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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; Cognos Security Best Practices; and many more. These webinars will be held on the last Wednesday of every month.
The next Webinar Wednesday session will be held on Wednesday, November 30th, covering how to use Lifecycle Manager and Coexistence to streamline the upgrade process to Cognos 10.
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A man in a restaurant asked a waiter for a juice glass, a dinner plate, water, a match, and a lemon wedge. The man poured enough water onto the plate to cover it.
"If you can get the water on the plate into this glass without touching or moving this plate, I will give you $100," the man said. "You can use the match and lemon to do this."
A few minutes later, the waiter walked away with $100 in his pocket. How did the waiter get the water into the glass?
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Welcome to this month's BSP Newsletter. This month, we have a new services offering, a new software offering, a lot of educational content, 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. |
BSP SOFTWARE RELEASES INTEGRATED PERFORMANCE MONITORING FOR IBM COGNOS |
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Integrated Performance Monitoring is a robust monitoring system consistently watching critical system components across all tiers of the IBM Cognos architecture. The integrated solution monitors the hardware, operating system, network and application tiers within your environment allowing administrators proactive insight prior to an unplanned interruption of service.
Integrated Performance Monitoring Benefits:
- Directly integrated into IBM Cognos Connection
- Security integration within Cognos Administration
- Integrated Performance Monitoring console integrated directly within Cognos Administration
- Proactively monitor all tiers of IBM Cognos Environment
- Through a unified and consolidated view, gain insight into potential performance bottlenecks
To find out more, please visit www.bspsoftware.com/IPM
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BI ROADMAP SERVICE OFFERING INTRODUCED |
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BrightStar Partners' BI Roadmap Service assists clients in linking their tactical and operational BI activities to the Vision, Mission, and Strategies of their department and the broader enterprise. The deliverables from this service help to align business and technology to leverage information assets for the attainment of organizational goals.
Over the course of what typically is a one week engagement, BSP will guide you through the creation of a BI Roadmap, creating a visualization of Initiatives, aligned to Objectives and Strategies, which support the over-arching Vision and Mission. The Initiatives are presented across a time horizon of multiple quarters and years, and color coded based on Owner, Customer, or other attributes of relevance. Through this visualization, the BI Roadmap establishes a consistent set of priorities and a clear direction, aiding in the communication and comprehension of tactical and strategic BI activities in support of objectives across the enterprise.
Additional information about the BI Roadmap Service, including a sample Roadmap, is available here.
The BI Roadmap Service offering is the first component of BSP's new Leadership Series service offerings. Watch for future announcements regarding additional Leadership Series offerings from BSP.
To discuss how BSP's BI Roadmap Service can help you and your organization, please email us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com
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BSP BREAKS 40K VIEWS ON YOUTUBE CHANNEL |
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BSP has been delivering YouTube videos covering technical tips and tricks, software innovation, hilarious comics, and more since 2009. Just recently, BSP's YouTube Channel eclipsed 40,000 views!
Check out some of the content via the links below:
Watch the latest BSP Comic about IOD (1 min)
Come see what's new in ICS 2.4 (30 min)
See a video of Greg Jungel's recent technical article (12 min)
To subscribe to BSP's YouTube Channel, click here.
If you have a great idea for the next BSP video, please e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com.
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PODCAST 3.19: MANAGING REPORT VIEWS & DELETING OLD SCHEDULES |
Volume 3, Episode 19: MetaManager + ICS Version Control, Managing Report Views & Deleting old schedules
This podcast covers three brief topics. First a look at how updating objects in MetaManager integrates nicely with our Version Control offering. Second, a few tips around finding and managing Report Views in the content store. Finally, we'll show off how you can find schedules from an old user and delete them.
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IBM COGNOS SECURITY BEST PRACTICES |
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By Chris Nakian, Consultant
IBM Cognos is full of out of the box functionality that can assist in managing your environment with respect to security. This article will focus on some of the lesser known functionality that can be utilized to assist in day-to-day management and security of your IBM Cognos environment.
For more information regarding IBM Cognos security best practices, click here to read the full article.
To find out how BrightStar Partners can help you with your IBM Cognos security, e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com
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The Origin of Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving in the United States, much like in Canada, was observed on various dates throughout history. The dates of Thanksgiving in the era of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln had been decided by each state on various dates. The first Thanksgiving celebrated on the same date by all states was in 1863 by presidential proclamation. The final Thursday in November had become the customary date of Thanksgiving in most U.S. states by the beginning of the 20th century. And so, in an effort by President Abraham Lincoln (influenced by the campaigning of author Sarah Josepha Hale) to foster a sense of American unity between the Northern and Southern states, proclaimed the date to be the final Thursday in November.
It was not until December 26, 1941, that the unified date changed to the fourth Thursday (and not always final) in November -this time by federal legislation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after two years earlier offering his own proclamation to move the date earlier, with the reason of giving the country an economic boost, agreed to sign a bill into law with Congress, making Thanksgiving a national holiday on the fourth (not final) Thursday in November.
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