It’s that time of year again – time for the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant. Like a bad ex who just won’t back off, Gartner drops their annual market warping report around Valentine’s Day to ruin the mood. I’ve expressed strong opinions in the past about Gartner’s report and methodology and this year will be no […]
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Data Modeling for Success: BACon 2020
Getting Started Logging in and creating a folder for your work Because of high interest in today’s session we are using a single 96 core 768 GB RAM Cognos server with anonymous access allowed. This makes logistics much easier but means we don’t have access to the ‘My content’ feature of Cognos. Click here to […]
Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 What’s New
Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 is live! This release features a ton of great quality of life enhancements. Chief among them is a great dashboard UI refresh, a new interactive data table in report authoring and some very welcome changes to data modules. There are also some shifts in IBMs design language with refreshed icons, and a […]
When To Use Cognos Data Sets
I introduced you to Cognos Data Sets in Part 1 of this series and you recognize some intriguing possibilities. You want the massively improved performance, simple presentation for end users and quick road to Cognos modernization that Data Sets offer, but you’re not sure how to start. Well I’m here to help you understand when […]
What are Cognos Data Modules?
Cognos Data Modules are a web-based data acquisition, blending and modeling feature available in Cognos Analytics. They first hit the scene as part of Cognos 11 and are meant to supplement and eventually replace Framework Manager for both self-service and IT data modeling needs. I’ll pause for a second to let you long-time Cognoids hyperventilate […]