for analytics. During that time, visual data discovery tools have made a significant impact. However, as of late, we have seen the pendulum…

Data Management

Five Essential Capabilities: Elastic Data Processing & Storage

This is part five in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise. Over the last 20 years of doing business we have seen a number of different analytical data storage and query concepts fall in…

Data Management

Five Essential Capabilities: Master Data Management

This is part four in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise. Businesses have been deploying enterprise data governance (defining what the data should be) and master data management (ensuring…

Data Science

Five Essential Capabilities: Automated Machine Learning

This is part three in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise. Most business analysts will reach for their favorite data visualization tool when it comes time to perform driver and correlation…

Data Management

Five Essential Capabilities: Data Wrangling

This is part two in our five part series on the essential capabilities of the competitive data-driven enterprise. For decades, data integration and modeling have been done in either of two likely places: The enterprise ETL or Data Warehouse…

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Welcome to our blog.

From BI to Data Science: An Interview with Tom Clancy

Solving for the Top 3 Financial Planning Challenges in Higher Education

Ironside Tech Tip: Monitoring Your Cognos Analytics Environment

Fixing Requirements: It's Not What You Build, It's Why

Implementing a Successful Master Data Management Solution

End the Fighting (Over Disconnected Planning Models)

3 Ways to Modernize Your Cognos Environment

Five Essential Capabilities: Elastic Data Processing & Storage

Five Essential Capabilities: Master Data Management

Five Essential Capabilities: Automated Machine Learning

Five Essential Capabilities: Data Wrangling

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