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An IBM Proof of Technology

C O G N O S

IBM Cognos 10 & TM1

© 2011 IBM Corporation 2

Welcome

● Introductions

�Name

�Role in organization

�Expectations for the session

● Logistics

�Access restrictions

�Restrooms

�Emergency exits

�Smoking policy

�Meals and refreshments


Overall Session Objectives

● Acquaint participants with the IBM Cognos 10 as well as IBM TM1 – all in one day!

● Provide hands-on interaction with key solution elements

● Help participants identify how these capabilities can be applied to drive better outcomes in their organization


Business Intelligence Agenda (9:00AM to 12:00PM)

● Overview of IBM Business Analytics and IBM Cognos 10

● Business User Experience – Overview and Lab

● Business User Authoring – Overview and Lab

● Professional Authoring – Overview and Lab

● Metadata Modeling – Overview

● Architecture, Integration and Systems Management – Overview


TM1 Agenda (1:00PM – 4:00PM)

● IBM Cognos solutions overview

● Performance Management

● Financial Performance Management

● Introduction to IBM Cognos TM1

● Understanding OLAP

● Hands On Workshop


Trusted Information

Actionable Insights

SmarterDecisions

BetterOutcomes

Business Analytics: driving better outcomes


Business Analytics and Optimization Solutions


User needs vary by role, perspective, and skills...

The fundamental questions do not

DATA EXTERNAL DATA

EDW

Suppliers

Industry BenchmarksCRM, ERP

Why?How are we doing?

What should we be doing?

How are we doing?

Executives

Individual Contributors

IT

Business AnalystsManagers

Customers



How are we doing?

How are we doing?

● Monitor performance with personalized dashboards

● Track achievement against strategies and objectives with actionable scorecards

● Receive real-time feedback on current conditions for intra-day decision making

● Set personalized alerts for the most relevant and targeted action


Why? What are the drivers?

● Access detail behind summaries

● Change perspectives by traveling up and down hierarchies

● Understand trends over time

● Compare metrics across multiple dimensions

● Create ad-hoc query and analysis

● Identify possible correlations

Why?



● Evaluate alternate scenarios with 'what-if' analysis

● Easily model complex multi-variate scenarios

● Predict likely outcomes based on

prior history


p


BlackBerry®

Integrate analytics into everyday decision making

● Web-based access for all users

● Enable users on the go with mobile device access and interactivity--

� iPad, BlackBerry, Windows, Android devices

● Leverage content in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

● Search for existing content or to

establish context for authoring

● Collaborate with others on decision making

● Integrate seamlessly into other systems


C O G N O S

V A L U E

T I M E

Deliver Innovation and Sustained Value

IBM Cognos 8

Series 7

A revolutionary BI workspace delivered on a proven platform

with seamless upgrade


Cognos 10 Summary

● Engages all users with a consistent, accurate view of business information

�Personalized and role appropriate user experience

�Self-service model speeds information access

● Provides comprehensive, multi-perspective analytic capabilities

�Past, present and future

�Multiple delivery channels to provide information where and when decisions are made

● All capabilities in one product extends analytic value, lower time to adoption and lowers TCO


Agenda







● Summary and Wrap Up


Module Objectives

� Examine self-service capabilities for business users

– Explore the Cognos Connection web portal

– Assemble and customize content in the integrated BI workspace


Welcome to IBM Cognos software


What is Cognos Connection?

� Customizable portal interface to all Cognos 10 content

– Public Folders are shared and secured by user or group

– My Folders is private

� Launching point for different capabilities based on permissions

– Studios, administrative functions

� Used to set preferences

– Language, run options, home page


Access and personalize content

� Access and view content, live or saved output versions

� Open the report for editing

� Personalize the view by setting prompt values, output format, language

� Schedule the report to be run in the future or at recurring intervals

Run a report to view live data.Run a report with options.

Schedule a report.

Edit a report


Set personalized alerts

� Users can request an alert

–When a report is run

–When specific thresholds are met / exceeded


What is Business Insight?

