Entries by Ironside Group

IBM Vision 2014 Insights

IBM Vision 2014, the premier global conference for finance, risk management, and sales compensation professionals, took place in Orlando, Florida from May 18-21. There were over 1,500 Business Analytics users, clients, developers, and others in attendance. This was my first time at the conference, and there was excitement of all kinds in the atmosphere. Current […]

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Ironside Tech Tip: Best Practices for Documenting Report Studio Reports

Synopsis: Three methodologies for documenting Report Studio reports. Overview: Reporting tools like IBM Cognos Report Studio do not naturally provide a means of documenting and commenting procedures like traditional programming languages do. As a result, once a report has been created, it may be difficult to follow the logic and design of the original report, […]

Introducing the New Ironside

Award-winning IBM Partner celebrating 15 years re-launches as comprehensive business-focused analytics solution provider Lexington, MA (May 16, 2014) – The Ironside Group, the award-winning North American business analytics consultancy founded in 1999, today re-launched their organization as simply Ironside. This change is both a reflection of their celebrated 15 year history, as well as a […]

Heat Map Formatting using HTML

Even if you don’t have access to the RAVE visualizations available in Cognos 10.2.1, there are still some options to produce non-standard charts and simulate things such as heat maps using older Cognos versions. With some creative HTML use, you can set up a heat map that responds to various conditions in your reports. This […]

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IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler and Architect: Potential Collaboration Pitfalls

IBM is encouraging developers to use Performance Modeler as the main tool for creating and maintaining TM1 server objects. Performance Modeler offers many features that Architect simply does not provide. The push toward Performance Modeler is evident in IBM’s documentation, presentations, and rapid update releases for the tool. For now, Architect will still exist and […]

Ironside Named Boston Business Journal Pacesetter- Ranked as 7th Fastest Growing Company in the State of Massachusetts

Lexington, MA (April 17, 2014). The Ironside Group has been named a 2014 Boston Business Journal Pacesetter. The Boston Business Journal Pacesetters is an annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in Massachusetts. This year’s Pacesetters list includes seventy privately held businesses that recorded the state’s fastest revenue growth from 2010 through 2013. Of the […]