A new release of Cognos Analytics, Release 11.0.12 (R12) is now available as of June 29, 2018. This is a small release where IBM has addressed some of the users top Request For Enhancements (RFE).  See our press release. Here are the details of some of the key capabilities: Dashboard Enhancements Multilingual support in dashboards Cognos Analytics reports have long supported report authoring for user generated content in the user’s...

Spring is finally in the air here in Canada and the latest release of Cognos Analytics, release 11.0.10 has become generally available since March 2018 – see our Press Release. In this release IBM has addressed some of the top Requests for Enhancements (RFEs) that have been raised by its Cognos Analytics customer base and their Business Partners, like NewIntelligence. IBM continue to make improvements based on the feedback and...

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...

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...