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Techniques and features from IBM Cognos Support Services

IBM Cognos Planning provides planning modelers with the ability to create and enforce data entry rules. These rules can be used to ensure adherence to corporate policies, to ensure that expense maximums are not exceeded in a plan, budget or forecast, to ensure correct staffing levels are planned, and for many other uses in planning models.

The IBM Cognos radio buttons appear, by default, as a list. Generally this is fine, however there may be occasions when having them inline (from left to right) is preferable. This method will show a very simple way of making the radio buttons inline.

This technique uses Report Studio and Event Studio features to e-mail report output attachment to users only if data is available.

We’ve been eager to tell you—and now we can. IBM® Cognos® 10—the breakthrough platform that will support individuals and organizations as they naturally think and work—will make its debut at Business Analytics Forum in Las Vegas!

We won't be taking the wraps off IBM Cognos 10 until October 25 (you have signed up for the simulcast, right?), but here's a glimpse of what will happen once we do. Feel free to share the excitement....

The Business Analytics Customer Success & Support organization is committed to delivering value to our supported customers. And Business Analytics Forum is a great opportunity to take advantage of the many ways that our Support organization can deliver value to our clients.

Join the Innovation Center for Business Analytics and Steve Player for a series of innovative roundtables focusing on his new book: Future Ready: How to Master Business Forecasting. The recent crisis in the financial markets has exposed serious flaws in management methods. The failure to anticipate and deal with consequences of the unfolding collapse has starkly illustrated what many leaders and managers in the business have known for years; in most organizations, the process of forecasting is badly broken.