Invest an hour with us to learn how your peers are transforming: Budgeting Planning Forecasting Board reporting Business Analytics Branch Member Relationship Management Wish you could build your annual plans more efficiently with more confidence? Would you like to know what could improve branch performance or what is [...]
September 28-29, 2015 Metro Toronto Convention Centre 222 Bremner Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2T6 Jointly presented by CPA Canada and CPA Ontario, The One is the must-attend, multi-track event of the year. Clear Insight will be attending this event. Speakers: Dean McCann, Christopher Ragan, Curtis Zimmerman and Dr. Kimberley Amirault-Ryan. EVENT DETAILS The One national conference is designed [...]
IBM Watson Analytics provides powerful automated data preparation, predictive analytics, reporting, dashboards, visualization and collaboration capabilities to address a business problem or seize a new opportunity. IBM customers can get Watson Professional Edition for free for 12 months. Unfortunately the vast majority of businesses will opt-in to the offer and just [...]
There are many reasons to stay with Clarity and upgrade to the latest version and many other clients have done just that and are very happy. Here are some reasons that they have done so: Versions earlier than IBM Clarity 7 are no longer supported by IBM. Significant improvements in the latest version of [...]
There comes a time when it is necessary or desirable to move away from one software application in favour of another. There are many good reasons for you to upgrade your current budget, planning and forecasting system in exchange for a more robust and comprehensive replacement. Some of the reasons that our clients have made [...]
Overview Some Clarity implementations use Microsoft Analysis Services as the OLAP engine. For those implementations, there are some system settings we can enable to speed things up. These should only be enabled in a production environment. Development environments where objects are changing should not have any caching or compression enabled. Implementing Compression in Analysis [...]
Overview Clarity is a web application, so web server compression can speed things up a bit for end users. By enabling web server compression, Internet Information Server (IIS) compresses all files sent to the client. If there are folks connecting on slow connections, this can really help. This is something that needs some baseline [...]
Building reports in ClarityStudio can be a bit challenging without some guidance. To help new folks along, we have developed a series of Youtube videos to walk you through the process of developing a complex report. This particular report that we build together is a validation report to compare two cubes. This is a very [...]
June 18-19, 2015 Hilton Toronto Airport, 5875 Airport Road, Mississauga The CPA Ontario Spring Leadership Conference is the meeting place for some of Canada’s most innovative business and cultural leaders who are ready to share their recipes for success. From inspirational speakers to technical workshops, this annual event provides essential tools and practical skills [...]
Virtualize Clarity? Recently, I worked with a client whose IT department was going through the process of virtualizing physical servers into the cloud. For them, moving to the cloud would reduce their maintenance effort, and provide a safe off-site location for all their data. Their IBM Clarity servers were physical boxes located in their office [...]
