What’s New & What Stays in the new release? Cognos Analytics, released at the end of December 2015, offers the same functionality available in Cognos 10, but with a new and improved interface and user experience mirrored after the same self-service design principles as Watson Analytics. When you upgrade, users will still be able to access and navigate to all of the current studios within Cognos Analytics just as they were in...

When one needs to be proactive in business activities, Cognos Event Studio enables this proactivity. A powerful tool that, up until now was only available for Cognos Enterprise environments, is currently accessible in Cognos Express environments, without extra cost! Cognos Event Studio is a powerful module that allows you to define when and why information has to be brought to your attention. For example: Incorrect Customer Setup...

Global software developer Rocket Software recently announced the release of Rocket Discover 1.5,  a self-service data preparation, visualization, and discovery tool that provides unparalleled native access to IBM Cognos BI & TM1 data. Rocket extends the value of your investments by giving you the ability to connect, visualize and collaborate on your IBM Cognos TM1 cubes and your Cognos BI content such as Queries and PowerCubes....

IBM Watson Analytics is a revolutionary cloud service that you can use for free. Watson Analytics was specifically designed to help people in all parts of a business or organization benefit from the power of business analytics. By enabling almost anyone to go to the web, type a question in their normal language and get results quickly, the barriers to powerful analytics would be all but eliminated and the access points would be...

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2.2 brings “distributed bursting” which allows a bursted report to be executed across multiple servers. This welcomed feature provides marked performance improvements due to the parallel execution now leveraging all available resources. So How Does Distributed Bursting Really Work? When a distributed burst report is run, a new query is created based on the report burst group query.  For instance, if...

NewIntelligence is very excited to announce that we have started a new office of finance practice to help organizations develop, enhance and modernize their financial reporting, analysis and planning solutions with IBM Cognos. It has been our experience that the way that financial professionals interact with their organization’s data is changing.  The question that most CFOs are asking today is, “How do I take control of my...