Report Development Revolution with Cognos Analytics 11.1

REPORT DEVELOPMENT REVOLUTION
WITH COGNOS ANALYTICS 11.1
Demos of Game Changing New Features

• Introductions
• Cognos Analytics 11.1 highlights
• Breaking down highlights – an analytics workflow
• Classic report development challenges
– How 11.1 broadens adoption
• Cognos Analytics 11.1 – explore, reuse and report demo
• Senturus overview
• Additional resources
• Q&A and wrap-up
Agenda
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Introducing…Today’s Presenters
Michael Weinhauer
Practice Area Director /
Solutions Architect
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Report Development Revolution with
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COGNOS ANALYTICS 11.1 HIGHLIGHTS
KEY NEW FEATURES

IBM’s Perspective: Cognos Analytics Delivers Next
Generation Analytics
Climb the AI ladder (one rung at a time):
With AI-infused Analytics:
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Cognos Analytics 11.0 – 11.1 Features
Comparison
COGNOS ANALYTICS 11.0.x
• User-driven data discovery
• Non shareable components
between dashboarding and
reporting
• Basic data prep – no concept of
time
• Natural language search – basic
• Dashboards – via template only
COGNOS ANALYTICS 11.1.0
• New explore experience
– Pattern detection
– Related visualizations
– Related insights
• Shareable components in
reporting – from dashboards,
explore
• AI assistant – provides
contextual recommendations
• Dashboards - enables you to
freely position and resize
objects to create layouts for
any screen resolution
• Democratized reporting
capability
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Why Is This Revolutionary? EXPLORE
New explore experience
• Auto-generated correlation
network diagram
• Navigate multiple visualizations
• Access recommended and related
visualizations
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Why Is This Revolutionary? EXPAND
Shareable components
• Leverage insights across
capabilities w/o
duplicating effort
• Copy/paste objects
• Pin objects and reuse
them
• Currently NOT able to
share bi-directionally
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Why Is This Revolutionary? DISTRIBUTE
Democratization of reporting
• We know: reporting is THE KEY benefit of IBM Cognos
• BUT…
– It’s hard!
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• Leverage the best of breed for enterprise reporting to
take insights to the masses
Why Is This Revolutionary? DISTRIBUTE
• Democratization of reporting
– Where we are today:
– License barrier: GONE
– Capability barriers: GONE
– Usability barriers: GONE (?)
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DEMO: UPLOAD, EXPLORE AND DELIVER
DATA
GET UNDER THE HOOD OF V11.1

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Logical Workflow of Insights – Step 1
• Explore data as soon as it’s uploaded
• Exploration is about data discovery and experimentation
• See multiple perspectives
• Then…
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Logical Workflow of Insights – Step 1.5
• Data source for a report must be a data module or
package
• So:
– Before using copy/paste:
– Then:
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• Pin items to your library
• Visualizations can interlope
between Explorations and
Dashboards
• Viz properties are ONLY
available in Dashboards
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• Most real-world applications require the complete
Cognos reporting capabilities
• So… we can copy from either Dashboards OR
Explorations into a report, BUT –
• Some properties may be lost…
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Answers to Questions Asked During the
Webinar
QUESTIONS LOG

