IBM Cognos BI What's New: 8.4 to 10.2 (V10.2)

Introduction to IBM Cognos Workspace

• Explore navigation and general functionality
• Create a new workspace from existing content
• Modify an existing workspace
• Work with Lists, Crosstabs and Charts
• Organize and focus on data
• Tabbed workspaces and global filters
• Ad-hoc collaboration and improved annotations
• Graduated capabilities
• Access Cognos Workspace Advanced to modify a report
• Add external information to the workspace
• Full-fidelity publishing from IBM Cognos Insight to IBM Cognos Workspace
• Integration with IBM Connections activities

Introduction to IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced

• Self-service, flexible reporting with all data sources
• Interactive consumption
• Update and create new reports
• Organize data
• Add calculations, aggregation, content and charts
• Drill up and Drill down
• Context filters and page layers
• Modify layout
• Enhanced charting
• Use external data
• Copy and paste data into an external application

Report Studio Enhancements

• Identify and work with new features in Report Studio, including:
  • Container selector to simplify working with report objects
  • Inherited styles in lists and crosstabs
  • Custom labels in prompts
  • Top/Bottom enhancements
  • Dimensional Date/Time operations
  • An easier way to access query macros using the expression editor
  • Extending prompts using the Prompt API
  • Global classes for accessible reports

Active Reports

• Identify and work with the new disconnected reporting application, including:
  • New report widgets and toolbox filter
  • Variables
  • Bursting
  • Reusing existing reports
  • The new Static Repeater Table

Enhanced Event Management

• Collaborate on a multi-task scenario
• Automate the interaction of people around a process or a list of work, including notifications, approvals, escalations and status tracking
• Provide the interface to link people to processes and information events

Introduction to Dynamic Cubes and IBM Cognos Cube Designer

• Dynamic Query Mode (DQM)
• Identify Dynamic Cubes
• Navigate and identify general functionality of IBM Cognos Cube Designer
• Improve query performance with the Aggregate Advisor

Extended System Management

• Identify enhancements in:
  • Monitoring
  • Scheduling
  • Credential management
  • Identifying the relationship between packages and their data sources

Model Design Accelerator

• What is Model Design Accelerator?
• Create a star schema using Model Design Accelerator
• Generate a model and publish a package

Other product and environment improvements

• Improvements in data lineage
• Improved search with field-level search capability
• Save as Microsoft Excel 2007 data
• 64-bit IBM Cognos gateway
• 64-bit Data Manager engine
• Multiple-tenant environments
• Archive content to the file system
• Enhanced support for language and currency:
  • Support for extended Japanese and Chinese characters
  • Bidirectional (BiDi) support
• Enhanced handling and formatting options for data
• Enhancements to Lifecycle Manager
• Access to ERP data sources
• DQM server logging on a report basis
• Predefined LDAP configurations
• Enhancements to/for:
  • SAP BW data sources
  • IBM Cognos Real Time Monitoring (RTM)
  • IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office
  • IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel
  • IBM Cognos Mobile
  • Business Viewpoint
  • Data Manager
  • Upgrade process
  • Support for multi-version coexistence
• Enhancements to supported environments