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by stephen waters
Fri Feb 19, 2016 11:26 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Is it possible to burst and email TM1 report using Cognos BI 10.2.2?
Replies: 16
Views: 9281

Re: Is it possible to burst and email TM1 report using Cognos BI 10.2.2?

jasnayvarughese Coming slightly late to this post but I thought I would add a couple of non-technical comments. We frequently come across customers and prospects who use (or are used to) Cognos BI, sometimes in conjunction with Cognos Planning. This can lead to a mindset, particularly in IT, where T...
by stephen waters
Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: One For The Marketing 'Droids (Changes To OneDrive)
Replies: 4
Views: 17986

Re: One For The Marketing 'Droids (Changes To OneDrive)

Di you hear of the Hoover free flights fiasco from 1990's? Brought down the company! The Hoover free flights promotion was a marketing promotion begun in 1992. ...it promised free airline tickets to customers who purchased more than £100 worth of its products. However, Hoover had not anticipated tha...
by stephen waters
Wed Nov 25, 2015 10:26 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Authentication/security Tm1 applications W/O BI
Replies: 19
Views: 12705

Re: Authentication/security Tm1 applications W/O BI

This is probably going off topic a bit but to continue the digression about TM1 users and BI license rights (and I really hate the IBM licensing docs that say what roles can't do rather than what they can !) Under Enterprise TM1 licensing: - TM1 Modelers can use Framework Manager, Report Studio, Wor...
by stephen waters
Wed Aug 05, 2015 12:09 pm
Forum: OLAP Jobs
Topic: TM1 Consultant - London
Replies: 0
Views: 3884

TM1 Consultant - London

InfoCat, the first IBM partner in Europe to achieve TM1 Gold certification status, is looking for experienced consultants to join our team in London. We offer the opportunity to apply and extend your existing knowledge of TM1, working on a variety of projects with leading TM1 experts. We also offer ...
by stephen waters
Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:06 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Migrating Perspectives Reports to CAFÉ - experience?
Replies: 4
Views: 4707

Migrating Perspectives Reports to CAFÉ - experience?

We are talking to a customer who is interested in migrating their onpremise TM1 to TM1 SaaS. (btw nothing to do with TM1 just their strategy is to close existing outsourced data centre and move everything to cloud!) Under the SaaS model, the majority of users will access TM1 using either CAFÉ or TM1...
by stephen waters
Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:31 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Is Cognos TM1 getting better?
Replies: 24
Views: 20378

Re: Is Cognos TM1 getting better?

Blackhawk

As well as things you mentioned other things that would be nice to see include
- named hierarchies
- more granular calculation caching
Both of which were on Applix wish list for years. Guess we just have to wait and see if IBM will deliver ;-)

Hope to see you in Vision
by stephen waters
Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:41 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Is Cognos TM1 getting better?
Replies: 24
Views: 20378

Re: Cognos TM1 and Bugs

I've had a couple of real defects according to traditional software development, yet rejected by their development or support managers as "product behavior". To be fair, I don't think that approach is unique to IBM. Having dealt with various software vendors over the years I have come acr...
by stephen waters
Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:56 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Is Cognos TM1 getting better?
Replies: 24
Views: 20378

Re: Is Cognos TM1 getting better?

In your opinion, are the theoretical billions of dollars being poured into Cognos TM1 making it better? Agree with Alan about short memories. In the early days when I first started getting involved with TM1 managing projects ( late 90's, early 2000's) the product seemed very buggy with occasional i...
by stephen waters
Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:16 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Prism?
Replies: 21
Views: 16403

Re: Prism?