� Interactive, self-service workspace

� Assemble and share dashboards

– Assemble content for a personal or shared dashboard without IT intervention

– Arrange elements in an intuitive, WYSIWYG interface

� Interact with information for greater understanding

– Personalize the look and feel with easy formatting options

– Create calculations

– Select alternate visualizations

– Conduct further analysis in context

– Examine data lineage

� Share and collaborate on key information

– Add comments to clarify and question

– Search for existing content and begin authoring in context


The Business Insight interface

Widgets

Canvas On-demand toolbar

Content store/toolbox

Canvas

toolbar


Using toolbars and menus

� The main toolbar

– Controls for dashboard-wide options

– Access content search

� On-demand menus control individual widget behavior and properties


The widget menu: Interact with information

● Select alternate views and visualizations

● Filter, sort, calculate

● Drill up and down

● Group data

● Add commentary


The widget menu: Communication and manipulation

● Set communication between widgets

�Filters, prompts and coordinated drilling

● Export content to other formats

● Access saved content outputs


Demonstration: Business Insight


Objectives Review

� Examined self-service capabilities for business users

– Explored the Cognos Connection web portal

– Assembled and customized content in the integrated BI workspace


Agenda




● Lunch






Module Objectives

� Examine business user authoring

– Creating new content using Business Insight Advanced

– Combining data and visualizations

– Apply styles and formatting


What is Business Insight Advanced?

� Web-based, drag and drop content authoring interface designed for business users

� Relational or dimensional data

� Multiple data layouts and visualizations

� Styles and formatting

� Format, layout, and distribution

� Incorporate external data

� Content can be run as standalone report or incorporated into Business Insight workspace

� Leveraged as starting point for further enhancement by professional authors as needed


The Business Insight Advanced interface

Toolbar

Package and Model

Toolbox

Properties

Presentation


Data exploration and analysis capabilities

� Drag and drop data elements from metadata

� Easy but powerful data manipulation

– Summarization

– Grouping

– Calculations

– Member and Set Operations

• Exclude, move, replace, and create)• Top/bottom count• Unions• Nesting• Editing data set


� Unique concepts of dimensions, hierarchies, members

Key Concept: Working with dimensional data

Dimension (Products)

Members (Product Line)

Level (Product line)


A wide range of chart types and visualizations

� Selecting an appropriate visualization allows users to quickly identify patterns and understand context

� Utilizes new charting engine in Cognos 10


Expanded toolbox

� Query calculations

� Layout options

– Crosstab spacing

– Blocks

� Text items

� Page numbers

� Report production date and time


Formatting and layout control

� Font Control and Alignment

� Table, Layout, and Border Controls

� Conditional Formatting

� Alignment

� Headers and Footers

� Object Properties (Chart, Crosstab, and Lists)


Key Concept: Drop Zones and Nesting

� Crosstab edge cells have four drop zones: one on each side, one at the top of the cell, and one at the bottom of the cell.

� Use the crosstab drop zones to add data items as parents, peers, or children of other items in the crosstab.

Add Sales Territory as a peer of Product line

Add Sales Territory as a child of Product line


High productivity features

� Styles

– Define appearance by category of object type

� Eye dropper

– Quickly copy and paste multiple formatting properties


Leveraging external data� Combine and correlate data from external sources with corporate data

– Need to combine financial targets and forecasts from spreadsheets with actuals

� Import a list of records to filter a report

– Import a lengthy list of customers, Claim IDs, or SKUs to filter reports

� Provide more flexibility for IT to allow the users to leverage all of their data– Use as an alternative for off-requests to augment or create new datamarts

� Wizard-driven mapping process

� Capability that can be secured


Solution Demonstration: Business Insight Advanced


Easily extended by professional authors

�Professional authors can extend the content using Report Studio


Objectives Review

� Examined business user authoring

– Created new content using Business Insight Advanced

– Combined data and visualizations

– Applied styles and formatting


Agenda









Module Objectives

� Examine professional report authoring

– Understand additional capabilities for professional authors

– Develop familiarity with extended interface components


What is Report Studio?