Q/A: Report Development Revolution with Cognos
Analytics 11.1
Q: Are there any changes or enhancements to Transformer and
Framework Manager in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: We’ve been following this trend since Gartner completely
changed its ranking methodology for BI Vendors in 2016. Read
our 2018, 2017 and 2016 blogs about the magic quadrant.
The bottom line: evaluate how well our software vendors are
meeting our business needs. Having a variety of tools is not a
bad outcome, but knowing how different tools complement one
another, and being equipped to select the appropriate tool for
each business requirement is the most important feature to
look for. You might also be interested in reading our Enterprise
BI vs. Self-Service Analytics Tools blog, it will help clear up
some of the uncertainty around these concepts. And, of course,
please call us at 888 601 6010 ext. 1 we can provide unbiased
insight and guidance.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Are there any changes/enhancements to Transformer and
Framework Manager in Cognos Analytics?
A: Not since 10.2.2.
Q: We are on Cognos Analytics 11.0.12 and are using portal
pages. All reports that have interactive mode turned on run in
non-interactive mode from the portal pages. Is there a way to
enable the interactivity?
A: No, by definition the portal in this situation has been
downgraded to the 10.x code set, so the interactive features
are not supported.
Q: How do we disable the Explore feature in Cognos Analytics
11.1 until we can train our users?
A: Just like any other capability, you can manage permissions
through the Admin console.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Is upgrading from Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 to 11.1 similar to
upgrading from 11.0.10 to 11.0.11?
A: Yes, it is an over the top install; however, there is a new
procedure, so be sure to check out our Tips for Installing
Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 webinar recording.
Q: In Cognos Analytics, upload will consume resources on the
server. Is it possible to disable this feature?
A: Yes, you can control permissions via the Admin console.
Q: Will there be a recorded version of this webinar available?
A: Yes, the deck and recording are available at
revolution-with-cognos-analytics-11-1/.

Analytics 11.1
Q: If the license barrier is gone in Cognos Analytics 11.1, does
that mean there are no longer any seat licenses for Report
Studio?
A: Unless you have PVU licensing, you are still limited to seat
licenses. However, there are no longer separate licenses for
different report development tools. Cognos Analytics user
licenses provide full report authoring functionality, including
Report Studio, dashboarding, mobile, etc.
Q: Can pins from different data sources could be used together
in a single dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: Absolutely! Dashboards can support any combination of data
sources, whereas reports are a bit more restrictive.

Analytics 11.1
Q: There is a limitation in Cognos Analytics 11.0 when creating
data modules with data server (database tables) as a source.
Does this change in Cognos Analytics 11.1, so we can create
multiple instances of the same table as in Framework Manager?
A: Yes, the modeling experience is much more equivalent to
that in Framework Manager. Data manager significantly more
functionality in 11.1 than in 11.0.
Q: Any idea when the full member tree will be exposed when
creating a dashboard Cognos Analytics?
A: Not yet.
Q: We have Cognos Analytics 10.2; can we upgrade directly to
11.1?
A: Yes.

Analytics 11.1
Q: I want to drill-up and drill-down from country to region. How
could I implement hierarchy in the chart in Cognos Analytics
11.1?
A: This is one of our favorite features, it is called navigation
paths and we show how it works the end of the webinar.
Q: If I build a couple charts in reports, can I then carry them
over to dashboards in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: Unfortunately, no. As of right now reusing content is not bi-
directional, so assets in reporting can’t be copied to dashboards
or explorations.

Analytics 11.1
Q: What's the best way for us to convey to others the
differences between reports and dashboards as reporting tools
in Cognos Analytics?
A: We have a helpful webinar recording Cognos Analytics:
Dashboards or Reports? you can share with your team.
Q: Are U.S. maps supported in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: The map visualization is supported by Mapbox, which are
100% dynamic and can render any region (country, state,
province) or point (city, zip, lat/long).
Q: Is dimensional reporting still available in Cognos Analytics
11.1?
A: Absolutely!

Analytics 11.1
Q: What is the purpose of pins and why would we use them in
Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: Pins are a way to save all the attributes of visualizations you
create in dashboards and explorations so they can be reused in
other explorations, dashboards or stories.
Q: Are pins sharable in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: You can create a dashboard that includes your personal pins,
save them to a public area and that dashboard can be opened
by another user. The pinned objects will render, but they do not
then appear as pins for the second user. There are no public
pins. The second (and third, and so on…) users could then pin
objects to their own personal library.

