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April 2010  

Techniques

Incorporating IBM Cognos 8 BI reports into your emails   Incorporating IBM Cognos 8 BI reports into your emails

The technique allows you to send the first page of your IBM Cognos 8 BI report in the body of an email and the other page(s) of your report as an email attachment in PDF or XLS format. This technique does not use the SDK.

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Improving performance for large user groups using TM1   Improving performance for large user groups using TM1

This technique is based on a user population of 1750. As the user population continues to you need to be better equipped to meet user demands. This can be done with simplifying the environment by reducing the number of reporting tools and vendors and providing a simple and easy to use web-based environment.

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Terminating a job or report in a distributed environment   Terminating a job or report in a distributed environment

Depending on how your system is set up, you may want to control how reports are distributed among servers. You can set up IBM Cognos 8 so that report requests are processed by specific servers by applying routing rules.

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Features

IBM Cognos PowerHouse 4GL 8.4xG, PowerHouse Web 8.4xG, and Axiant
4GL 3.4G Now Available
  IBM Cognos PowerHouse 4GL 8.4xG, PowerHouse Web 8.4xG, and Axiant 4GL 3.4G Now Available

IBM Cognos PowerHouse 4GL 8.4xG, PowerHouse Web 8.4xG, and Axiant 4GL 3.4G are the latest releases of the IBM Cognos Application Development Tools product suite. This is a conformance, maintenance, and minor enhancement release. As well, product and component installation and startup now conforms to IBM standards.

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Thirsty for answers: Analytics at the heart of smarter water strategies
  Thirsty for answers: Analytics at the heart of smarter water strategies

Because water is used for just about everything – from domestic use to industry to transport – it’s not surprising that in the last 100 years, global usage has increased at twice the rate of population growth. This is a problem. UN figures show that less than one percent of all the world's fresh water is readily available to humans and the earth's ecosystems. And the upward trend in usage shows no signs of stopping.

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Look further, wider, deeper: Insights from the IBM CFO Study
  Look further, wider, deeper: Insights from the IBM CFO Study

CFOs now must look further into the future, wider across their own organization and deeper into their own operations. In doing so they must call on IT to help them increase both the efficiency of their own core processes and the effectiveness of the insights they provide to the rest of the business. Hence CFOs' top three enterprise-wide priorities: predictive capabilities, information integration and better risk management.

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