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Navigating the Amazon Q Ecosystem: Amazon Q Business vs. Amazon Q in QuickSight

The introduction of Amazon Q features a powerful generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to analyze business trends, assist in software development, and maximize the potential of a company’s internal data. Amazon Q connects…

Do You Have a Big Data Problem?

By now, we’ve all heard the V3 definition for Big Data maybe a million times: Volume (Size of Data), Variety (Type of Data) and Velocity (Frequency of Data) with Veracity (Accuracy of Derived Insights) thrown in as an extra sometimes. The…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: How to Auto Refresh a Report Page

When reports are run in IBM Cognos BI, a query is made to a data source and any relevant results get returned. But what if in the moments after executing the report, the data changes and is updated? Is there a way to auto refresh a report instead…

Business Analytics, Data Management, Technology Spotlight

Diving into the Data Lake with Hadoop: The 5 Things You Need to Know

As we mentioned in a recent article, The Why, What, Who, and How of Successful Hadoop Deployment, there’s a lot you need to consider when implementing Hadoop to manage big data at your organization. Now we’ll build off that perspective and…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

The Best of What’s New in IBM Cognos ICM 9.0

Like many products, Cognos Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) goes through regular updates. The most recent release was Cognos ICM 9.0 on May 5th, a follow-up to the version 8.1.3 release on February 13th. Both of these releases included…

Business Analytics

Ironside Webinar Series: Learn Techniques for Increasing Your Fundraising Efforts

On June 3rd, Ironside hosted a webinar on Donor Optimization Techniques with IBM Business Analytics. Industry experts from IBM, along with special guest Monique Dozier, the Assistant Vice President of Advancement Information Systems &…

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Business Analytics

Ironside Webinar Series: High Impact Incentive Compensation Reporting and Dashboarding

On June 23rd Ironside hosted a High Impact Incentive Compensation Reporting and Dashboarding webinar, where we reimagined what can be done with incentive compensation reports using our expertise in and success with transforming business through…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Driving Analytics SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS with Managed Services: The Difference that Experts Make

As you can see from the title, there are a lot of “as-a-Services” floating around in the modern marketplace. New vendors appear every day offering software, platforms, and infrastructure over the cloud. In the midst of this wild west-style…

Business Analytics

IBM Customers Can Get a Free Subscription of Watson Analytics Pro: Learn How

IBM recently rolled out Watson Analytics Pro, a more feature-rich, subscription-based version of their free Watson Analytics platform. This new option adds some powerful new functionality to the already excellent base product, enabling subscribers…

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Technology Spotlight

Ironside Webinar Series: IBM PureData for Analytics (Netezza) in the Cloud vs. DashDB

On May 12th, Ironside hosted an IBM PureData for Analytics (Netezza) in the Cloud vs. DashDB webinar, during which our industry experts provided their insights into these two powerful information management solutions. Topics covered included: …

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Where to Apply Filter Strategies – In the Database, in the Package, or in the Report?

Guarding the security of and defining access to data is often a necessary business requirement. Not all users can or should have access to a total data set, so filter strategies need to be applied to restrict what appears to different users…

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Welcome to our blog.

Navigating the Amazon Q Ecosystem: Amazon Q Business vs. Amazon Q in QuickSight

Do You Have a Big Data Problem?

Ironside Tech Tip: How to Auto Refresh a Report Page

Diving into the Data Lake with Hadoop: The 5 Things You Need to Know

The Best of What’s New in IBM Cognos ICM 9.0

Ironside Webinar Series: Learn Techniques for Increasing Your Fundraising Efforts

Ironside Webinar Series: High Impact Incentive Compensation Reporting and Dashboarding

Driving Analytics SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS with Managed Services: The Difference that Experts Make

IBM Customers Can Get a Free Subscription of Watson Analytics Pro: Learn How

Ironside Webinar Series: IBM PureData for Analytics (Netezza) in the Cloud vs. DashDB

Ironside Tech Tip: Where to Apply Filter Strategies – In the Database, in the Package, or in the Report?

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