Top 10 Cognos Financial Performance Management Proven Practices

The Cognos Proven Practices listed on this page were the 10 most popular Financial Performance Management practices with our readers in October 2009, based on web hits.

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1. Efficient Report Design using Excel addin

   Design efficient Excel link reports in Cognos Controller with these guidelines.

2. TM1 Server Administration

   Monitor memory usage, plan for capacity and server sizing. This document is a compilation of recommended practices on the topic of TM1 server planning, sizing, and hardware performance.

3. Integrating TM1 9.4 and IBM Cognos 8.4

   Integrate IBM Cognos TM1 with IBM Cognos 8 and Access Manager security. Create an IBM Cognos 8 Package for reporting, and add TM1 portlets for use in Cognos 8.

4. Tuning Job Servers in Cognos Planning

   Improve job server utilization. Environments with strong infrastructure have seen high gains and performance benefits, while weak infrastructures have witnessed failures when implementing the setting recommended in this document.

5. Tuning Administration Links

   Improve job server utilization. Environments with strong infrastructure have seen high gains and performance benefits, while weak infrastructures have witnessed failures when implementing the setting recommended in this document.

6. Improved Performance by Flattening Dimensions

   Improve performance and stay within the recommended size parameters in your IBM Cognos Planning Model by "flattening dimensions". This method also reduces sparsity within very sparse applications such as a Bill of Materials.

7. IBM Cognos Planning as a Data Source for IBM Cognos BI Reports

   Learn about techniques to improve presentation, navigation and enrich content in your IBM Cognos Planning and IBM Cognos 8 BI reports. This article includes demonstrations that use a combination of IBM Cognos Planning 8.1 and IBM Cognos 8 version 8.2.

8. IBM Cognos TM1 Back-up and Recovery Guide

   Develop a back-up and recovery strategy for Cognos TM1, using one of the two approaches described in this document.

9. IBM Cognos Controller 8.4 Architecture and Server Sizing

   Plan your IBM Cognos Controller 8.4 architecture. Use best practices to determine server sizing, based on Cognos customer feedback, and ensure you have the correct infrastructure in place for your system.

10. Turbo Integrator Data Processing Tips and Techniques

    Use Turbo Integrator to accomplish various data movement and transformations into IBM Cognos TM1. This document contains tips and techniques on processing data using an element, decimal placements, and adding clients to groups using Turbo Integrator.

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