One of the most important and least innovated areas of business today is the area of accounts receivables and collections. Every ERP system includes a basic accounts receivable module, usually one that was conceived many decades ago, and not sufficiently updated to consider new and innovative techniques. Additionally, it may not provide access to robust reporting to alert managers on a timely basis when outstanding receivables and new...

The new capabilities in this release (available since December 2017 – consult our Press Release) focus on reducing the time and effort required by Cognos Analytics users while adding more intelligence across the entire analytics workstream and strengthening the integration with Planning Analytics. Here are some highlights of the release: Latitude/longitude support in dashboarding – When using a map in a dashboard, you can show...

You are nearing end of support for IBM Cognos Series 7 and you would like to get up to the latest and greatest IBM Cognos Analytics platform. However, the challenge is that the architecture on which IBM Cognos Series 7 is based is generations behind IBM Cognos Analytics 11. How would you go about planning for your migration from IBM Cognos Series 7 to IBM Cognos Analytics version 11? Indeed, it takes careful planning and setting the...

An organization’s BI needs grow as business strategies adjust to a new business landscape. Acquisitions and mergers, regulatory requirements, and the user community can drive changes in BI requirements. To support the key decision makers with a 360-degree view of the business, data from existing sources needs to be integrated with new data sources, such as from SAP B1, that may arise from such changes. Data integration strategies...

Organizations have been familiar with Business Intelligence (BI) for many years. BI provides data and analytics to help business leaders make more informed decisions. We are seeing the evolution of Business Intelligence and it’s happening right before our eyes. Enterprise has been progressively entering an era ruled by data. Consequently, BI has evolved to include other types of analytics. Descriptive Analytics Reporting engines make...

Reporting Requirements Does your business require you to provide your customers with insight into their own data from your system, along with the ability to create their own ad-hoc reports and dashboards?  Regardless of your industry, you may be faced with this new requirement being requested by new or existing customers.  Or, perhaps your system already supports some of your customers, but you have been struggling with the various...