With businesses generating more data than ever before, organizations need to invest in business intelligence (BI) capabilities to help generate greater insights from their data, drive better business decisions, and identify new opportunities.
IBM Cognos Analytics is a self-service analytics platform that integrates cognitive computing technology, with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)...
Category: Analytics
March 3, 2020
Why you should upgrade to IBM Cognos Analytics (11)
by Colin Quinn
February 25, 2020
5 Benefits of Planning Analytics for Government Contractors
by Colin Quinn
When it comes to planning and analytics, don’t compromise. Kinetek4Cast in-conjunction with IBM Planning Analytics Express goes beyond simply automating your planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. It provides self-service analytics to all of your business users through an innovative planning workspace that empowers business users to seek better business results. Deliver insights automatically from your...
July 10, 2019
Planning analytics: What is your enterprise plan?
by Colin Quinn
It all begins with a plan. Whether it’s the overall strategic plan or a detailed operational plan, this step is usually part of the overall enterprise performance management strategy, which encompasses financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Planning is in a unique position compared to the other analytics groups because it relies on outputs of all the other steps.
Even today spreadsheets remain one...
April 24, 2019
Top 3 Analytics Pain Points and the Answers
by Colin Quinn
Like kids complaining about how spring break is too short, data analysts always seem to be talking about pain points.
Unlike too short of a break from school, however, the kind of pain points analysts typically encounter can be a little more complicated.
In this post, we’ll be diving into the world of customer pain points – specifically, three pain points, what they are, and how you can position your...
August 6, 2018
Top 10 Reasons to upgrade to Cognos Analytics (Cognos 11)
by Colin Quinn
Thoughts?
IBM Cognos(11) Analytics was released at the end of 2015 and offered the same functionality available in Cognos 10, but with a new and improved user interface that is both modern in look and feel and easier to navigate. This new user interface has a greater focus on providing a better user experience while promoting self-service and still delivering the Business Intelligence capabilities we all...
May 14, 2018
The 5 BIG Benefits of IBM Cognos Analytics for Dashboards
by Colin Quinn
In today’s data-driven business environment you need the ability to recognize and seize opportunities in real-time. Your team's need to stay agile and focused - ready to rapidly engage and adjust your business strategies to reach your goals. To be successful, your teams need to be connected and have collaborative access to valuable corporate data, metrics, and information. The only way to get ALL the things...
February 20, 2018
IBM Cognos Analytics Builds Upon Core Strengths
by Colin Quinn
IBM Cognos Analytics provides unsurpassed security and governance at every level, including data and reports, the dashboards, as well as the information that is distributed on a daily or weekly basis. Even though IBM Cognos Analytics opens doors to a breadth of company data, tight controls are in place that can govern who has access to what. For any number of reasons, departments throughout the enterprise might...
January 10, 2018
5 Reasons Your CEO Prefers Data On A Dashboard
by Colin Quinn
The days of CEOs waiting for the delivery of a physical report are long gone. Today, many forward-thinking executives are making use of data visuals and dashboards to gain insight into their company, rather than relying on IT.
There are many benefits of CEO dashboards with a connected interface, including the ability to track performance and monitor data, profits, balances, revenues and forecasts all in...
November 15, 2017
How to Create a Basic Report in IBM Cognos Analytics
by Colin Quinn
Creating a report
When you create a report, you are actually creating a report specification. The report specification defines the queries and prompts that are used to retrieve data and the layouts and styles used to present the data. For simplicity, the report specification is named by the same name as the report.
This post will cover the basics of creating, validating, and running IBM Cognos Analytics...
October 17, 2017
The insider's guide to attending Deltek Insight
by Colin Quinn
To gain a competitive career edge, it’s important to make learning an ongoing part of your professional development. Conferences are short and practical opportunities to learn new information, gain knowledge, and make valuable contacts.
Yet, attending a conference can be an intimidating experience, particularly the first time. If you’re planning on taking a day or more out of the office to attend a Deltek...
July 27, 2017
Dashboards: Unifying Business
by Julia Nixon
To be successful, a business must be unified. Employers and employees must work toward a common goal, and they must believe that their individual work contributes positively to the business as a whole. Unfortunately, it can be challenging for employees to feel that their contributions matter. In large businesses, an employee may think he or she is simply a number—one among many—without the ability to make an...
June 13, 2016
How Employee Software Training Can Help Your Company Meet Its Goals
by Colin Quinn
Successful organizations are always searching for more efficient and better ways to reach goals faster. If business development training isn’t number one on your list priorities for this year, then your company could be missing out on crucial business benefits.
Fact: Smarter employees make for more successful businesses. The importance of emerging technology, such as employee software training, lies in...