IBM Cognos TM1 builds powerful, flexible, bespoke applications for budgeting and forecasting. Because of its calculation and reporting capabilities it has also proved popular in complex business modelling making it... read more →
Before we can implement software to support a Business Intelligence initiative we need to know what it is. In 1958 IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn first used the term Business... read more →
Firstly, this is not an article on accounting, it is more a chance to look at the relative value of the information kept in your organisation and its ability to... read more →
We are pleased to announce that CDP has an official Twitter account. Feel free to follow along with the conversation and stay-up-to date with what's happening in the business intelligence... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →
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”. How many times have... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →