In this episode of the Mulberry Bush I’m joined by Louis Regan to give us an insight into the world of Financial Operations and Performance Management (FOPM), or what Gartner now categorises as Extended Planning and Analysis, the IBM technologies in this area (Planning Analytics TM1, Cognos Planning and Cognos Controller) and customer use cases covering: - workforce planning - financial planning, budgeting & forecasting - financial consolidation - sustainability and, bizarrely, how IBM Planning Analytics is used to improve the quality of pig semen….

A conversation with David Wrigglesworth of SingleStore and more music from Johnny Quantum and the IBM Big Band for Data

This pilot episode looks at how to sell the IBM database portfolio, both owned and oem, and includes special guest appearances by Brendan Buckingham and Johnny Quantum & the IBM Big Band for Data. I also recount some of my own experiences selling replacements to legacy Netezza appliances.