BI - Business Intelligence

In the world of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management, every so often a new term is launched, often proclaimed as the next big thing.

PowerPivot, then still codenamed Project Gemini, was announced at the second annual Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle on October 6, 2008.

IntroductionIn information technology, migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment to another operating environment. Moving to a different environment is considered a migration because it involves taking steps to ensure that current applications continue to work in the new environment and making sure that new features are exploited. Migration can involve moving to new hardware or new software or both.

Introduction As in any project, also in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects, a time exists for discovery of what is wanted and/or needed followed by a time for building what results from the requirements. In typical project management best practices, this discovery process is done through a phase called "requirements analysis”.

Introduction: What does the improved integration between Cognos 8.4 BI and TM1 have to offer IBM Cognos TM1 is a relative new addition to the IBM Cognos software stack, following Cognos' acquisition of Applix in 2007, just prior to its own acquisition by IBM. The core TM1 solution is a real-time, interactive multidimensional OLAP database with in-memory and write-back functionalities, and is therefore perfectly suited to support all sorts of Performance Management (PM) applications.

Scorecarding, a powerful management instrument Introduction Scorecards are a very powerful management instrument. They are at the heart of a Performance Management architecture and they display some well-chosen metrics, including targets and their status, which allows the management to get an overview at a glance on how well their company is performing in the execution of its strategy and derived goals.

With IBM Cognos 8, model semantic layers effectively using Framework Manager to create flexible and durable data models.