It all started with one man’s determination to turn adversity into opportunity. Everyone remembers 2008 and the emotional pit that sunk deeply in the stomachs of so many. The economic crisis of 2008 was the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression (1929). When Corey Mendelsohn, our Founder and President welcomed his second daughter into the world there was turbulence in the air. Despite this happy milestone, he...

Announcing new and changed features in IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson 11.2.3. See the list of changes here. You can read all about the update on the IBM website.

IBM made Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 available for download in August 2020.  This is a Long-Term Support (LTSR) release, as it is the final release of the 11.1.x version, which means it will be supported for the next 2-3 years. The Cognos 11.1.7 release has very significant enhancements including the new Cognos Mobile App, API Connectivity, enhancements to report authoring, dashboards, data modules, data sets, scheduling, and sharing...

The ability for companies to mine their data and drill down into the details to understand what is working versus what needs improving was certainly important and valuable to most firms pre-COVID19. But now that the entire global economy has been turned somewhat upside down, the need for effective business analytics has suddenly become more critical than ever. Why is this? During times of crisis or economic instability, businesses...

Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 went live in April 2020.  This release features a lot of enhancements that greatly improve the user experience. A few of the main ones is a great dashboard UI refresh, a new interactive data table in report authoring and some very welcome changes to data modules. Cognos Analytics has also made a change to licensing. Analytics Users can now use the Exploration functionality without the need for the Analytics...