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Transforming Enterprise Productivity with Advanced AI Assistance from Amazon Q

Technology has evolved significantly from dial-up connections to cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, businesses must now adopt AI solutions that push their operations beyond using traditional tools. One such solution…

Ironside Webinar Series: Robust Workforce Planning Enablement with IBM Cognos TM1

On October 21st, Ironside hosted Robust Workforce Planning Enablement with IBM Cognos TM1 Webinar, where Ironside's TM1 experts discussed the challenges and options for cube design and conducted a live demonstration of Ironside’s TM1…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Password Protected Report Pages

Synopsis This article covers how to allow access to a report with a password challenge prompt, creating a password protected report. Overview Security in Cognos is extremely robust, letting you permit or deny access to data elements on a…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Conditional Blocks – Applications and Usages

Synopsis How to create, implement and use conditional blocks in Cognos reports. Overview Conditional blocks show different display results based on user interaction or parameters read in when a report is run. They provide a creative method…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Driver-Based Compensation Planning in IBM Cognos TM1

Employee compensation accounts for most of the expense base for service-oriented companies. The true ‘driver’ for this expense revolves around workforce planning. Creating a projection that matches the size of the workforce to the demands…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Debugging TM1

There is a plethora of content available on utilizing the various TM1 functions, but what happens when these functions do not work as expected? What do you do when a rule does not return the expected value, a TI process does not load the values…

Business Analytics

Why do I Care? Getting Others to Invest in Your Ideas

Why do I Care? It’s a simple question that is crucial to whether or not your idea sells, but it is frequently overlooked. Professional salesperson or not, we all have a degree of selling in our lives whether it’s convincing the kids to run…

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Business Analytics

New Course Launch: Applying Visualizations in Cognos Explores the Cutting Edge of Business Analytics

Ironside is excited to announce the launch of one of our most innovative and dynamic courses to date: Applying Visualizations in Cognos. Demonstrating our continued commitment to remaining at the forefront of business analytics education, this…

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Business Analytics, Data Management

Data Warehousing Basics

Cognos makes extensive use of data warehousing concepts. Most data warehouses are built using dimensional modeling techniques (also known as the “Kimball style”). Data is divided into fact and dimension tables, which are joined together…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Business Analytics with IBM Watson Content Analytics

IBM estimates that most businesses utilize about 20% of the data they collect, with the other 80% of a company's stored information remaining under-utilized or inaccessible. Today, businesses are storing more data than ever before. Data is…

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Business Analytics, Data Science, Technology Spotlight

Advanced Features of IBM SPSS Modeler Text Analytics

Earlier this year, we published a newsletter article scratching the surface of the Text Analytics Premium add-on for IBM SPSS Modeler. It introduced the fundamentals of text analytics and the idea of extracting information from unstructured…

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Welcome to our blog.

Transforming Enterprise Productivity with Advanced AI Assistance from Amazon Q

Ironside Webinar Series: Robust Workforce Planning Enablement with IBM Cognos TM1

Ironside Tech Tip: Password Protected Report Pages

Ironside Tech Tip: Conditional Blocks – Applications and Usages

Driver-Based Compensation Planning in IBM Cognos TM1

Debugging TM1

Why do I Care? Getting Others to Invest in Your Ideas

New Course Launch: Applying Visualizations in Cognos Explores the Cutting Edge of Business Analytics

Data Warehousing Basics

Business Analytics with IBM Watson Content Analytics

Advanced Features of IBM SPSS Modeler Text Analytics

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