February 2013 - Edition 074

In This Issue
Podcast Channel
Wednesday Webinar
Brain Teaser
MM5 Has Arrived!
Share Your Insight
Cognos 10.2 Features
Correcting Member References
Did You Know...
License Auditor 2
BSP License Auditor for IBM Cognos allows you to audit the access rights assigned to each user within your environments. From there, drill in to see which users are included.

Download your copy today!
Webinar Archive 
WPodcasthat event takes place on the last Wednesday of each month?  No, this is not our February brain teaser. This one is too easy! BSP Wednesday Webinars!

If you've missed the last few or all, take a peek at our archives
Wednesday Webinar Series
With the latest release of MetaManager, there has never been a better time to tune up your reporting environment?   

Brain Teaser #45
There is only one word in the English language that if you capitalize the word it changes the pronunciation and meaning.  What is it?

BrightStar Partners Logo   

BSP Software LLC   

Avnet  

Greetings!

Welcome to the February BSP Chronicles. We hope you enjoy this month's content, and as always, please let us know if there's anything you would like to see included in a future mailer. 
Aligning Power, Ease of Use and Development Discipline: MetaManager 5.0 has Arrived!

MetaManager Circle - Transparent Need to tune up your reporting environment? Streamline productivity and drive dramatic return on investment with MetaManager from BSP Software. MetaManager is the most powerful suite of IBM Cognos administrative tools around the world! Don't waste time in the slow lane...  Rev up your engines and Update, Blast, Secure, Deploy, Document and Extend your IBM Cognos Environment with MetaManager 5!

MetaManager is free to trial, and with License Auditor 2.0 now included and yours to keep, there's never been a better time to take MetaManager for a test drive!
Share Your Insight
IBM Cognos Insight is a personal analytics solution which allows users to explore, analyze, visualize, and share data without the help of IT Resources. 

Earlier this year, the Driving Insight with Insight Contest called for participants to create a workspace to show off the capabilities of Cognos Insight. Participants created various dashboards to display unique sets of data showing how the tool can be used for data analysis, manipulation, visualization, and exploration. Each submission is free to download!

BSP's Greta Brauer and Gary Quirke from Avnet VAR QueBIT are among the participants, and we would love your feedback on the various entries!

Visit IBM's AnalyticsZone today. 
Cognos 10.2 Features for Business Users
By John Lucas
Corporations, industry analysts and IT professionals have debated for years when true "self service analytics" will emerge.  That debate is over.  

Technology has evolved to a level that truly enables the "holy grail" of business analytics to become a reality - where business users have the tools necessary to intuitively gain the insights needed to take their business to the next level.

Find out more.
Correcting Invalid Member References
By SJ van Jaarsveld, Senior Consultant
If you are working with Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced (BIA) reports using cubes as a data source, you most likely have run into an issue where changes in the data lead to broken reports. This article focuses on 2 techniques to resolve this issue.
Did You Know...
Interesting facts about the month of February:
  • Anglo-Saxon call February Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (cabbage month)
  • February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. 
  • February is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days. In common years the month has 28 days in leap years it has 29 days. 
  • February as named after the Latin term februum, which means purification. The Romans held their celebration of purification during February. 
  • The birth flower for this month is the Viola and the Primrose, and the birthstone is the amethyst.