IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide

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Business Modeling with Cognos TM1

Now that you have become familiar with Cognos TM1 as a tool by working through the previous chapters, we want to help you get the necessary business background, too. And more important, you will get a lot of hints about how to map this business knowledge to Cognos TM1.

The reason for the 25-year-long success story of Cognos TM1 is its capability to map business requirements very effectively into an IT solution. “Effectively” means that the method of implementation is very business-oriented. Some can argue that doing the same thing with pure spreadsheet design is business-oriented, too. So what’s the ...