What's New in IBM Cognos BI Version 10.2.1.1, Plus New Product Previews

Overview and Demonstration
WHAT’S NEW IN COGNOS BI VERSION
10.2.1.1 PLUS NEW PRODUCT
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• Introductions
• What’s New:
• Demo
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
• About Senturus
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda

Greg Herrera
President & Co-Founder
Senturus
Introduction: Today’s Presenters
Jeff Dean
Solution Advisor North America
IBM

WHAT’S NEW:
INTELLIGENCE
Jeff Dean
IBM COGNOS BUSINESS

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© 2013 IBM Corporation
What’s New: IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence
Jeff Dean
Solution Advisor
IBM Business Analytics

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Agenda
 Overview of innovations in Cognos Business
Intelligence
 Interactive visualization
– Demonstration
 Mobile
– Demonstration
 Performance enhancements
 Extended support for big data
 Additional innovations
 Q&A

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1.1
Amplify
mobile
business
intelligence
with new and
innovative
visualizations
allowing
users to
quickly
pinpoint
trends in
data.
Interactive
Visualization
Gain a more
complete view
of the business
and act quickly
off insights with
expanded
support for big
data sources
including
Hadoop,
analytic data
stores and real-
time streaming
data.
Big DataPerformance
IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence V10.2.1.1, central to
IBM® Cognos® Enterprise, advances capabilities to provide
interactive visualization, mobile, performance and support for big data.
Get insights
quicker than
ever before
through
performance
improvements
gained from
more efficient
memory usage,
reduced
memory
footprint and
improved use of
compression.
Mobile
Leverage
native and
optimized web
applications
for Android
and iOS to
support a
broader range
of smart
phones and
tablets.

Interactive Visualization
A paradigm shift for delivering value to users
The Challenge:
– New requirements for visualizations are constantly emerging
– Each requirement is unique and is difficult to meet
The Solution:
– Provide a wider variety of visualizations with the
means to extend and customize.
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Cognos General Reporting with

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Better Decision Making Through Increased Analysis Capability & Innovation
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 Incorporate new and innovative
visualizations in general reporting and
Cognos Active Reports
• Authoring within Report Studio and
Cognos Workspace Advanced.
• Consumption and assembly in Cognos
Workspace
• Improved usability with the Visualization
library
 Enhance the user experience through the
delivery of interactive and animated charts
 Integrate custom visualizations
 Leverage the expertise of IBM luminaries

New visualizations are a simple download away
Browse, find and download visualizations
from the extensible visualization
community to quickly provide the best
visual for your reporting needs
 Scatter
 Gantt
 Area
 Radar
 Boxplot
 Dial
 Treemap/Heatmap
 Plus a continually growing set of
visualizations
analyticszone.com/visualization
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 Extended device support
– Support for Android phones and tablets and iPhones
 Enhanced Security
– Integrated with Good Technology’s security platform
 Interactive Visualization
– New and innovative visualizations including interactive
and animated charts
 Interactive Content
– Integration with Cognos Workspace
 Redesigned interface
– Includes how-to videos
IBM Cognos Mobile

Cognos Mobile

 Increased query speeds through more efficient use of memory in Dynamic Cubes
 More data and faster load times in Cognos Active Report through Improved use of
compression and engine optimization.
 Improved bursting process for batch reports through optimized use of hardware.
Performance
3x
SmallerActive
Report sizes
10x
More data in
Active Reports
5x
Less memory
required for Active
Reports
5x
Faster Active Report Load
Time in Cognos Mobile
3x
Faster Mobile report
retrieval &
execution
70%
Less memory required
for Dynamic Cube
result and aggregate
caches
2x
Faster Dynamic
Cube performance
6x
Faster Burst
execution
25 %
Improvement in Batch
execution times
85 %
Reduction in amount
of disk activity
20%
Faster interactive
response time
45 %
Reduction in
Dispatcher threads
* Subject to the Benchmarking and Test Results Disclaimer

Mobile – Faster Report Execution
 Request optimizations improves response
Active Reports – Faster, more data and reduced
Memory consumption
 Optimized Internal Structure
 Better use of compression
 Improved memory consumption
Report Rendering Faster
 Removed redundant calls, reduced unnecessary
compression, improved memory usage
Bursting – Optimizing hardware usage
 Burst reports can now be distributed across report
servers for better use of hardware resources
Batch – Faster running jobs
 Batch has been optimized for fast running reports
 Improved CPU Utilization
Dynamic Cubes – Faster and reduced memory
consumption
 Simplified SQL query structure
 Reduced Memory Footprint
 Improved aggregate selection logic
Dynamic Query - Faster
 Improved DMR first run performance
 Improved TM1 interactive analysis
Configuration – More Optimal settings
 Improved system defaults
Disk I/O Scalability –Improves Report
Execution
 Files are now cached in memory which greatly
reduces Disk I/O activity
Performance and Scalability
Faster and more efficient
* Subject to the Benchmarking and Test Results Disclaimer

• Combine data in motion and at rest
• General Hive support to access to:
o Apache Hadoop, Cloudera,
Hortonworks, AWS EMR and other
distributions using Hive 0.8 or Hive 0.9
• Optimized access to:
o BigInsights via Big SQL and SAP
HANA
Business Analytics for Big Data
Get the Most Complete View of the Business

Additional Innovations in
Cognos Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos Workspace
 Embedding and Customizing Workspaces
– Cognos Workspace can be embedded in any third party application or
organization portal enabling organizations to provide embedded analytics
with a customized and unique experience for their users
• Embedded workspaces can include or omit parts of the IBM Cognos user
interface
• In applications or portals that contain a prompted workspace, users can
append prompt parameter values to the URL to pass new prompt parameter
values to the workspace or to avoid being prompted.
New in
10.2.1.1

