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Learn How Grasshopper Group is Using IBM Cognos Express to Help Over 100K Entrepreneurs Find Success

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The Ironside Group, Inc. is pleased to announce that we will be speaking with our customer, Grasshopper Group, a provider of a suite of products that entrepreneurs love to use and helps them get over some of the initial hurdles of running a business, as the keynote presentation at the December 8th Midsize Business Analytics Virtual Summit. Grasshopper will be offering insight into their experience with us and with Cognos Express. As an attendee, you will gain insight into Grasshopper’s self-service reporting implementation and strategy, which has significantly improved organizational efficiency. The Midsize Business Analytics Virtual summit is an amazing opportunity to see what’s new with Cognos Express without leaving your desk. IBM will be unveiling the newest capabilities of their Cognos Express Reporting, Analytics, and Planning software, purpose built for small to mid-size companies. Sign up and join us at the Keynote presentation featuring Grasshopper and Ironside on December 8th.

IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Training – Mar 7-11, 2011

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The Ironside Group is excited to once again publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Framework Manager Training courses in back-to-back fashion. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth real-world technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this special combined offering and become a Framework Manager expert in a weeks time.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Fundamentals (View Description)
When: March 7-9, 2011

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Advanced (View Description)
When: March 10-11, 2011

Where: Ironside Group Lexington, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Training – Jan 10-14, 2011

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The Ironside Group is excited to once again publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Framework Manager Training courses in back-to-back fashion. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth real-world technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this special combined offering and become a Framework Manager expert in a weeks time.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Fundamentals (View Description)
When: January 10-12, 2011

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager Advanced (View Description)
When: January 12-14, 2011

Where: Ironside Group Lexington, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Training – Feb 14-18, 2011

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The Ironside Group is excited to once again publicly offer both our Fundamentals and Advanced Report Studio Training courses in back-to-back fashion. As with all of our course offerings, this curricula is lead by our veteran consultants who have decades of in-depth applied technical experience with IBM Cognos software. Take advantage of this special combined offering and become a Report Studio guru in a weeks time.

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Fundamentals (View Description)
When: February 14-16, 2011

Course: IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Advanced (View Description)
When: February 17-18, 2011

Where: Ironside Group, Lexington, MA (Boston)
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IBM Cognos 8 – Custom Authentication Provider

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In the past we have introduced the IBM Cognos SDK family of products in our article IBM Cognos SDK: Bridging the Gaps providing you with a glimpse of the potential methods for utilizing the SDK to further the standard Cognos suite. Today let’s take a closer look at one of special SDK toolsets – the Custom Authentication Provider (CAP). What is an IBM Cognos Custom Authentication Provider? Read more

Best Practices: Business Intelligence Project Management

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Business Intelligence tools have been one of the most prolific software investments for many organizations in the last decade; from Fortune 100 companies to small 100 person organizations. Providing historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, BI tools offer limitless possibilities within your organization. From analysts identifying and analyzing opportunities and trends to helping business decisions makers such as CEOs and CFOs to quickly review and understand business issues, a well designed BI application can provide significant ROI to your corporation. Read more

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IBM Cognos 10: Initial Thoughts and Reactions

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Cognos 10 was released on October 25th, with much fanfare (and fireworks – quite literally) at IBM’s Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas. I’ve been exploring the interface and feature set within my own test environment the past few days and here are a few early conclusions, including what I would consider to be the top three high-impact features of this release. Read more