IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide (Paperback)

Karsten Oehler, Jochen Gruenes, Christopher Ilacqua

  • 出版商: McGraw-Hill Education
  • 出版日期: 2012-03-14
  • 售價: $2,910
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,765
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 800
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0071765697
  • ISBN-13: 9780071765695
  • 海外代購書籍(需單獨結帳)

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商品描述

The only official guide to IBM Cognos TM1

Deliver timely, accurate, and actionable performance management solutions to users across your enterprise. Filled with expert advice from a team of IBM professionals, IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide shows you how to deploy and maintain a dynamic planning, forecasting, and scenario analytic solution. Learn the latest Cognos TM1 10.1 best practices on how to model Cognos TM1 cubes, develop highly agile performance management solutions, generate feature-rich reports, and employ dashboards and scorecards. Securing, sizing, and performance tuning are also covered in this IBM-authorized resource. This book can also be used with former TM1 versions.

  • Build Cognos TM1 models with cubes, dimensions, rules, and TurboIntegrator processes
  • Load data and establish workflow using the TurboIntegrator
  • Model and analyze multidimensional business processes
  • Develop applications using Excel and Cognos TM1 Web
  • Manage high user volumes with scaling and concurrency
  • Assign and enforce roles, privileges, and permissions
  • Deliver custom reports to end users through dashboards
  • Use KPIs and balanced scorecards to monitor performance

From the Authors

Why We Wrote This Book
It is not surprising that in 25 years, best practices and fantastic ideas of how to use Cognos TM1 have evolved. For many business problems, excellent solutions already exist. We participated in this development process and learned from experienced people. But knowledge about Cognos has been like a patchwork. Only a few sites and communities exist, and most experience has been gained by intuition and trial and error. Every novice has to go the hard way and build solid knowledge from various more or less trustworthy sources. It often takes years to become an expert. We have felt this ourselves: to train our colleagues in the secrets of Cognos TM1 takes time and effort.

Our intention is to increase the speed of the diffusion of Cognos TM1 into the business world. For this, of course, marketing is necessary, but good and comprehensive knowledge is more important. So we want to provide everything that is necessary to work with Cognos TM1 effectively, or at least what we think is necessary to work with it.

The obvious question is: why hasn’t there been a book about Cognos TM1 before now? Perhaps Cognos TM1 has been a tool for insiders. You definitely need critical mass for a book project. However, with Cognos TM1 becoming part of the IBM software family, the time is right: the first comprehensive book is now available.

Who This Book Is For
Who should read this book? Everybody who is interested in increasing their company’s performance can profit from it. External and internal consultants in particular will find a broad range of solutions.

Do you already work with Cognos TM1? Do you want to improve your existing applications? You can find lots of practical tips and tricks for projects and your daily work in this book. If you are a consultant, you can find ideas to improve your service offerings. Are you an implementer or a so-called end user? Although we provide concrete implementation advice, our conceptual proposals help users to understand better what is possible with Cognos TM1. This facilitates the communication between the user and the developers.

Perhaps you plan to use Cognos TM1, or are you simply interested in the core concepts of Cognos TM1? You can see what is possible with a modern multidimensional solution.

This Book Will Help You…
Why should you read this book? We are convinced that you will find what you are searching for:

  • A better understanding of how Cognos TM1 works internally
  • Techniques for applying Cognos TM1 to the most difficult performance management problems
  • A better understanding of the Cognos TM1 tools (including the new ones)
  • A better understanding of how to model with Cognos TM1

Although this book has a limited academic orientation, we hope we provide a sufficient explanation of the business background that is necessary to implement the solutions.

We structured this book in three parts. The first part gives an introductory overview of Cognos TM1. What are the typical problems and how can Cognos TM1 address these? You can learn how other companies profited from using Cognos TM1. All tools available for use with Cognos TM1 are briefly introduced.

If you want to get a better understanding of how Cognos TM1 works and how to use the tools, a technical deep dive in the second part of the book provides the necessary insights. For performance optimization, a sound understanding of how Cognos TM1 works internally is necessary. All core concepts are explained in detail.

The last part of the book covers the business solutions. The business requirements drive everything. The best tool can’t help if you don’t understand the business background. We will provide the business background and small, easy-to-understand models. These techniques should help you to solve typical business challenges and can become the foundation of your own solution. We try to span a wide area to cover the intelligent usage of Cognos TM1.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《IBM Cognos TM1 官方指南》是唯一官方指南,專為企業用戶提供及時、準確和可操作的績效管理解決方案。這本書由IBM專業團隊提供專家建議,教你如何部署和維護動態計劃、預測和情景分析解決方案。學習最新的Cognos TM1 10.1最佳實踐,包括如何建模Cognos TM1立方體、開發高靈活性的績效管理解決方案、生成功能豐富的報告,以及使用儀表板和記分卡。本書還涵蓋了安全性、大小和性能調整等方面的內容。這本書也適用於舊版TM1。

以下是本書的主要內容:
- 使用立方體、維度、規則和TurboIntegrator流程建立Cognos TM1模型
- 使用TurboIntegrator加載數據並建立工作流程
- 建模和分析多維業務流程
- 使用Excel和Cognos TM1 Web開發應用程序
- 通過擴展和並發處理管理大量用戶
- 分配和執行角色、特權和權限
- 通過儀表板向最終用戶提供自定義報告
- 使用關鍵績效指標和平衡計分卡監控績效

作者在書中提到,他們撰寫這本書的目的是為了加快Cognos TM1在商業界的應用速度。他們希望提供一切必要的知識,以有效地使用Cognos TM1,或者至少是他們認為使用Cognos TM1所需的知識。

這本書適合所有希望提升公司績效的人閱讀,特別是外部和內部顧問。如果你已經在使用Cognos TM1,並希望改進現有應用程序,這本書中有很多實用的技巧和技巧可供參考。如果你是顧問,你可以找到改進服務提供的想法。如果你是實施者或所謂的最終用戶,儘管我們提供具體的實施建議,但我們的概念性建議有助於用戶更好地理解Cognos TM1的可能性,這有助於用戶和開發人員之間的溝通。如果你計劃使用Cognos TM1,或者只是對Cognos TM1的核心概念感興趣,你可以了解現代多維解決方案的可能性。

這本書將幫助你:
- 更好地理解Cognos TM1的內部運作方式
- 應用Cognos TM1解決最困難的績效管理問題的技巧
- 更好地理解Cognos TM1的可能性