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Why Plan? Part One
Budgeting and forecasting has been done for so many years that some organisations have forgotten why they even bother. Surely finance staff could better spend their time analysing their actual performance?
What’s the Difference between a Dashboard and a Scorecard?
These terms are often used interchangeably, which can cause confusion. There is no rule about what each term means, but I like to make a distinction between the two to remove that confusion. The following diagram summarises what I see as the essential differences between the two:
Planning to Perform
Failing to Plan is like Planning to Fail, but it’s difficult to plan something so nebulous as Business Intelligence. That’s why we created the “Performance Plan”.
Elegant Dashboarding
Dashboards are a wonderful way to check how an organisation’s key indicators are tracking. They can indicate when action is required, when questions need to be asked and inject objective information into the decision making process.
Cognos 10 Active Reports
Active or Off-line reports
Active Reports allow for the delivery of interactive dashboards and reports that business users can work with offline. They provide the flexibility needed to access vital information even when disconnected from the network
Data Warehouse Data Quality
The Data Warehouse Institute Seminar
A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to attend a session with Arkady Maydanchik, one of the world’s leading authorities in Data Warehouse data quality.
TM1 joins the Cognos family – where to for Planning?
Back in October 2007 a company by the name of Applix was acquired by Cognos. Cognos rebranded the company’s flagship product, TM1, to Cognos TM1. A few months later Cognos was itself acquired by IBM.
CDP's site has showcased on international design websites
The CDP website recently went through a rebrand and redesigned process. Part of the promotion of the new site was to submit it to international websites that showcase web designs from around the globe. Here is a list of some of the website we have appeared on:
Rebrand & Redesign: Welcome to the new CDP website
Over the past few months CDP underwent a rebranding of their company identity. Part of that process included redesigning their corporate website to better align it with the new style. This provided an excellent opportunity to make some major changes to the current website and adding functionality that was otherwise missing.
