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Cognos Analytics and Watson Analytics Announce Geospatial Mapping using MapBox

Posted By Jennifer Vezina on August 31st, 2016

IBM has signed an agreement with Mapbox to offer geospatial mapping in Cognos Analytics (CA).  Cognos Analytics will ship MapBox with CA and offer it at no additional cost to customers (unlike some other Analytics partners of Mapbox). MapBox is a unique...

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Leveraging Your Current Investment in your BI and FPM Solution to Secure and Streamline Your Financial Reporting Generation Process

Posted By Jennifer Vezina on August 1st, 2016

Recent studies show that 74% of financial managers are using spreadsheets as their primary vehicle to generate reports.  This means creating lengthy reports or presentations manually, which can yield financial documentation that is prone to human error,...

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Trusting your reporting data – Part 2

Posted By Shawn Mandel on June 28th, 2016

Rarely, is the truth in plain sight.  When faced with disparate systems, applications, or sources, gathering the data in a single place is only half the battle. The second half of the equation is putting in place a stringent set of data standards that...

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Feasibility Assessment of a Large Scale Time Constrained BI Dashboarding Initiative

Posted By Shawn Mandel on June 2nd, 2016

The landscape is changing. In recent years, we’ve seen explosive growth in the need to analyze massive volumes of information from disparate sources both structured and unstructured.  Say you recently helped stage an environment from 100 data sources...

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