IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide

The only official guide to building effective business solutions with TM1 from IBM Cognos IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guideoffers complete coverage of the 64-bit in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) engine. Based on the newest release, TM1 10, this official guide offers an advanced tutorial for TM1 concepts from a technical and a business point of view. The authors, members of the TM1 team, provide typical business examples and technical insights for building practical solutions, based on their own experiences. Emphasis is placed on teaching best practices and expanding skills to learn the more powerful capabilities of TM1. The book covers analytical processing, data entry, simulation, workflow components, and more. IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide: The first and only officially endorsed book on IBM Cognos TM1 Written by members of IBM Cognos TM1 team with combined experience of 50 years with the product Provides working solutions for relevant business problems Offers deep insights into the most powerful and undocumented capabilities of TM1 Explains how to build actionable business intelligence

Part I: Introduction
1. Challenges to Meeting Enterprise Performance Management Requirements
2. The Promise of In-Memory Analytics with IBM Cognos TM1
3. Evolution of IBM Cognos TM1
Part II: Develop and Manage Cognos TM1 Solutions
4. The T of Cognos TM1
5. Cognos TM1 Building Blocks: Cubes, Dimensions, Elements
6. Building Business Logic: Rules
7. Cognos TM1 Building Blocks: TurboIntegrator
8. Deploying Cognos TM1 Solutions via Microsoft Excel
9. Enhancing the User Experience
10. Under the Hood
11. Data Loading and Scaling
12. User Scaling
13. Cognos TM1 Server in Production
Part III: Business Solutions with IBM Cognos TM1
14. Business Modeling with Cognos TM1
15. Sales and Profitability Analysis
16. Budgeting
17. Costing
18. Production Planning and Costing Analysis
19. Profit and Cash Flow Planning
20. Driver-Based Planning with Rolling Forecast
21. Multiyear Scenario Planning
22. KPIs, Dashboards, and Balanced Scorecards
23. Group Performance Management
24. Risk Management
Index