FINANCE
A Finance Guide to Finding Monte Carlo
This article is intended for finance professionals curious about integrating advanced statistical techniques into their various processes. The focus is not on the methods and merits of any specific modeling technique but instead focuses more on preparing finance processes for their inevitable use.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The Cloud as a Data Source
Not a week goes by anymore where we are not talking to a customer about needs based on a Cloud paradigm. The term Cloud, like Dashboard, has found a rather ambiguous definition and can mean different things to different people. If you dig deeper into IBM's definition of cloud for example, you will find additional terms like Managed Private Cloud and Hosted Private Cloud and Shared Cloud Services.
We have found the placement of Performance Applications, particularly BI applications and Data Assets, to be slow to move out beyond an internally managed network and set of resources. That certainly doesn't mean the Cloud does not apply to Performance Management.
From a data architecture perspective, we deal with the Cloud every day. We have successfully integrated Cloud-based data sources such as Salesforce.com and NetSuite's OpenAir with companies' other internal data assets. In these cases, we are bringing Cloud-based data back inside the organization and combining it with other data assets to give Business Leaders a more complete view of their businesses, regardless where the source data may resides. Connecting and integrating cloud-based data often presents additional challenges, not dissimilar, from existing challenges:
Cognos 10 – the evolution , thoughts from a Beta Tester
IBM-Cognos Business Intelligence products have undergone sustained research & development for roughly 10-12 years leading to enhancements in the current platform. The Congos 10 platform has matured initially from reporting and ad-hoc query on relational data using Report Studio and Query Studio, to added capabilities such as, event management and data analysis, including the use of Multidimensional data sources in Cognos 8, via Event Studio, Analysis Studio and PowerPlay Studio. Cognos 8 also introduced the integration of the IBM-Cognos Planning, IBM-Cognos Controller, and IBM-Cognos TM1 products which were previously not integrated.
OPERATIONS
Additional Tools Make Growing Performance Management Programs Agile and Scalable
Additional Tools Make Growing Performance Management Programs Agile and Scalable
