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This month's webinar:
"Cognos, Automated--How MetaManager's Many Use-Cases Transform Your Cognos Administration."
MetaManager is designed to automate, streamline, enhance and extend out-of-the-box Cognos functionality. From report validation & security administration, to documentation and deployment, MetaManager is the proven, patented best-friend of Cognos Administrators
The next Webinar Wednesday session will be held on Wednesday, January 25th, covering the many use-cases of BSP's MetaManager solution.
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Happy New Year! This kicks off our new year of educational newsletters for 2012! New Services, new solutions and...new faces! BSP expands and seeks to continually set the standard of excellence in Business Analytics and Performance Management.
As we reflect on the past year, so many exciting things have happened in the world of Business Analytics and in the world of BSP! We hope you have enjoyed the content in each month's newsletter over the years, and remember you can view all of our newsletters on our website. As always, we have a lot of educational content, our latest webinar invite, along with some great tips and tricks and other IBM Cognos related information! 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. |
BRIGHTSTAR PARTNERS EXPANDS MIDWEST CONSULTING PRACTICE |
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BrightStar Partners is pleased to announce our expansion in the Midwest with the addition of Michelle Foote as the Indiana Regional Manager.
In this new role, Ms. Foote will leverage more than 10 years of IBM Cognos experience in expanding the BrightStar Partners Business Analytics consulting services into the very vibrant Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky markets and to build on the current success of the BrightStar Partners organization.
For more information, view our press release here.
Are you a Cognos user? In Indiana, Ohio or Kentucky? Meet your new, local resource for Cognos projects, upgrades, assessments and training: Michelle Foote, Regional Manager.
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EASING THE UPGRADE PROCESS LEVERAGING
LIFECYCLE MANAGER |
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Upgrading from a previous version of Cognos to Cognos 10 does not have to be a stressful, daunting task. BSP is here to help.
IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager is a free solution offered by IBM to ease the upgrade process from one version of Cognos to another. Wait, did we just say FREE???
We hope you enjoy this on-demand webinar from BSP, hosted by Neil Morgan, President.
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Cognos 10: Easing the Upgrade Process with Lifecycle Manager |
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ADVANCED REPORT STUDIO QUERIES |
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By Jason Arnold, Senior Consultant
Many reports we author are more complex than simply grouping and summarizing data. Often times, our business partners need reports to answer complex questions regarding key performance factors of their business process.
A "subselect" is a common method used in SQL to answer these types of questions about the data. This is often used when the data must be summarized to a specific level of granularity before it can be tested to see if it fits a specific requirement. A subselect can be generated using query references in Report Studio. Let's review a sample report requirement:
For detailed, step-by-step instruction on this technique, click here to read the full article.
To get more information on the topic, e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com
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CUSTOMER BRANDING IN IBM COGNOS 10 BI |
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By Ted Reilly, Senior Consultant
Many organizations wish to customize IBM Cognos BI with custom colors and logos. Or, perhaps you have already done some branding in ReportNet or Cognos 8.x and wish to understand the upgrade implications to customer branding in C10 BI.
This technique can provide your organization with an interface to IBM Cognos that is closely aligned with your internal web collateral. Some organizations also like to use different color schemes for different levels of IBM Cognos systems such as Development, Test and Production.
Click here to read the full article.
To get more information on the topic, e-mail us at Newsletter@brightstarpartners.com
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 Fantasy Football
A History...
According to NFLPlayers.com, the first fantasy football league was formed in
1963 by Oakland Raiders co-owner Bill Winkenbach. It was named The Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin
Prognosticators League.
By the 1970s, the Kings X Sports Bar
in Oakland was the epicenter of the
little known hobby.
Fantasy football, however, didn't start
to really gain popularity until the early
'90s, and it wasn't until the past decade that it became mainstream, said John Clayton, an ESPN pro football writer,
television analyst and talk-show host.
"There's a big, big impact on what fantasy does," said Clayton, who started covering the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1972 when he was just 17. "It's continuing to grow, and it does help the sport." Nowadays it's hard to walk through the grocery store without seeing multiple fantasy football draft guides lining the shelves. Each year, around late July and early August, high-profile websites also begin to offer their fantasy services around the clock. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA), 12.6 million adults in the U.S. played fantasy sports in 2005, 85 percent of whom (8.3 million) took part in fantasy football. Of the more than 8 million fantasy football players nationwide, 1 million were female, the FSTA reports.
A study by Kim Beason, associate professor of park and recreation management at the University of Mississippi, reports fantasy sports have a $1 billion to $2 billion annual economic impact within the fantasy industry and a $3 billion to $4 billion annual impact across the sports industry as a whole. "Fantasy sports has grown tremendously the past 10 years and has reached an all-time high for participation," Beason wrote in an e-mail. "The market has grown, but trends indicate a modest growth for the next year."
Emergence of experts
As the number of fantasy football players has skyrocketed, the amount of so-called experts has multiplied, too. A recent Google search of the words "fantasy football" produced 61.7 million results, and many of those links take users to websites where self-proclaimed fantasy experts supply news and advice, sometimes for a nominal fee.
"Help me win my league" Fantasy Facts ....
- 12.6 million adults in the U.S. played fantasy sports in 2005
- 85 percent (8.3 million) played fantasy football
- 1 million females took part in fantasy football in '05
- 92 percent of fantasy players are male, 77 percent are married
- Players' average age is 36
- 91 percent are Caucasian
- 86 percent own their homes
- 71 percent have a bachelor's degree and 92 percent attended college
- 59 percent make over $50,000 annually
- Players spend an average of $493.60 per year on fantasy sports
- $3 billion to $4 billion annual impact across the sports industry
Information provided by the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.
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