Heather L. Cole, CEO, CFO & Executive Strategic Advisor

Cognos MCP Security Risk: Before You Give an AI Agent the Keys to Cognos

IBM has been moving quickly on agentic AI, and Cognos Analytics is no exception. With Cognos Analytics 12.1.3, organizations can

A PVU, or Processor Value Unit, is the unit IBM uses to measure and license software based on server processing

Last updated: June 2026By Heather Cole, Lodestar Solutions It is June. Budget season is closer than it feels. Your AI initiatives

Written by Paige Fowler, 05/15/2026 Finance teams are being asked to move faster than ever. Business conditions shift constantly. Leadership

Written by Heather Cole, 04/09/2026 I was taking a class on AI ethics for attorneys, and it got me

March 5th, 2026 Many organizations were migrated to the IBM Business Analytics Enterprise (BAE) license and now own more capability

Written by Paige Fowler, 02/05/2026 If your organization uses IBM analytics, planning, or data platforms, whether you are running Cognos

Written by Paige Fowler, 01/29/2026 Replacing a planning tool is not what most CFO's wake up thinking about. But you

Written by Paige Fowler, 01/08/2026 For a long time, “good enough” worked in finance. Budgets were built annually. Forecasts were

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