� Web-based professional report authoring environment

� Create new reports or enhance content created by business users

� Provides fine-grain control over layout formatting and presentation for production ready formatting

� Additional capabilities for the professional author

– Extend reports with interactive maps and prompts

– Multiple logical pages for varied content

– Interactive tables of contents

– Create offline Active Reports

– Incorporate statistical analysis


Explore Report Types

� Start from numerous pre-defined templates, or blank report


Explorer Bar

The Report Studio interface� Familiar but extended interface components

– Toolbars, insertable objects pane, properties window


Multi-Page Reports

� Multiple logical pages

� Charts, graphs, data from multiple sources

� Support book of business

– Summary

– Details

� Prompt pages


� Metadata tree view

� Extended toolbox view

� Data item view to access queries and query items

The extended Insertable Objects pane

ToolboxData ItemsSource


� Many additional properties for the professional author

Item Name

Property SettingProperty

Extended list of fine grain properties

Description


Adding complex calculations

� Use sophisticated calculations to derive additional information

� Use Cognos functions or functions from underlying datasource


Display Data Using Maps

� Report Studio provides a set of map files that you can use to create reports displaying data in a spatial context.


Add a Background Image

� Enhance the appearance of reports by adding a background image.


Enhance Reports Using Files and Links

� Add visual interest to a report by adding an HTML item such as a multi-media file to your report.

Add a hyperlink so users can link to a related website.

Add a multi-media file for visual interest.

Provide further information about the link by placing it in a field set.


Add a drill through link to another report� Drill through allows linking from summary to

detail with context passed to the detail report.


� Parameters are placeholders that require a value to determine what data to report on.

� Prompts ask the user to provide the value for the parameter.

Add parameters and prompts


Use system generated prompts

� Prompt type is automatically selected by data type


Demonstration: Report Studio


Additional reporting topics: Active Reports

● Active Reports are high-performance, interactive, stand-alone reports

● Allows users to interact with information when offline

● Can be highly formatted and 'burst' to deliver personalized data for each user

● Authored in Report Studio


Additional reporting topics: Statistical analysis

● Embed statistical analysis directly in Report Studio

● Visualize statistical results to better identify patterns and outliers

● Examples: Control charts, histograms, Chi-square, correlation


Summary

� Examined professional report authoring

– Understand additional capabilities for professional authors

– Developed familiarity with extended interface components


Agenda

●● Overview of IBM Business Analytics and IBM Cognos 10Overview of IBM Business Analytics and IBM Cognos 10








Objectives

● In this module, we will:

�Discuss the role of business intelligence metadata

�Review the Framework Manager metadata modeling workflow

�Demonstrate the full modeling lifecycle

�Examine productivity-enhancing capabilities


Why is Business Intelligence Metadata important?

� Provides an intuitive presentation of data to users

– Isolate users from back-end complexities

– Present federated view of heterogeneous sources

– Create filters and calculations for broad re-use

� Ensures consistency of results

– Define joins and calculations centrally

� Increases maintainabilty and manageability of BI content

– Identify usage of specific data items in content


What is Framework Manager?

� A client tool that provides a graphical user interface used to model metadata

– Wizards to support common activities

– Features designed to support modeler productivity

� Cognos 10 uses the metadata model to create SQL for underlying datasource at request time


Framework Manager Workflow

Create

Project

Data

Sources

Content

Store

Create

Project

Model Metadata

and Prepare theBusiness View

Import Metadata

Create and

Manage Packages

Publish Set Security

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The Framework Manager Project

� When you work in Framework Manager, you work in a project.

� A project contains metadata objects (the model) organized for report authors according to the business model and rules.

� At the highest level, objects in a project include:

� a model

� namespaces

� data sources

� parameter maps

� packages


Framework Manager Data Elements and Objects

● Within a project, data is defined and organized by the following elements:

� folder

�query subject

�query item

� relationship

� regular dimension

�measure dimension

�scope relationship


Examine the Model

● Examine the model from the perspective of the report or ad hoc query author.


Dimensional vs. Relational Modeling

� Dimensionally modeling relational data

– Dimensions, measures, hiearchies

– Converted to SQL for execution in RDBMS

� Enables OLAP capabilities

– Drill up / down

– Set operations

– Member functions

Relational Model

Dimensional Model


Framework Manager Workflow – OLAP Sources

Create

Project

Content

Store

Create

Project

Model Metadata

and Prepare theBusiness View

Import Metadata

Create and

Manage Packages

Publish Set Security

Man

ag

e P

roje

ct


Productivity enhancement: Model Accelerator

� Easy-to-use modeling environment to simplify the creation of star schema models

– Help new modelers create new models in Framework Manager and provide a jump start to model development for seasoned modelers

� Leverage proven practices, optimization techniques, and reduce number of errors

– Provide better guidance through wizards, prompts, and auto-correct features

� Flexibility to further extend and augment models

– Compatibility with Framework Manager to build in and define more complex relationships


