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...

In these rapidly changing times, we all need access to data that is current in order to make better informed decisions.  With the news on what is happening in terms of social distancing policies and other changes everyone’s daily practices all over the globe changing hour to hour, it is difficult to not feel overwhelmed by this deluge of information. IBM has made it easier for people around the world to stay up to date on COVID-19 in...

I was recently nominated to be an IBM Champion for 2020 by NewIntelligence’s President, Corey Mendelsohn, and got the news that I was selected in mid-January, after IBM reviewing and evaluating my contributions to the IBM technology community over the past 12 months. I am proud to join my fellow NewIntelligence colleagues, Corey Mendelsohn, a Champion for the fourth year in a row in 2020, and Shawn Mandel, VP Consulting Services, now...

IBM has been helping organizations put Artificial Intelligence (AI) to work to drive meaningful outcomes for business for many years now. But implementing AI isn’t always a turnkey solution. Often data are spread across an organization sitting in various silos making it difficult to deploy AI at scale. As a result, some companies are limiting their experimentation with AI, which can in turn limit their competitiveness in the...