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Newsletter #063March 2012
IN THIS ISSUE
IBM CEO Recognizes BSP
Technical Tips & Tricks

   

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IS YOUR IBM COGNOS ENVIRONMENT SICK?
We have the solution! Introducing the Health Check service from BSP. Click here to learn more. 
BSP FEATURED IN IBM'S "A SMARTER PLANET" BLOG
"Analytics At Your Fingertips", an article written by John Lucas, Director of Solution Deliver at BrightStar Partners, was featured in IBM's "A Smarter Planet" blog last month.  Click here to read the full article.
DID YOU KNOW???
BORDER COLLIES 
In January 2011, a Border Collie was reported to have learned 1,022 words and acts consequently to human citation of those words.

 

The Border Collie is often cited as the most intelligent of all dogs. A herding dog breed developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region for herding livestock, especially sheep, it is the most widespread of the collie breeds.

 

Greetings!   

 

We were honored this month to have IBM's CEO, Ginni Rometty, recognize BSP in her keynote speech at IBM PartnerWorld. Ginni's kind words credentialize the extraordinary success that BSP has had with the hundreds of implementations over our tenure.

 

Technical articles? Of course. Discounts on licensing and support? Always. Welcome to our March Newsletter. We've missed you!

IBM CEO RECOGNIZES BSP IN KEYNOTE

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At the 2012 PartnerWorld Conference in New Orleans, Ginni Rometty, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, highlighted BrightStar Partners' solution delivered to the Cincinnati Zoo in her keynote speech. The presentation focused on how the success was fueled from the synergy of BrightStar Partners' delivery and executive sponsorship at the Zoo, commenting that the "Zoo Story" was a recipe for others to follow to achieve rapid ROI and value from Business Analytics implementations. Click here to watch the video! 

 

Click here to read the full article. 
TECHNICAL ARTICLES 

OpenDJ LDAP WITH COGNOS 10 BrightStar and Tag_Clear

By Ted Johnson, Consultant

 

What is OpenDJ? OpenDJ is an open source LDAP with striking similarities to Sun One Directory Server 5.2. There are a number of benefits to OpenDJ including: high performance, highly available, secure directory server, built-in data replication, client tools, and an LDAP SDK. OpenDJ was architected on modules that are 100% Java based and it does require that you are running Java 1.6. OpenDJ is simple to configure for IBM Cognos.

 

Click here to read the full article. 

DEFAULT DATE PROMPT BEHAVIOR

By Nipun Gupta, Consultant

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Date prompts are a popular and integral component to report consumption. This technique will provide you with an additional tool for implementing these prompts within your environment.

 

Click here to read the full article. 
BRAIN TEASER #33

 

                                 Alive without breath,  

                         As cold as death;

                         Never thirsty, ever drinking, 

                         All in mail never clinking

                         WHAT AM I? See answer.

 

The first 25 people to email us stating the title of the book this riddle is quoted from will receive a FREE copy of BSP License Auditor!

 

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