Written by Mike Bernaiche, December 23rd, 2022
Lodestar Solutions Services team is ready to help in 2023! I wanted to take a minute and provide details on everything Lodestar Solutions Services team offers. Whether it is a big project or small, redesign or upgrades, we can deliver on all of your needs for Cognos and Planning Analytics. We even provide consulting on Power BI! Plus, with our partner network and addon products, we can help take your analytics initiatives to the next level! Please reach out to us at services@lodestarsolutions.com to discuss your needs and let us put a plan in place to take your analytics to the next level.
Technical Services – Installations and Upgrades
At Lodestar Solutions Services, we can handle all your installs and upgrades on:
- Planning Analytics
- Cognos Analytics
- Cognos Planning
- Cognos Controller
- ILMT
- Data Connections to IBM SaaS offerings
Our technical expert has over 15 years of experience on IBM Analytics products and can perform the upgrade on their own or work with your team to guide your internal resources on a successful install or upgrade. Over the years we have performed hundreds of installs or upgrades on IBM products and we are here to help you be successful!
We offer upgrade bundles that can save you time and money on your install or upgrade and provide extra technical support hours for those pesky issues that come up from time to time.
Planning Analytics Services
Lodestar has a vast array of Planning Analytics Consultants that can handle the smallest project to the very large and complex. Utilizing best practices and the newest technology that Planning Analytics has to offer so we ensure all your Planning Analytics needs are exceeded. Lately, we have been performing model redesigns to utilize some of the newer features in Planning Analytics, like virtual hierarchies. Maybe you have outgrown your current models and it is time for enhancements. Whatever your needs are we are here to support you and make you successful.
Our services include but are not limited to:
- Architecture
- Dimension builds
- Cube builds
- Integration with Data
- Model Redesign
- Planning Analytics for Excel Reporting and Data Entry Points
- Planning Analytics Workspace Dashboards and Entry
Cognos Analytics Services
We also have you covered on Cognos Analytics Projects. Lodestar has several excellent consultants to meet your needs on reporting, dashboards and modeling in Cognos Analytics. Perhaps you want to learn about some of the new features in Cognos Analytics or just need some simple reporting work, we have you covered.
Our services include but are not limited to:
Power BI Services
Recently we started consulting on Power BI Reporting. We have an excellent Power BI resource that can work with your team on dashboards, reporting, and data. Reach out to us to discuss your Power BI needs and let our expert work hand in hand with you.
Training
Lodestar offers several different training programs on both Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics. Let our certified trainers help your organization get up to speed on everything from model design to Dashboarding. We can come onsite or deliver virtual training for your organization at a very cost-effective rate.
Cognos Analytics
- Framework Manager
- Data Modules
- Explorations
- Basic and Advanced Reporting
- Dashboards
- Administration
Planning Analytics
- Complete Modeling in Workspace
- Workspace end user set up and design
- Planning Analytics for Excel
- Administration
Add on Software
Did you know that Lodestar partners with and sells several different addon software platforms to take your Cognos or Planning Analytics to the next level? Read below for information on each product and don’t forget to reach out to us if you are interested. We can set up demo’s and take care of everything to get that product ordered for you!
TM1 Connect – Do you own Planning Analytics and need to create reports in something other than Cognos Analytics? TM1 Connect solves that problem! You can connect your PA data to Power BI, Tableau, Qlik and pretty much any other BI tool through an ODBC connection and provide that reporting in your BI software.
Digital Hive – Those of you with multiple BI/Data systems need to check out Digital Hive. It is your single-entry point to all of your data and so much more. We recently had a demo of this product in our client only user group and it was amazing. Reach out to us for more info and a demo today!
Motio – Tools for the CA administrator or power user to make your life so much easier!
MotioPI Pro - MotioPI Pro gives Cognos Administrators tools and automations to bring even more efficiencies to your work with Cognos. MotioPI Pro saves you time, effort, and frustrations across a world of Cognos administrative tasks.
MotioCI - MotioCI provides Cognos authors and administrators with new capabilities including faster upgrades, change management & version control, faster deployments, automated testing, and improved cleanup.
ReportWorq - enables you to generate and distribute personalized reports across your organization with ease. You can develop stunning dashboards and professional reports with all the power of Microsoft Excel from IBM Planning Analytics. When it’s time for distribution, ReportWORQ’s scalable bursting functionality is like an enterprise mail merge, generating, collating, and distributing personalized reports across your organization through Network Drives, Email, SharePoint and even Slack Channels. Yes, burst PA data!
ControlWorq – extends Planning Analytics by providing a framework of controls that facilitates financial reporting.
Key Benefits:
- Controlled, balanced, authorized, and auditable journal entries
- Excel and web user interfaces available
- Automated recurring and reversing journals
- Journals can be posted individually or in a batch
- Reconciliation reporting for inter-company balances
- Automatic elimination of journals of inter-company balances
- Real‐time visibility of the impact of journal entries in IBM Planning Analytics
Summary
As you can see Lodestar Solutions Services team has you covered. Our consultants have many years of experience and hundreds of successful projects on our resume. Reach out to us at services@lodestarsolutions.com and schedule a consultation today.