Insights

As a learning organisation, element61 stimulates its consultants to further build on their already vast experiences through investments in a personal development plan and a company-wide content development initiative. Through formal training, presence at industry events, networking, recommended reading and internet based information exchange, our consultants further dive into specialized topics of their own interest.

These result in what we call "Insights", own produced research content, often complemented by personal experiences and opinions. Below you can find our currently published list of Insights.

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IBM Cognos 10: Business Intelligence Unleashed, Expectations Exceeded ?

Introduction Early November 2010, IBM Cognos 10 was finally released. "Business Intelligence Unleashed” was the –as usual- catchy and (overly ?) promising marketing slogan. Expectations were rather high as this was the first major release since Cognos had been acquired by IBM in 2007. Currently part of the IBM Business Analytics software offering, IBM Cognos 10 offers a lot of enhancements compared to the previous version.

Tuesday, 11 January 2011

The (Information) Matrix revisited

Introduction The Matrix is a 1999 American science fiction-action film starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss.

Monday, 4 October 2010

The alternative to Garbage In, Garbage out : a Data Quality Program

Introduction This is the story of a ‘blue’ and a ‘green’ hospital …

Monday, 27 September 2010

SAP Business Warehouse & Business Objects front-end Integration: What is available today ?

Introduction BI –Business Intelligence– can be defined as a range of applications, technologies and methodologies to disclose information to end users for decision making. It encompasses functionality in the area of Query, Reporting, Analysis & Dashboarding. This insight aims to give an overview of the current integration between SAP and Business Objects for delivering BI to an SAP (BW) user community.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Project Management in a BI/DW/PM environment

Introduction Business Intelligence and data warehouse projects are often seen as costly and never ending on time or even worst as costly projects that never deliver any benefits.

Monday, 8 February 2010

The Power of Location Intelligence

In the world of Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management, every so often a new term is launched, often proclaimed as the next big thing.

Kris Bouckaert

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Microsoft PowerPivot: Microsoft’s answer to self serviced BI ?

PowerPivot, then still codenamed Project Gemini, was announced at the second annual Microsoft BI Conference in Seattle on October 6, 2008.

Friday, 8 January 2010

elementary for BI & PM Migration Projects

Migration of BI environments is a complex process. A successful migration requires careful planning & experience in both source & target platforms.

Monday, 23 November 2009

Information requirements gathering

Introduction As in any project, also in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects, a time exists for discovery of what is wanted and/or needed followed by a time for building what results from the requirements. In typical project management best practices, this discovery process is done through a phase called "requirements analysis”.

Friday, 16 October 2009

IBM Cognos TM1 & Cognos 8 BI

Introduction: What does the improved integration between Cognos 8.4 BI and TM1 have to offer IBM Cognos TM1 is a relative new addition to the IBM Cognos software stack, following Cognos' acquisition of Applix in 2007, just prior to its own acquisition by IBM. The core TM1 solution is a real-time, interactive multidimensional OLAP database with in-memory and write-back functionalities, and is therefore perfectly suited to support all sorts of Performance Management (PM) applications.

Thursday, 27 August 2009