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One of the biggest assets an organization or institution has is its data. That data contains patterns and relationships not readily identifiable. Enter Predictive Analytics. With IBM SPSS Modeler software, historical data is automatically mined detecting patterns and indicators which can be used to predict future outcomes, allowing you to prioritize efforts on those events which are most likely to occur.

IBM announced the Query and Analysis Studio end of life in 2014. As the gap between ad-hoc query and analysis is closing, users are more and more confused by the multiple studios available to them; jumping between different studios is time consuming and inefficient, interface designs differ dramatically requiring double learning.

Watch this webinar to learn the benefits of upgrading to the Cognos 10 products, and the different upgrade options available, including license and entitlement concerns. We discuss several upgrade/migration paths, each being a different approach and with different impacts to your existing environment.

Are you taking advantage of cloud computing in your organization? Are you aware of the different cloud options available? If you answered no to either of these questions then you should view this webinar.

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.

Would you like to reduce the time required to create internal and external reports from days down to hours? Do you spend many laborious hours scripting repetitive narrative within your reports? Do you require the ability to manage collaboration and govern security within your reporting process? Then attend this LPA webinar on IBM Cognos Disclosure Management to learn how you can reduce risk and cost by automating your reporting processes using CDM.

This webinar explains what the Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine (RAVE) is and reviews the many new visualization enhancements released with Cognos BI 10.2.2 along with a discussion on how and when to use them.

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 Are your spreadsheet processes cumbersome and out-of-date?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 & hotel property management companies are doing.

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.