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Master Data Management: Your Competitive & AI Advantage

MDM is key to having trust in your business data. A business imperative, it provides a competitive and AI advantage.

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Obtaining Unit Economics Using Power BI

Demo of reporting on cloud unit economics in a Power BI dashboard.

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Why Business Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore Data Governance in 2025

Business leaders cannot afford to ignore data governance. Learn the what and why of this business imperative.

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AI Analytics Connector Cross Vendor Comparisons Dashboards, Reports & Visualizations Data & Cloud Architecture Data Governance Data Prep & Modeling IBM Analytics & Cognos Microsoft Azure & Power BI Modernizations & Migrations Security, Governance & Administration Snowflake Tableau

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Cognos: Never Gonna Give You Up

How Cognos stacks against the competition and how to optimize ROI.

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Cognos: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Approaches and tools to extend the value of Cognos or efficiently migrate and modernize to Fabric/Power BI or Tableau.

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Master Data Management: De-Risking Data Modernization, AI & Fabric Initiatives

How MDM mitigates risk, drives revenue growth and reduces costs.

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Senturus Named Microsoft Certified Solutions Partner for Data & AI

Partnership showcases Senturus’ expertise in managing data across systems for advanced analytics and AI solutions.

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Will Your Data Governance Program Hold Up to the Demands of AI?

Steps and questions CFOs need to address to bring about data governance that sticks.

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Is Your Culture Ready for AI? 5 Factors for Securing Adoption & Cultural Change

AI alone will not ensure ROI. Cultural readiness is key to ensuring project success and long-term adoption.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Microsoft Copilot

Examples of creating a measure, building a report, and creating an entire narrative.

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Drag & Drop Cognos Data in Power BI or Tableau

Demo of the Senturus Analytics Connector, an easy solution for integrating these BI platforms.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Cognos Analytics with Watson

Detailed examples of using Explorations and Assistant.

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Master Data Management: Your Competitive & AI Advantage

MDM is key to having trust in your business data. A business imperative, it provides a competitive and AI advantage.

Blog

Senturus Named Microsoft Certified Solutions Partner for Data & AI

Partnership showcases Senturus’ expertise in managing data across systems for advanced analytics and AI solutions.

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Will Your Data Governance Program Hold Up to the Demands of AI?

Steps and questions CFOs need to address to bring about data governance that sticks.

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Is Your Culture Ready for AI? 5 Factors for Securing Adoption & Cultural Change

AI alone will not ensure ROI. Cultural readiness is key to ensuring project success and long-term adoption.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Microsoft Copilot

Examples of creating a measure, building a report, and creating an entire narrative.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Cognos Analytics with Watson

Detailed examples of using Explorations and Assistant.

See all on AI »

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Drag & Drop Cognos Data in Power BI or Tableau

Demo of the Senturus Analytics Connector, an easy solution for integrating these BI platforms.

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Rolling Out Power BI in a Cognos Shop

Three smart, efficient approaches you can take to make Power BI a reality in your company.

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Collaborative BI: 3 Ways to Use Cognos with Power BI & Tableau

Learn methods to leverage Cognos metadata and reduce duplicate ETL efforts.

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Tableau + Cognos + Senturus: Aero Precision Saves $100K Annually

The Senturus Analytics Connector enabled Aero Precision to create Tableau dashboards using live Cognos data.

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Visualizing Data in TM1 Cubes Using Tableau

Connector for Tableau and IBM Planning Analytics.

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Taming the Data Wildcat with the Senturus Analytics Connector

Northwestern University leverages Cognos data in Tableau vizzes.

See all on Analytics Connector »

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AI in BI: Impacts to Power BI, Cognos & Tableau

Demos of BI capabilities in Copilot, Assistant and Pulse.

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BI Dashboard Tool Comparison

Dashboarding in Power BI vs. Tableau vs. Cognos.

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Business Intelligence Comparison Chart: Power BI, Tableau & Cognos

Review of 50 features and functions.

