Business Intelligence De-mystified - Slide Deck
Presentation Slide Deck

Do you wonder why it is so hard to get good and timely data from your enterprise reporting system? Why are business people unable to use ad hoc analysis to answer their business questions? This slide deck covers real-world case studies on companies who have made the switch to self-service BI and analysis. These organizations now enjoy timely, reliable, and accurate information and the ability to better predict and drive corporate performance. This slide deck was used in our August 25, 2010 "Business Intelligence & Analysis De-mystified" webinar. Come back to this page in early September to see the playback recording as well. Those of you who can get to Northern California on September 16, 2010 might also want to register for our Business Intelligence De-mystified Hands-on Workshop scheduled for that day. Registrations are being taken on the Events page of this site. (Click the RESOURCES tab and select EVENTS.)

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Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced Authoring Techniques, Part III
Recorded Webinar

The webinar includes demonstrations on creating briefing books using a table of contents and bookmarks, creating a conditional drill-through, freezing column headers and prompting for a date range in a dimensional report. This 90 minute, expert-led, training webinar was originally delivered on July 20, 2010.

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IBM Cognos TM1 Contributor
Recorded Webinar

Watch recording of complimentary 90-minute web event illustrating sample of what is available from Senturus Education Services. You will learn how to deploy a TM1 Contributor application and will see the advantages of Contributor versus TM1 Web. The session also showed how to create pick lists to ensure data integrity in text cells along with how to use Sandboxes to evaluate multiple scenarios and for sophisticated what-if analysis and followed by interactive question and answer session.

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Cognos EP Tips and Techniques
Recorded Webinar

90 minutes of Free Training led by an IBM Cognos Certified trainer.This EP Tips and Techniques webinar will present specific modeling techniques that add control and flexibility as well as resolving some common finance planning challenges. Learn how finance model administrators, without structure changes and without opening D-Links or D-Lists, can modify their model, allocate expenses, and more.

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Cognos 8 Metadata Modeling Tips & Tricks
Recorded Webinar

90 Minutes of expert-led tips and tricks with Cognos 8 Framework Manager! Understand the use of Determinants and their importance. Enhance your metadata by leveraging Parameter Maps and Query Macros. See a live demonstration of implementing row-level security. Demonstrate Dimensional Modeling of Relational query subjects.

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How Shutterfly Cut 5 Days Off Their Close
Recorded Webinar

Tom Cadden, Shutterfly Senior Manager of FP&A, tells how his company makes faster, better business decisions in a competitive, dynamic marketplace. Shutterfly was able to shorten its close cycle by deploying a planning system, building a data mart to consolidate ERP and plan data, and building a front end dashboard for plan contributors. Learn how you can compress your close cycle, eliminate manual preparation, and provide business owners a highly efficient tool for analysis, planning and reconciliation...all using your existing systems.

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Cognos 8 Multi-Dimensional Dashboarding
Recorded Webinar

90 minutes of Free Training led by an IBM Cognos Certified trainer. Create three reports in Report Studio using dynamic dimensional authoring techniques. Use dimensional functions such as topCount(), tuple(), and descendants(). Use Slicer Member Sets to filter dimensional queries. Use Parameters in dimensional queries to define prompting. Create in-report Prompting. Create a custom Portal Page using Cognos Viewers and Cognos Navigator Portlets. Synchronize prompting and drill-down using inter-portlet communication. Deploy Portal Tabs to other users using administrative capabilities. "It was awesome." was just one of the many unsolicited comments we received after this was originally delivered on December 16, 2009.

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Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced Authoring Techniques
Recorded Webinar

The webinar includes demonstrations on prompt-driven dashboards, performing market basket analysis using queries, merging results using a set operation, enabling users to select report display type at run time, and defining relative-time periods using dimensional data. This 90 minute, expert-led, training webinar was originally delivered on October 22, 2009.

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Microsoft Business Intelligence: Too Good to be True?
Recorded Webinar

Microsoft Business Intelligence software is significantly less expensive than that of the traditional BI leaders, but how does Microsoft's BI functionality compare? During this webinar, we compare Microsoft Business Intelligence with traditional BI leaders, we assess Microsoft BI across key factors, and we give a functionality tour of Microsoft BI. David Buckey, Sr. DBA of the Jamba Juice Company shares his experience with Microsoft BI.

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Next-Generation Forecasting
Whitepaper

Using a case study approach, "Next-Generation Forecasting: Performance Management and Rolling Forecasts" gives you a clear picture of the tremendous impact a more accurate and continuous forecasting process can have on your bottom line.

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IBM Cognos Express Overview
Datasheet

IBM Cognos Express is an integrated business intelligence (BI) and planning solution purpose-built to meet the needs of midsize companies. It delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford.

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SAP/Business Objects XI 3.0 Migration Basics
Whitepaper Download

This whitepaper will provide you the basics and benefits of the migration process. Any questions you will need to ask, you will find here. With a focus at Office of CIO decision-makers, this whitepaper is great for prospects to evaluate how business operations performance can successfully migrate their business intelligence systems to a single platform. Migration to XI 3.0 gives customers access to the newest end-user tools such as Mobile, Widgets and Xcelsius 2008.

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