IBM Cognos BI What's New (V10.1) SPVC

Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Insight

• Identify IBM Cognos Business Insight and its benefits
• Navigate and identify general functionality
• Create a dashboard from existing content
• Sort, filter, group/ungroup, calculate data
• Search content
• Access IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced to modify a report
• Invoke collaborative discussion

Collaboration with Activities

• Start a dashboard activity in IBM Cognos Business Insight
• View dashboard activities in IBM Cognos Business Insight
• Collaborate beyond the dashboard environment

Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced

• Navigate the user interface
• Perform authoring, including, ad-hoc query, data analysis, exploration, and importing external data
• Format data and layout
• Integrate with capabilities in Report Studio

Report Studio Enhancements

• Identify and work with new features in Report Studio, including:
• improvements in report creation capabilities
• the new Active Report report type

Introduction to IBM Cognos Statistics

• What is IBM Cognos Statistics?
• Architecture of IBM Cognos Statistics
• Data sources used in IBM Cognos Statistics
• Use of the case variable in statistical objects

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

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

• Dynamic Query Mode (DQM)
• Improvements in data lineage
• 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