Entries by Ironside Group

Ironside’s Accomplishments: A 2014 Retrospective

Ironside’s accomplishments were many in 2014. We expanded into new regions, brought on lots of new talent, and continued our development as one of the most trusted advisors in the industries we serve. To give you a quick glimpse into how we’ve grown, we put together the following list of all the awards we were […]

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Top 5 Trends in Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics for 2015

In 2014, cloud data warehousing services led the information management category in increased adoption rate, jumping from 24% to 34% according to surveys by Information Week . For organizations challenged by data urgency needs that can be difficult to meet with traditional data warehouse infrastructures, cloud services offer an alternative that can provide value at […]

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Tabbed Reports in Cognos 10.2.2: The New, Easy Way to Make Clean, Consumable Multi-Page Reports

In Cognos 10.2.1 and earlier versions, the phrase that most accurately described a multi-page report was “wrestling match.” Long list reports would flow on for page after page until somewhere along the way you ran into that chart you knew you added but were starting to forget about. Defining page breaks helped some, but following […]

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Information for All: Watson Analytics and IBM’s Self-Service Revolution

You might have missed it if you weren’t closely following the situation or already using the platform, but around the middle of last month IBM forever changed the concept of self-service analytics when they quietly moved Watson Analytics out of beta and into general availability. Watson Analytics is a new cloud-based application that enables an […]

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Ironside Tech Tip: Dynamically Selecting Filters Utilizing Before or After Aggregation via a Prompt

Synopsis: Enable a user via a prompt to pre-select if a value will be filtered before or after aggregation. Overview: Normally, the report author hard codes filters placed on facts in the Properties pane as before or after aggregation. While this is adequate in most report scenarios, hard coding can be limiting if the executing […]

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Ironside Top 5 of 2014

The report is in! See the list of topics that readers, like you, found most interesting and that made it into our top 5 of 2014. Top Training Tip Creating a Burst Table for a Cognos Report  – Do you know how to create an external data file to use as a burst table for […]

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Announcing IBM PureData for Analytics / Netezza for Cloud

Ironside is excited to announce a ground breaking new solution for organizations wanting to leverage their analytics workload-optimized PureData for Analytics / Netezza appliance in conjunction with rest of their virtualized private cloud analytics architecture. Ironside’s IBM PureData for Analytics (PDA) for Cloud offering solves all of the major hurdles for connecting your physical big data appliance with […]

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Predicting and Preventing Hospital Readmissions with IBM SPSS

Hospital readmissions are estimated to cost over $41 billion annually. Readmissions, specifically when patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge, are quality metrics that hospitals watch closely. Healthcare organizations seek to understand what conditions are bringing patients back to the hospital. Many readmissions could be prevented if hospitals can identify the factors that indicate […]