IBM Cognos 10 New Feautures

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IBM Cognos 10

Gowri P SankarixpertCOG Technical Team

[email protected]


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IBM Cognos 10 : The Big Picture


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IBM Cognos 10 The Big Picture

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IBM Cognos 10 is the first major BI release since Cognos 8 was released in 2005.

Cognos 10 presents a more integrated user interface along with a broader offering of

analytics and technology. The recent acquisitions by IBM of SPSS, TM1 (Applix) and

Clarity are now part of the offering.


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Cognos 10 Ready added value of TM1, Planning, Analytic Applications and SPSS Modeler

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Authoring studios / Report Viewer / IBM Cognos SDK sends requests to Query PlanningLayerfor processing.

Query Framework ( QFW ) of Query Planning Layer will process

OLAP Style Queries from studios into OLAP Query Planner.Relational Style Queries into Relational Query Planner.

Dimensionally Modeled Relational Queries into DMR Query Planner.

OLAP Query Planner generates MDX queryand send it to MDDS(multidimensional dataservice)

Relational Query Planner generates SQL queryand send it to UDA(universal data access )

DMR Query Planner generates a Temporary Cube through Cube Build Request. New OLAPStyle Query generated will be sent to be processed in Temporary Cube.

MDDS or UDA processed queries will be sent to IBM Cognos BI supported Data Sourcesthrough interfaces like ODBC or XMLA.


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Broader Scope of BI

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IBM Cognos 10 is a bold move to broaden its scope beyond BI to include group decision

making, integrated statistics and mobile BI.

The goal is to focus on integrating a broader role for BI into the decision making

process with the ability to actually record and track decisions and then measure results

against them.

Cognos 10 is also a move away from role defined capabilities and the whole issue of

"studio clutter"that confused some of its BI users in the past. Business Insight as it's called,

enables users to aggregate and organize BI with analytic and planning content within a

unified interface.


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Broader Scope of BI

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Users can access increased functionality without having to change studios or interfaces

Why Cognos 10 and not Cognos 9? : The most consistent answers here centered around two

areas:

First, it's considered a major release and thus warrants being a 10 not a 9.

Second, TM1 (Applix) already has a 9.x release on the market.


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Freedom to ThinkAnalytics everyone can use to answer key business questions

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Cognos 10 advances Combine data from any source and explore it

from any perspective without limitation

Analyze facts and anticipate outcomessimply by shifting perspectives and timehorizons.

Expand expertise beyond traditional BI

capabilities without switching tools Enable business to increase their personal

productivity and independence from IT

Key features Intuitive, appealing Web 2.0 interface

Personalized, progressive interaction

Drag-and-drop, free-form assembly

Search-assisted authoring Wizard-driven external data

Automatic access to SAP BW queries

In-space access to planning, scenariomodeling, real-time monitoring and predictiveanalytics The new BI workspace supports the way you think, so

you dont have to interrupt your train of thought to fit

the software

Broader Scope of BI


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Unified workspace with greater power, intuitive navigation and cleaner look

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Solution Highlights

Pre-assembled workspace

content

Search assisted authoring

Drag and drop assembly

Dynamically filter

Quicker and deeper insight into

data

Seamless graduated experience

Intuitive and easy to use, it is the

single place that you go to find

answers to key business questions

IBM Cognos Business Insight

Broader Scope of BI


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Breadth of analytics across

historical, real-time andpredictive information

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Unified Workspacedelivering breadth of analytics

Analytical ReportingDrill

Real-Time

What is

Scenario Modeling

What-if

Advanced Analytics

What might be

Broader Scope of BI


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Easy data inclusion by the business from one value, to entire data sets and external files

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Combine external, departmental, and your

own data to corporate information resulting

in broader perspectives

External Data

Solution Highlights

Import external data sources into

reports or query subjects

Leverage external data as report filters

Publish for reuse and update

Provide IT governance

Broader Scope of BI


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Life Cycle Management :

The capability to handle upgrades from one version to another.

It is nowpossible to run reports and queries in both Cognos 8 and Cognos 10 at the

same time and then compare the processing differences. This should reduce the testing

needed in version upgrades.

New Things in Cognos 10


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Seamless upgrade and ease of ongoing management

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Upgrade first, then leverage new features

Use LifecycleManager to

validate results

Cognos 8 andCognos 10

Acceptdesired results

Move businessusers

into Cognos 10

Use Lifecycle

Manager tovalidate resultsto leverage new

features

Accept desiredresults

Promote reportsto production

Leverage Cognos 10 New Features

(e.g. Dynamic Query, etc)

Solution Highlights Validate single environment

Assess impact of change inoperating environment, (e.g.refresh pack, data sourcechanges)

Compare multiple environments

Streamline upgrade process and

increase IT efficiency Use beyond upgrade to quickly

assess impact of any change thatcould effect BI content

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IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager

Reduce system management effort

and speed time to deploy new

functionality to the business

community


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Dynamic Query:

This is a new feature that results from performance enhancements. With this feature

enabled, reports, queries and cube building are shortened. This is done by caching and

query routing techniques. Results indicated performance improvements of up to 30 to 40

percent.



