Another area where you can benefit from virtual cubes is with reporting. Some Cognos TM1 cubes may be very complicated, large, or have intensive rule calculations. In other examples, data required for a report may be sourced from multiple cubes. In these cases, specific end user reporting may become difficult (especially for the more casual TM1 user) or somewhat slow. Defining several specific reporting virtual cubes—based upon unique views of the larger cube or cubes—can be a solution:
IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide
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Overview of this book
IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets. It is a real time, in memory tool that helps any sized business perform planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as other financial exercises.
This book prepares you to master COG-310 certification using an example-driven method that is easy to understand.
The IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide provides key technical details and background to clear the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (test COG-310) certification exam.
This certification book covers all the modules of the certification clearly and in depth.
The initial chapters cover in detail the components that make up Cognos TM1 and designing and creating dimensions and cubes. The book then dives deep into basic and advanced scripting using TurboIntegrator and then we learn to understand and write basic Rules. We then learn about the drill-through functionality of TM1, virtual and lookup cubes and lastly Time, and presenting and reporting data
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Dimensions and Cubes
TurboIntegrator (TI)
Rules
Advanced Techniques for TI Scripting
Drill-through
Virtual and Lookup Cubes
Time Considerations
Customer Reviews