February 2010
Business Intelligence: February 2010  
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Announcing the New IBM Support Portal
(Category: Software)

Dave Vantine, IT Manager at CCI, has reviewed the new portal and his preliminary reaction was exceedingly positive!  If you have IBM Cognos Products, we highly recommend that you explore this new support vehicle.  IBM Electronic Support offers a portfolio of online support tools and resources that provides comprehensive technical information to diagnose and resolve problems and maintain your IBM products.  IBM has developed many smart online tools and proactive features that can help you prevent problems from occurring in the first place, or quickly and easily troubleshoot problems when they occur. 
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Creative Computing, Inc. Turbo Charges Cognos Training
www.mycci.com/training.html

Creative Computing has just completed our newly designed manual for IBM Cognos Framework Manager, Version 8.4!  This new course becomes a pivotal new class in CCI's newly restructured IBM Cognos training program. CCI has been delivering high quality Cognos training for years, training thousands of users on ground breaking tools like Cognos 8, ReportNet, Impromptu, and PowerPlay.  In 2010, Creative Computing continues its rollout of new course materials for Cognos 8.4 using an entirely new format, course outlines, and a broader array of customization options.
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Best Practices for Leveraging Business Analytics in Today’s and Tomorrow’s Insurance Sector
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This research report explores how leading insurers are using business analytics solutions to reduce reaction times to competitive pressure, respond more efficiently to market changes, improve the precision and efficacy of operational decisions, and increase business managers effectiveness in driving organizational value.   Download Now
IBM Cognos TM1 Backup and Recovery Guide
(Area of Interest: Financial Management)

  • Purpose: This document provides guidance on implementing a backup and recovery policy for IBM Cognos TM1 data.
  • ApplicabilityIBM Cognos TM1 9.4
  • Topics covered includeBackup and Recovery, Backup Options, Frequency of Backups
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Analytics in Healthcare: How the Healthcare Industry will uncover the real value of electronic medical records and the emerging electronic health record (EHR) initiative
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This white paper describes ways the healthcare industry can use the data at its disposal to evolve toward more personalized medicine. In particular, you will learn about the promising possibilities of electronic medical records and powerful analytic solutions for healthcare providers from SAS. The paper also includes some real-life situations in which SAS analytics are being used to improve patient care and research.   Download Now
Some thoughts on advanced analytics in 2010
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork

James Kobielus had a nice list of Advanced Analytics Predictions For 2010 over on the Forrester blog. As usual James is thought provoking with some interesting predictions. Let’s start with the one’s with which I agree most strongly.
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The Business Intelligence Chronicles Part 2: Flexible is Flexible, Fixed is Fixed, and Never the Twain Shall Meet

This month we are pleased to continue the Business Intelligence Chronicles by Deepak Seth.  The first chronicle was featured in November and received rave reviews.  Deepak is an accomplished professional in the world of business process and technology, helping companies establish effective strategy & frameworks.   We hope you enjoy the series in the months to come.

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"

The biggest wow factor for OLAP based BI applications has been the flexibility for the end users - slice and dice, drill up and down, build reports on the fly. The techies were the first to be floored. And next came the Analyst types. My Finance users loved the first Financial Insight we came out with. Adopted the same approach for a Sales Insight and the response was mixed. Lot of positive as well as negative feedback....

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IBM Cognos Forum and IBM Information on Demand Conference 2010

For 2010, IBM Cognos Forum will be co-located with the IBM Information On Demand Conference. The combined event takes place in Las Vegas next October and offers you and your team more educational value than ever before.  Two great events that add up to one great learning opportunity!

bulletOctober 24 - 28, 2010
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