� Enables users to apply proven Cognos modeling practices to optimize model creation

� Reduces the amount of time and effort to build high-quality models

Pinpoint areas in themodel where improvementscan be made

Generate a quick report highlighting recommended areas of optimization

Launch Model Advisor from Framework Manager

Productivity enhancement: Model Advisor


Objectives

● In this module, we:

�Discussed the role of business intelligence metadata

�Reviewed the Framework Manager metadata modeling workflow

�Demonstrated the full modeling lifecycle

�Examined productivity-enhancing capabilities


Agenda




●● Professional Professional Authoring Authoring –– Overview and LabOverview and Lab


● Architecture, Integration and Systems Management –Overview


Objectives


�Examine the Cognos 10 BI architecture

�Discuss integration points and methods

�Review systems management capabilities

�Discuss upgrading to Cognos 10 from previous versions


IBM Cognos Performance Management Platform

Exploit existing infrastructure choices Integrated & optimized with IBM infrastructure

Metadata

Content

Security

Services API

Content

Model

Admin

Upgrade

IT Tools

Shared Dimensions

Personal Datasets

Plan & Report Saved Objects

QueryService

MovementService

Calculation Service

Presentation Service

EventService

Streaming Service

Shared Set of Purpose-Built Services

Security Service

Cognos 8 Bus – Dispatcher SOAP, XML

SchedulingService

Attachments, Annotations

Data Integration & Data Quality Tools

Platforms & Databases

Security Providers & Firewalls

Application & Web Servers

Cognos 10 Architecture

User Experience

Infrastructure Fit

Universal CapabilitiesAccess and Interactivity Business Modeling

Modern and Legacy Sources

Application Sources

OLAP Sources

Access to All Data

Message Sources

Relational Sources

Open Data Access

Common Business Model

Initiatives, Metrics

System ContentMetadata, Events Search Index, Audit Logs, System Metrics

Optimized OLAP64-bit in-MemoryHigh PerformanceStreaming Cache


Complete user enablement

User Experience

Universal CapabilitiesAccess and Interactivity Business Modeling


Cognos 8 Proven to scale predictably

Testing demonstrated Cognos BI scales linearly to large user groups

� As hardware capacity increased, scaling efficiency = 85%

User Scalability

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

- 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000

Number of Users

Avera

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� Testing was conducted on up to 80,000 users

� As users and hardware were increased, response times remained exceptionally stable, within a range of 2%.


Cognos 10 Introduces Dynamic Query Mode

● Improves query performance for analyst users

�Leverage optimization techniques to improve query performance

● Reuse result sets from queries for performance against commonly requested information

�Allow users to leverage previously run queries and retrieve data without continually re-planning and re-querying a data source

● More easily track, troubleshoot, and identify exactly what is causing performance issues with queries

� Identify where the specific bottlenecks are with queries to identify where to optimize

Optimized Query

Generation

Security-aware

Self-learning cache

Query Visualization

and Cache

Maintenance


IBM Cognos 10 performance with in-memory processing

●IBM Cognos platform provides faster answers to business problems with in-memory patented technology

�64-bit In-memory optimized query generation with pattern intelligence to improve performance against complex heterogeneous data

� In-memory calculations and aggregate operations for faster results

�64 bit cache facilities with 'in-memory' optimizations- hierarchies, members, facts, calculations and prompts for improved report performance

●Dynamic Query initial conformance is SAP BW, TM1, Essbase.

Query Service

with Dynamic Query Capabilities


Logs

20+ New Patents


Application Sources

OLAP Sources

Message Sources

Relational Sources

OLAP

Adapters

Relational

Adapters

� TM1

� Cubing

Services

� PowerCube

� SAP BW

� MSAS

� Essbase

� DB2

� Informix

� Oracle

� Teradata

� SQLServer

� ODBC

� JDBC…

Hybrid

IT

Tools

Query

Visualization

Open Data Access

Cache


Now with Cognos 10: Ad-hoc analysis of real-time information

● Instantly view the information needed to monitor your business and make daily or hourly decisions

