IBM Performance Events 2012

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Today’s business moves at hyper speed. Your response to both opportunities and emerging threats must be just as swift. Making smarter, fact-based decisions requires more than analysis; it requires deep, customer-centric, context-rich understanding. 

That’s what IBM Performance 2012 is all about—the increasingly vital role of analytics to recognize and even anticipate evolving trends. At Performance 2012, you’ll discover how IBM can help you deliver critical insight, faster, to stakeholders across the enterprise.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn:

— How you can profit from analytics

— Techniques for identifying and prioritizing strategic investments

— Modeling approaches that help cut costs and seize opportunity

— Sneak peeks at upcoming technologies—and how to prepare for their arrival

— Customer successes using analytics and the lessons learned

The Ironside Group is a proud sponsor of the IBM Performance Events in the following cities:

April 4, 2012 – New York, NY

https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=QBBGWPES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=BP_IronsideGroup

April 17, 2012 – Boston, MA

https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=3DEA5UES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=BP_Ironside

May 24, 2012 – Atlanta, GA

https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=5D9AJXES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=BP_IronsideGroup

June 7, 2012 – Hartford, CT

https://www-950.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp004.nsf/v16_enrollall?openform&seminar=E3FAZNES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=BP_IronsideGroup

To attend one of the IBM Performance events, click on the link  next to your preferred location and register for FREE today! We hope to see you there.

 

 

The New Face of TM1: Performance Modeler

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On February 7, 2012, IBM Cognos released the newest version of TM1: TM1 10.1. TM1 has been around for a very long time but has really only recently come to be recognized as the premier planning tool for any size business.

Its only criticism was that unlike its sibling Enterprise Planning (EP)  it was not an “out of the box” solution that the finance department could run independent of its own IT department.  In fact, it gave rise to a somewhat symbiotic relationship between IT and Finance because of the scripting involved in applying rules to a cube and importing data through a Turbo Integrator or manually coded process. That said, I believe all this has changed with this release (10.1) of TM1. Read more

Cognos Insight, Rapid Prototyping on Your Desktop

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Cognos Insight has many potential business uses.  One of these is the ability to rapidly prototype a report or planning scenario by comparing a report from Cognos Connection with an external Excel or CSV file.  This particular example will walk us through the steps to import and compare an Excel budget scenario with Sales data from a Report Studio list report.

The first step is to begin with a new ‘workspace’ in Insight.

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Ironside Group is now offering Netezza

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As of April 2012, Ironside Group is authorized to resell all Netezza products, including new appliances, annual subscriptions, and support. This enables Ironside to continue to deliver world-class IBM Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Predictive Analytics solutions that work hand-in-hand with Netezza appliances, which will increase performance and decrease costs for customers.

Netezza, an IBM company, offers data warehouse appliances that simplify and change the way organizations leverage analytics by combining processing, storage, and analytics into a single system that can deliver 10 to 100 times better performance than a traditional data warehouse. Netezza’s total cost of ownership is roughly one-third the cost of most other traditional approaches, which makes owning a Netezza box rewarding from both a financial and performance perspective. Read more