Cognos 10 2 Overview - IBM Cognos User Group

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Daniel Hassell

IBM Solutions Architect

What's New in Cognos Enterprise V10.2


IBM Cognos family Analytics in the hands of everyone

Insight to action

with every product

Right-sized for

your organization

Built to future-

proof your

investment


IBM Cognos Enterprise Incredibly powerful. Incredibly simple to use.

Arm every business user with the analytics they need

Support the way business users choose to work

Meet the entire organization’s needs with cost-effective scale

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos TM1

IBM Cognos Insight


What’s New in IBM Cognos Enterprise V10.2

Enable Users to focus on what‟s

important

Performance & Scale

User Experience

Flexible Deployment

Accelerate time to value with simplicity

Meet the demands of next generation data


Enable Users to focus on what‟s

important User Experience


Cognos Workspace and Cognos Workspace Advanced 10.2


Cognos Workspace: Multi Tab and Global Area

Allows content to be organized on multiple tabs in a single workspace

A tabbed workspace contains a global area common to all tabs.

Global area will contain filter, action buttons, report prompts.


Action Buttons

Action buttons identical to those found in IBM Cognos Insight are now part of the Cognos

Workspace application

Use Action buttons to navigate between tabs on a workspace


Cognos Workspace Tabs: How to?

Very intuitive interface! – To add delete or rename a tab, go to the action menu, or right click on the workspace area. – To add a Filter:

• Drag filter object from Toolbox to global area • Filtering on a column will impact all reporting widgets that include that column

– Action buttons: Drag from the toolbox to the workspace, then select the Actions from the menu


Cognos Workspace: Freeze/Unfreeze; Expand/collapse

Ability in lists and crosstabs to freeze row and column headers to keep them in view while

scrolling

In a crosstab, column and row headings can be expanded to show details. i.e Expand region

heading to show related countries


Cognos Workspace: Visual recommender

„Change display type‟ will now list most recommended display type based on the graph‟s

data. Selecting the More… option explains the choice reasoning


Cognos Workspace: Chart Interaction

User can interact with charts or chart parts:

– Filter chart content

– Sort chart content

– Drill up/down


Graduated Capabilities

Access to functions and features in Cognos Workspace can now be controlled by the IBM

Cognos administrator.

This functionality is controlled by the following capabilities:

– Consume

– Interact

– Assemble


Cognos Workspace, formerly called Cognos Business Insight

High Fidelity Publish – Requires IBM Cognos Insight 10.2 – Q3

Release (will be covered in CI presentation)

Multi-tabbing functionality

Global Filtering

Action buttons

Freeze and Unfreeze

Expand and Collapse

Visual recommender

Printing

Other user interactions – Charts: Filter, sort, drill

Graduated Capabilities

Google Chrome and Apple Safari now

supported

Cognos 10.2

Published CI with restricted CI functionality

No tabbing

Since no tabbing, no need for global filtering

No action buttons

No Freeze/Unfreeze/Expand/Collapse

No recommendation

No possibility to restrict what user could change

Previous version


Graduated Capabilities: How to assign these capabilities?

Cognos Administration Security Capabilities Executive dashboard

– Author: User groups assigned to 'User groups in Advanced dashboard Features'

– Interact: User Groups assigned to 'Use Interactive dashboard Features'

– Consume: Every body else.


Cognos Workspace Advanced, formerly called Business Insight Advanced

Option to automatically create crosstab

header

Option to automatically group and

summarize lists

Table style passed off when drilling up or

down from an initial crosstab

Creates custom filter to bring in values from

Excel or other sources (Paste these values

into prompt box)

From Cognos Workspace Advanced data

can be copied into external application (i.e.

Excel or WordPad)

Cognos 10.2

Crosstab headers and grouping were generated automatically and were not optional

Copy to Excel would copy the xml report spec, not the data.

