Download or read book IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager written by Terry Curran and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in a hands-on style, this guide presents you with real world examples to guide you through every process step by step.This book will be useful for any developer, novice or expert, who uses Framework Manager to build packages, but wants to expand their knowledge even further.

Download or read book IBM Cognos Dynamic Query written by Nigel Campbell and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains how IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) administrators, authors, modelers, and power users can use the dynamic query layer effectively. It provides guidance for determining which technology within the dynamic query layer can best satisfy your business requirements. Administrators can learn how to tune the query service effectively and preferred practices for managing their business intelligence content. This book includes information about metadata modeling of relational data sources with IBM Cognos Framework Manager. It includes considerations that can help you author high-performing applications that satisfy analytical requirements of users. This book provides guidance for troubleshooting issues related to the dynamic query layer of Cognos BI. Related documents: Solution Guide : Big Data Analytics with IBM Cognos BI Dynamic Query Blog post : IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Extensibility

Download or read book IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes written by Dmitriy Beryoza and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) provides a proven enterprise BI platform with an open data strategy. Cognos BI provides customers with the ability to use data from any source, package it into a business model, and make it available to consumers in various interfaces that are tailored to the task. IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes complements the existing Cognos BI capabilities and continues the tradition of an open data model. It focuses on extending the scalability of the IBM Cognos platform to enable speed-of-thought analytics over terabytes of enterprise data, without having to invest in a new data warehouse appliance. This capability adds a new level of query intelligence so you can unleash the power of your enterprise data warehouse. This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 and specifically, the IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities. This book can help you in the following ways: Understand core features of the Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities of Cognos BI V10.2 Learn by example with practical scenarios by using the IBM Cognos samples This book uses fictional business scenarios to demonstrate the power and capabilities of IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes. It primarily focuses on the roles of the modeler, administrator, and IT architect.

Download or read book IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10 1 Handbook written by Dean Browne and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) helps organizations meet strategic objectives and provides real value for the business by delivering the information everyone needs while also reducing the burden on IT. This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1. You can use this book to: - Understand core features of IBM Cognos BI V10.1 - Realize the full potential of IBM Cognos BI - Learn by example with practical scenarios This book uses a fictional business scenario to demonstrate the power of IBM Cognos BI. The book is primarily focused on the roles of Advanced Business User, Professional Report Author, Modeler, Administrator, and IT Architect.

Download or read book IBM Cognos 8 Planning written by Jason Edwards and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineer a clear-cut strategy for achieving best-in-class results using IBM Cognos 8 Planning with this book and eBook.

Download or read book IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10 written by Sangeeta Gautam and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximize the Value of Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos v10 -- Hands-on, from Start to Finish This easy-to-use, hands-on guide brings together all the information and insight you need to drive maximum business value from IBM Cognos v10. Long-time IBM Cognos expert and product designer Sangeeta Gautam thoroughly illuminates Cognos BI v10's key capabilities: analysis, query, reporting, and dashboards. Gautam shows how to take full advantage of each key IBM Cognos feature, including brand-new innovations such as Active Reports and the new IBM Cognos Workspace report consumption environment. She concludes by walking you through successfully planning and implementing an integrated business intelligence solution using IBM's best-practice methodologies. The first and only guide of its kind, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10 offers expert insights for BI designers, architects, developers, administrators, project managers, nontechnical end-users, and partners throughout all areas of the business--from sales and marketing to operations and lines of business. If you're pursuing official IBM Cognos certification, you'll also find Cognos certification sample questions and information to help you with the certification process. Coverage Includes * Understanding IBM Cognos BI's components and open, extensible architecture * Working with IBM Cognos key "studio" tools: Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Report Studio, and Event Studio * Developing and managing powerful reports that draw on the rich capabilities of IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced * Designing Star Schema databases and metadata models to answer the questions your organization cares about most * Efficiently maintaining and systematically securing IBM Cognos BI environments and their objects * Using IBM Cognos Connection as your single point of entry to all corporate data * Building interactive, easy-to-manage Active Reports for casual business users * Using new IBM Cognos BI v10.1 Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) to improve performance with complex heterogeneous data * Identifying, exploring, and exploiting hidden data relationships * Creating quick ad hoc queries that deliver fast answers * Establishing user and administrator roles

Download or read book Exploiting IBM PowerVM Virtualization Features with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence written by Dino Quintero and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to leverage the virtualization strengths of the IBM Power platform to solve customer system resource utilization challenges and maximize system throughput and capacity. This IBM Redbooks publication will help you leverage the strengths of the POWER platform, provide implementation scenarios with Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence (BI) with the comprehensive set of the IBM PowerVMTM virtualization features, and identify and document best practices for exploiting the IBM PowerVM virtualization features within Cognos BI deployments to maximize utilization of system resources and maximize Cognos throughput and capacity. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (BI consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) responsible for providing business intelligence solutions and support for Cognos BI on POWER® systems.

