About the Author
Ankit Garg is a software professional having overseven and a half years of experience in implementing, designing, and managing datawarehousing and BI solutions for industry leaders. He has catered to multiple clients,spanning various geographies and industry domains. His core skills include a full set ofBI and DW skills, which includes ETL, BI, Data Warehousing, and PredictiveAnalysis.
Currently, he is involved in product R&D and is employed by a softwaremajor.
The book is the result of his technical experience acquired, while implementingplanning and budgeting solutions for the industry.
I would like to thank the PACKT team and Editors for their full faith on myauthoring and technical skills. They played a pivotal role in bringing the book tothe current shape. Dedicated to my mother and special thanks to my friend Abhishekfor the initiative he has taken, for me to get started. All the best to dearreaders, really hope they find the stuff useful and worth reading.
About the Reviewers
Wim Gielis , is currently a Business Intelligenceconsultant at Aexis Belgium. He is responsible for implementing custom IBM Cognos TM1applications as well as providing (custom) TM1 training sessions.
He regularly posts articles written in English on IBM Cognos TM1 on his blog: http://www.wimgielis.be. He is also veryactive on several online message boards regarding TM1 (such as http://www.tm1forum.com), and Excel VBA(such as www.mrexcel.com, www.ozgrid.com, and various others).
Wim Gielis was awarded the Microsoft Excel MVP award in 2011 for exceptionalcontributions to the Excel community.
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Abhishek Sanghani was born in India and attendedMumbai University where he majored in Computer Engineering. He began his career in 2004as a Business Intelligence and Cognos Consultant, and has worked with leading IT andFinance Services companies since then.
He pursued Finance Management degree along with his work in the field of Cognos andBI, successfully progressing and winning awards and certifications year after year.Presently, he is working in the United Kingdom, utilizing his skills in Cognos, SQL, BIand Data Warehousing. In his free time, he writes technical blogs and also providestraining/seminars on demand.
He wrote his first book IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook withPackt Publishing that covers many basic to advanced features of Report Authoring. Itbegins by bringing readers on the same platform and introducing the fundamental featuresuseful across any level of reporting. Then it ascends to advanced techniques and tricksto overcome Report Studio 8 limitations.
He thinks that this book is "a wonderful compilation of knowledge and techniques towork on TM1 which will prove very useful to the readers."
It was a great pleasure to review this book. Thanks to Ankit for producing suchuseful literature and to Packt for giving me this opportunity to review. I hope myfeedback proved useful. I would also like to thank my lovely wife Dolly for all hersupport.
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Preface
IBM Cognos TM1 is one of the most popular multidimensional analysis tools used tobuild collaborative planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions, as well asanalytical and reporting applications. This cube-based technology does fast numbercrunching at the server end and helps end customers move away from manual and tediousplanning, budgeting, and analytics processes.
IBM Cognos TM1 Cookbook is a complete manual to building and managing applicationswith IBM Cognos TM1.
Every important aspect of TM1 is covered with the help of practical recipes, whichwill make you well acquainted with the tool and ready to take on TM1 projects in thereal world. Existing TM1 users and developers will also benefit from the practicalrecipes covered in the book.
The book will start with a chapter focusing on fundamentals of MOLAP and dimensionalmodelling, which forms the foundation on which IBM Cognos TM1 is based. Thereafter,chapters will be more TM1-specific, starting with an introduction on dimensions andcubes and how to create and manage them. Further chapters will dig deeper into TM1objects and rules.