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Cognos Workspace Advanced is a web-based analysis tool that is part of the IBM Cognos 10 family. More powerful than Query Studio or Analysis Studio, yet still easy to use for both business and IT, Cognos Workspace Advanced lets you perform data exploration and author reports using relational, dimensional and even spreadsheet data sources. Please join us for an updated presentation of our popular webinar, "Introduction to Cognos Workspace Advanced."

Cognos version 10.2.2 has recently been made available to existing IBM customers. There have been significant changes made to the overall platform, including Dynamic Cubes. Attend this webinar to learn about this powerful in-memory OLAP technology, and understand how the latest release of Cognos BI impacts Dynamic Cubing.

If you are considering using IBM Cognos Active Reports, or are just getting started, this webinar is for you. The Introduction to IBM Cognos Active Reports webinar is led by an LPA Certified Cognos Trainer.

There has been considerable change in the relationship between customers and companies. With the ease of online access, customers are now empowered to know their vendors and control their relationships with them including the freedom to switch vendors easily. Companies have the ability to know their customers and market to them on a personalized basis using data mining and predictive analytics technologies.

Analytics refer to software technology and processes that forward-thinking organizations use to understand their data. Today's organization collects data from a broad span of internal and external sources. It includes a wide variety of data types, including both structured and unstructured. With the ever increasing volume of data, the complexity of finding the critical information necessary to make insightful business decisions has become more challenging. This challenge requires an organization to not only be able to extract the appropriate pieces of knowledge, but also to connect them with the right people at the right time in order to enhance decision-making. Analytical organizations use Predictive Analytics to gain insight into their financial and operational performance as well as their customer behaviors. With these insights, organizations can identify profitable and loyal customers, charge an optimal price, avoid out-of-stock situations, choose the best location for stores, and identify competitive risks and threats.

Struggling to get the information you need from your NextGen or Allscripts EMR? Is management of patient populations important to you? Need dashboards to bring better visibility to your organizations key performance metrics? Want to be able to query the data within your NextGen/Allscripts EMR without having to ask your IT group? If you answered YES to any of these questions, you have to attend LPA's webinar series to learn more about how our Healthcare Analytic Solutions have helped other organizations just like yours, solve these important business challenges.

Cognos Workspace is a web-based tool that is part of the IBM Cognos 10 family. It allows your end users to leverage existing reports to create sophisticated dashboards ("workspaces") that provide at-a-glance insights and facilitate collaborative decision making. This will be an updated presentation of our popular webinar, "Introduction to Cognos Workspace." Our complimentary webinar will provide you with an overview of the tool and its capabilities. Through the creation of a simple dashboard and a discussion of personalization, security, and infrastructure, this webinar will help enable you to determine when and how to deploy this capability to your enterprise.

What can we do with our textual survey data? How can we gain deeper insights on what our customers are saying about our company and products beyond simple closed-ended questions? Companies large and small are trying to unlock the insights and answers that are contained in natural language texts. These insights are the key to gaining a competitive edge in today’s marketplace. To learn more, watch a replay of our webinar here.

Do you have data stored in a variety of different sources like TM1 and Cognos BI? Would you like to explore and analyze this data in a familiar tool such as an Excel spreadsheet? Then you need to attend LPA System’s webinar on CAFÉ. IBM Cognos® Analysis for Microsoft Excel (CAFÉ) brings the benefits, power and familiarity of Excel to the arena of modern enterprise performance management.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2 is scheduled to be released late November 2014. This version promises to deliver significant new capabilities over the current platform. Join us for a free webinar to see IBM's latest innovation to Cognos BI -- IBM Cognos 10.2.2!

Are you responsible for maintaining Cognos BI in your company? Have you been charged with securing the content within Cognos? Need a clear understanding of how to manage license compliance through auditing? Then view this webinar from LPA Software Solutions. During this informative hour presentation, we will discuss many different aspects of security including best practices for configuring authentication and authorization, explanation and demonstration of how best to use groups and roles in securing Cognos BI, how to manage permissions to control Cognos content, how to secure functions and features (capabilities) within Cognos BI environment, namespace administration and techniques, Cognos BI Users and Capabilities Tool, and Multi-tenancy.

