The new capabilities in this release (available since December 2017 – consult our Press Release) focus on reducing the time and effort required by Cognos Analytics users while adding more intelligence across the entire analytics workstream and strengthening the integration with Planning Analytics. Here are some highlights of the release: Latitude/longitude support in dashboarding – When using a map in a dashboard, you can show...

IBM Cognos Analytics empowers business users to bring in any external data together with Cognos managed data for greater insight and agility.  A common business use case would be to bring in your monthly sales targets for each sales person. Here is the scenario – You would like to create a simple Sales versus Targets report by salesperson, however, you do not have your sales targets data in your system.  Sales targets are only...

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...