IBM Cognos 10.2.1

INTERACTIVE REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS FOR

THE MOBILE AUDIENCE

• Quick introduction

• Understand your options for reaching a mobile audience with your existing IBM Cognos content

• What’s the big deal with Active Reports in this new release?

• Experience the different options via an iPad vs. traditional PC

• Q & A

Today’s Agenda

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• WHO

– Consumers of analytics that can benefit from access to information via non-traditional channels or access points

• WHAT

– Mobile devices such as tablets (iPads), smart phones (Android, iPhone)

• WHERE

– Out of the office, either connected or disconnected

– In the office via non-traditional devices

• WHEN

– NOW!! – Better devices and infrastructure

– Increasing supply of and demand for information

Reaching the Mobile Audience

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• WHY

– Improve time to decision via interactive analytics where they were not previously available

– Increase productivity by making key information accessible anywhere, anytime

• HOW

– Install:

– Mobile server and gateway components

– Develop:

– Content specifically designed for mobile consumption

– Consume:

– Point mobile browser at external gateway, and/or

– Install native apps for devices

Reaching the Mobile Audience

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• HOW (continued)

– Administer:

– Secure devices and content

– Schedule delivery to mobile recipients

Reaching the Mobile Audience

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• With each new release of IBM Cognos 10 we have seen significant improvements in the platform with regard to Active Reports development and consumption

• 10.2.1:

– RAVE: Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine

– Extends the visualization library making graphical and other visual displays more appealing and interactive, not limited to a fixed Chart library

– Visualizations allow for run-time rendering so authors can apply Filter methods to these displays, reducing development efforts as well as the size of Active Reports

– Ability to track Mobile usage through Audit DB

What’s the big deal with Active Reports in this new release?

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• 10.2.1 (continued):

– The new compression feature compresses Active Report controls within the output and produces files that are smaller and open faster

– This significantly improves the performance of Active Reports that include large amounts data versus graphical content

– Improvements to the Active Report engine streamline performance, and result in improved memory consumption characteristics

What’s the big deal with Active Reports in this new release?

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• 10.2.1.1:

• Zooming on active reports

– When viewing active reports on Apple iOS devices, users can zoom in and out using the standard pinch gesture

• Apple push notifications

– You can now use Apple push notifications to notify the users of the IBM Cognos Mobile native iPad application about the availability of new IBM Cognos Business Intelligence reports

– The supported notifications include badges and text alerts

• Reports can now be distributed to IBM Cognos Mobile users by bursting

What’s the big deal with Active Reports in this new release?

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• 10.2.2 (Nov. 21, 2014):

• Improvements to the Authoring Experience:

– Preview mode in Report Studio for Desktop, iPad, and Mobile Phone rendering DIRECTLY in the Studio

– Ability to Convert Visualizations via right-click (just like traditional Charts)

• RAVE evolves:

– Expanded Visualization library

– Optional Data Categories

– NEW Visualization properties exposed within the Studio

What’s Next?

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• Use fixed size objects when designing specifically for a mobile audience

– 1024px by 704px for iPad

• Use Visualizations when possible!

– Eliminates the need to use Decks for the Chart Filter effect

– Leverage new types of visualization

– Animation effects

– Extensibility means unlimited possibilities

• Diligent and consistent object naming practices

Best Practices/Report Development Overview

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