Previous version


Cognos Workspace Advanced

Ability to turn on or off the automatic summarize and grouping


Cognos Workspace Advanced

Ability to automatically create crosstab headers for sets

Note: Works only with dimensional model


Cognos Workspace Advanced (cont)

Table style will be passed off when drilling up or down from an initial crosstab

Creating a custom filter to bring values from Excel or other sources (Paste values into

keywords)


Cognos Workspace Advanced (cont)

All data inside Cognos Workspace Advanced can be copied into Excel – no longer copies

the xml Report Spec


Cognos Mobile


iOS Push Notifications

What is it? Ability to receive a notification when a new report or a new version of a report is push to iPad

Push can be enabled per server, allowing users to opt out if preferred

Leverages normal iOS banner mechanisms such as positions and behaviors

The scheduler notifies Apple to push a notification to the user

Tapping the notifications opens the App to the selected report

Alerts Banner


iOS Push Notifications: How to?

First, in Cognos Configuration Dispatcher and Services, ensure that ApplePushNotification.Level setting

for the Dispatcher‟s MobileService is set to „Name‟ (default) or „Generic‟.

– Name: displays the name of the report in the notification message

– Generic: will notify that there a new report has been received but without including the name of the

report.


iOS Push Notifications: How to?

Next, on the iPad, Settings Notifications IBM Cognos App:

Go to device‟s settings

Tap Notifications

Tap IBM Cognos

Select your type of

notification:

– None

– Banner

– Alerts


Multi-page report trickle

What is it?

– Displays the first page of a multi page report immediately

– Trickles the remaining pages in the background

Huge performance gains for multi-page reports

HTML report output only.

Play movie

Page Selector

../Users/Administrator/AppData/Local/temp/page_trickle.wmv


Multi-page report trickle: How to?

Set the Report.MaxPages for the dispatcher. (This will limit the number of pages transferred

to the device.)

Play movie

Run a multi page report with the option set to “Send to my mobile device” As soon as the first page comes up, select the Page Selector icon on the top right of the iPad viewer.

../Users/Administrator/AppData/Local/temp/page_trickle.wmv


Multi-lingual bursting

A user will receive a bursted report in their preferred language. This is NOT new

When the preferred language is not available, the user will receive the report in the language

set as the server default. This IS new.

User 1

Vente des produits

Pref: French

User 2

Cantidad de ventas

Pref: Spanish

User 3

Sales Quantity

Pref: Romanian

No burst output for this

pref language. Default

is set to English


Bursted Multi-key report (Cont…)

What is it? A user can receive multiple bursted copies of the same report:

For example: Overall manager could receive the reports of each of his regions‟ managers

The reports are differentiated by burst key. This IS new.

Previous versions did not include burst key in the report name, which means that all the

bursted versions had the same name and would therefore overwrite each other.

Report Name

Burst Key

Play movie

Bursted_multilingual.wmv


Bursted Multi-key report: How To?

In order to burst reports to mobile users, create a burst key in the report query to identify

who receives what using the CAMID for the users


Bursted Multi-key report: How To?

In Reports Studio‟s burst options, the burst key is used to identify the recipient:


Cognos Admin Mobile Capability

What is it?

– Ability to restrict which users have access to the Mobile Server

New “Mobile Users” group + capability

Play movie

Mobile_capability.wmv


Cognos Admin Mobile Capability: How to?

In Security‟s capabilities, a new group called Mobile Users is assigned to Mobile Capabilities


Cognos Admin Mobile Capability: How to? (Cont…)

In the section Users, Group and Roles, open properties for group Cognos > Mobile

In the Member tab, replace the default group Everyone with the UserID‟s of those allowed access from a

mobile device


External Samples Server

Samples are on their own server

Reduces the size and installation time

of the App

Provides a dynamic view of the

samples library

Downloads and caches the sample on

the device

Cognos 10.2 Previous Version

Samples reports were embedded in

the Mobile App

Download time of the App was huge


External Samples Server: How to?

