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hi,
please can help me what should be added into this ppts attached for giving presenation for lay man who doesn't know about anything about cognos tm1.Find the ppts attached.

thanking you.

viswaraju wrote:please can help me what should be added into this ppts attached for giving presenation for lay man who doesn't know about anything about cognos tm1.Find the ppts attached.

It would be helpful to know who the target audience is. Are you a TM1 admin presenting to users in your company who are being introduced to the product? Or are you trying to sell a TM1 package to people who have never seen it before?

DearAlan,
thank you very much, for your support all these days great thank ful to you.

i am a developer and i need to give presenatation for my higher level(upto,CEO)people who doesn't know anything about TM1.There should understand the tool.

viswaraju wrote:i am a developer and i need to give presenatation for my higher level(upto,CEO)people who doesn't know anything about TM1.There should understand the tool.

OK; then to be honest I'd be inclined to dump a lot of the stuff in there. For example:
(a) History. Your CEO is likely to see his time as precious; he probably won't care what Applix's history is. I recall one company (which shall remain nameless) coming in to give the group financial manager and myself a presentation of a competing product. One of the things they went through were slides of their company's profitability over the last five years. I looked at the GFM. She looked at me. The unspoken thought we shared (which was spoken after they left) was "Do we give a ****?" We were there to see "what benefits would it offer us, and how much would it cost us in time and money". Contrary to what professional presenters may tell you, everything else was a waste of our time.
(b) Dump terms like MOLAP (if he's non-technical, he won't know, won't care) but all of the rest of the points on the Product slide will be relevant.
(c) Likewise 64 bit and "in memory"; I'd roll this into a single point that TM1 stores its data in the computer's memory rather than reading it to disk, making it very fast (emphasising the latter point). A CEO/CFO will be interested in what it can do for them, they won't care how it does it.
(d) Similarly for the Rules Language I'd morph that into an explanation that it "has a calculation language that we can use to do modelling or calculate derived values"; again, they'll care about what it does, not how it does it.
(e) I wouldn't bother mentioning TI at all except possibly for a passing mention that it has a built-in language to allow data to be brought in from your other systems, including the ability to regularly schedule such uploads.
(f) The Benefits slide is good.
(g) I'd probably add some screenshots into Components (breaking it into multiple slides if there isn't enough room) to show what these interfaces look like; the names alone won't mean much to them. Might also be worthwhile mentioning that it can be expanded to be a back end for Cognos BI, but only if you think that you may go down that path in the future.
(h)The fourth point on the Functions slide is a bit jumbled. R/W isn't exclusive to Web, nor is ad hoc analysis. It's important to menton those but I'd split them up into separate points with a note that it can be done through most of TM1's interfaces (except possibly EV; I can't remember whether that supports writeback).
(i) All of the points on the Unique slide are relevant, but I'd consider merging it into Benefits since that's what they really are.
(j) I'd reconsider the Server Explorer slides; again I think a couple of screenshots would be worth far more in terms of getting them to understand what they're looking at. And remember that as clients rather than Admins, they probably won't see processes, chores and replications anyway. I'd put the emphasis on screenshots of Cube Viewer and how the Applications folders work.
(k) The first Components slide seems to cover things pretty well, but
(l) The second slide is information that they probably don't care that much about though a passing reference to the ability to replicate data and to schedule uploads may be of relevance to them.

I think the big thing that's missing is screenshots, even if they're dummied-up cubes with dummied data. It's the principle of "don't tell me, show me".

Dear Alan,
once again thanks for your valuable time and suggestions for me,i dont have tm1 software to publish screen shots into the templates.
One more doubt please for what exactly the TM1 is applicable for? other than forecasting,budgeting and planning.
Why we should use or opt the Cognos TM1?

thanking you.

viswaraju wrote:once again thanks for your valuable time and suggestions for me,i dont have tm1 software to publish screen shots into the templates.

If you take a look in the FAQ thread you'll find a link to a trial download of Cognos Express. This includes TM1 (albeit named Xcelerator) though I think that CX still includes version 9.4 from memory (unless Cognos has updated it). You'll have 30 days, which is enough to create a demo.

viswaraju wrote:One more doubt please for what exactly the TM1 is applicable for? other than forecasting,budgeting and planning.

