What the Heck is Cognitive Computing?
I’m often asked to define cognitive computing. Honestly, it’s not always easy to define. So first, let’s step back and take a look at the overall analytics landscape. Within analytics, you have descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. Descriptive analytics summarizes what happened.…
September 26, 2016
What to Look Forward to at IBM World of Watson
I’ve attended the conference that’s now IBM World of Watson for the past six or seven years. While each year brought something new and exciting, I believe this year will be a watershed year where a critical mass of companies begin their…
September 23, 2016
Understanding Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for Analytics, Part 1
Over the years, our clients and team members have been primarily interested in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites. But just around this time last year, Gartner decided to “retire” its Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management Suites and…
September 12, 2016
How will Brexit Impact your Financial Planning & Analysis
It’s been several weeks since the historic and disruptive Brexit vote, where the UK voted yes to a referendum deciding to leave the European Union. Stock markets around the world immediately had a knee-jerk reaction, and there has been speculation that banks—particularly…
August 23, 2016
Life Lessons Learned as an Intern at Revelwood
This is a guest blog post by Revelwood intern, Zachary Vinik. When I told friends and family that I was interning at an established business they all made jokes. “You are just going to organize papers and deliver coffee to everyone.” My…
August 16, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
Creating IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Content (Part 2)
This blog is intended to continue and build upon the previous blog How to Create IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Content. In this blog, I will provide an overview on building the remaining content (second and third row of visualizations) in the Dashboard…
August 1, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
How to Create IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Content (Part 1)
This blog is intended to continue and build upon the previous blog How to Use IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. In this blog, I will provide an overview on building the content for the first row of visualizations in the Dashboard below. Dashboards…
July 26, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
How to use IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
With the release of the IBM Planning Analytics, IBM has included a new reporting tool for TM1. Planning Analytics Workspace provides users with new ways to analyze data, plan and to access content. They can create books (e.g. Monthly Operating Results Book,…
July 21, 2016
IBM Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks
IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel (CAFE)
IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel (Café) brings the benefits, power and familiarity of Excel to enable business analysts, financial analysts, line-of-business managers and others to explore and analyze data from a variety of different sources. These sources include IBM Cognos TM1…