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BrightStar Partners and BSP Software have launched a monthly webinar series tackling a variety of subjects, including the new features of IBM Cognos 10; Managing Governance, Risk, and Compliance within your Cognos environment; and much more. These webinars will be held the last Wednesday of every month.
The next Webinar Wednesday session will be held on Wednesday, September 28th, covering IBM Cognos security best practices.
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Welcome to this month's BSP Newsletter. We have a lot of educational content this month, along with some great tips and tricks and other IBM Cognos related information as always!
And remember, we enjoy hearing your suggestions regarding the content you'd like to see. Please e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com if you have a topic you'd like to see discussed in future newsletters.
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TEAM BSP COMPLETES THE CHICAGO TRIATHLON
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 Congratulations to the ten people from BSP who completed the 2011 Chicago Triathlon on Sunday, August 28! In January, our very own Charlie Peterson threw down a challenge to the company to complete a triathlon. Chicago was chosen as the venue, and the training began in earnest. Nine of the racers had never done a triathlon before, three didn't know how to swim, and one gave up smoking to complete the challenge. It's truly been life-changing!
The morning of the event, the team woke to blue skies, cool temperatures, and, unfortunately, a stiff "windy city" breeze that had been blowing down the lake for 36 hours straight. Despite being in a protected harbor, the swim was nonetheless extremely rough. The wind was certainly a factor on the bike portion as well. The run along the lake front, around the Shedd Aquarium, and alongside Soldier Field was truly beautiful. All in all, Sunday marked a day of accomplishment and achievement for everyone involved... competitors as well as the family and friends of Team BSP!
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We are excited to announce the release of MetaManager 3.8. Some of the new features and functionalities include:
- New Report Search Module
- Security-only Backup Functionality
- New Prompt Editor Extended Module
- Secure all MetaManager Modules by Cognos Namespace Groups
- New Portal Tree Functionality for all Modules
....and much more!
To watch the recorded webinar showcasing the new features, click here.
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PODCAST 3.15: USING CONTENT STORE DOCUMENTER TO CREATE USEFUL REPORTS AND DOCUMENTATION
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Volume 3, Episode 15: Using Content Store Documenter to create useful reports and documentation
This podcast will demonstrate how to use MetaManager's Content Store Documenter to solve customer use cases. First, we will explain how to get a count of all objects within a user's My Folders. Then we will retrieve a list of users that have a high volume of scheduled reports. Next, we look into documenting permissions of both Cognos Roles and Capabilities. Finally, we show how to document the users of a specific role within a Cognos namespace.
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ACTIVE REPORTS: WHAT ARE THEY, HOW DO YOU BUILD THEM, AND WHY SHOULD WE? |
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By Dustin Adkison, Solutions Manager
With the release of Cognos 10, IBM introduces to us a number of new innovations. The most recognized likely being the unified workspace that is Business Insight. Business Insight is easily understood and can be seen quickly and taken advantage of without difficulty from any basic level user. It is a drag-n-drop straightforward exercise to use dashboard tool that allows end-users to develop their own dashboards, and then, if permissions allow, edit the content of those dashboards on the fly. The lesser known, however equally valuable, capability that Cognos 10 brings to the BI world is Active Reports.
For details regarding what Active Reports are and how to build them, click here to read the full article.
For questions regarding this feature of Cognos 10, please email us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com .
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| ADD A STANDARD REPORT TEMPLATE TO COGNOS 10 |
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By Greg Jungels, Consultant
One of the things you can do to help standardize the look-and-feel of your IBM Cognos Reports is to create a template with pre-defined headers and footers, as well as your company color scheme and/or logo. The intent of this exercise is to show you how to add your custom template to the "File > New" dialog box that opens up when you start Report Studio. The IBM Cognos Administration and Security Guide provides the steps, but this paper will provide more details, including what you need to do for a multi-server environment.
For detailed steps, click here to read the full article.
For questions on this technique, e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com .
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| BURST COGNOS REPORTS TO A FILE SYSTEM |
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By Nipun Gupta, Consultant
One great way to standardize the distribution and data storage of Cognos reports is to burst them to a file system. Learn how with this step-by-step guide that will have you bursting your reports in no time.
For detailed steps, click here to read the full article.
For questions on this technique, e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com .
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World Population:
In 1801, when the first complete world census was carried out, the world's population was 1 billion. China had 295 million people, India 131 million, Russia 33 million, France 27 million, Ottoman Empire 21 million, Germany 14 million, Spain 11 million, Britain 10 million, Ireland and the USA 5 million.
World population landmarks:
2 billion people : 1927
3 billion people : 1960
4 billion people : 1974
5 billion people : 1987
6 billion people : 1999
6.9 billion people : 2010
7 billion people : 2011
As of 2010, China has a population of 1.3 billion; India 1.2 billion, USA 307 million. Britain has a population of 61 million, Russia 141 million, France 62 million, Germany 82 million.
If Facebook was a country it would be the 3rd largest country in the world, with more 500 million registered profiles. |
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