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Performance Testing Your Cognos TM1 Application
Performance testing a TM1 model begins with understanding performance testing in general. Performance testing is an iterative process and the expected outcome (acceptable performance) will be based...
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IBM SPSS Syntax for File Operations
My start-up predictive analytics organization “Predictive Performers” wants to do some internal planning. We receive extract files from an an accounting service each month that provide the total hours...
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Obstacles on the Road to Excellence – the Three-C’s
Establishing an organizations center of excellence (COE) takes vision and a strong commitment to overcoming obstacles. Three common obstacles often encountered on the journey towards excellence are:...
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Autonomous Performance Tuning
I was recently asked by a former colleague of mine to help conduct an appraisal of a large scale Cognos TM1 development project that is planning on sourcing all kinds of data from a large Oracle RDMS....
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Cognos TM1 Bulk Data Loading
Bulk Absorption Options From a pure architectural perspective, what is sometimes referred to as “bulk uploading” sometimes is (mistakenly) considered to be part of reporting or included in the data...
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Automation of Cognos TM1 Data Loading
In one of my earlier posts I recommended an approach for loading larger amounts of data into TM1 applications, and provided a high-level explanation of this approach, which I call the “File Route”...
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Software Remediation Excellence
Overview The purpose of this post is to provide a strategy for approaching and resolving a “concern” that has been identified within a application. Overall, the idea is to “add structure” to the...
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Guidelines for Deploying Cognos TM1 Rule Changes
Objective Making modifications to TM1 rule files can (potentially) affect both the TM1 application and the TM1 server (that the application is running on). Rule modification or reprogramming can cause...
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Performance Testing TM1Web Applications with HP LoadRunner
If you’ve ever attempted to perform a performance test on a TM1 application, you know that there is not really an effective way to manually create sufficient load on a model. Getting “real users” to...
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Data Indiscretions
Data loaded into a TM1 or SPSS model will, in most cases, include files consisting of thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of records. It is not reasonable, given the number of fields and records in...
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TM1 vs. SPSS Modeler Comparison Continues – Setting to Flags
Consider the scenario where you have to convert information held in a “categorical field” into a “collection of flag fields” – found in a transactional source. For example, suppose you have a file of...
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Sampling Your Data
Another interesting feature of SPSS Modeler is its built-in ability to sample data. It is pretty typical to have (in one or more files) hundreds of thousands of records to process, and using complete...
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All about CLEM
SPSS CLEM is the control Language for Expression Manipulation, which is used to build expressions within SPSS Modeler streams. CLEM is actually used in a number of SPSS “nodes” (among these are the...
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Examining (Data) Relationships
The discovering of relationships within data (between fields) is an important part of any data mining project (in the Crisp-DM methodology, this is described as part of the “Data Understanding” stage)....
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Selecting your Modeling Approach with IBM SPSS Modeler
Coming from a TM1 background (more business than statistics), it is easy to get stated with modeling once you determine your modeling objective, and Modeler can help with that. IBM SPSS Modeler offers...
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Predicting Project Success with IBM SPSS
A technology company has literally participated in thousands of projects over the years. At some point the group decided it wants to determine what factors or characteristics may influence the...
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Using Splunk with Cognos TM1
What is Splunk? Splunk prides itself on “disrupting the conventional ways people look at and use data”, which is exciting. So what is Splunk? Splunk is a horizontal technology used for application...
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Cognos TM1 TurboIntegrator – Run-time or Read-time?
In this blog I wanted to take some time to describe certain “behaviors” of Cognos TM1 TurboIntegrator processes. Access to Processes As of version 10.2 (or as of this writing), TM1 Server lists all...
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The Splunk Evolution
The term “Big Data” is used to describe information so large and complex that it becomes almost impossible to process using traditional methods. Because of the volume and/or unstructured nature of this...
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A Splunk Decision Support System
The importance of making credible decisions can be the difference between profit or loss, or even survival or extinction. Decision Support Systems (or DSSs) serve the key decision makers of an...
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