IBM Cognos BI What's New (V10.2) SPVC

Introduction to IBM Cognos Workspace

• IBM Cognos Business Insight is now IBM Cognos Workspace
• Control access to IBM Cognos Workspace functions and features
• Create tabbed workspaces
• Create global filters across multiple tabs
• Full-fidelity publishing from IBM Cognos Insight to IBM Cognos Workspace
• Select appropriate charts using automatic chart recommendations
• Interact directly with column charts
• Freeze column and row headings
• Print a workspace

Introduction to IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced

• IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced is now IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced
• Identify enhancements to crosstab headers
• Apply automatic grouping and summary behavior to lists
• Copy data with number formatting

Report Studio Enhancements

• Identify and work with new features in Report Studio, including:
• The new interactive repeater tables
• Inherited styles in lists and crosstabs
• An easier way to access query macros using the expression editor
• Extending prompts using the Prompt API
• Global classes for accessible reports

Enhancements to IBM Cognos Mobile

• Identify enhancements in:
• Controlled access to IBM Cognos Mobile
• Apple push notifications
• Bursting reports to IBM Cognos Mobile
• Multi-page report trickle
• Performance and space-saving enhancements to charts in Active Reports

Introduction to Dynamic Cubes and IBM Cognos Cube Designer

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

Other Product/Environment Improvements

• Improved IBM Cognos Active Report integration with IBM Cognos Workspace
• 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 supported environments