Reporting and modelling for two others.

viswaraju wrote:Why we should use or opt the Cognos TM1?

Aside from the reasons that you've mentioned in your presentation (which are compelling enough as is), the big selling points as I've outlined them elsewhere (link not yet available) are:
- The speed from storing the data in memory rather than reading it from the hard disk (included in part in your presentation, but it's an important point of emphasis);
- The ability for users to not simply see but also upload data, subject to their permissions;
- Consequently, the ability for different parts of the business to collaborate in real time when compiling budgets, forecasts or other plans; that is, you can have (say) a marketing department inputting expected sales data which the production department can instantly see, and adjust their own plans accordingly;
- The fact that it uses employees' existing Excel skills;
- The ability to centralise business rules. For example, if you have a costing model for production, rather than having this embedded in a bunch of Excel worksheets you can have the model defined by cube rules. If the business rules change then they can be updated centrally on the server, and everyone has the most up to date calculations. This applies to other models as well; payroll models, staffing models, anything really.

thank you very much.
Please can you suggest me how to get good cognos TM1 and cognos planning.

Thanking you.

To become skilled at TM1 there is no silver bullet
1) Read the manuals
2) Practise in real world situations. Build models, destroy them and start again. This is the single most important part. You cannot become good at TM1 without a lot of hands on experience.
3) Go on training sessions run by good IBM partners with at least five years experience with TM1 (not a Cognos crowd who have just picked up TM1).
4) Consult the FAQ post for a lot of common problems.

Same goes for Cognos Planning.

Martin

Dear Ryan,
thank you,please can you send me details for the best configuration for a System with all prerequisite for the softwares of cognos 8 BI.Cognos TM1 and Cognos Planning.

thanking you.

RAM: lots
CPU: lots
Disk space: lots

Excel is required for the clients.

Ryan (can't beat 'em, join 'em).

Please can help me in the blue prints? I dont know about the blue prints,What are this blue prints? For What application are used? How this are applicable for TM1 technology?

thanking you.

viswaraju wrote:Please can help me in the blue prints? I dont know about the blue prints,What are this blue prints? For What application are used? How this are applicable for TM1 technology?

I have no idea where you got that term from.

However Wikipedia is your friend:

Wikipedia wrote:A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan.

If I had to hazard a guess (and since you haven't said what on Earth you're talking about, it is only a guess), it would be a reference to your network architecture; where the TM1 server or servers sit on your network, which server is running the Admin server, which one is running the Web server and so on. While this is an important part of planning the deployment of TM1, it's hardly specific to that piece of software and in any case the network plan will vary depending on network speed, whether the clients are local or in remote locations, and many other factors. There will be no "one size fits all" blueprint for a TM1 deployment.


(I trust that the regulars will excuse a small amount of palette humour above.)

I believe s/he's referring to the template models that Cognos or IBM have put out in the past to demonstrate how to do, for example, a healthcare model in a given tool.

Viswaraju, please avail yourself of the search functionality for any further information on blueprints, as there is a couple of posts on them. The search function can be found at the top and bottom of every page on the site. It's a very useful tool.

Martin

Martin Ryan wrote:I believe s/he's referring to the template models that Cognos or IBM have put out in the past to demonstrate how to do, for example, a healthcare model in a given tool.

Viswaraju, please avail yourself of the search functionality for any further information on blueprints, as there is a couple of posts on them. The search function can be found at the top and bottom of every page on the site. It's a very useful tool.

Ooooh, the other "One Size Fits None" tools. You're quite right, I'd forgotten about those. But from what I've seen of them, they're quite forgettable, about on a par with MS's Access database samples.

I did do a scan through all of the manuals to see whether the term had been picked up from there but naturally Iboglix hasn't seen fit to include a reference to them in its documentation. The blueprints have even slipped under the FAQ's radar but I'm not sure that the "Q"'s on them are "A"d "F" enough to qualify.

Dear Ryan,
thank you very much.