5 Ways Your AI Projects Fail, Part 1
The recurring perception that artificial intelligence, AI, is somehow magical and can create something from nothing leads many projects astray. That’s part of the reason that the 2019 Price Waterhouse CEO Survey shows fewer than half of US companies are embarking on strategic AI initiatives – the risk of failure is substantial. In this series, we’re examining the most common ways AI projects will fail for companies in the beginning of your AI journey. Be on the lookout for these failures – and ways to remediate or prevent them – in your own AI initiatives.
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Top Sessions at Data and AI Forum
Choosing which sessions to attend can be tricky. In a few short days, you need to sort through the scores of keynotes, roadmap presentations, technical labs, and workshops to find the topics most relevant for you and your organization. Sometimes, it’s cut and dry; other times, a catchy presentation title betrays irrelevant content.
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Proudly Presenting at the IBM Data and AI Forum
Some of our brightest consultants and analytics leaders are presenting at the IBM Data and AI Forum. We are sharing insights on how organizations are re-imagining their analytics strategies and solutions to flourish in a competitive and ever-changing business landscape.
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Mapping in Cognos
Learn how to infuse modern geospatial mapping capabilities into your Cognos analytics solution in this technical blog post.
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Cognos 11.1.3 Overview
In this Cognos 11.1.3 overview I’ll focus on the headline features – mostly in the form of enhancements to the Explore and AI Assistant capabilities introduced in the 11.1.1 release.
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IBM Planning Analytics Overview
There are a number of reporting options included “in the box” with Planning Analytics, but knowing what to use for what purpose can be confusing. This post looks at PAW, PAX and TM1Web at a high level to help you understand which tool to use for which purpose.
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BACon 2019 Session Overview
The 2019 PMsquare Business Analytics Conference (BACon) has a full slate of great sessions providing opportunities for technical training, strategic planning guidance, and exploration of what is in store for IBM analytics solutions. Here’s a complete rundown of 2019 sessions.
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BACon 2019 Sneak Peek
The PMsquare Business Analytics Conference (BACon) is a unique data and analytics conference that provides opportunities for technical training, strategic planning guidance, and exploration of what is in store for IBM analytics solutions. Held annually at the iconic Arlington International Racecourse, the conference offers a signature experience for attendees.
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PMsquare Earns Two More IBM Champion Awards
We are excited and proud to announce that two of our very own: Ryan Dolley and Paul Mendelson have been selected as IBM Champions for the 2019 IBM Champion Program.
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Make Old-school Cognos Charts Scale Dynamically
Have you ever wished you make an old Cognos visualization look good on any screen? Or wished you could have a chart take up 100% of the space it has, dynamically resizing as the user resizes their window? Well here’s a simple to use custom control that can do exactly that!
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Tips for Career Success - Tip 15: Be Humble
This article is part of a series that will take you through 20 tips for career success. In this article, we look at the significance of humility as a driver for career success.
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Committed to Excellence
At PMsquare we take pride in staying current on all advancements made in our industry to best serve our clients. Here we’d like to honor a few individuals on their latest achievements.
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Token Prompts
This technical blog shares tips and recommendations for getting the most from IBM Cognos Analytics. Token Prompts allow authors to create extremely efficient code that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to make.
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Introducing PMsquare Thrive
PMsquare is pleased to announce the release of PMsquare Thrive, a powerful solution for driving end user engagement and monitoring environmental stability in IBM Cognos Analytics. Thrive gives administrators and analytics leaders unparalleled visibility.
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Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 Stability, Bugs, and a Useful Workaround
When deciding whether or not you should upgrade your IBM Cognos stack, one major factor should involve assessing whether or not the release is stable. There are many avenues used when assessing the stability of a given release. Find assessment tools here.
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Cognos Upgrade Tools Come 'In the Box'
Exciting News: MotioCI and MotioPI Professional are included ‘in the box’ when you upgrade to Cognos Analytics 11.1 and available for free for a limited time.
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Tips for Career Success – Tip 16: Stand Up and Smile
When you find yourself presenting – whether to a large crowd or a small group – remember to stand up and smile. The combination of these two simple things will make you a better presenter… right away.
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Cognos 11.1 Reporting
Several changes have been made to the Reporting interface in Cognos 11.1. In this post, I take an in-depth look at these changes and I think you will agree that for the most part they are very positive.
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Keep Your Best Players on the Court
Working together with IBM and PMsquare, the University of Louisville built a solution that automatically captures and models data from wearables and other sources, and visualizes it in intuitive dashboards for coaches and athletes.
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Cognos 11.1 Overview
In Cognos 11.1, IBM brings long sought improvements to Cognos’ core features while adding advanced analytics and artificial intelligence driven by Watson. Best of all, this huge enhancement is free to all Cognos customers.
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