What’s New in Rocket Discover 1.6

Rocket® Discover 1.6 business intelligence software helps organizations gain more value from their existing IBM® Cognos® TM1, IBM Connections and Rocket MultiValue investments through native connectivity and integration. TM1 users can leverage the features and power of the TM1 engine, enabling business users to be more productive and make more timely decisions with their TM1 data.

Connections users can share data and dashboards, and engage in real-time discussions about business issues and potential resolutions.

Rocket® Discover 1.6 business intelligence software helps organizations gain more value from their existing IBM® Cognos® TM1, IBM Connections and Rocket MultiValue investments through native connectivity and integration. TM1 users can leverage the features and power of the TM1 engine, enabling business users to be more productive and make more timely decisions with their TM1 data.

Connections users can share data and dashboards, and engage in real-time discussions about business issues and potential resolutions.

Accelerate TM1 Usage

Improve productivity and work more efficiently using Discover to:

  • Easily create custom TM1 views with “slice-and-dice and store” functionality
  • Improve your TM1 ROI by empowering business users to leverage popular TM1 features such as subsets, attributes, aliases, and picklists
  • Work more effectively by executing TM1 TurboIntegrator (TI) processes from within Discover
  • Test a theory or enrich your data with ad hoc calculations

Additional Enhancements

  • Dashboard auto-play: Near real-time data refresh when you have dashboards that rely on data that needs to be frequently updated
  • Scheduling and alerting: Schedule query updates across all visualizations, keeping you up-to-date and ready to make the best decisions.
  • Exception alert notifications: Email alerts are triggered when a metric crosses a pre-defined thresholds so you’re always informed of the latest status and can react when problems arise
  • Measure correlation strength indicator: A visual line is displayed to help you easily see the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables on a scatterplot.

Connectivity and Integration with IBM Connections

  • Turn knowledge into action with an end-to-end integration with IBM Connections (an IBM collaborative platform) that lets you share and discuss Discover dashboards with IBM Connections Communities. The result is a complete collaborative BI workflow.
  • Users will enjoy an integrated experience, with shared dashboards appearing as thumbnails that can be viewed seamlessly.
  • Collaborate with IBM Connections Communities directly from Rocket Discover, or collaborate with Discover users from IBM Connections.
  • Rocket Discover now also connects to IBM iSeries using the System i Access ODBC Driver.