What’s New in IM ognos Analytics 11.1 · 1/7/2011 · –Cognos Analytics Specific materials •Administration, Report Authoring, Advanced Authoring, Dimensional Authoring, Active

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What’s New in IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7

Rich ChesterDirector, Business [email protected]

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Enhancements in 11.1.7• Reporting

– Baselines in Cognos 11.1 Visualizations

– Combination Charts & Waterfall Visualization support multiple measures

– Tree Map Improvements

– Run Single Page

– Enable/Disable On-Demand toolbar when Viewing

• Dashboards

– Drop Zones in Visualizations

– Type-in Data Mapping to Data Slots

– Smart titles

– Schematics

– Conditional Formatting in Crosstabs and Tables

– Bullet Chart Updates

– Global/Model Filters

– Show Generated SQL

– Export data from Data Try to Excel

– Save Dashboard as a Template

– And more!

• Data Modules

– New 4-5-4 Calendar

– Additional built-in Relative Time Filters

• Administration & Usability

– Newly designed Scheduling Interface

– New Capabilities to control access to Email functionality

• Data Sets

– Reuse a report and its queries

– Perform query operations

– Review generated SQL

• Integration

– REST API for Automation

– API for automating and dashboard embedding

• …and more

– Modernized Color theme

– Performance Improvements

– Best Practices Documentation


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Previous Webinars You Might Like

• You can retrieve all of our other previously presented webinars from our website: http://www.lpa.com/Resources– What’s new in IBM Cognos Analytics v11.1.1, v11.1.2, v11.1.3, v11.1.4, v11.1.5, v11.1.6

– What’s new in IBM Cognos Analytics Reporting V11.1

– What’s new in IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards V11.1

– What’s new in IBM Cognos Analytics Explorations V11.1

– What’s new in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Modules V11.1

– Topics covering Financial Performance Management, Advanced Analytics, Watson, Information management…

– …and more!

•Our webinars are also available on our YouTube channel


http://www.lpa.com/Resources

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How can LPA help?

• Upgrade and Migration Services– Upgrade your Cognos BI 8.x, 10.x, 11.x environments to latest

Cognos Analytics release• Install and configure

• Upgrade Framework and Cube models

• Upgrade and Test Content

• Go Live Support

–Migrate your Cognos 7.x environments to Cognos Analytics

• Managed Services

–Provide how-to and development support

–Manage Cognos Analytics on your behalf

• Reporting Services

–Catch up on Reporting backlog using LPA Report Writing Experts

• Health Checks

–Validate your Cognos environment prior to upgrading to ensure you’re starting with a foundation based on best practices

• Training Services – Including Remote Options

–Cognos Analytics Specific materials• Administration, Report Authoring, Advanced Authoring,

Dimensional Authoring, Active Reports, Dashboards, Data Modules, Framework Manager, Dynamic Cubes and more…


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Register by going to www.lpa.com/events


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Rich ChesterDirector, Business [email protected]

Please submit questions via the WebEx Chat Feature

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11.1.7 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) Release

• LTS Releases are supported for 2 years, with an “available 1 year extended support option”

• IBM will provide

– Defect corrections

– Security Patches

– Select conformance updates

• IBM will not provide

– Enhancements. The capabilities and feature set within this release will remain stable and unchanged to allow a consistent experience over the length of the supported lifecycle

• IBM plans LTS versions on an 18 month cadence to ensure that there will be a 6-month overlap


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Reporting: Baselines on 11.1 Visualizations


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Reporting: Enhanced Combination Charts


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Reporting: Enhanced 11.1 Waterfall Visualization


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Reporting: Enhanced 11.1 Tree Map Visualization Display Modes


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Reporting: Run Single Page &Control On-Demand Toolbar when Viewing


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Dashboards: Drop Zones in Visualizations &Search while Data Mapping in Fields


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Dashboards: Smart Titles on Visualizations &Bullet Chart Updates


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Dashboards: Conditional Formatting in Crosstabs and Tables


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Dashboards: Create Selectable Module Filters from the metadata tree


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Dashboards: Schematic Support


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Dashboards: Visualization SQL Using Control-dot


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Dashboards: Save as Template


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Dashboards: Export Data from Data Try to CSV


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Dashboards: …and more!

• Improved categorical axis labels by improving the padding and angle for legibility

• Logarithmic scale in visualizations, which are useful

• New Responsive property to hide aspects of the visualization if the viewport size is limited, to maximize the space that is available to display data

• New Axis options for some Visualizations

– Value axis tick interval

– Value axis minimum value

– Value axis maximum value

• More label options in a Pie Visualization

• If there are too many items in a Visualization legend to be displayed, an ellipsis is displayed

• Subcategories added to Waterfall visualizations (as in Reporting)

• Treemap Visualizations support different display modes (as in Reporting)


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Data Modules: New Relative Time Filters in All Calendars (now 23 in total) &New 4-5-4 Calendar included in Samples


• Current Week

• Prior Week

• WTD

• Prior WTD

• Same Week last Year

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Administration & Usability: Newly Designed Scheduling Interface


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Administration & Usability: New Capabilities for Email Access & Attachments

• Attach Outputs: Grants or denies the ability for a user to attach generated outputs to an email

• Email:

–Email Delivery Option:

– Include Link in Email: Grants or denies ability for user to specify the email should include a link to the emailed content

– Share using Email:

–Type in External Email: Grants or denies ability for user to type in email addresses when specifying recipients


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Data Sets: Nearly All Report Query Capabilities


• Able to reuse a report and its queries in a Data Set

• Ability to perform query operations with properties

• Ability to review generated SQL

• Validation Options

• Filters and Parameters

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Integration: REST API for Automation


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Integration: Dashboard JavaScript API


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…And More!

• Additional Carbon Design Updates:

– Updated colors for Navigation (black background) and Application Bar (white background) to conform to IBM Carbon X

• On upgrade will not overwrite current default colors, but can be selected if desired

– Updated icons

• Performance Improvements

– Streamlined metadata retrieval and query planning

– Improved Data Set loading in the compute service

– Broader usage of cached data

– Optimizations in queries for data sampling

– Faster, smoother rendering of animations

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Compliant UI for both Levels A (non-text content) and AA (live and pre-recorded audio content)

• New Best Practices Documentation

– Modeling Best Practices

– Framework Manager vs. Data Manager Gaps and Guidance

– Guidelines for Optimizing Query Performance


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Coming Soon (September 2020?): New Mobile Analytics Application

• Pin Boards:

– Search for and Collect Visualizations from existing Dashboards, Reports, Explorations, etc.

– Share with your colleagues

• Assistant:

– Ask questions (as you would when using browser-based UI)

– Use phone speech-to-text capability

– Generates Visualizations which you can Pin to a board

• Create and receive Alerts on Pinned Visualization data

– Specify column(s)

– Define Condition(s)

– Schedule the Alert

– Notifications in Notification Center or Email


Web UI(Existing)

Reporting App(Existing)

Analytics App(Coming Soon!)

Full-featured

Online & Offline Report Viewing

iPhone Only – Android ComingCloud Users initially – On Prem later

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Rich ChesterDirector of Business [email protected]


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What’s New in IM ognos Analytics 11.1 · 1/7/2011 · –Cognos Analytics Specific materials •Administration, Report Authoring, Advanced Authoring, Dimensional Authoring, Active