Category Archives: tm1

Should we use TM1 for reporting?

Another point worth clearing out: I really think TM1 is not a very good choice for OLAP reporting engine. On a decent data volumes, of course, millions of rows will be fast as lightning Let me explain why. There’s a fundamental difference choice you take when you’re building an OLAP engine:  you decide whether it [...]

TM1 hint – TurboIntegrator Local Variables

TM1 TurboIntegrator (TI) is truly a highly customizable tool I recently needed to be able to pass cube view names as a parameter for export process and it turned out to be really easy. Although DataSource is selected via menu during TI process creation and there are no TI functions to change it, it can [...]

TM1 + Enterprise Planning, When, Why and How?

This post will be some extracts from a recent PoC, where we made a complex planning system including a rich scenario modeling part. So it was our first big TM1 + EP integration experience. Some basic definitions: Cognos Enterprise Planning (aka Adaytum EP) is a very scalable system, all computing is client-side, nice workflow organization, [...]