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What's New in IBM Cognos 8.4 BI Version: Enhancements for Business Users and IT

Learn about new features and enhancements in IBM Cognos 8 BI Version 8.4 that enable business users to be more informed, engaged, and better aligned. Discover simplified user experience, visually appealing reports, complete and trusted information, and more.

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What's New in IBM Cognos 8.4 BI Version: Enhancements for Business Users and IT

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  1. What’s New for Business and IT Cognos 8 BI Version 8.4

  2. Session Objectives • Learn about new features and enhancements that enable business users to be: • More informed • More engaged • Better Aligned • Hear about expanded PM reach and environment support • Learn about a new methodology to manage your IBM Cognos 8 solution

  3. Addressing the Needs of Business • Informed - Provides more trusted information with the additional context to add perspective to the information. • Engaged – Invites business users with more a dynamic and interactive business intelligence experience. • Aligned - improves alignment between strategy and operations with complete visibility from business operations to advanced analytics and strategic plans

  4. IBM Cognos Performance Management System Information Infrastructure

  5. What’s New in Reporting? • Simplified user experience • Create more visually appealing and interesting reports • Complete and trusted information

  6. Simplified user experience • Simplified user experience • More User defined defaults • Data retrieval • Template • Extended suppression • Zero, divide by zero, blanks • Dynamic drill through • Enhanced filtering

  7. Visually Appealing & Interesting Reports Powerful new color palettes and control • Generated background design and color, rounded rectangles, gradients • New charts include: Marimekko, Stepline, Sparkline, Sparkbar and Spark win/loss • A Marimekko chart is frequently called a market map and enables strategic analysis • Step line combines time and trend analysis Bubble chart property – ‘empty’ bubbles are negative values

  8. Complete and Trusted Information • Report annotations for collaboration • Report lineage • Out-of-the-box lineage to the model • Optimised integration with IBM Metadata Workbench (Business Glossary) • Open API to integrate with 3rd party lineage providers (SOA) • Across all studios • Access to new data sources including • Cognos Now! • TM1

  9. Complete Information with Annotations • Business users provide key insights and information to reports

  10. Select objects of interest from report view or package Access Metadata Workbench directly from Cognos reports See business or technical lineage depending on your role Confidence with Data Lineage • Business users easily see where data originated to gain confidence in the data they use to drive decisions In Metadata Workbench view other reports with this data and trace where back to source

  11. What’s New in Modeling & Analysis • Simplified user experience • Cognos Analysis for Excel • Dynamic drill through • Complete and trusted information • Cognos Analysis for Excel accesses relational sources • SAP BW as source for Transformer • Access to Cubing Services • Report and data lineage • Introducing Business Viewpoint

  12. Introducing IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint • Solution • For business users to easily maintain, govern and share the hierarchies for use … and reuse … across Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions • Result • Capture the business viewpoint on how to organize information to drive business performance • Save time spent on reconciling reports, plans, forecasts • Works with other Dimensional components of Cognos 8

  13. Impact Diagram for better operational understanding Enhancements to Cognos 8 Scorecards • Strategy map and impact diagram portlets • Easier access to scorecard information • Easy integration into 3rd party portal Strategy Map portlet for easier strategy communication

  14. Cognos Go! Family of Products More flexible access to extend user adoption

  15. What’s New in Consumer Modes • Enhancements to Go! Mobile • More comprehensive access to BI via Cognos Go! Search • Enabling end users with Go! Dashboard to quickly assemble and personalise dashboards

  16. Fully integrated with IBM Cognos 8 Scheduler – including the ability to burst reports to multiple mobile users. Support for all prompts on the mobile device Enhancements to Cognos Go! Mobile • Location aware content • Enhanced prompt support • Integrated scheduling – including bursted reports

  17. Expanded Go! Search • Easy access to BI ! • Fast and secure access to ranked and relevant BI content. • Integrate BI content and enterprise content for a more informed view. • Search all BI content and create views of information to answer search criteria (queries & analysis based on search). • Allows all users to embrace the decision-making power of IBM Cognos 8!

  18. What’s New in Dashboards: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboards • Personalised – self assemble with drag and drop interface • Dynamic – Flash enables dynamic interaction to get better insight • Trusted content – Cognos 8 full report or report parts • Relevant, completely auditable and consistently represented

  19. Personalization options enable end user to customize look and feel Access to reports or report ‘parts’ Flash graphics deliver rich charts and enable re-sorts, filter etc

  20. Summary: What’s new for business • Informed - Provides more trusted information with the additional context to add perspective to the information. • Engaged – Invites business users with more a dynamic and interactive business intelligence experience. • Aligned - improves alignment between strategy and operations with complete visibility from business operations to advanced analytics and strategic plans

  21. IBM Cognos 8 v4: To IT Standards • Supporting business user demands without compromising high standards for conformance, compliance and cost effective scalability • IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint & Metadata lineage • New data sources (Cognos Now!, TM1) • New system management methodology • Broader conformance (64-bit, IPv6…)

  22. IBM Cognos 8v4 platform leverages new performance management data sources TM1 as a data source • Leverage power of TM1 across performance management • TM1 data available through published packages (BI & EP) • Cognos 8 BI capabilities available to Cognos TM1 communities • TM1 cubes can be loaded by Data Manager from any source • TM1 can feed PowerCubes for broader analysis consumption • Gain broader visibility into operational datasets • Now! data available through published packages • Deliver operational metrics across performance management • IT can leverage power of InfoSphere Cubing Services • Cubing Services data available through published packages • Existing DBA skill set optimizes warehouse performance • Greater confidence to deploy on-the-fly views • Rebrand and packaging of Composite Information Server Now! as a data source Cubing Services as a data source Virtual View Manager

  23. Administrators quickly determine appropriate level of auditing and configure auditing to best manage their environment IT managers are more informed about the overall usage pattern of the user community and can proactive plan for increased volumes Combine audit and content store data for reporting on accounts, content, server and dispatcher status Jumpstart audit reporting with sample reports and framework manager model System Management Methodology Provides Additional Auditing Know-How View account status for users and the associated content for that account

  24. Administrators can quickly leverage thresholds to proactively identify issues before business impact Administrators are informed of system management trends to optimize their deployment environment over time. SMM = Proven Practices, sample reports, Framework Manager models Use the model, sample reports and sample dashboard for your metrics data Capture metrics data for your environment Automatically set default thresholds based on results Capture and automatically set system metric thresholds to seed initial system reporting Metric Export Metric Exports In addition to a snapshot capture metrics over time

  25. IBM Cognos 8 platform continues to deliver on IT infrastructure standards • Examples of new supported environment • Internet Protocol Standard: IPv6 • Web Browser: Firefox 3 • Operating Systems: Linux on IBM System z • Application Server: SAP Netweaver 7, IBM WebSphere 6.1 • Database: Oracle 11g, Teradata 12 Expanded conformance & compliance Note: For a complete list of supported environments, please see Cognos.com

  26. Summary: What’s new for IT • Build business confidence in the information with Metadata Lineage - complete traceability back to the data source • Build IT expertise with a complete System Management Methodology - a proven practice approach to manage and scale your Performance Management solution • Extend PM solution with expanded data sources and the ability to capture dimensions – end-to-end PM process delivered • Deliver on IT standards with expanded conformance and compliance- fit with the latest infrastructure standards

  27. Thank You! Questions?

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