Embeddable Workspaces

Cognos Workspace:
 New recommended visualizations to
better depict your content i.e. Marimekko
charts, Pareto charts, Progressive charts
and Radar charts
 Improved printing
 Use + marks in crosstab to expand items
 Hide tool bars
 Move tabs and global areas
 Cut, copy and paste widgets and
duplicate tabs
– Cut, copy, and paste widgets from one
tab to another, from one workspace to
another, or to or from the global area
enabling users to save time in creating
dashboards
– Duplicate tabs provide a convenient
way to use one tab as a template for
another saving time and giving
workspaces a consistent look and feel
IBM Cognos Workspace New in
10.2.1.1

Cognos Workspace:
– Easy ‘resize to fit content’ icon
– Ability to map Slider/Select values
to group items that are alike
– Dynamically update the
slider/select value filter when the
report changes
– Bulk widget updates:
• across dashboards
• by dashboard
• by folder (using SDK)
Cognos Workspace Advanced/Report
Studio
– Show value as percentage
– Share sets between reports
– Expanded text-based filtering options
– Simplified custom grouping (CWA)
– Improved Excel formatting
IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced

General Reporting
Visualization Library
– Sorting and refining list of visualizations
– More information provided on visualizations
helping users to determine what best meets
their reporting needs
Interactivity
– Provide drill up/down, drill through, tooltips and
selection for server side generated
visualizations enabling deeper analysis
Chrome/Safari support
– Chrome/Safari support for Report Studio and
Cognos Workspace Advanced letting users
take advantage of these popular browsers
Dynamic Report Booklets
– Ability to combine multiple reports
into a single report booklet allowing
users to reuse and present a large
amount of BI content for more
effective consumption
– Features include:
• Table of Content can be created
with reference to each report
• Each report will start on a new
page
• Update to each report will
automatically update the report
booklet.
• All authored prompt pages will run
at the start
• CSV and XML will only run the first
query encountered as they do in a
single report
New in
10.2.1.1

Report Booklets

 Provides a graphical user interface making it easy to tailor IBM Cognos BI
Applications with organizational brand requirements
 Replace images, colors or edit HTML to get the look an organization is standardized
on
 Produce multiple themes for users to chose from or differentiate themes for each
tenant or application in a multi-tenancy environment
 Supported within IBM Cognos Connection, IBM Cognos Viewer and IBM Cognos
Workspace
 To download Cognos Theme Designer and its documentation, go to the IBM support
site here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24035533
IBM Cognos Theme Designer New in
10.2.1.1

Theme Designer

Cognos Dynamic Cubes
Improved Security
– Ability to secure dimensions, levels
and attributes
– Ability to leverage customer-defined
tables to drive security definition for
more control and ease of use
– Dynamic security refresh
– New Semi Aggregate Rules:
– First, Last, Current Period
Usability
New in
10.2.1.1
– Measure improvements (folders,
ordering)
– Embedded prompts and macros in
Dynamic Cubes
– Filtering on Dimensions
Modeling
– Auto-design enhancements in Cube
Designer results in better hierarchies
Performance
– Memory Optimization reduced memory
footprint and increases performance
– Significant reduction in memory
required for member cache and query
processing
– Overall query improvements that will
benefit all users
New in
Dynamic Cubes API
– REST-basedAPI for the development
and deployment of Dynamic Cube
applications
– Customers and partners will now have
the ability to programmatically design,
deploy and manage their Dynamic
Cube applications
10.2.1.1

 Focused Performance improvements of DMR first run
 New Monitoring/Management of DQ Memory Usage through Cognos
Administration
 New Data source support:
– DB2 for I, Sybase IQ, MySQL
– SAP HANA
– BigInsights 2.1 via Big SQL
Cognos Dynamic Query

Content Management
• External Object Store – significant
reduction on Content Store size which
improves performance when fetching
report results
• Archiving repository options:
- IBM Content Manager 8
- IBM FileNet
- FileSystem
Install and Deploy Enhancements
• Install – select only the languages
required, reducing overall installed
footprint
• Deploy – deploy My Folders content
only
Multi-Tenancy
• Multi-tenancy tab within IBM
CognosAdministration provides
central UI for managing tenants
- General tenant administration
- More control with tenant
onboarding
- Option to deploy public
content
Administration

Introducing IBM Concert
Guided Business
Processes
Personalized task list highlight priorities,
and walk users through projects step by
step to highlight important time sensitive
tasks, and improve efficiency
Focus on Collaboration
Act upon insights by easily collaborating
and sharing data analysis with anyone,
anywhere to build consensus around
business decisions
Cloud deployable, Mobile
Enabled
Activity streams alert you to changes as
well as collaborative insights as they
occur across the enterprise. Prioritized
tasks can be acted upon sooner

People
Process
Tools
Transforming the analytics experience
The Insight
• The analytic
experience must be
transparently woven
into the fabric of your
business

People
ProcessTools
Transforming the analytics experience
The Insight
• The analytic
experience must be
transparently woven
into the fabric of your
business
The Innovation
• The new analytics
experience must
equally engage the
analytics platform,
business processes
and people

The Insight
• The analytic experience
must be transparently
woven into the fabric of
your business
The Innovation
• The new analytics
experience must equally
engage the analytics
platform, business
processes and people
The First Steps
• IBM Concert on Cloud
for Performance Management
Big Data andAnalytics Platform
IBM Concert
GuidedBusinessProcesses|Colaboration|Mobile
Performance
Management
Disclosure
Management
Risk
Analytics
BI &
Predictive

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