IBM Cognos 10 Overview

Shankar Babu. P
Cognos Developer
Shankar_perumalla@trinus.com
Cognos 10: Intelligence Unleashed Smarter Decisions

Freedom to Think
Unified workspace
All time horizons
Progressive interaction

Connect with Others

Decision networks
Business context
Accountability

and Simply Do
Mobile and Disconnected
Integrated
Real-time
Cognos 10 New Features

COGNOS
IBM Cognos Active Reports is a new report output type, creates interactive
report applications for offline or disconnected use
Truly portable business intelligence
 Cognos Active Report delivers a disconnected reporting application
that is a stand-alone, self-contained file.
 Professionally authored` functions provide an engaging report or
dashboard experience for the user.
Easy delivery
 End users realize the benefits of the Cognos platform, all in a contained report.
 Active Reports can be burst, scheduled, emailed or picked up by individuals
from a private URL.
 Schedule deliveries of Active Reports to a large or small set of users.

Business benefits
 Deliver BI to a broad set of users quickly on small to medium data sets.
 No training or authoring skills required to view the interactive
report/dashboard.
 Persistent connectivity no longer required for obtaining and viewing key
business intelligence data.
 Provide mass deployment of business intelligence economically and easily.
Active Report Objects Run option
The Dynamic Query Mode is an enhanced Java based query mode which offers
the following key capabilities.
• Query optimizations to address query complexity, data volumes and timeliness
expectations with improved query execution techniques.
• The advanced application of strict query planning rules

• Significant improvement for complex OLAP queries through intelligent combination

of local and remote processing and better MDX generation. The method used for
query improvement:
•New data Interfaces leveraging 64 bit processing.
• It permits the use of 64 bit data source drivers and can leverage the 64 bit
address space for query processing, metadata caching and data caching.

• Ease of maintenance with query visualization.

• Allows to analyze the queries generated and visually see how they will be
processed
Architectural diagram of Compatible Query
Mode
Architectural diagram of Dynamic Query Mode
 The IBM Cognos 10 Dynamic Query Mode is supported against the
following data sources.
Oracle Essbase
SAP BW
TM1
• This query mode is available only in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.0.

• Dynamic Query mode will be enabled in Framework Manager

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historical data.
 The predictive power to automate decisions
 Features

The key features of Cognos Statistics include:

 Wizard-driven statistical analysis seamlessly integrated in reports
 Graphical representations of the shape and distribution of data
 Statistical process control
 Data analysis and testing
 Benefits

IBM Cognos Statistics offers a number of key benefits

 Support key organizational decisions with fact-based statistical evidence

incorporated directly and easily into company’s business analytics
environment and reports
 Make decisions with more confidence and greater accuracy because the
statistics need to back up your actions are at your fingertips
 Track information such as production shift performance so you have the
information you need to improve quality and reduce costs.
 Identify key customer demographics so you can act on that insight to
improve customer profitability
 Overview
Lifecycle Manager is a Microsoft® Windows® operating system-based
application

• IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager assists and enables to be successful in the

critical process of verifying upgrades from IBM Cognos ReportNet®,
previous versions of IBM Cognos 8 to IBM Cognos BI version 10.

• IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager also

provides the possibility to verify and
compare reports using DQ Mode.
• Lifecycle Manager installs it's own instance
of Tomcat
• Lifecycle Manager retrieves content from the
Cognos BI server and stores it locally within
the Lifecycle Manager directory structure
 Overview
New features in IBM Cognos Lifecycle Manager 10
• Supports for IBM Cognos BI 10.1.0
• Benchmark Projects
• Compare Reports in different formats
• Compare Reports of different languages
• Import an Archived Project into a New Project
• View project contents by package
• View report execution times
 Overview

Lifecycle Manager Welcome Screen New Project dialog box

 Overview

Lifecycle Manager Project Screen

• Allow you to configure your project and then import the report content into the
project that is going to be compared
• First step is to select the Configure button and complete and save the project
 Lifecycle Manager Configure Screen Basic tab

The Project name and the name, gateway URI, dispatcher URI, version and max
connections for both the source and target servers.
 Overview

Designed to make life easier for those that have to support the platform.
These include optimized query generation, life cycle management and
performance enhancements.
As BI environments have grown in size throughput has become more of an
issue, these enhancements help minimize potential bottlenecks as more
users are added to the environment.
 Overview

With IBM Cognos 10, key information can be shared by groups or

communities and forms the basis for decision making that connects people to the
event. All of this is captured and used to improve decision making practices.

Solution Highlights:
• Embed of Lotus Connections
• Post messages, share files and links to web content (both BI and external)
• Create and assign to-do items
• Work within Business Insight workspace to drive activities or requests for action
• Send email notifications directly from an activity

To connect with IBM Lotus On the dashboard application bar, click the
Collaborate menu button
 Top 10 Things You Should Know
1. Cognos 10 delivers features and solutions for BI, predictive and advanced analytics, financial,
performance and strategy management, governance and compliance, and analytic application
2. Performance enhancement to Cognos 10 BI make query performance 3X faster than Cognos 8
3. Built-in collaboration and social networking features include annotation at cell level
4. Cognos Mobile is compatible with iPad, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Black Berry and Sybian
platform with reports including drill-down, scheduling etc
5. SPSS Modeler and statistics are integrated into the platform providing predictive analysis and
insights in Cognos 10
6. Cognos 10 has completely revamped to the end-user with a new tool called Business Insight
7. The integration of TM1 makes end-user to leverage the cognos 10 data with scenario analysis
and enterprise planning functionality of TM1
8. Cognos Business Insight enables users to explore data across all time trends including
historical, real-time and predictive to make better decision.
9. Update from Cognos 8 is seamless and includes lifecycle management tools to keep old new
systems alive in parallel as you migrate
10. IBM Cognos 10 is an end-to-end enterprise solution, but it can be delivered to most any sized
client with a well-defined growth path.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
suite
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
 IBM Cognos Metrics Manager
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Data Manager
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Statistics
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence PowerPlay Administrator
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence PowerPlay Server
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence PowerPlay Client
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Reporting
 IBM Cognos Mobile
 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Real-time Monitoring
 IBM Cognos Software Development Kit
 IBM Connections for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1
 IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Identity Edition 7.1
 IBM Websphere Application Server 7.0
 IBM DB2 9.7
 The Complete range of Analytics
Capabilities

Query and Reporting : Comprehensive query and reporting capabilities to make smarter
decisions.
Analysis : Analysis for everyone
Scorecarding : At-a-glance information to successfully link strategy to operations

Dashboarding : High-impact information presentation to monitor, measure

and manage corporate performance
Real-time Monitoring : Up-to-the second, relevant information within the
context of your BI information
Statistics : Statistical analysis incorporated into your business reporting

Planning and Budgeting : High-performance enterprise planning software for

budgeting, forecasting and analysis
Extending BI : Convenient methods for delivering business intelligence to a wider audience

Collaborative BI : Modern tools for collaborating, building stronger teams and

stimulating better decisions
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