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Perficient takes Cognos TM1 to the Cloud
IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across an enterprise, as well as provide real-time analytics,...
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Iconic Splunk Apps
Give your App an Icon You can add a trendy, unique graphic to identify your Splunk apps pretty easily. In fact, you really don’t have to do any extra programming or even re-configuring. By just knowing...
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Build Splunk App Custom Navigations
So you’ve created a custom Splunk app and added in plenty of relevant knowledge objects your users want. Now, to organize this mess of information what you need to do is build a custom navigation for...
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Splunk, it’s a setup
In Splunk Web, if you click on Apps, you should see a link for Manage Apps. From there, Splunk web will display the Apps page where you can see all of the apps currently installed in your Splunk...
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Flexible Meta Models and IBM Cognos Framework Manager
A metadata model is “a gathering of Meta information that includes both physical information and business information for one or more datasources and is the foundation for both future modelling and...
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IBM Cognos Framework Manager – Proven Practice
A proven practice for Framework Manager Meta Modeling is to divide your model into a series of layers, each layer having a specific purpose. (Originally IBM recommended the use of two layers (data and...
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Cognos Framework Manager, Transformer & Metric Designer
During a recent project of mine, I jumped “head first” into IBM Cognos Framework Manager. Yes, it is an awesome tool, but where exactly does it “fit” into the Cognos environment? Are there similar or...
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Creating Business Logic – in Cognos Framework Manager
One of the goals of the Cognos Framework Manager modeler is to build a model that makes report authoring easier. To accomplish that, you “build in” business logic” (a loosely defined term here) into...
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Framework Manager – Creating a Parameter Map
A session parameter is a variable that IBM Cognos Framework Manager associates with a particular session. Examples include (current user name, current active language, current date and time, and...
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Exercising IBM Cognos Framework Manager
In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and...
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Perficient takes Cognos TM1 to the Cloud
IBM Cognos TM1 is well-known as the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across an enterprise, as well as provide real-time analytics,...
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Configuring Cognos TM1 Web with Cognos Security
Recently I completed upgrading a client’s IBM Cognos environment – both TM1 and BI. It was a “jump” from Cognos 8 to version 10.2, and TM1 9.5 to version 10.2.2. In this environment, we had multiple...
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IBM OpenPages Start-up
In the beginning… OpenPages was a company “born” in Massachusetts, providing Governance, Risk, and Compliancesoftware and services to customers. Founded in 1996, OpenPages had more than 200 customers...
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The installation Process – IBM OpenPages GRC Platform
When preparing to deploy the OpenPages platform, you’ll need to follow these steps: Determine which server environment you will deploy to – Windows or AIX. Determine your topology – how many servers...
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IBM OpenPages GRC Platform –modular methodology
The OpenPages GRC platform includes 5 main “operational modules”. These modules are each designed to address specific organizational needs around Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Operational Risk...
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Testing and Splunk
Tests are commonly categorized by where they are added in the software development process, or by how specific the test is. Testing levels are classified by the test’s objectives. The common levels of...
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Vision Most organizations today have had successes implementing technology and they are happy to tell you about it. From a tactical perspective, they understand how to install, configure and use...
View ArticleAn Architectural Approach to Cognos TM1 Design
Overtime, I’ve written about keeping your TM1 model design “architecturally pure”. What this means is that you should strive to keep a models “areas of functionality” distinct within your design....
View ArticleSub-Searching – with Splunk
You’ll find that it is pretty typical to utilize the concept of sub-searching in Splunk. A “sub search” is simply a “search within a search” or, a search that uses another search as an argument. Sub...
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Creating Transactional Searches with Splunk
Transactions refer to a “unit of work” or “grouped information” that someone is treating as a perhaps “logical” data point or singular target. Transactions are made up of multiple events or actions...
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