Download or read book Implementing an Advanced Application Using Processes Rules Events and Reports written by Ahmed Abdel-Gayed and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this IBM® Redbooks® publication we describe how to build an advanced business application from end to end. We use a fictional scenario to define the application, document the deployment methodology, and confirm the roles needed to support its development and deployment. Through step-by-step instructions you learn how to: - Define the project lifecycle using IBM Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management - Build a logical and physical data model in IBM InfoSphere® Data Architect - Confirm business rules and business events using IBM WebSphere® Operational Decision Management - Map a business process and mediation using IBM Business Process Manager - Use IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence to develop business insight In addition, we articulate a testing strategy using IBM Rational® Quality Manager and deployment options using IBM Workload Deployer. Taken together, this book provides comprehensive guidance for building and testing a solution using core IBM Rational, Information Management, WebSphere, Cognos and Business Process Management software. It seeks to demystify the notion that developing and deploying advanced solutions is taxing. This book will appeal to IT architects and specialists who seek straightforward guidance on how to build comprehensive solutions. They will be able to adapt these materials to kick-start their own end-to-end projects.

Download or read book Metadata Management with IBM InfoSphere Information Server written by Wei-Dong Zhu and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you know about your data? And how do you know what you know about your data? Information governance initiatives address corporate concerns about the quality and reliability of information in planning and decision-making processes. Metadata management refers to the tools, processes, and environment that are provided so that organizations can reliably and easily share, locate, and retrieve information from these systems. Enterprise-wide information integration projects integrate data from these systems to one location to generate required reports and analysis. During this type of implementation process, metadata management must be provided along each step to ensure that the final reports and analysis are from the right data sources, are complete, and have quality. This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces the information governance initiative and highlights the immediate needs for metadata management. It explains how IBM InfoSphereTM Information Server provides a single unified platform and a collection of product modules and components so that organizations can understand, cleanse, transform, and deliver trustworthy and context-rich information. It describes a typical implementation process. It explains how InfoSphere Information Server provides the functions that are required to implement such a solution and, more importantly, to achieve metadata management. This book is for business leaders and IT architects with an overview of metadata management in information integration solution space. It also provides key technical details that IT professionals can use in a solution planning, design, and implementation process.

Download or read book Business Process Management Design Guide Using IBM Business Process Manager written by Dr. Ali Arsanjani and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IBM® Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) is a comprehensive business process management (BPM) suite that provides visibility and management of your business processes. IBM BPM supports the whole BPM lifecycle approach: Discover and document Plan Implement Deploy Manage Optimize Process owners and business owners can use this solution to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes. IBM BPM excels in integrating role-based process design, and provides a social BPM experience. It enables asset sharing and creating versions through its Process Center. The Process Center acts as a unified repository, making it possible to manage changes to the business processes with confidence. IBM BPM supports a wide range of standards for process modeling and exchange. Built-in analytics and search capabilities help to further improve and optimize the business processes. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides valuable information for project teams and business people that are involved in projects using IBM BPM. It describes the important design decisions that you face as a team. These decisions invariably have an effect on the success of your project. These decisions range from the more business-centric decisions, such as which should be your first process, to the more technical decisions, such as solution analysis and architectural considerations.

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Download or read book Optimization and Decision Support Design Guide Using IBM ILOG Optimization Decision Manager written by Axel Buecker and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today many organizations face challenges when developing a realistic plan or schedule that provides the best possible balance between customer service and revenue goals. Optimization technology has long been used to find the best solutions to complex planning and scheduling problems. A decision-support environment that enables the flexible exploration of all the trade-offs and sensitivities needs to provide the following capabilities: Flexibility to develop and compare realistic planning and scheduling scenarios Quality sensitivity analysis and explanations Collaborative planning and scenario sharing Decision recommendations This IBM® Redbooks® publication introduces you to the IBM ILOG® Optimization Decision Manager (ODM) Enterprise. This decision-support application provides the capabilities you need to take full advantage of optimization technology. Applications built with IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise can help users create, compare, and understand planning or scheduling scenarios. They can also adjust any of the model inputs or goals, and fully understanding the binding constraints, trade-offs, sensitivities, and business options. This book enables business analysts, architects, and administrators to design and use their own operational decision management solution.

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Download or read book Management Information Systems written by Kenneth C. Laudon and published by Pearson Educación. This book was released on 2004 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management Information Systems provides comprehensive and integrative coverage of essential new technologies, information system applications, and their impact on business models and managerial decision-making in an exciting and interactive manner. The twelfth edition focuses on the major changes that have been made in information technology over the past two years, and includes new opening, closing, and Interactive Session cases.

Download or read book Using IBM Enterprise Records written by Whei-Jen Chen and published by IBM Redbooks. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records management helps users address evolving governance mandates to meet regulatory, legal, and fiduciary requirements. Proactive adherence to information retention policies and procedures is a critical facet of any compliance strategy. IBM® Enterprise Records helps organizations enforce centralized policy management for file plans, retention schedules, legal preservation holds, and auditing. IBM Enterprise Records enables your organization to securely capture, declare, classify, store, and dispose of electronic and physical records. In this IBM Redbooks® publication, we introduce the records management concept and provide an overview of IBM Enterprise Records. We address records management topics, including the retention schedule, file plan, records ingestion and declaration, records disposition, records hold, and Enterprise Records application programming interfaces (APIs). We also use a case study to describe step-by-step instructions to implement a sample records management solution using Enterprise Records. We provide concrete examples of how to perform tasks, such as file plan creation, records ingestion and declaration, records disposition, and records hold. This book helps you to understand the records management concept, the IBM Enterprise Records features and capabilities, and its use.

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