Cognos

It sounds like the guy who kills everyone on Friday the 13th.

Mike Myers yeah he really was yeah he's just been in the corner and Frank used to control him but he he was brilliant at Cognos and all these different running these spreadsheets for us and power levels but they broke constantly because we broke them because humans were putting data in do you think we're going to be at a point quite soon where actually all the power level data everything in terms of inventory will be available for a chef who might not have that experience or might not have 20 years worth because that's where we're going right we're not gonna have these kids with lots of experience anymore

Yeah, so I guess one of the benefits that we have is that kind of forecast, that accurate demand forecast, and a SKU level forecast, so actually what actual dishes are you going to sell.

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I came from Ab Initio, Informatica, Cognos.

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They were heavy proponent of, you know, these components.

You went right from there to Microsoft.

No, I went from there to Cognos.

Wow.

Oh, so there was a startup right before Cognos because I read Cognos as the startup.

Okay, got

it.

And Cognos was one of the largest Canadian companies, software companies at the time.

And the thing about Cognos is, again, I just did stuff.

Graduating with a BSc in Statistics, he served as a business intelligence professional at various government agencies and school boards.

He's at home using tools like GA4, IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, writing in languages like SQL and DAX and Python.

But he's also been a professional jazz musician, which led 17 years ago to him setting up the site Jazz Guitar Lessons, which sells online guitar courses to budding musicians.

Now, running the e-commerce and email for that site drew from his knowledge of analytics, and that proves how well he knows what information those of us on the marketing side of the business need.

Now the question is how can you use AI on top of that? I, I think I've seen two angles that are not core in engineering, Jason, that I think are, are...

'Cause you lived through a long enough stuff here, I should get a laugh out of this, right? But, um, yeah, business intelligence, okay, end user query tools, business objects, Brio, Cognos.

In my opinion, those are all largely a failure that in, in the face of AI, because all we were ever trying to do was make it easy enough for business people to get to the data without involving, involving engineers, which LLMs can easily do, right? So that tends to be a first thing that we tend to look at is, hey, if you're not plugging against that data already that you have, you know, you're probably missing something, right? 'Cause a- any of our businesses ha- has ha- they have to have sales data, they have to have...

So, you know, if your own internal team isn't using your, the data for just your operational systems, that's a great place to learn.

The losing pitcher, Bill Hens.

Cognos had two home runs for the Reds.

Sano had one home run for the Cubs.

Also, final Pittsburgh defeated Houston 10-5.