Thoughts?
IBM Cognos(11) Analytics was released at the end of 2015 and offered the same functionality available in Cognos 10, but with a new and improved user interface that is both modern in look and feel and easier to navigate. This new user interface has a greater focus on providing a better user experience while promoting self-service and still delivering the Business Intelligence capabilities we all know and love.
What's New?
- User Interface - Slick, modern, user-focused, and easy to navigate
- Data Modules - A new and simple way of creating data models to do ad-hoc reporting
- Data Dashboards - Easy to build data dashboards from the data modules above
What Stays?
- The reporting engine remains unchanged, with an addition of a new ‘Watson-like’ engine for dashboarding.
- Report Studio and Workspace Advanced are combined and rebranded as ‘Author’ but still retain all the same functionalities.
- To make the transition to Analytics easier, Analysis Studio, Query Studio and Workspace are still available in this version.
- Active Reports and visualizations remain untouched.
Future Enhancements?
- Ability to report off of multiple Framework Manager packages
- User Interface profiles
- Customization of templates
- Built-in functionality to replace Analysis and Query Studios
- Greater dashboard customization
Here are the top 10 reasons to upgrade to Cognos Analytics:
- Self-service
- A new improved user interface
- Easy to build Reports
- Easy to build Dashboards
- New web-based modeling capabilities
- Easier Implementation
- Cloud
- Analytics
- Data Files
- Free to try (No really, sign up for a FREE demo)
Final Thoughts
Cognos Analytics is moving in the right direction, simplifying the analytics development process by providing a single interface for data integration, modeling, reporting, and dashboard creation. An integrated solution eliminates the need to work across multiple studios and provides greater security and governance.
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