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Data Wrangling Comparison: Power BI, Cognos & Tableau

Learn how differently data wrangling is handled by the three BI tools.

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Dashboarding Comparison: Power BI, Tableau & Cognos

See demos and learn pros and cons.

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Data Governance Tools Comparison Chart

Comparison of 5 top solutions + 4 companies to watch.

See all on Cross Vendor Comparisons »

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Obtaining Unit Economics Using Power BI

Demo of reporting on cloud unit economics in a Power BI dashboard.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Microsoft Copilot

Examples of creating a measure, building a report, and creating an entire narrative.

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AI in BI: Impacts to Power BI, Cognos & Tableau

Demos of BI capabilities in Copilot, Assistant and Pulse.

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Tableau Dashboard Design: 10 Best Practices

Build beautiful, impactful, insightful dashboards.

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3 Must-Have External Tools for Power BI Desktop

Demos and tips for leveraging essential community tools for Power BI Desktop.

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Power BI Report Builder & Paginated Reports

Learn to create perfectly formatted printed reports and PDFs.

See all on Dashboards, Reports & Visualizations »

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Master Data Management: Your Competitive & AI Advantage

MDM is key to having trust in your business data. A business imperative, it provides a competitive and AI advantage.

Webinar

Obtaining Unit Economics Using Power BI

Demo of reporting on cloud unit economics in a Power BI dashboard.

Webinar

Master Data Management: De-Risking Data Modernization, AI & Fabric Initiatives

How MDM mitigates risk, drives revenue growth and reduces costs.

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Demystifying Data Modeling Across the Azure Architecture

When and where data modeling fits in each stage of the Azure architecture.

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Microsoft Fabric: Architecture or Marketecture?

Learn what distinguishes Fabric from conventional cloud architectures. Or not.

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Is the Star Schema Dead?

Is it still relevant in the modern data environment?

See all on Data & Cloud Architecture »

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Why Business Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore Data Governance in 2025

Business leaders cannot afford to ignore data governance. Learn the what and why of this business imperative.

See all on Data Governance »

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Demystifying Data Modeling Across the Azure Architecture

When and where data modeling fits in each stage of the Azure architecture.

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How to Customize Relative Time in Cognos Data Modules

Expand the basic functionality to incorporate comparison dates.

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3 Must-Have External Tools for Power BI Desktop

Demos and tips for leveraging essential community tools for Power BI Desktop.

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The What & Whys of Power BI Datamarts

When to use them, difference from dataset and dataflows and basic admin.

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10 Quick Ways to Prep Data in Tableau Desktop

Ensure your data is as Tableau friendly as possible.

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Many BI Tools. One Semantic Layer in the Cloud.

A single source of governed cloud data that can be tapped by Power BI, Tableau, Cognos and Excel.

See all on Data Prep & Modeling »

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Cognos: Never Gonna Give You Up

How Cognos stacks against the competition and how to optimize ROI.

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Cognos: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Approaches and tools to extend the value of Cognos or efficiently migrate and modernize to Fabric/Power BI or Tableau.

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AI in Analytical Reporting: Cognos Analytics with Watson

Detailed examples of using Explorations and Assistant.

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Cognos 12.0.1: Our 7 Favorite New Features

Nice upgrades to favorites, data type sorting and more.

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Super Helpful Features in Cognos 12 You May Not Know About

Gems that let you streamline Cognos.

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AI in BI: Impacts to Power BI, Cognos & Tableau

Demos of BI capabilities in Copilot, Assistant and Pulse.

See all on IBM Analytics & Cognos »

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Obtaining Unit Economics Using Power BI

Demo of reporting on cloud unit economics in a Power BI dashboard.

Webinar

Why Business Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore Data Governance in 2025

Business leaders cannot afford to ignore data governance. Learn the what and why of this business imperative.