Go to the iPad settings

Scroll to list of installed Apps and select IBM Cognos

Ensure the setting „Display Sample Server‟ is ON

Launch IBM Cognos app

Select „Get More Samples‟

Select a report

That report will be downloaded and cached on the mobile device.

The cached version will be re-used unless a newer version appears on the server.


And finally: Timestamp on Active Reports MHT files

Report Service will add a timestamp to the MHT files. This will allow the import to iPad to

determine which file is newer and prompt the user if they are importing an older Active

Report:

– When importing through iTunes or an email, the new rule will be:

• conflict resolution will be done using the file name, not the ID of the MHT

– When importing a newer AR: silently overwrite without warning

– if importing older AR: warn user and give the option to keep of overwrite existing.


What‟s new in 10.2 Mobile: Customer Impact

- Need to install new Mobile app from

iTunes

- Can now configure who is allowed

access to the Mobile server

- After setting the Report.Maxpages

property, they will see a significant

performance when viewing multi page

reports

- Further integration with iOS by

pushing Notifications

- No additional hardware requirement

Existing Customers

Same message as for previous versions:

Experience insight wherever you are Uninterrupted productivity with quick

and easy access to analytics anywhere you go

Interact with information offline or

online Rich, visual and interactive

experience whether you are offline or online

Confidently and easily deploy BI to any

device Single authoring and administrative

environment to deliver secure, relevant and reusable content

New Customers


What‟s new in 10.2 Mobile

– Push Notifications

– Multi-Page Report Trickle

– Support for bursted multi-lingual

reports

– Support for bursted multi-key

reports

– Cognos Admin Mobile Capability

– External Samples Server

Cognos 10.2

- Not available

- User had to wait until the report was complete before seeing first page

- If language was not supported, user did not get anything

- Not available

- Not available

- All Samples reports included in the IBM Cognos app

Previous version


Reporting in Cognos 10.2 BI


IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Professional Report Authors

Prompt API

– JavaScript applications can interact with prompts

– Extend prompting functionality

– Fully documented and supported

– Reports

– *IBM Cognos Workspace

Expose existing macros in Expression Editor

– Same macros as before

– No longer have to type-in functions

Simplified Authoring Techniques in IBM Cognos Report Studio

*IBM Cognos Business Insight / Business Insight Advanced has been renamed to IBM Cognos Workspace / Cognos Workspace Advanced


What Can I Do with the Prompt API?

Set, read or delete prompt values

– Ex. Set default values using an expression

Validate prompt values

– As user types in values

• Ex. Pattern matching − Post codes, Product codes

– When user presses a button

• Ex. Validate one prompt value against another − Toasters are not available in Red



Large Microsoft Excel 2007 Output

– Increased output size

– 256 by 65,000

– 16,384 by 1,048,576

– Configurable

Microsoft Excel 2007 Data

– Small and fast for small scale data

transfer to Excel

– Supports list reports only

– Saves data to Excel 2007 native (.xlsx)

Deeper Microsoft Excel Integration



Improved integration with IBM Cognos Workspace

Repeater frames for interactive behavior

Inherited table styles in lists and crosstabs

Simplified Authoring for IBM Cognos Active Report


Cognos Report Studio

• Use Cognos 10 charts by default

• Expose existing macros in expression editor

• Improved functionality in Report outputs to Excel

• Prompt API

• New Static Repeater table control for active Reports

Cognos 10.2

Cognos 8 charts by default

Had to type macros by hand or copy and paste from FM

Modifying prompts required hacking the BI source code

The functionality now offered by static repeater table control was in demand but more difficult to implement

Previous version


Report Studio Use Cognos 10 charts by default

– Cognos 10.1.1 still uses Cognos 8 charts by default due to

performance issues with C10.1

Expose existing macros in expression editor – Same macros as before

– No longer have to type-in functions

Prompt API – JavaScript applications can interact with prompts

– Extend prompting functionality

– Fully documented and supported

– Reports

– Cognos Workspace


IBM Cognos 10.2 Active Reports: Static Repeater Table Control

• Adds interactive behavior to the repeater table.

