Recorded Webinars, Demos & Whitepapers
In depth discussion of the 12 key elements of financial planning best practices including dos, don'ts, examples and benefits. The webinar contains live demos of a financial planning software tool: IBM Cognos TM1. Also hear real life case studies and Q&A. 90 minutes.
In this presentation Senturus discusses trends and best practices in performance management. Included is an examination of a segment of companies that outperform all others - to the tune of 20X higher earnings growth rates than the others. The session includes an examination of the research findings that disclose the factors that enable these companies to outperform. Finally, it includes a prescription for the things your company can do to achieve the same levels of outperformance.
Cloud computing clearly has great potential, but is it ready for your sensitive planning, budgeting and forecasting? In this webinar we discuss security, productivity gains, cost of ownership, scalability and more. This webinar includes a demonstration of Anaplan -- a cloud-based corporate performance management solution developed by the same people who originally developed the on-premise solution, Cognos Enterprise Planning.
Build a comprehensive Business Requirements Document using the data gathered from this requirements kick-start. This document provides an explanation of the 16 areas that should be assessed in deciding on an appropriate planning system for an organization. The answers to these questions will also define the optimum scope/level of effort for a planning solution project. This assessment is technology independent.
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. 60 minutes.
Senturus reviews the biggest BI challenges and provide pragmatic advice taken from our over 500 implementations on how to optimize BI investments The webinar includes a review of the current state of the Business Intelligence market and an overview of the market-leading business intelligence tools including Microsoft, Cognos, Business Objects and Oracle. Concludes with Q&A. 90 minutes.
With some business users, "data warehouse" has become a dirty word. For them, data warehouses are perceived as expensive, monolithic and built for old requirements. On the other hand, companies with enterprise-wide business insight capabilities tend to consistently outperform their peers by wide margins. Along with our guests from WhereScape, we show when you need a data warehouse and how to achieve the benefits of enterprise-wide business insight while avoiding the downsides typically associated with data warehouses. 90 minutes.
Labor is the #1 controllable cost. Managing labor costs well can drive millions of dollars to the bottomline. The challenge is that labor data resides in many places: payroll data, HR, ERP/GL, timecard and scheduling systems; and tools are not available to "slice and dice" the data. During this webinar, Senturus shows you how to overcome these challenges and truly analyze your labor allocation for maximum service and profit. Guest speaker, Kevin Hogge, CFO of CRC Health Group, shares his company's experience in labor management. Senturus also shares a case study with a retail sector client. 45 minutes.
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 webinar 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. 60 minutes.
Pre-built business intelligence applications are sold as the full solution out of the box, but what is the reality of their fit for your business? Traditionally pre-built BI applications have been hard coded to specific ERP systems, but there is a new generation of pre-built applications that allow organizations to configure the application to generate the transformations and reporting specific to the business. In this session Senturus will review the history and current state-of-the-art of pre-built BI applications and discuss the key success factors as they relate to build versus buy. The session will include a demonstration of the new generation of configurable analytics platforms. 90 minutes.
Direct marketing is becoming more and more a part of every Marketing organization. And with the move to direct marketing and the multiple channels and providers an organization typically uses, complete measurement becomes critical. From optimizing spend, to justifying budgets, to keeping up with other departments executive reporting, an organization needs to understand the effect of each and every directing marketing campaign. This webinar includes reviewing why measurement is critical in direct marketing, showing common mistakes in determining what to measure, developing a direct marketing analysis maturity model and determining where your organization falls within the model, how to improve your analysis to move towards direct marketing NIRVANA, and a demonstration of how to accomplish this with todays technology. 60 minutes.
Business intelligence (BI) has become increasingly more strategic in organizations. IT departments are looking for ways to manage and support deployments across divisions, regions, and functions through the standardization of technology. A Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) can provide the centralized knowledge and best practices to help make these broader BI initiatives possible. This white paper will help you strengthen your understanding, planning and communication of the value of a BICC and its usage in your own organization. In addition, this document may help act as a catalyst to
assisting you in establishing an initial plan to define your BICC charter.
Senturus reviews the all the major new features of Cognos 10 from a pragmatic viewpoint. This presentation includes a matrix which clearly lays out which new features require additional fees and which ones are free for supported Cognos 8 customers. Demonstrations of Business Insight and Active Reports are shown. Over 30 questions are addressed in the Q&A. The presentation ends with guidance on how to maximize the value of business intelligence by setting a solid data foundation.
One of the major new capabilities of the IBM Cognos 10 platform is Business Insight. This new solution is intended to enable non-technical users to perform their own analysis and create professional-style reports with minimal training. This webinar contains in-depth demonstrations of self-service advanced authoring and analysis techniques including business authoring and ad-hoc analysis with business insight advanced, slice-and-dice data exploration, unions and advanced set definitions, calculations and context filters, and advanced report layout. 90 minutes
Mobile rights are now included for your Cognos Enhanced Consumer or higher licenses. During this webinar, we show the new mobile features of the 10.1.1 release and review the other major new features of Cognos 10. Also we clearly explain which features of Cognos 10 are included at no additional charge and which require license trade-up.
