PMsquare is honored to be recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The Inc. 5000 lists the top performing private US companies in the magazine’s annual publication and ranked PMsquare 831 out of the 5000 companies that made the 2018 list.
Read MoreA personal note from our founder on why punctuality is hugely important for your professional and personal life.
Read MoreThe drilldown techniques in Cognos are wonderful, click on a column or a row in a table, and you can drill down, and down, and down. But drilling up doesn’t always work well, and sometimes you just want to go back directly to the top level. Sadly Cognos doesn’t provide a quick and easy breadcrumb solution, but with the advanced drill options it’s possibly to make one so let’s dig into drilldown breadcrumbs in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreThe Genius Bar at BACon is stacked with Sr. solution architects, analytics wizards, and thought leaders ready to meet with you. Bring your questions and technical issues for one-on-one advice free of charge. Some of our resident geniuses include:
Read MoreBACon 2018 is our signature conference which provides opportunities for technical enablement and hands-on training. Learn more about our plan for 2018!
Read MoreThis article explores the importance of professional appearance and how it relates to career success. In this article, we will review why what we wear matters, what to wear in various situations we may find ourselves in, and how what we wear can even change how we feel about ourselves.
Read MoreCognos comes with a lot of built-in groups and roles that are difficult to manage from a security standpoint and do not always cater to the needs of every organization. PMsquare recommends an intersection approach of capabilities and functional group security to create a flexible and maintainable model for Cognos security.
Read MoreThis is the second installment in a series I’m writing about career success. Each month I am counting down my 20 tips for career success. This post covers Tip 19: Set Goals and Self-Review.
Read MoreIn April IBM introduced a new program that streamlines licensing for IBM Analytics customers. The FlexPoints program simplifies current perpetual based IBM licensing along three core platforms: Data Science and Business Analytics; Hybrid Data Management; and Unified Governance and Integration.
Read MoreIn this article, I will examine how to streamline and improve data-level security in Cognos Framework Manager.
Read MoreDo you find yourself adding the same image or making the same formatting changes to all of your Cognos reports? Do the standard Cognos colors for lists and crosstabs not do it for you?
Read MoreCognos Framework Manager (FM) is an essential part of using IBM Cognos Analytics. In addition to being the designated Business Intelligence (BI) modelling tool of the Cognos family, FM is where operators can implement data-level security.
Read MoreAlong with the 11.0.4 release of Cognos Analytics, IBM released an automated script to configure IIS as the gateway. This has made standing up a new environment significantly easier. Let’s explore how to configure IIS in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreThe IBM Think 2018 Conference is only a few weeks away (March 19 -22 in Las Vegas) and will be a gathering point for professionals from around the world to explore leading innovations in the world of business and technology.
Read MoreIn this post, I will show a helpful Cognos reporting tip – how using Text Variable property can fix this problem.
Read MoreWith 1000’s of training sessions and technical labs to choose from, building your itinerary might be daunting. If you aren’t sure which Analytics sessions to attend, here are our picks for the 12 top analytics sessions at IBM Think 2018.
Read MoreDo you remember how tedious it was to custom skin Cognos in the 10.x portal? Fortunately, in the new and more extensible version of Cognos Analytics, much of that process of customizing your environment is now much easier to implement and maintain.
Read MoreHave you ever made a change to a report that broke something unintended? How do you quickly revert back to the previous version? How do you see all of the recent changes to figure out which one caused the issue? This is where version control becomes incredibly useful.
Read MoreIn this article, I will explore how to get one of my most popular widgets for Cognos 10 – the searchable checkbox list – to work in Cognos Analytics interactive mode. In theory it should still work for non-interactive mode, but what do we have for interactive mode?
Read MoreIBM was identified as a BI platform leader for analytics solutions in a recent analyst publication from the Business Application Research Center. The report, known as the BARC Score, evaluates enterprise BI platform solutions on two core dimensions: market execution and portfolio capabilities.
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