There is information out there that can help your business succeed. This information will give you insight into how consumers think, how to effectively manage your company, how to budget, how to plan, how to gain competitive advantages and most importantly, how to consistently generate revenue. In order to have this information at your [...]
Data is information rendered into a form that is easily understood allowing it to be moved or processed. Although most of us are able to comprehend what data is, we may not know the difference between big and small data or how it applies to our business. What exactly is big data? Big data [...]
Problem solving, forecasting and troubleshooting are three things that every business needs to have control over. Issues can crop up without notice and if you do not have the right resources in place to combat these problems, you risk slowing down your entire operation. With cognitive computing, these issues all but disappear. What is [...]
As the economy shifts, it’s important for businesses to adapt. Through strategic planning, budgeting and analysis, we can aim for better business outcomes, regardless of the economic climate. We need to address performance gaps, forecast accordingly and ensure that our financial targets are connected through a dynamic solution. In order to do so, we [...]
The vast majority of CFO’s are now taking a more prominent role in decision-making, beyond the traditional role of finance. The Office of Finance needs access to tools and best practices that allows them to be ready for the challenge. These leaders need to know where their organization is headed. They need to know [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
