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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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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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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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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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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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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