IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide

by Karsten Oehler, Jochen Gruenes, Christopher Ilacqua

Overview

The only official guide to building effective business solutions with TM1 from IBM Cognos

IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide offers complete coverage of the 64-bit in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) engine. Based on the newest release, TM1 10, this official guide offers an advanced tutorial for TM1 concepts from a technical and a business point of view. The authors, members of the TM1 team, provide typical business examples and technical insights for building practical solutions, based on their own experiences. Emphasis is placed on teaching best practices and expanding skills to learn the more powerful capabilities of TM1. The book covers analytical processing, data entry, simulation, workflow components, and more.

IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide:

• The first and only officially endorsed book on IBM Cognos TM1
• Written by members of IBM Cognos TM1 team with combined experience of 50 years with the product
• Provides working solutions for relevant business problems
• Offers deep insights into the most powerful and undocumented capabilities of TM1
• Explains how to build actionable business intelligence

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071765701
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/22/2011
Series:	The Official Guide
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	65 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Karsten Oehler is responsible for the performance management competence centers with IBM Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt. He has published four books on IT systems for financial applications and OLAP, as well as more than 130 publications on software systems for managerial accounting.

Jochen Gruenes leads the competence center for TM1 within the technical sales organization for IBM Deutschland GmbH in Bonn. He has led several projects and workshops on the enhanced uses of TM1.

Dr. Christopher Ilacqua is a member of IBM Business Analytics division and has 20+ years' experience working with TM1 as both a customer and helping customers globally seeking to improve their planning, forecasting, and analysis solutions.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction 1. Challenges to Meeting Enterprise Performance Management Requirements 2. The Promise of In-Memory Analytics with IBM Cognos TM1 3. Evolution of IBM Cognos TM1 Part II: Develop and Manage Cognos TM1 Solutions 4. The T of Cognos TM1 5. Cognos TM1 Building Blocks: Cubes, Dimensions, Elements 6. Building Business Logic: Rules 7. Cognos TM1 Building Blocks: TurboIntegrator 8. Deploying Cognos TM1 Solutions via Microsoft Excel 9. Enhancing the User Experience 10. Under the Hood 11. Data Loading and Scaling 12. User Scaling 13. Cognos TM1 Server in Production Part III: Business Solutions with IBM Cognos TM1 14. Business Modeling with Cognos TM1 15. Sales and Profitability Analysis 16. Budgeting 17. Costing 18. Production Planning and Costing Analysis 19. Profit and Cash Flow Planning 20. Driver-Based Planning with Rolling Forecast 21. Multiyear Scenario Planning 22. KPIs, Dashboards, and Balanced Scorecards 23. Group Performance Management 24. Risk Management Index