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Category Archives: BI&CPM

Panorama integrates in Google Docs to provide BI capabilities

This is really great. For Panorama, in my opinion. Getting up a giant user-base accustomed to their tools, getting a huge attention. Where was Cognos IBM, one wonders Official links Panorama blog comments

Posted 20 March 2008 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Future Oracle BI Architecture by Rittman

Just in case you missed that — awesome course about on how to cook Oracle BI projects is freely available!!!

Posted 12 March 2008 † ykud § oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Ways of calculating Running Count to import data into Multi-Line models

I’ve nicked the term “Multi-Line” model out from some cognos best practices presentations. Never known it was called that way ) Multi-Line is only way to go when you have a potentially huge dimension only a tiny bit of which should be available to end-user at a time. Like employee planning, whole dimension of 10k [...]

Posted 01 February 2008 † ykud § bi § cognos § ep § ep cookbook § large dimensions § open source ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Calculating trend lines in Cognos Report Studio and Oracle SQL

I’m more than just emotional right now since I’ve finally got that bugger of my neck. To those who’re interested in getting trend calculated in oracle — press page-down once. Trend line calculation in Cognos. It’s 2008 as my desktop calendar says and it’s “Targeted information to a broader range of users ” on top [...]

Posted 25 January 2008 † ykud § bi § cognos § oracle ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Some link dumping

Essbase is finally supported in Oracle BI. Hooray. From here. Cognos 8.2 BI sp1 out, gotta give it a try.

Posted 09 January 2008 † ykud § oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Oracle Data Integrator + Jython : How to drop all indexes on table

I’m currently building a warehouse using ODI, so I’ll share some findings as it goes. And there’s be Cognos BI on top of it and EP is one of the sources, so I’m still close to the roots ) Disclaimer: I’m Oracle & ODI n00b — there are (?) better ways of accomplishing these tasks [...]

Posted 29 November 2007 † ykud § coding § oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Adaytum is back home, IBM buys Cognos

There’s a story I’d like to tell, especially funny in context with recent merger. I’ve found all this stuff (see links) about a year ago and I imagined the undocumented parts, it’s not official. In deep 90s a great guy named George Kunzle lead the development of IBM internal budgeting system, called FREGI. It was [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 † ykud § cognos § ibm ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

IBM buys Cognos

Cognos press-release IBM press-release I don’t know what to add for now.

Posted 12 November 2007 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

BO + SAP

SAP bla-bla-bla BO bla-blapros: bla-bla-blacons: bla-bla-blaI’m kinda bored with those M&As. It’s bad for technology and industry focus. And IBM bla-bla Cognos.

Posted 08 October 2007 † ykud § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Mcirosoft PerformancePoint is out

Official release Launch site. Lets fasten our belts, BI market will never be the same )

Posted 21 September 2007 † ykud § Microsoft ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,