● View in context with other BI information directly in Business Insight

● Automatically alert the right people

● Determine the root cause of an issue

● Drill down and filter information so you have exactly what you need


Alerts

IBM Cognos 10 BI

IBM Cognos 10 Real-Time BI Architecture

Scorecard, Dashboard, Reports, Portal, Mobile

IBM Cognos RTM

Operational Dashboard

BPM Execution

Real-time OLAP cube

Aggregated real-time data persistence

Warehouses (Relational & OLAP)

Cognos 10 Architecture

ITTools Shared Set of

Purpose-Built Services

Open Data Access

ServicesAPI

Business Content



Application Sources

OLAP Sources

Message Sources, Streams

Relational Sources

Historical & Master Data

Operational Event Data

Real-time Monitoring


System Management: Administration and Monitoring

● Web-based administration for the entire solution

● Extensive set of system metrics to assist with management

● Ability to define custom thresholds and log violations into audit


System Management: Audit Capabilities

● Multiple levels of audit information provided

� Independent of access method (i.e. Web, Mobile, Office, SDK)

�From high-level system utilization data to request level logging

� Includes data on report execution, access to saved report outputs, making changes to reports, ad-hoc access and analysis, prompt selections, etc.

�At the highest level includes complete request SQL / MDX

● Out of the box tools to consume audit information

�Metadata model that publishes the audit schema

�Over 20 reports against audit data

�Partner offerings to expand the initial set


C O G N O S

C O G N O SC O G N O S

Upgrading to Cognos 10, seamlessly

Upgrade first, then leverage new features

Use LifecycleManager to validate in

each environment

Acceptdesiredresults

Movebusinessusers into Cognos 10

Use Lifecycle Manager to

validateresults with new features

Acceptdesiredresults

Promote reports to production

Leverage new features in Cognos 10(e.g. Dynamic Query, etc)


Reduce costs and mitigate risks of upgrading

Lifecycle Manager to

measure any upgrade

risks with a sampling

of reports

Lifecycle Manager to

compare report

outputs and

benchmark run times

Multi-version

coexistence to access

two versions through

same portal

● Understand and quantify the size and risks of

upgrades

�Small window for upgrades and need to be able to

access the size and scope of the upgrade and how

many key reports upgrade

● Automate common upgrade and testing steps

�More easily compare report outputs and response times

from one version to another

● Stage the upgrade process and provide users with

a more seamless experience through an upgrade

�Want to a new version in phases without a disruptive

impact on entire user community


1. Configure Lifecycle Manager to point to C8 and C10 servers

1. Identify source and target reports to validate and execute

1. Compare outputs and apply comments

1. View task summary

LifeCycle Manager Workflow Steps


Lifecycle Manager – Supported Environments

● Windows only tool

● Supports the following source to target environments:

� IBM ReportNet® 1.1 MR3 or MR4 to IBM Cognos 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, or 10.1

� IBM Cognos 8.2 to IBM Cognos 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, or 10.1

� IBM Cognos 8.3 to IBM Cognos 8.3.x, 8.4, or 10.1

� IBM Cognos 8.4 to IBM Cognos 8.4.x or 10.1

● Source and target operating systems

�Window

�Any flavor of Unix


Collaborating with others

Lotus Connections Integration with “Activities”

�View or start a new Activity directly from Business Insight

�Link to Business Insight Dashboard from Connections

�Single sign-on between

Business Insight and Lotus

Connections

�Visual indicators to denote

updates in Activities

�Ability to search for Activities

from Business Insight

�Filter activities based on

dashboard


Objectives review


�Examined the Cognos 10 BI architecture

�Discussed integration points and methods

�Reviewed systems monitoring capabilities

�Discussed upgrading to Cognos 10 from previous versions


TM1 Workshop

Bobbi Slater, CMA - IBM


Agenda

● IBM Cognos solutions overview

● Performance Management

�Financial Performance Management

● Introduction to IBM Cognos TM1

�Understanding OLAP

● Hands On Workshop

�Create dimensions

�Create cube

�Load data

�Create rules

�Create end user templates

�Create a contributor budget model


94

Trusted Information

Business Analytics delivers insights to drive better outcomes

Actionable Insights

SmarterDecisions

BetterOutcomes


95

95

How are we doing?

IT

SALES

MARKETING

CUSTOMERSERVICE

HR

OPERATIONS

REVENUE

MANAGEMENT

FINANCE

How are we doing?

Why?

What should we be

doing?

