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 [...]
What Does This Do? Recently, a client was trying to figure out why a template wasn't working and it came down to just one checkbox, the Only Send Changed Rows checkbox. By default, this is checked when you start building a template, but what does it mean, and why do I care? If we are [...]
Any database application should be able to deal with data growth. As an application is used, data is created and evolves. With a corporate performance management tool, data can nicely sliced by a (Scenario, Year) combination. For example (Actual, 2004) would be the actual transactions that happened in 2004. (Budget, 2006) would be the approved [...]