• Useful for creating buttons and grids of custom content.


Existing Prompt Techniques

– Hack into BI source code

• Are not documented or supported

– We do our best to maintain compatibility and will continue to do so for some

time

• We may break them despite our best efforts

– You do NOT need to replace these techniques in this release

• Current Prompt API likely not sufficient

• You will have to replace them at some undefined point in the future


Prompt API Example

Define prompts to filter on different fiscal time periods:


How is the Prompt API used?

Report Authors use the report studio HTML object to embed HTML/JavaScript into the report/prompt page

JavaScript interacts with prompt objects via the Prompt API


Cognos Insight 10.2


IBM Cognos Insight End Users / Business Users

Quickly Visualize Patterns or Anomalies in Large Amounts of Data with Tree Maps



Easily Turn Raw Data Into Meaningful Insights with Smart Metadata



Offline Contribution

Top/Bottom count, sum, percentage

Advanced Time Support

– Fiscal and relative time

Package Import

Drill down on charts

Drag dimensions directly to chart

User self sufficiency

– Links Cognos Insight Community (www.analyticszone.com)

– How-to videos

Continually Expanding Functionality based on User Feedback


DQM & Dynamic Cubes eCapital Advisors Overview

November 2012


Dynamic Query Mode - DQM

Solution Highlights

Enhanced Query Service with Dynamic Query:

• 64-bit in-memory optimized query generation with pattern intelligence to improve performance against complex heterogeneous data

• In-memory calculations and aggregate operations for faster compute time

• New optimized caching for hierarchies, members, facts, calculations and prompts for improved report performance

• Initial conformance is for OLAP sources: SAP BW, TM1 and Essbase.

• C10.1.1 Relational Data, DMR

Query Service with Dynamic Query Capabilities

Common Business Model

Logs

20+ New

Patents

Modern and Legacy Sources

Application Sources

OLAP Sources

Message Sources

Relational Sources

OLAP Adapters

Relational Adapters

TM1

Cubing

Services

PowerCube

SAP BW

MSAS

Essbase

DB2

Informix

Oracle

Teradata

SQLServer

ODBC

JDBC…

IT Tools

Query Visualization

Open Data Access

Cache

3x faster query * When compared against IBM Cognos 8 BI software. Based on

selective results from tests conducted in the IBM Performance and Scalability Labs on pre-release Cognos 10 software

Deliver optimized access to all data

regardless of where it resides

Release in IBM Cognos 10.1 Hybrid


Dynamic Cubes

• In-Memory OLAP cubes that load directly from a star or snowflake schema Data

Warehouse

• The goal is to improve performance on large data warehouses

• Is a part of Dynamic Query Mode

– No license or separate install

• Each cube is a dimensional view of Star or Snowflaked schema, based on One Fact

table

• Dynamic Cubes uses the database and data cache for scalability, and also uses a

combination of caching, optimized aggregates (in-memory and in-database), and

optimized SQL to achieve performance.

• Once a Dynamic Cube is created and published it can be access like any other OLAP

cube


Dynamics Cubes

• Cache shared across

all users

• Security is applied on

top of the cache


Fully Aggregate Aware

• To guarantee query routing

• Advise on aggregates

– In-Memory

– Database

• Create In-Memory aggregates on the fly

– No DBA required


Dynamic Cube Designer

• Not Framework Manager

• Not Performance Modeler

• Only with Star or Snowflake Schema‟s

• Cube consists of dimensions and a fact table

• A single cube can be used to create multiple cubes

• Dimensions can be shared

• Merge 2 base cubes to create a virtual cube

• Virtual cubes can be combined as well


Dynamic Cube Designer


Cube Management


Automatically added to Data Sources


Dynamic Cube Aggregate Advisor

• Select the cube

• Advisor runs against data

• Graph‟s the results

• Makes recommendations


Write Aggregate to the Content Store


SQL to Create Aggregate Table

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