The BSP Chronicles: November 2012

The BSP Chronicles

November 2012 - Edition 071

In This Issue

Webinars and Podcasts

Brain Teaser

Did You Know

BSP Expands BA

Technical Articles

Security Migrations

BSP has a full library of IBM Cognos Tips and Techniques as well as and BSP Software solutions.

BSP Wednesday Webinar Series

Attend our November Webinar to learn about productivity tools for maintaining a clean, healthy and effective IBM Cognos BI environment.

Brain Teaser #42

I am the owner of a pet store. If I put in one canary per cage, I have one bird too many. If I put in two canaries per cage, I have one cage too many.

How many cages and canaries do I have? Click here to see the answer!

Did You Know...
Emails and Spam Facts...

60 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

Spammers get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

IBM Engine of the Week

Congratulations to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, winner of IBM's Engine of the Week Award! BSP partnered with the Cincinnati Zoo to transform the way they do business!

BSP End of Year Promotion

Not sure what to do with that year end budget? Why not turn that money into a great return on investment by purchasing a BSP Software productivity solution?

And as an added bonus, when you purchase any qualifying BSP Software solution*, your company will receive a new iPad mini! There's no better way to run Cognos Mobile than on this latest innovation from Apple!

Why wait? Find out more!

BSP Expands its Business Analytics Footprint

Business Analytics is booming and BrightStar Partners has moved into the action. Take a look at the following products and see if they would be a perfect fit for your company.

Varicent: A sales performance management tool that can help your company with territory management, quota planning, incentive compensation management, and more.

OpenPages: Integrate risk management process across your company and within multiple regulations including Basel II and Solvency II.

FSR Clarity: Manages to secure your company's internal and external reporting saving time and increasing security.

Algorithmics: Gain transparency into financial risks in your company and its future.

To learn more about these products Contact Us.

Cognos 10.2 New Feature

By Nipun Gupta, Consultant

Among the many new features of Cognos 10.2 comes a JavaScript Prompt API. This month we've put together an informative overview of the Report Studio Prompt API that will make reporting that much better.

Click to read the full article covering Report Studio Prompt API.

Configuring Cognos with IIS 7

By Tim Marquardt, Consultant

Over the years, we've had many customers ask us for performance tips and tricks when installing and configuring Cognos. One of the easiest to implement for our Windows customers using IIS as their web server is the ISAPI gateway. The Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) model was developed as a faster alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), which is the default gateway when installing Cognos. ISAPI provides a number of advantages over CGI, including lower overhead, faster loading, and better scalability.

Tim explains step by step how to get tremendous performance in under 10 minutes.

Migrate On Your Own, On Your Timelines, At Your Convenience

BSP Software now offers a solution for migrating off of legacy security sources (i.e. Access Manager) to your corporate LDAP. The BSP Security Migration Self-Service seamlessly migrates user's identities from one security source in IBM Cognos to another. Customers migrating to new security sources can now safely and easily migrate each user's identity to the new security source in a streamlined and automated fashion.

* Purchases of over $10,000 USD only