Actionable Insights to Answer Key Questions


How are we doing

Measuring and monitoring reports such as Scorecardingand Dashboarding helps answer the question How are we doing?


Why is it happening?

Analysis reports such as Trends and Variancewith drill through helps answers the question

Why?



Knowing How are we doing and Why allows

businesses to answer the question What should we be doing?


FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

● The IBM Cognos vision for financial performance management focuses on the relationship between three critical processes in the Office of Finance:

�Close, consolidate, and report – How are we doing? (Controller, FSR)

�Analyze and optimize – Why? (TM1)

�Plan, forecast, and control – What should we be doing? (TM1)

● Finance organizations around the world face the same challenges. They struggle to drive growth and performance while simultaneously ensuring compliance with a myriad of legal, tax, and accounting requirements. Financial performance management solutions from IBM Cognos give Finance the tools to win the struggle.


INTRODUCTION TO IBM COGNOS TM1

● WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

�This workshop provides an introduction to Cognos TM1. You should be able to work through the workshop in less than a half of a working day. During this time, you will become familiar with the key Cognos TM1 concepts.

�This workshop uses a simple, generic example so we can focus on the functionality of TM1. Please feel free to ask questions about how the material covered in the workshop can be applied to your business processes.

● Intended Audience

�With TM1, there are four roles (to match the roles in the planning process):

� Administrator – manages the technical deployment of applications (e.g. security)

� Modeler – designs and builds models, maps data flow and applies business logic

� Contributor – views reports and may input data into templates

� Explorer – views reports and presentations (e.g. Executives)

�This workshop is designed for the Modeler.


UNDERSTANDING OLAP AND MULTIDIMENSIONALITY

● What is OLAP?

�On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a category of software tools that provide analysis of data stored in a database

�OLAP tools enable users to analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data. For example, it provides time series views.

�With OLAP, data is stored in cubes, which are made of two or more dimensions. Each dimension has a hierarchical structure.

�OLAP tools are very efficient at handling multidimensional data and performing aggregations or roll-ups. Due to their multidimensional capabilities, OLAP tools are perfect for analyzing business models.

● With TM1, you can create multidimensional databases that provide business and finance instant meaning from complex, dynamic business models.



● To better understand multidimensionality, consider the example of the Vice President of Sales for a retail company who wants to analyze product sales across a retail chain that operates in the United States and Canada.

�Each retail store records the unit sales, dollar sales, and discounts for the durable consumer products. The sales are analyzed by product, scenario

(actual versus budget), region, measures (units, dollar sales, and discounts), and week.

● Using spreadsheets (2 dimensional view), the report may look something like this for Week 1:



● Now try adding a third dimensional perspective like time (e.g. Week 2 and YTD). Using spreadsheets, we can simply copy our template to create views for various points in time and link our spreadsheets to create a YTD view.

This works well for the limited amount of analysis being done here,

however laying out dimensional data in this way would become

cumbersome as the number of dimensions being examined

increased and as the number of items in each of the dimensions

increased.


UNDERSTANDING OLAP AND MULTIDIMENSIONALITY ● TM1 OLAP Solution

� TM1 is an OLAP tool with:

� Powerful database engine (TM1 Server)

� Familiar user interface

� Excel add-on

� Web browser

● In the VP Sales Report example, what we have identified is a five-dimensional model. The dimensions identify how the data is organized or how the types of data are tracked. In TM1, the sales analysis can reside in one or more multidimensional structures called cubes. A collection of cubes forms a database. Each data point in a cube is identified by one element in each dimension of the cube; for example, actual dollar sales of dryers during the second week of January in the Boston store.

● With TM1, the user can analyze different dimensions of multidimensional data, like time, without the redundancies and reconfigurations associated with spreadsheets.


TM1 Technology


Workshop

● What You Will Build in this Workshop

�We will be building an expense account budget template for end user interaction. We use all the basic components of TM1 during this exercise. The expense template will contain four dimensions and one cube. You will learn more about these terms as you go through the workshop.

�VM Log On

� ID: Administrator

� Password: cognos

Conventions Used in this Workshop

�Bold Text (Blue) is used for user input.

● Beginning the Workshop

�Before you can begin this workshop, make sure the TM1 Server called “workshop” is running on your machine. It should be minimized in the lower left corner of your screen.

�The exercises are all contained in the workbook and the instructor will also demonstrate the exercises


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