Hi All,
I’ve been extremely busy and this blog became a low priority for me. I have been away for a few years but recently remembered this and wanted to start blogging again. I will start posting again soon and be covering lots of interesting topics regarding Hyperion specially Hyperion Planning.
There is a lot that has changed in Hyperion Planning with version 11.1.2.4 and a lot of new capabilities that are now available.
Check back soon for some interesting updates and posts!
Shehzad
I’m going to start this post assuming you have already CREATED a model / library in Cognos Analyst and are familiar with Cognos Analyst models in terms of modeling and creating an application. Once the Analyst model / library is ready, the end users must be able to access the cubes, enter data, manipulate data and perform all manner of tasks. This is done via the web-based interface which is basically where contributor comes in. The Contributor Application is basically a published version of the Analyst model. As a published model, it is different or enhanced from the model / library in the following ways:
1. Provides a web-based front-end to the end users to access the application(s)
2. e.List creation and maintenance (Analyst can use a dummy placeholder for modeling purpose)
3. Allows user access and security settings
4. Data Validations
5. Translations (or Aliases in Hyperion Planning jargon as far as I know)
Essentially the model from analyst is copied into a contributor application so the underlying structure is the same. The other options like security, e.List, data validations, etc. which are not part of Analyst are managed here and the application is made available to the end users.
The modeler or designer can continue to work on Analyst without impacting the published application until the changes are synced to the contributor application. Even then the changes are not reflected until the Development version is migrated to the Production version (a process that is known as GTP – Go To Production).
I’m going to start this post assuming you have already CREATED a model / library in Cognos Analyst and are familiar with Cognos Analyst models in terms of modeling and creating an application. Once the Analyst model / library is ready, the end users must be able to access the cubes, enter data, manipulate data and perform all manner of tasks. This is done via the web-based interface which is basically where contributor comes in. The Contributor Application is basically a published version of the Analyst model.
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It’s been a while since I updated anything on the blog. A lot has happened in the Hyperion and Hyperion Planning world, namely with the new 11.1.2 release.
I have been too occupied to fully explore the product and start blogging about it. I should definitely get round to that.
I was trying to be creative and think up of ways to show the analytical capabilities of the Hyperion Planning system to demonstrate to a client (who had strongly suggested that these capabilities would play a very important role in their evaluation of a budgeting and planning solution) and came up with one approach that I’d like to share here.
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IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software used to implement collaborative planning, budgeting and forecasting solutions, as well as analytical and reporting applications. Similar to Hyperion Essbase, TM1 is a multidimensional data store however it only supports data storage at the “leaf” level.
Having worked with Hyperion Planning solution, I decided to explore the Cognos TM1 offering. The latest version is 9.5 which came out February 9, 2010 and there has been some considerable improvements – the most visible being TM1 Contributor which is a web-based front end. Previously TM1 was basically managed through the Microsoft Excel interface and the TM1 Architect.
In the subsequent posts I will be taking a look at the Cognos TM1 version 9.5 offering starting with the installation.
Ubuntu comes bundled with Transmission as the bittorrent client. It is a very minimalist application but it gets the job done, so I have absolutely no objection to that. However it required a few more clicks to do stuff that I sometimes end up doing.
While using Windows, I was totally dependent on utorrent and would never have imagined using any other client. So naturally I wanted something that would be on the lines of utorrent. The client I’m using now is Deluge and I must say it is pretty much everything I would want in a torrent client. It has the exact same layout as utorrent and pretty much most of the features, so I’ve decided to get rid of Transmission and rely solely on Deluge.
Update: I think I was a bit too hasty in declaring my love for Deluge. I have just discovered qBittorrent and I have now made it into my primary and ONLY bittorrent client.
When I last tried Ubuntu, I was really uncomfortable with the idea that I had to literally spend a good time trying to get my computer to play mp3 songs and be able to play common video files. I had to do a lot of searching to get an idea on how to go about it (since it was my first attempt at trying out linux I had to rely on Google a lot).
This time round, I just had to install the ‘Restricted Extras’ from the Ubuntu Software Center and I was good to go. I didn’t like Movie Player that comes bundled with Ubuntu because it just doesn’t seem to have enough features and it also seemed to consume a lot more of the processing power than I thought it should. I just installed VLC and I have a video player that I have relied on in the Windows environment as well.
I rely on Dropbox to have my common files available to me all the time. I can even pull them up in the chrome browser with the dropbox extension and I use it to queue torrents on my home computer.
So basically I can still get Dropbox so that is something I won’t be missing. But even if I did, I can also use Ubuntu One. I just signed up for it and so far it seems like a very good equivalent of Dropbox. No surprises here and the transition is on track!
I think there’s ample discussion about the switching of the close buttons in Ubuntu. The buttons are now on the top left corner of the title bar. But in the Linux version of Chrome they’re still on the right just like the windows buttons. I suppose there must be some way to change that, otherwise I’ll just go mad switching between the two options!!
Shehzad Kazmi 