In my opinion it’s a rather good product for IAS consolidation. It includes all the required steps (transforming to common currency, intercompany operations exclusion, calculating equity shares). All this is controlled by nice GUI with parameters for changing and a tree representing current consolidation status. Yet it does no more! Wikipedia points out that Russian [...]
I’ve read architecture guide — it’s .Net. Okay — .Net Framework is required, for sure. But why JDK is needed? Because Cognos Connection is used a front end. So you use Cognos 8 Configuration, create a Content Store database, install tomcat, just to get up portal. After that you can start toying with Controller Configuration [...]
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