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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…

What’s New in Cognos 10.2.1 FP1 and Cognos Insight 10.2.1

Earlier this week (and without much fanfare) an incremental, but none the less exciting update to Cognos BI was released. Cognos 10.2.1 FP1 (Fixpack 1), also known as Cognos 10.2.1.1, includes a number of new features that build on the June's…

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Business Analytics, Data Science

The Business Intelligence Maturity Model

Much has been written recently about the value of transforming data into useful information for decision making. It has become a strategic must-have for organizations to figure out how to use the structured historical data they already own,…

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Data Management

Success by Design: Planning Your Information Management Infrastructure

Planning an information management infrastructure is a fun and exciting activity for everyone, whether they work with information systems or not. What? It isn't? Then why are so many people building information management infrastructure solutions in…

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Awards & Recognition

Ironside Public Training Practice Expands to Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

In September, Ironside public training classes will start being offered near Philadelphia and in Washington, D.C. as part of the firm's expansion into the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The move expands the reach of an IBM Cognos,…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Using Macros in Cognos

Difficulty: Easy Required Ingredients: Prompt macros and static values within a prompt parameter. Scenario: You have some existing reports that prompt on Year and Month. Users would like a better experience by having default selections…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Overview of IBM Cognos BI 10.2 System Metrics

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence platform has built-in monitoring systems that gather different metrics on each service, dispatcher, server and server group. These system metrics provide better insight into the status and overall health of a…

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Awards & Recognition, Business Analytics

IBM Moves Away from an Internal Training Model

Effective July 1, 2013, IBM training has been discontinued. IBM has moved to a partner-led model which shifts the responsibility of IBM's internal training practice to qualified specialists and partners like Ironside. Clients will now be able…

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Awards & Recognition

The Expansion Continues: More SPSS Course Offerings from Ironside

In mid-June, Ironside successfully launched the first course in our line of IBM SPSS course offerings: IBM SPSS Modeler Fundamentals. This launch is a key moment that marks the beginning of a new educational journey for the Ironside training…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

The Analytics World Just Got Flat: IBM Analytic Answers

Thomas Friedman’s book “The World Is Flat” describes how outsourcing, technology, and other factors helped level the business playing field around the globe. What if traditional barriers to entry for using big data and business analytics…

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Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Writing a Printable Report

Difficulty: Easy Required Ingredients: Report Studio, List Object, PDF Viewer Scenario: A report that you expected to be viewed exclusively in HTML will need to be printed. In order to do this, you switch the output to PDF to create a printable…

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Welcome to our blog.

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

What’s New in Cognos 10.2.1 FP1 and Cognos Insight 10.2.1

The Business Intelligence Maturity Model

Success by Design: Planning Your Information Management Infrastructure

Ironside Public Training Practice Expands to Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

Ironside Tech Tip: Using Macros in Cognos

Overview of IBM Cognos BI 10.2 System Metrics

IBM Moves Away from an Internal Training Model

The Expansion Continues: More SPSS Course Offerings from Ironside

The Analytics World Just Got Flat: IBM Analytic Answers

Ironside Tech Tip: Writing a Printable Report

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