Bob Edis

Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Almost 8 years ago

Commented on Allows us to develop reports from different data sources, increasing reliability of the data

I have been able to provide data over images using Custom Controls and JavaScript. Also using D3 and JavaScript/JSON for custom charting in Cognos Analytics.

Almost 8 years ago

Answered a question: BI Tool Replacements, What Do You Recommend?

There are many good BI tools available: IBM Cognos Analytics, SAP Business Objects, MS Power BI, Tabloux, ClikView, etc Cognos Analytics does the following requirements well: - Dynamic Emailing (Users will only receive their own data from a report) - Report Scheduler:…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on The dashboards and visualizations are valuable. The UI has changed, and some of the functionality is different.

I found Cognos Analytics 11 to be the easiest version I've every installed. Though only on Windows Servers so far, my team mate has done it on RedHat Linux and also said it was fast and straight forward. I installed 11.0.4 to run concurrent with 10.2.2 on the same server and…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Our staffing department is able to review staff assignment and quickly adjust resources in near real time.

JavaScript support has advanced significantly over earlier versions with the use of Custom Controls.

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Cognos: The dashboarding feature combines shared and local data.

Over 9 years ago

Commented on Cognos BI is fairly easy to use provided you have a good data structure/framework under the hood.

I have been told that the version of Cognos Analytics to be released in Q4 this year includes some really good new features including RAVE2 (D3) charts and a map engine (NOT like Map Manager). Also full support for FWM packages across the components (current only Reports…

Almost 10 years ago

Answered a question: Camunda or Bonitasoft?

I have no experience with BPM per se. I have been involved with a component of the IBM BPM tool suite called Stewardship Center. This was a great tool for developing highly effective and customised workflow solutions. In my project's case it was used to create workflow…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

Re DataStage, TM1, and ICM DataStage is a flexible,fast, and large scale ETL tool. The way is it designed to use modules for specific ETL tasks and the linking together of these modules makes it more future proof than Data Manager. DataStage can be used for virtually any…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

Joop, I agree with you on the interdependence of BI and ETL. I would also propose that the data model is an equal partner in this mix Business Intelligence has come a long way since it was called Decision Support Systems (DSS) last century. It was once though of as the…

Over 10 years ago

Commented on The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

I think it's important to note that this forum is for Business Intelligence tools and solutions. "Cognos" is an IBM brand that embraces many tool sets that may or may not embrace BI Cognos DataManager is NOT a BI tool but rather an ETL tool. It was developed by Cognos…

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM InfoSphere MDM: Its web services feature and and flexibility are valuable to us, but setup was complex with many options.

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM InfoSphere Information Server: It provided us with data connections and partitioning, but don't run it on Unix if the primary database is a SQL Server.

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Cognos: It offers good back end delivery and end user device options, but it needs more graphic options and an updated UI.

Projects

Almost 11 years ago

Sophisticated BI dashboards targeted to "C" level execs

Sophisticated BI dashboards targeted to "C" level execs for #4 bank using agile, prototyping project method.

Almost 8 years ago

Customised UX for IBM PMQ

Customised UX for IBM PMQ at an energy generation utility

Experience

Other Skills

Data Vault 2.0, Cognos Analytics 11, Oracle database, Cognos ICM, Project Management (inc. Agile), Team Leadership

Reviews

Over 9 years ago

IBM Cognos

The dashboarding feature combines shared and local data.

Over 10 years ago

IBM InfoSphere MDM

Its web services feature and and flexibility are valuable to us, but setup was complex with many options.

Over 10 years ago

IBM InfoSphere Information Server

It provided us with data connections and partitioning, but don't run it on Unix if the primary database is a SQL Server.

Over 10 years ago

IBM Cognos

It offers good back end delivery and end user device options, but it needs more graphic options and an updated UI.

Answers

Almost 8 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

BI Tool Replacements, What Do You Recommend?

Almost 10 years ago

Business Process Management (BPM)

Camunda or Bonitasoft?

Comments

Almost 8 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Allows us to develop reports from different data sources, increasing reliability of the data

Almost 9 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

The dashboards and visualizations are valuable. The UI has changed, and some of the functionality is different.

Almost 9 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Our staffing department is able to review staff assignment and quickly adjust resources in near real time.

Over 9 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

Cognos BI is fairly easy to use provided you have a good data structure/framework under the hood.

Over 10 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

Over 10 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

Over 10 years ago

BI (Business Intelligence) Tools

The jobstreams makes grouping steps fairly easy, but lookup stability needs to be improved.

About me

I love data. I love to categorise it, manipulate it, study it, and share it. Data Warehousing is how I satisfy this love and Business Intelligence is how I show it to others. Any type of data - music, words, pictures, numbers, ...

Specialties: Data modeling, data architecture, ETL, Cognos BI tools, master data, team leading, Sql Server, Oracle DBMS.

I can legally work in the US, EU, and Australasia.

Certifications

Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner

Employers

Certus Solutions
Creative Computing
PMSquare
Baxter Healthcare
Robert Edis Consulting
USA Baha'i National Office

Education

Curtin University of Technology
Perth Technical College
Indooroopilly State High

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Almost 11 years ago

Sophisticated BI dashboards targeted to "C" level execs

Almost 8 years ago

Customised UX for IBM PMQ