Given IBM's emphasis on cloud I suspect idea behind Prism is to have a unified front-end that will work on both cloud and on-premise. Will be interesting to see where it will be developed ( Littleton or York?) and which approach they will take a) the Performance Modeler 'lets make is as similar as p...
by stephen waters
Fri Mar 27, 2015 12:33 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: TM1 Server RAM
Replies: 7
Views: 5940

Re: TM1 Server RAM

Mmmm.... A few things you mention make me think. we have P&L by product, P&L by Customer and Costs cubes in which forecast data are input and calculated on a monthly basis. How many elements in the product and customer dimension? If you are getting up into the 10's of thousands you will need...
by stephen waters
Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: Cognos Planning and BI
Topic: Cognos Planning 8.2 to 8.4 Migration
Replies: 7
Views: 60381

Re: Cognos Planning 8.2 to 8.4 Migration

Just spotted this. Why migrate to a superseded version that (I think) is no longer supported)?

In fact, why invest time and money migrating to a newer version of a product that has been completely superseded by TM1?
by stephen waters
Mon Mar 23, 2015 9:43 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: TM1 Server RAM
Replies: 7
Views: 5940

Re: TM1 Server RAM

Camembert As Declan says, it depends on the model, but 400 Gb for a 200 user planning and budgeting model does seem very high compared to most of our clients. Our largest models are around that size but these are extremely high volume insurance modelling with actuarial calculations going forward up ...
by stephen waters
Wed Jan 07, 2015 2:08 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Attributes changes
Replies: 14
Views: 10643

Re: Attributes changes

If it is a one-off or once a year and you are just doing it for 100 elements in a single dimension why not use DBSA in a sporeadsheet ? Very easy to do string manipulation in Excel formulae
by stephen waters
Mon Dec 01, 2014 6:49 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Cognos TM1 10.2.2.1 Server Sizing
Replies: 3
Views: 3530

Re: Cognos TM1 10.2.2.1 Server Sizing

What kind of load would a full cognos suite with approximately 100 users connecting to it require? ...then run the reports etc using Excel & the web client i am led to believe. Sean, Just to be absolutely sure, when you say "full Cognos Suite" do you mean just the TM1 portion or do yo...
by stephen waters
Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:01 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Diff between Cognos Analytics server and TM1 Server
Replies: 1
Views: 3323

Re: Diff between Cognos Analytics server and TM1 Server

even at IBM we can't get clarification. That does not surprise me at all. There are very few IBM ers who know about ( and evern fewer who understand) the historic licensing of TM1 and how it has changed. When the records were transferred via Cognos to IBM I recall many of our customers being told t...
by stephen waters
Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:14 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: TM1 training - IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V1
Replies: 5
Views: 4636

Re: TM1 training - IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models

there are still a few training providers for the v9.5 course. Wish IBM be more specific on their website about what tools they are going to teach. Phyllis Phyllis In our geography IBM develop the courses but they are marketed and run by a distributor, normally using third parties (including ourselv...
by stephen waters
Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:37 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: TM1 training - IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V1
Replies: 5
Views: 4636

Re: TM1 training - IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models

From the official IBM courses you could try "IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V9.5)". You may have problems finding a physical course being run though I think there is also the on-line version. Alternatively, find a local partner who has their own training material. If, like us, ...
by stephen waters
Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:55 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: Architect crahses while selecting Top element in dimension
Replies: 4
Views: 3453

Re: Architect crahses while selecting Top element in dimensi

The fault relates to the relationship of the window size with your desktop size. Don't know why it happens but the solution is straight forward. .... I recall this type of error from earlier versions a few years ago. I think Deleting the TM1P.INI (after backing up etc) file also used to work, thoug...
by stephen waters
Thu Jul 10, 2014 8:19 am
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data
Replies: 20
Views: 13512

Re: calculated VERSUS stored & frozen historic data

Hi all,In the meantime i've learned though, why the reports i've created took sooooo long to refresh/recalculate. I haven't read back over the whole of the post but, looking at the youtube video, did anyone point out that you have a 16 dimensional cube? Looking at the dimensions I think is going to...
by stephen waters
Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:01 pm
Forum: IBM TM1, Planning Analytics, PAx and PAW
Topic: TM1 Web Vs TM1 Contributor (Performance)?
Replies: 4
Views: 3799

Re: TM1 Web Vs TM1 Contributor (Performance)?

jim wood wrote: you could kind of say the question is mute anyway,
Pardon, didn't quite hear that...