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Analytics 11.1
Q: Can we enable auto-refresh of data in Reports in Cognos
Analytics 11.1?
A: No, there is no out-of-the-box solution for this; however,
we’ve been able to implement this pretty easily with some
simple HTML scripting.
Q: Do you have any insight on which version in Cognos Analytics
11.1.x will be supported long term by IBM?
A: IBM is ending the life of Cognos Analytics 11.0 but is
guaranteeing full support for at least two years. We don’t see
this as a reason to hold off on upgrading – keep in mind that
11.1 is now the current release, so you will have full support on
this version until IBM announces the end of its life, and at that
time you can count on a similar two- to three-year window of
long-term support. IBM has a post about the 11.0.13 support
policy.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Is there a Cognos Analytics 11.1 feature matrix available?
A: Here is a tremendously rich resource which focuses on
differences between Cognos Analytics 10.2 and 11. Here’s
another article from IBM that focuses on the differences
between 11.0 and 11.1.
Q: Is Cognos Analytics 11.1 available on the cloud? And if so,
does it behave the same way as the on-prem version?
A: Yes, IBM is making sure that parity exists between user
experience on the cloud and on-premise.
Q: Is Cognos Analytics 11.1 stable? We have found a lot of little
irritating bugs in 11.0.9.
A: We have found this extremely stable for a dot-one release.
So far, this release is much better than the first releases of
11.0.

Analytics 11.1
Q: How do you see report performance measure between
Cognos Analytics 10.2 and 11.1?
A: Overall performance between those versions is much
improved. The ability to use data sets (if applicable) can
greatly improve report performance.
Q: Can the explore feature in Cognos Analytics 11.1 be used
against relational data in 11.1?
A: Yes, you can explore any type of data.
Q: Does Cognos Analytics 11.1 have an option to use Access
Manager for security?
A: No, we recommend moving off Access Manager.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Is the same set of visualizations available in reports and
dashboards in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: Yes, it is referred to as the current set of 11.1 visualizations
in reporting. However, reporting also offers access to 11.0
visualizations, legacy visualizations and 10.2 charts.
Q: Are there any issues with reports rendering when upgrading
from Cognos 11.0.10 to Cognos 11.1?
A: We don’t expect issues, typically less than 10% of reports
will have issues. Just as a reminder, we recommend you test
and validate, regardless of source and target environments.
Q: Is it possible to use multiple packages to build a report in
A: Yes.

Analytics 11.1
Q: What happens to the existing security setup in Cognos
Analytics 10.x? I have some users assigned to express authors?
Are there different group/role in 11.1?
A: Those roles and groups will all migrate forward.
Q: Has the Senturus self-paced training classes been updated to
Cognos Analytics 11.1.1?
A: All of our training is being completely redesigned for 11.1.1,
and this includes our self-paced training classes. We hope to
begin releasing this new material in March.
Q: Does workspace integrate into dashboards in Cognos
Analytics 11.1?
A: No, there is no direct integration or migration. We
recommend you create a plan to convert workspace artifacts to
reports or dashboards prior to upgrading.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Can we connect to multiple packages or data modules in
dashboard reporting in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: Keep in mind, dashboarding and reporting and separate and
distinct capabilities and work differently. For example,
reporting uses one or more packages or one data module.
Dashboarding uses any number and combination of packages,
data modules, data sets or uploaded files.
Q: I took the Cognos 11 class a few months ago but it's now
outdated. I'd like to be notified also about 11.1.1 classes.
A: Any knowledge you learned in 11.0 training would not be
outdated because the foundation and core functionality of 11.0
is still there in 11.1. We are updating all of our content for 11.1
with an expected release date of March 2019.

Analytics 11.1
Q: Can two packages be joined in Report Studio in Cognos
Analytics 11.1?
A: No, this is not possible.
Q: Can I use a list report or report query as the source for a
dashboard in Cognos Analytics 11.1?
A: No, but you could create a data set, which is similar to
designing a list query from a package.
Q: Can I share the exploration data/report with others in
A: Yes, be sure to save the information in the team content
area.

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