One of the most interesting features of Cognos 10 is the integration of Predictive Analytics and SPSS functionality. During this webinar you will witness how you can add new value to your Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions by incorporating predictive analytics. Learn what is SPSS and how it fits into the Cognos platform, what predictive and statistical tools come bundled with Cognos 10 at no cost, and which are extra, see a live demonstration of SPSS and Cognos 10 working together, and much more. 60 minutes.
Cognos Report Studio 10 is full of new features that simplify authoring reports. In this webinar, see demonstrations on how create a conditional drill-through, freeze column headers, prompt for a date range in a dimensional report and drill-through to details in an ad-hoc studio while using Cognos Report Studio version 10. Also, see a demonstration of creating an Active Report with data-driven controls. 100 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
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. 90 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
The webinar includes demonstrations on creating briefing books using a table of contents and bookmarks, creating a conditional drill-through report, advanced prompting with dimensional data, setting up drill-through to Query Studio, freezing column headers in a list report. 100 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
Model Design Accelerator provides a method of quickly guiding you through the process of building a star schema modeling for reporting. The Model Design Accelerator evaluates each design step against the modeling proven practices to identify and help resolve potential issues. This webinar includes metadata modeling goals, metadata modeling best practices, a demonstration of Model Design Accelerator and Q&A. This presentation was edited from a longer webinar which included other Metadata Modeling demonstrations. You may see these other demonstrations in the Cognos Framework Manager Metadata Modeling Tips and Tricks webinar on our website.
You can now access your company's content on devices by Apple, RIM (Blackberry) or Android with Cognos Mobile without purchasing a separate mobile license. Cognos Mobile allows you to use all the intuitive gestures of your mobile devise-pinch, scroll, swipe. Plus there's no re-authoring of BI reports for different devices. This short video demonstrates the functionality on a variety of mobile devices.
During this webinar we create 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. 90 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
Using cubes and other dimensional sources in IBM Cognos dashboards can be a challenge to even the most skilled report authors. Learn best practices for creating interactive dashboards in the Cognos portal. Experience live demonstrations using Report Studio, Cognos Connection, multi-dimensional expressions (MDX), Cognos portlets, and inter-portlet communication techniques. All techniques covered are applicable to all versions of Cognos 8 and Cognos 10.
The Security model in Cognos 8 can be a challenge to even experienced system administrators. Successfully implementing all of the relevant areas of security requires effective planning and a deep understanding of how each component will affect the user experience. This webinar includes the following discussions and demonstrations: 1) Cognos 8 Security Model overview 2) Implementing Single Sign-on (SSO) with Active Directory and Internet Information Services (IIS) 3) Optimizing the Cognos environment. 4) Using free tools from Motio to investigate User and Object policies. 5) Row-level security best practices 6) Understanding Cognos 8 Data Sources, Connections and Sign-ons 7) Motio deployment utilities. 8) Using Motio for managing Groups and My Folders. 9) Migrating permissions 10) Serving both internal and external users within a single Cognos 8 environment 11) How to set up the internal Cognos gateway. 12) Limitations and workarounds for adding portal tabs to a group 13) Monitoring how much memory Java uses under Cognos 8 14) Configuring the Notification Store (required when using multiple servers) 15) Single Sign-on (SSO) with LDAP 16) Setting the Sort Buffer. 110 minutes. Jump directly to any topic by using the table of contents on the left side of the viewing screen.
In this session our experienced instructor covers the analytical capabilities available to business users within the Cognos business intelligence suite, including: isolating trends, comparing actuals versus plan, slicing and dicing, drilling down, charting, creating custom subsets and more. You will also understand how to save your analyses and incorporate them into your own custom dashboard. 90 minutes.
IBM Cognos Metric Studio integrates your existing data assets with a powerful, full-featured, scorecarding interface which provides tools that allow stakeholders to align their day-to-day activities with larger strategic objectives. Demonstrations during this webinar will include: Managing performance with scorecards; Why use Metric Designer to build the metrics application; Define a metrics application using Metric Designer; Populate objects in Metric Studio using Metric Designer extracts; Populate metric values using Metric Designer extracts.
Implementing a scorecarding solution is a long-term objective of many organizations, regardless of size. Scorecards are not just a new way to present performance management information, but part of a larger strategic initiative. IBM Cognos Metric Studio integrates your existing data assets with a powerful, full-featured, scorecarding interface which provides tools that allow executives, line managers, and other stakeholders to align their day-to-day activities with larger strategic objectives. See how Metric Studio can be leveraged to, track Key Performance Indicators across the enterprise, assign ownership and accountability, implement a balanced scorecard, record and track activities associated with metrics (actionable scorecarding) and understand the strategic impact of key metrics. 90 minutes, Jump directly to any topic by using the table of contents on the left side of the viewing screen.