Analytics at the point of decision provides valuable insights that help users make the right decisions, more quickly. Attend this webinar to see how LPA Software Solutions has provided embedded analytics within our BI solutions. This webinar will show you how LPA has assisted many of these OEM partners deeply integrate the IBM Business Analytics solution using Cognos Mashup Services, RAVE, and automation capabilities to help deliver better decision making capabilities to its customers. Watch our webinar to learn more.

How are we doing? Why? What should we be doing? For a small company, it's easy to answer these critical questions. But growth begets complexity -- more employees, customers, partners, products -- and a tidal wave of information. The right answers become tougher to find. IBM Cognos Express changes all that for you. Join us for a free webinar and see how IBM Cognos Express will help you manage mounting piles of information and turn it into the knowledge you need to: Manage costs more closely and improve efficiency Find new opportunities and trends Deliver better customer service Drive greater profitability and revenue growth Do more with less

Is your organization using spreadsheets for annual budgeting and forecasting? Are you unable to budget or forecast optimally due to process limitations? Would you like to be able to forecast more frequently and gain accuracy? If you answered yes, then you owe it to yourself to learn about IBM Cognos TM1.

Cognos Workspace Advanced is a web-based analysis tool that is part of the IBM Cognos 10 family. More powerful than Query Studio or Analysis Studio, yet still easy to use for both business and IT, Cognos Workspace Advanced lets you perform data exploration and author reports using relational, dimensional and even spreadsheet data sources. Our “Introduction to Cognos Workspace Advanced” webinar will give you an overview the user interface and its capabilities by developing a simple report using both relational and dimensional data. It will also provide you with insight into how Cognos Workspace Advanced and Cognos Workspace are integrated as well as how CWA relates to Report Studio.

Are you unable to see your market share in the context of a map? Would you like to be able to determine which market areas offer the greatest potential for growth? Would you benefit from a bi-directional connection between your report data and an interactive map? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you owe it to yourself to review this unique webinar and see how companies are using Locations Intelligence to gain deeper insight into their data and make better decisions.

There has been considerable change in the relationship between customers and companies. With the ease of online access, customers are now empowered to know their vendors and control their relationships with them including the freedom to switch vendors easily. Companies have the ability to know their customers and market to them on a personalized basis using data mining and predictive analytics technologies. Customer analytics unlock insights that enable companies to add new customers and grow their business as well as improve their understanding of what their customers want. It uncovers hidden insights in customer data to enable the creation of personalized experiences that win more business while reducing costs and increasing customer loyalty.

Advanced Visualizations give IBM Cognos BI report authors a new and extensible library of interactive animated charts. These charts include many new types including heat maps, spider maps and tag clouds – along with some old favorites like column and bubble charts -- that are far more advanced than anything available in previous releases. This webinar will introduce you to the process of incorporating these visualizations into your reports, from downloading them, to importing them into your visualization library, to placing them on a page.

Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced both support two distinct reporting styles – Relational and Dimensional. The dimensional style can be a little off-putting because it uses both techniques and terminology that may not be familiar to report authors who do not build or use cubes often. This webinar will help demystify the available views and options that come along with a dimensional package and will illustrate the dimensional reporting style using Cognos Workspace Advanced.

Do you need daily numbers for each property to improve tracking and planning? Are your spreadsheet processes cumbersome and out-of-date? See what the best-of-breed hospitality companies are doing. Here at LPA, we recognize that hospitality property management has its own set of unique necessities: * Obtaining and organizing data to generate daily forecasts, * Gaining insight into competitor and market trends, * Obtaining real-time rollup and consolidation of actuals and forecasts, just to name a few. With these challenges in mind, we've designed a solution that integrates with your existing systems and extracts data to provide visibility to key metrics and with just a click or two. We can now offer hospitality companies an out-of-the box solution that can be implemented quickly to achieve daily forecasts, manage REVPAR, and track other relevant metrics.