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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…

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Ironside Tech Tip: Managing Performance Metrics in IBM Cognos 10

As Business Intelligence (BI) systems become more and more embedded into the critical, analytics-based DNA of corporate decision-making, it is more important than ever to keep the system up and running at the highest level of efficiency. This…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

How IBM Cognos Capabilities Are Translated into IBM User Based Licenses

One question that Cognos Business Intelligence consultants often hear is “I bought licenses from IBM. How do I implement them in my user community and provide them with the various studios available in Cognos? There are so many studios, and…

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Business Analytics

Ironside Webinar Series: Transform Sales Performance Management with Dashboards

On July 23rd, Ironside hosted a Transform Sales Performance Management with Dashboards webinar exploring how visualizations can inform and motivate sales organizations. Topics covered include: Common sales performance management (SPM)…

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Ironside Tech Tip: Creating a Burst Table for a Cognos Report

Synopsis: How to create an external data file to use as a burst table for a Cognos report. Pre-Requisites: This article assumes familiarity with how to burst a report and how to use external data, and creating an external data package. Solution…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Leveraging Time and Aggregate Functions in Dimensional Reporting to Create Low Maintenance Cognos Reports

Over the years I have successfully used the ancestor(), parallelPeriods(), periodToDate(), aggregate(), and set() dimensional functions to develop robust and durable dimensional reporting solutions in IBM Cognos BI. I had the opportunity…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Boosting the Power of SPSS Statistics with Python

What Python Is and Why to Use It Python is a powerful open source general-purpose programming language. Through an easy-to-use structure, it allows users to perform a huge variety of controlling tasks on a computer. In the case of using…

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Business Analytics

Ironside Webinar Series: Customer Analytics for the Informed Executive

On June 17th, Ironside hosted a Customer Analytics for the Informed Executive webinar exploring how advanced analytics can help businesses attract and retain customers. This webinar reviews a variety of data science methods that can utilize…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Webinar Series: Comparing TM1 Performance Modeler vs. Architect – Part 2

As a follow-up to the TM1 Performance Modeler Webinar that we hosted on April 15th, Ironside presented an advanced version for more experienced users on June 10th . This webinar focused on some of the additional advanced new features in TM1…

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Ironside Education Services Set to Hit the Big Apple!

We're excited to announce that beginning in July 2014, the Ironside Education Services division will offer a series of IBM Business Analytics public training classes in both New York City and New Jersey! Course offerings will include a variety…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Standardizing Prompt Names in Report Studio

Synopsis Define the technique behind and benefits of standardizing prompt conventions in Report Studio. Overview Report authors can easily create automatically generated prompt page prompts for data items in a report using the question mark…

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Welcome to our blog.

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

Ironside Tech Tip: Managing Performance Metrics in IBM Cognos 10

How IBM Cognos Capabilities Are Translated into IBM User Based Licenses

Ironside Webinar Series: Transform Sales Performance Management with Dashboards

Ironside Tech Tip: Creating a Burst Table for a Cognos Report

Ironside Tech Tip: Leveraging Time and Aggregate Functions in Dimensional Reporting to Create Low Maintenance Cognos Reports

Boosting the Power of SPSS Statistics with Python

Ironside Webinar Series: Customer Analytics for the Informed Executive

Ironside Webinar Series: Comparing TM1 Performance Modeler vs. Architect – Part 2

Ironside Education Services Set to Hit the Big Apple!

Ironside Tech Tip: Standardizing Prompt Names in Report Studio

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