Category Archives: Cognos 10

Enterprise Social Media Analytics with Atlas for Connections

Posted on 2011/08/17 by Balazs

The key benefits from deploying an enterprise social media software are to improve customer satisfaction by building stronger relationships with customers, staff effectiveness by simplifying access to existing internal expertise, staff retention by allowing employees to build a stronger network … Continue reading →

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Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)

Posted on 2011/05/23 by Balazs

At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes … Continue reading →

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Business Analytics Software Efficiencies are Key

Posted on 2010/12/26 by Pete

Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and the Hardware Upgrade Tarpit A common misconception about business analytics, is that better business analytics usually requires better hardware. Business Analytics: Software rules over Hardware A number of blogs have recently reflected on the “REPORT … Continue reading →

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Migrating Data Between DB2 Servers

Posted on 2010/10/28 by Pete

DB2 Support for Data Migration When it is time to upgrade from DB2 on Intel to DB2 on Power for example, taking a backup/restore approach isn’t possible as DB2′s backups are platform dependent. The solution is to use a DB2 … Continue reading →

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Understanding Business Intelligence

Posted on 2010/10/23 by Balazs

What is Business Intelligence? From the thread “My Quest for Understanding Business Intelligence” this comment was posted by Leslie Dudley: Business Intelligence Background A little off topic perhaps, but as an IT business intelligence worker who was interviewing during the … Continue reading →

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Cognos and SPSS

Posted on 2010/08/24 by Pete

SPSS enables extracting the essence of the heaps of data available today, and as a result dramatically reducing the time to present actionable information to decision makers. Continue reading →

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IBM Security Tools

Posted on 2010/07/29 by Pete

IBM has a comprehensive approach to encourage security by design. A free Red Book is available for developers: The IBM Redbook for Security in Development The home page for IBM’s main security testing tool is IBM Rational AppScan

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SPSS Tutorials

Posted on 2010/06/23 by Balazs

Problem You heard that SPSS can dramatically improve the efficiency of your data warehouse, reporting and data analytics processes. But how to get started? Solution Here are some links that will get you pretty far: SPSS Official Site SPSS lectures … Continue reading →

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How to protect Cognos 10 app server

Posted on 2010/06/11 by Balazs

Problem: Protecting Cognos 10 App Server The Cognos 10 application runs within an application server. As a result it is vulnerable to attacks over the Internet through the open ports for WWW traffic. Here are some notes on CAF. Ant … Continue reading →

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