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 based on user attributes and dimensional modeling of relational query subjects. 80 minutes. Jump directly to any topic by using the table of contents on the left side of the viewing screen.
Business intelligence solutions deliver tremendous value to organizations as long as people use them. User adoption is the primary key to success because the vast majority of BI value comes from the improved decisions it enables. Our experience across hundreds of projects has shown that user adoption rates are highest when online analytical processing (OLAP) is part of the solution. In this recorded webinar you will learn best practices in OLAP modeling using Cognos 8 Transformer, including: 1) The value of online analytical processing (OLAP), 2) A reference business intelligence architecture, 3) How to synchronize Transformer and the data source, 4) Customizing the Transformer model using sub-dimensions and relative time categories, 5) Resolving conflicts when using multiple data sources, 6) Setting measure properties and comparing roll-up options plus applying basic cube security, and 6) OLAP enhancements in Cognos 10. 90 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
In this IBM-produced demonstration, see how Cognos 10 can change the way organizations use business intelligence so you can see more, do more and drive better business results. The presentation is divided into chapters which highlight features most relevant to Executives, Business Managers, Business Users, Business Analysts, Extranet, and BI Professionals. You may navigate directly to the appropriate chapter
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.
See demonstrations of TM1, IBM Cognos financial planning tool. Learn key elements of financial planning best practices and how your organization can implement them. The first half of this webinar is a demonstration of TM1, an IBM Cognos high-performance enterprise planning software for budgeting, forecasting and analysis. The second half of the webinar is a presentation outlining the key elements of financial planning best practices based on experience across hundreds of clients. These best practices are software platform independent. 90 minutes. Jump directly to the any topic using the table of contents on the left of the screen.
Learn how to perform new planning year roll-over tasks in less time and without having to open and maintain D-Links each year. A best practices approach is to place the business rules for the year-end tasks in easily maintained D-Cubes and to code the D-Links to use the D-Cube Allocation technique for dimension mapping. Once developed, the D-Links do not need to be opened or changed. During this webinar, learn to seed new rolling-forecast versions with a dynamic combination of actual and prior forecast data; convert calendar year data to fiscal year data; reorganize the history of consolidated or closed departments; and reclassify miscellaneous or closed account expenses into planned accounts.
This EP Tips and Techniques webinar present s 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. 70 minutes. Jump directly to any topic by using the table of contents on the left side of the viewing screen.
This recording includes demonstrations of the following tips and techniques: 1. How to automate Access Table updates and make them dependent upon the type of data contained in each month and on the Contributor tab, 2. How to provide planned data summaries for Publish and Export that have additional business dimensions that are not used for planning a.k.a., turning an attribute into a dimension, 3. How to use E-list IDs so that D-list items are not considered new which causes automatic delete and add actions within Contributor, and 4. How to plan expense allocations. 60-minutes. Jump directly to any topic by using the table of contents on the left side of the viewing screen.
If your company is like many others, you are probably moving to Windows 7 as a standard platform for desktops and laptops. But you may not be aware that all but the latest version of IBM Cognos Planning does not run on Windows 7. (The same is true for Windows 2008.) What to do? Is there an upgrade path? What are the impacts to users and my other systems? What about my planning applications and models, will they need to change? During this session Senturus will answer these questions. You will learn about the system requirements for this upgrade, as well as the significant new features that it offers. The session includes: Overview of "What's New" in Cognos Planning 8.4.1, system requirements, upgrade effort & potential impacts, migration approaches and integration with Cognos Business Intelligence 8.4.1. 30 minutes.
As Cognos IBM has two planning products: EP and TM1, what is the future for EP? What does the new EP Version 10 offer? How does EP stack up to TM1? Why do some customers switch from EP to TM1? During this webinar, we demonstrate EP's latest enhancements and the support plan for the future. Included is a live demonstration of TM1 and a compare and contrast of EP and TM1. A current EP customer, Trimble Navigation, speaks about their experience with their TM1 pilot. 90 minutes
You will learn how to deploy a TM1 Contributor application and will see the advantages of Contributor versus TM1 Web. The webinar also shows 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. 60 minutes.
Faster, more accurate forecasting is essential in todays business environment, where new profit opportunities emerge quickly and require rapid, strategic decision making. Rolling forecasting supported by performance management applications such as IBM Cognos TM1 can provide the kind of on-demand information and
instant recalculations you need to react to changing market conditions.
This paper describes how midsize companies can transform their preadsheet-only processes to create flexible and timely plans, budgets and forecasts. It outlines recommendations for implementing a complete performance management system,using IBM Cognos Express, an integrated reporting, analysis and planning solution purpose-built for midsize companies.
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. 60 minutes.