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Faster performance with in-memory processing

Solution Highlights Enhanced Query Service with Dynamic

Query:

64-bit in-memory optimized query

generation with pattern intelligence to

improve performance against complex

heterogeneous data

In-memory calculations and aggregateoperations for faster compute time

New optimized caching for hierarchies,

members, facts, calculations and prompts

for improved report performance

Initial conformance is for OLAP sources:

SAP BW, TM1 and Essbase.

Query Servicewith Dynamic Query Capabilities

Common Business Model

Logs

20+ NewPatents

Modern and

Legacy Sources

Application

Sources

OLAP

Sources

Message

Sources

Relational

Sources

OLAPAdapters

RelationalAdapters

TM1

Cubing

Services

PowerCube

SAP BW

MSAS

Essbase

DB2

Informix

Oracle

Teradata

SQLServer

ODBC

JDBC

IT Tools

QueryVisualization

Open Data Access

Cache

3x faster query

* When compared against IBM Cognos 8 BI software. Based on selective

results from tests conducted in the IBM Performance and Scalability

Labs on pre-release Cognos 10 software

Deliver optimized access to all data

regardless of where it resides

IBM Cognos Platform

Hybrid



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Statistical Integration:

It is the result of SPSS being integrated into the analytics umbrella of Cognos 10. SPSS

has added a Modeler capability making it easier for non-statisticians to benefit from

predictive modeling in a much broader business context, increasing the potential for

improved business performance. Those with the skills to harness its power can get some

big benefits quickly.


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Active Reports:

Allow users to receive self-contained interactive reports by email. This extends the

reach of BI to mobile and offline workers that can work on these active reports and

perform what-if scenarios if required. Mobile workers are the fastest growing market

segment for BI and making it easier for them to work anywhere keeps the market

growing.


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Simply Do

Actionable insight everywhere at the point of impact

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Cognos 10 advances

Adopt mobile to accelerate delivery of

interactive analytics to executives and

the frontlines

Address challenges of compressed

decision cycles with real-time

analytics

Integrate analytics in everyday work

and in workflow to inform business

processes

Key features Mobile interaction on iPhone and iPad

Interactive, disconnected reports

Real-time monitoring of in-flight

information

Mashups

Business-driven workflow

Mobile, real-time, and portable BI

transforms BI from a separate task, to BI

informing everything you do



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Analytics on the go for more devices and disconnected interaction

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Provide business users with the information theyneed to make responsive and informed decisionsregardless of their location

IBM Cognos MobileIBM Cognos Active Report

Solution Highlights

Mobile

iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and

Symbian

Full BI interactivity including Drill Up/Down/Through

Schedule reports for immediate access to key content

Active Report

Disconnected BI application, fun and fast

Self-contained, interactive content

Burst distribution to reach wide audiences



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Platform Enhancements:

Designed to make life easier for those that have to support the platform. These

include optimized query generation, life cycle management and performance

enhancements. As BI environments have grown in size throughput has become more of

an issue, these enhancements help minimize potential bottlenecks as more users are

added to the environment.


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Social Networking:

This is achieved with the integration of Lotus Connections and Business Analytics. With IBM

Cognos 10, key information can be shared by groups or communities and forms the

basis for decision making that connects people to the event. All of this is captured

and used to improve decision making practices.


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Connect with OthersCollective intelligence to share insights and gain alignment

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Cognos 10 advances Engage others in decision networks to

discuss issues, share insights andalign decisions

Attach business context to BI contentand learn from a growing repository ofdecision history

Support workflow to establishaccountability and engage the rightpeople at the right time

Key features Annotations down to cell level

Lineage and data stewardship

Threaded discussions associated withBI evidence

Activities, notifications, tasks, andinitiatives

Search threads, people, discussions,decision history

Built-in collaboration and social networking

fuels the exchange of ideas and knowledge

that naturally occurs in the decision-making

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Collaborative BI through built-in collaboration and social networking

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Quickly find the people and expertise you need.

Discuss and refine ideas with colleagues, partners,

and customers.

Solution Highlights

Embed of Lotus Connections

Post messages, share files and links to

web content (both BI and external)

Create and assign to-do items

Work within Business Insight workspace to

drive activities or requests for action

Send email notifications directly from an

activity

IBM Cognos Collaboration



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Cognos 10 - To sum it all up:

Broader role for BI - BI has now become Business Analytics.

More unified user interface with integrated analytics.

Improved performance and platform enhancements.

Social networking that enables collaborative decision making.

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