What is a business productivity solution?

by admin on September 2, 2009

It is simply an application that serves the needs of the business users. It helps the organization grow revenues, increase profits and drive operational efficiency. Clearview Informatics delivers business intelligence (BI), customer relationship management (CRM) and office productivity (OP) solutions configured for your business.

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Installing Yellowfin BI 4.0

February 3, 2009

What follows is a walk through of the installation of Yellowfin Business Intelligence 4.0. This is the simplest type of install on Windows, as I have opted to use the default settings almost everywhere.
Start by double clicking on the install executable. The Yellowfin splash screen will appear.

Click Next to continue. Accept the terms and conditions [...]

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New Features in IBM Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence

June 9, 2008

This article in Cognos Support Link magazine highlights some of the new features in Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence, in particular the functionality that allows users to receive targeted information. Read the article on-line here: What’s New in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3: More Targeted Information

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Compiling the Cognos 8 SDK Java Samples on Windows

May 15, 2008

When the Cognos 8 SDK is installed, the java libraries (jar files) are installed in the ..\c8\sdk\java\lib folder. The sample applications are located in individual directories in the ..\c8\sdk\java folder. Also included are two scripts, build-samples.bat (for Windows) and build-samples.sh (for Unix and Linux) for compiling the java samples. Here are the steps for compiling [...]

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Creating an Input File for Access Manager Batch Maintenance

May 14, 2008

Creating users in a Series 7 namespace can be automated with Access Manager Batch Maintenance, but writing the required input file is an error prone and time consuming chore. This Visual Basic script will take a list of users from a comma-delimited file (it could be exported from Excel or some other system), create the [...]

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Series 7 Impromptu Automation

May 14, 2008

Here are two sample scripts to illustrate how to automate Impromptu using the Cognos Script macro language. Cognos scripts can be easily integrated into a Visual Basic, VB Script or an ASP script, as the language follows the same conventions as Visual Basic. The first script will run a report and save the output [...]

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Silent Installation of Cognos 8

May 13, 2008

If you have many servers to install and configure, the unattended install feature of Cognos 8 can be a real time saver. It will save you from clicking through the installer multiple times and reduces the chances of missing a component. This feature is also useful when installing remotely, where the GUI will be slow, [...]

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Configuring an Apache web server for Cognos 8 BI Server

May 13, 2008

The first post-installation task after installing Cognos 8 is to configure the web server gateway. This article will step through configuring Apache for use with Cognos 8. For Cognos ReportNet, the same instructions apply, but the directories will be different.Create the web aliases or virtual directories.

Virtual directory
File System Directory
Permission Required

cognos8
c8/webcontent
read

cognos8/cgi-bin
c8/cgi-bin
execute

c8 represents where Cognos 8 [...]

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Setting up the Cognos 8 Samples on DB2

April 23, 2008

Cognos 8 Business Intelligence ships with sample data and reports for a fictional company named “The Great Outdoors”. The samples are useful for testing the functionality of the product and for following the examples in the documentation. The Cognos 8 samples are similar to the samples shipped with Series 7 and ReportNet, but not exactly [...]

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Installing DB2 Express-C on Windows

April 23, 2008

IBM makes available a free version of their flagship DB2 database called DB2 Express-C. It is a competitor to Oracle Express, Microsoft SQL Server Express and MySQL. It is ideal for a development environment or a small pilot project, and it can be updated to a fully supported licensed version at any time. Cognos 8 [...]

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