Michael Vollmer, Author at Ironside Group

About Michael Vollmer

Michael is a Senior Consultant at Ironside.

Entries by Michael Vollmer

Power BI – Best Practices for Metadata Modeling using Composite Models

Microsoft recently released one of the most sought after features for Power BI. As of the December 2020 update, there is a new preview feature that allows you to build a partitioned metadata model in Power BI. Formally called “DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Analysis Services”, this is essentially just an expansion of the […]

February 23, 2021/by Michael Vollmer

Business Analytics

Alternate Hierarchies vs. Ragged Hierarchies

To a TM1 developer, alternate hierarchies are sometimes synonymous with ragged hierarchies. When designing cubes for Cognos BI, it’s important to remember that they are structurally different concepts. How you model them in TM1 will affect your Cognos BI reports. Continuing where we left off last month, we will discuss some best practices for handling […]

February 3, 2015/by Michael Vollmer

Building Best Practice TM1 Cubes for Cognos BI Reporting

TM1 cubes have now become the OLAP solution of choice for many Cognos BI environments. Because of this emerging trend, there are some techniques and tips that TM1 developers should be familiar with when building a cube for Cognos BI reports. Initially, the Cognos BI platform was built around Transformer OLAP cubes. Transformer cubes are […]

January 5, 2015/by Michael Vollmer

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Ironside Tech Tip: Using the Page Structure View to Build/Edit Advanced Reports

Difficulty: Easy Required Ingredients: Report Studio report Scenario: You have a highly formatted report in Report Studio and you need a better understanding of how the report is structured. Some of the items in the report maybe hidden and you can’t easily see how things are nested. Luckily, Page Structure view can help with that.

December 1, 2014/by Michael Vollmer