10 Must-Read FP&A Stories from 2017

From the growing move toward making finance a strategic business partner to the challenges of addressing new revenue recognition standards, FP&A managers and practitioners had plenty on their plates in 2017—and have myriad challenges and opportunities ahead of...

Evaluating CPM/FP&A System: Nine Key Areas for Consideration

Background  There are many software products that claim to support CPM, but often they only support some aspects, for example financial planning and reporting. One of the issues is that the term CPM is synonymous with budgeting, forecasting and management reporting...

Transitioning Cognos BI V10 Skills to Cognos Analytics V11

Clients have been calling in with questions about the exciting next generation of the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence platform – known as IBM Cognos Analytics, v11. Besides wanting to know what is new, one of the common questions we hear is: Will my Cognos 10.x...

Three Ways Your Spreadsheets Are Slowing You Down

Make no mistake: Decades-old spreadsheets are not built to handle the complexities of modern, fast-paced businesses. They’re great personal productivity tools, but can present major accuracy issues when shared across multiple users and locations. So for all of you...

Introducing Cognos Analytics 11.0.8

The Cognos Analytics team has been hard at work on new enhancements, and I am thrilled to announce that release 8 (11.0.8) is now generally available. This release tackles a lot of those small, but significant, enhancements that will help you and your users get the...