Webinar

Cognos: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Approaches and tools to extend the value of Cognos or efficiently migrate and modernize to Fabric/Power BI or Tableau.

Webinar

Master Data Management: De-Risking Data Modernization, AI & Fabric Initiatives

How MDM mitigates risk, drives revenue growth and reduces costs.

Blog

Senturus Named Microsoft Certified Solutions Partner for Data & AI

Partnership showcases Senturus’ expertise in managing data across systems for advanced analytics and AI solutions.

Blog

AI in Analytical Reporting: Microsoft Copilot

Examples of creating a measure, building a report, and creating an entire narrative.

See all on Microsoft Azure & Power BI »

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Cognos: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Approaches and tools to extend the value of Cognos or efficiently migrate and modernize to Fabric/Power BI or Tableau.

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Rolling Out Power BI in a Cognos Shop

Three smart, efficient approaches you can take to make Power BI a reality in your company.

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Streamline Cognos Migrations & Consolidations

The Migration Assistant eliminates manual Cognos inventory work.

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Cognos Analytics Performance Tuning Tips

Improve the performance of your Cognos environment.

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Automate a Cognos Content Inventory

Comprehensive, automated insights that native Cognos tools don’t provide.

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Confidently Assess & Budget a Cognos Cleanup or Migration

Proven methodology and secret weapon.

See all on Modernizations & Migrations »

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Will Your Data Governance Program Hold Up to the Demands of AI?

Steps and questions CFOs need to address to bring about data governance that sticks.

Blog

Is Your Culture Ready for AI? 5 Factors for Securing Adoption & Cultural Change

AI alone will not ensure ROI. Cultural readiness is key to ensuring project success and long-term adoption.

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Data Governance Tools Comparison Chart

Comparison of 5 top solutions + 4 companies to watch.

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Using Sensitivity Labels to Safeguard Data in Power BI

And we review file export types, feature limits, admin and monitoring.

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How to Save to Cloud Storage in Cognos Analytics

Step-by-step instructions for setting up cloud object storage in Cognos.

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Getting Started with (Just Enough) Data Governance

Small steps you can take now to address your data governance issues.

See all on Security, Governance & Administration »

Senturus comparison of Snowflake vs. Azure Synapse Analytics

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5 Areas of Comparison: Snowflake vs. Azure Synapse Analytics

Different approaches Snowflake and Azure Synapse takes in SaaS vs. PasS, compute resources + more.

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10 Reasons Snowflake Is Great for Analytics

Review of 10 advantages Snowflake offers BI tools like Power BI and Tableau.

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Snowflake: 7 Tips for Cost-Effective Performance

Tips to get around Snowflake performance hang ups.

Man standing next to a white column wearing a tuxedo, holding roses with his hand in his pocket next to the words: who has the best proposition? Snowflake vs. Azure Synapse, a Senturus comparison

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The Data Warehouse Dating Game:
Snowflake vs. Azure Synapse

Demo, feature comparisons and considerations.

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10 Reasons Snowflake Is Great for Analytics

Demos and discussion of its advantages for Power BI and Tableau.

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Snowflake’s Data Cloud & Modern Analytics

Demo of performant, secure, scalable, near-zero maintenance platform.

See all on Snowflake »

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AI in BI: Impacts to Power BI, Cognos & Tableau

Demos of BI capabilities in Copilot, Assistant and Pulse.

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Tableau Dashboard Design: 10 Best Practices

Build beautiful, impactful, insightful dashboards.

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10 Quick Ways to Prep Data in Tableau Desktop

Ensure your data is as Tableau friendly as possible.

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6 Ways to Publish & Share Tableau Content

Pros, cons, requirements for publishing and sharing.

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4 Common Mistakes That Equate to Big Analytics Reporting Errors

Avoid these reporting errors in Cognos, Power BI, Tableau.

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Lessons & Limitations of Tableau Metrics, the KPI Report Builder

See if they live up to the promise.

See all on Tableau »

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