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 [...]
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 [...]
Instructor-Led Classroom Training & Workshops Education for the project team and user community is critical to the success of the project. We can provide education throughout the implementation process and beyond, ensuring people are trained just in time. Clear Insight is a licensed supplier and trainer for all your IBM training needs, including IBM Cognos [...]
If you ever ask IBM Support or a consultant for help with Clarity, they will probably ask you, "What version of Clarity are you using?". This is meant to be a simple question, but for folks that don't know how to find the version, it can be a bit confusing. Here are some simple ways [...]
Clarity uses Component Object Model (COM) objects to handle all the server-side operations. This includes querying, saving, configuring and more. For a variety of reasons, the COM objects can get confused. Often times, the system can go right back to normal if the COM objects are restarted. There are a couple of ways to do [...]
Versioning is a tool in Clarity enabling users to copy data from a set of source dimension elements to a set of target dimension elements. The most common implementation of it gives users a selection for a source (scenario, year) combination and a target (scenario, year) combination. The tool itself looks clear and straightforward, but [...]
With the release of Cognos TM1 10.2.2, there are a number of updates users should try out. Here is a quick look at some of the ones I recommend checking out. CAFE (Cognos Analysis For Excel) This tool has been around for a while, but has some noticeable improvements in this release. For anyone trying [...]
