Well, it’s already / finally over and I must say I’m very impressed. I didn’t expect anything close to what it was for me: I met heaps of great people, learned a lot of new things and had a few long nights out ) I also got a massive cold so I’m spending the last day lying in the bed typing this.
Recent posts
Insight 2015 recap
See you at Insight 2015
I’m finally going to bat country, yay! And not just going, I’ll even be onstage (just for a few minutes, don’t worry).
Our presentation was approved, so on 26-Oct at 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, we’d be talking about TM1 in Sanofi Aventis. It took a good part of my youth last 3 years, but we do have something to show for it:
More on Cognos BI macro functions
Cognos BI macro functions are like regular expressions, you can revisit them any time and find a lot of new things as well as a lot of things you forgot since you last looked at it )
TM1 10.2.2 FP3 is out
Just in case you missed it: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27041360
TM1-related comments
A couple of good IBM links:
- IBM posted a really good ‘all things about locking’ TM1 Guide, read it if you have trouble sleeping
- TM1Top is officially back )
A quick choosing hardware for TM1 update:
Drug Discovery, Development & Commercialization at Coursera
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Just finished yet another Coursera course and am very impressed by quality of content and lectures. This time it was more of a ’subject matter’/‘business’ course rather than the usual technical stuff. |
TM1 High Availability or Load Balancing
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Just a quick post on what I know about configuring High Availability (HA) or Load Balancing for TM1 at the moment. Copying this link will save me some keystrokes along the way ;) |
Finally Cognos BI Software Development Kit is free to use
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In case you missed the news, Cognos Software Development Kit became a part of BI Administrator license during the latest IBM license revamp. That’s fantastic news, because you get heaps of functionality for free. You don’t need to be particularly savvy with Java and .Net, there dozens of sample utilities released by IBM where you only need to substitute parameters and use them straight-away. |
TM1 Applications Contributor Sandboxes and Commit
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A quick note on how TM1 Applications / Contributor works with sandboxes. Quite common knowledge, but can be useful for debugging, so I’m wrapping it up as a post. TM1 Applications / Contributor uses sandboxes to do cell colour and improve system bandwidth with multiple users, so each time you take ownership of the node, a new sandbox will be created with the following name |
4 Things you can do to improve TM1 performance today
We’ve started a regular newsletter here at PMsquare, so I was asked if maybe I can write a ’not-so-technical’ how-to article. You can judge the result yourself, reposting it below. Sign-up for the newsletter, lots of good stuff there.