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QueBIT Blog: Plan to Win with Planning Analytics, Report it to the World with Cognos Analytics

Posted by: Erik Herman Jul 23, 2019 10:49:44 AM
Can we level the playing field and admit off the top that everybody, or more appropriately, every organization plans? This has been a mantra of my colleague A.G. Tan for as long as I’ve had the... Read More

Erik Herman

Erik is an IBM Business Analytics certified technology training, instructional design, e-learning, and content development professional with more than 15 years of experience. I can provide training in: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, IBM Cognos TM1, IBM SPSS. QueBIT's training program is unique because we can tailor our material to your application and make sure we cover the concepts important to you and your personnel. We don't only teach you how to use the solution, but also guide you with proven best practices and tips and instruct you on how to problem solve issues enabling you to become self-sufficient with the tool.
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QueBIT Blog: The Golden Era of Analytics

Posted by Erik Herman

Cognos Analytics 11.1, augmented intelligence, advanced and embedded analytics, and beyond!

The golden era of analytics is upon us; smarter systems, augmented with artificial intelligence, capable of managing and filtering massive amounts of data, empowering end users to make smarter decisions, and delivering major returns on investment in the process. According to Gary Quirke, CEO of QueBIT, in a recent CFO magazine webinar, “this period in history will be defined by the commencement of man and machine working in perfect harmony, combining machine artificial intelligence with the irreplaceable power of human intuitive reasoning to achieve optimum decision making performance."

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Topics: Cognos Analytics, augmented intelligence

QueBIT Blog: IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 - Be boundless data explorers!

Posted by Erik Herman

IBM wants you (at least 60% of you anyway) to be boundless data explorers. They want you to fearlessly, confidently, and proactively plan, describe, diagnose, predict, and prescribe (actions) based on your organizations' information. They want you to seamlessly move from data prep, to modeling, to reporting and dashboarding, to dare I say, predictive analytics.

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Topics: Cognos Analytics

QueBIT Blog: Let IBM Cognos Analytics Tell Your Company’s Story

Posted by Erik Herman

If a picture is worth 1000 words, how many words would it be if you could present your Cognos Analytics data using pictures, and video, and charts, and graphs, and prompts…, all in a guided experience that dynamically, intuitively, and automatically leads your audience through a tailored presentation? I was never that great with math, but I'm guessing it would be a lot of words!!

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Topics: Cognos Analytics

QueBIT Blog: Queue the analytics learning opportunity!

Posted by Erik Herman

QueBIT launches new Cognos Analytics learning video playlist.

QueBIT is proud to announce the launch of a new Cognos Analytics video playlist, which is designed to provide individuals with access to a wide range of expanding business analytics learning opportunities. These videos are created by QueBIT’s in-house analytics experts, and are designed to promote learning of fundamental through advanced topics, along with practical applications and best practices.

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QueBIT Blog: Cognos Analytics – It’s a Brave New World: To be an Ad-Hoc Data Modeler

Posted by Erik Herman

The term ad-hoc report development has long been part of the analytics lexicon, dare I say a buzzword. The idea of self-service analytics has been a clarion call for many of the major analytics providers - create tools and environments that empower the business users to develop their own analytics, with little or no support from IT required. This self-fulfilling prophecy has never fully materialized, and has only been relevant on the report development side of the analytics functions spectrum.

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QueBIT Blog: It’s A Brave New World…to be a Cognos Analytics Consumer and/or Report/Dashboard Developer

Posted by Erik Herman

As mentioned in the previous blog post, the new release of Cognos Analytics presents an entirely new experience across the IBM analytics professional spectrum from consumer, to report/dashboard developer, to data modeler. Perhaps the most exciting and compelling changes are experienced by individuals actively curating, developing, and sharing analytics in Cognos.

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Topics: Cognos Analytics

QueBIT Blog: Cognos Analytics – It’s a Brave New World!

Posted by Erik Herman

The official release of IBM Cognos Analytics (aka Cognos 11) represents a major re-write of the Cognos business analytics tools (not to mention, a re-branding of a re-brand).  I’ve recently attended a Cognos Analytics training session and spent some time working in a Cognos Analytics environment. 

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