What’s New for Business and IT Cognos 8 BI Version 8.4

Learn about new features and enhancements that enable business users to be:

• More informed

• More engaged

• Better Aligned

Hear about expanded PM reach and environment support

Learn about a new methodology to manage your IBM Cognos 8 solution

Session Objectives

Addressing the Needs of Business

Informed - Provides more trusted information with the additional context to add perspective to the information.

Engaged – Invites business users with more a dynamic and interactive business intelligence experience.

Aligned - improves alignment between strategy and operations with complete visibility from business operations to advanced analytics and strategic plans

IBM Cognos Performance Management System

Information Infrastructure

What’s New in Reporting?

Simplified user experience

Create more visually appealing and interesting reports

Complete and trusted information

Simplified user experience

Simplified user experience

• More User defined defaults

• Data retrieval

• Template

• Extended suppression

• Zero, divide by zero, blanks

• Dynamic drill through

• Enhanced filtering

Visually Appealing & Interesting Reports

Powerful new color palettes and control

Bubble chart property – ‘empty’ bubbles are negative values

Generated background design and color, rounded rectangles, gradients

New charts include: Marimekko, Stepline, Sparkline, Sparkbar and Spark win/loss

A Marimekko chart is frequently called a market map and enables strategic analysis

Step line combines time and trend analysis

Complete and Trusted Information

Report annotations for collaboration

Report lineage

• Out-of-the-box lineage to the model

• Optimised integration with IBM Metadata Workbench (Business Glossary)

• Open API to integrate with 3rd party lineage providers (SOA)

• Across all studios

Access to new data sources including

• Cognos Now!

• TM1

Complete Information with Annotations

Business users provide key insights and information to reports

Confidence with Data Lineage

Business users easily see where data originated to gain confidence in the data they use to drive decisions

Select objects of interest from report

view or package

Access Metadata Workbench directly from Cognos reports

In Metadata Workbench view other reports with this data and

trace where back to sourceSee business or technical

lineage dependingon your role

What’s New in Modeling & Analysis

Simplified user experience

• Cognos Analysis for Excel

• Dynamic drill through

Complete and trusted information

• Cognos Analysis for Excel accesses relational sources

• SAP BW as source for Transformer

• Access to Cubing Services

• Report and data lineage

Introducing Business Viewpoint

Solution• For business users to easily

maintain, govern and share the hierarchies for use … and reuse … across Business Intelligence and Performance Management solutions

Result• Capture the business viewpoint on

how to organize information to drive business performance

• Save time spent on reconciling reports, plans, forecasts

Works with other Dimensional components of Cognos 8

Introducing IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint

Enhancements to Cognos 8 Scorecards

Strategy map and impact diagram portlets

Easier access to scorecard information

Easy integration into 3rd party portal

Impact Diagram for better operational understanding

Strategy Map portlet for easier strategy

communication

Cognos Go! Family of Products

More flexible access to extend user adoption

What’s New in Consumer Modes

Enhancements to Go! Mobile

More comprehensive access to BI via Cognos Go! Search

Enabling end users with Go! Dashboard to quickly assemble and personalise dashboards

Enhancements to Cognos Go! Mobile

Location aware content

Enhanced prompt support

Integrated scheduling – including bursted reports

Support for all prompts on the mobile device

Fully integrated with IBM Cognos 8 Scheduler – including the ability to burst reports to multiple mobile users.

Expanded Go! Search

Easy access to BI !

• Fast and secure access to ranked and relevant BI content.

• Integrate BI content and enterprise content for a more informed view.

• Search all BI content and create views of information to answer search criteria (queries & analysis based on search).

Allows all users to embrace the decision-making power of IBM Cognos 8!

What’s New in Dashboards: IBM Cognos 8 Go! Dashboards

Personalised – self assemble with drag and drop interface

Dynamic – Flash enables dynamic interaction to get better insight

Trusted content – Cognos 8 full report or report parts

Relevant, completely auditable and consistently represented

Access to reports or report ‘parts’

Personalization options enable end user to customize look and feel

Flash graphics deliver rich charts and enable re-sorts,

filter etc

Summary: What’s new for business

Informed - Provides more trusted information with the additional context to add perspective to the information.

Engaged – Invites business users with more a dynamic and interactive business intelligence experience.

Aligned - improves alignment between strategy and operations with complete visibility from business operations to advanced analytics and strategic plans

IBM Cognos 8 v4: To IT Standards

Supporting business user demands without compromising high standards for conformance, compliance and cost effective scalability

IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint & Metadata lineage

New data sources (Cognos Now!, TM1)

New system management methodology

Broader conformance (64-bit, IPv6…)

IBM Cognos 8v4 platform leverages new performance management data sources

Leverage power of TM1 across performance management• TM1 data available through published packages (BI & EP)• Cognos 8 BI capabilities available to Cognos TM1 communities• TM1 cubes can be loaded by Data Manager from any source• TM1 can feed PowerCubes for broader analysis consumption

Gain broader visibility into operational datasets• Now! data available through published packages• Deliver operational metrics across performance management

IT can leverage power of InfoSphere Cubing Services• Cubing Services data available through published packages• Existing DBA skill set optimizes warehouse performance

Greater confidence to deploy on-the-fly views• Rebrand and packaging of Composite Information Server

TM1 as a data source

Now! as a data source

Cubing Services as a data source

Virtual View Manager

System Management Methodology Provides Additional Auditing Know-How

Administrators quickly determine appropriate level of auditing and configure auditing to best manage their environment

IT managers are more informed about the overall usage pattern of the user community and can proactive plan for increased volumes

Jumpstart audit reporting with sample reports and

framework manager model

Combine audit and content store data for reporting on accounts, content, server and dispatcher status

View account status for users and the associated

content for that account

Capture and automatically set system metric thresholds to seed initial system reporting

Administrators can quickly leverage thresholds to proactively identify issues before business impact

Administrators are informed of system management trends to optimize their deployment environment over time.

SMM = Proven Practices, sample reports, Framework Manager models

Capture metrics data for your environment

Use the model, sample reports and sample dashboard for your metrics data

In addition to a snapshot capture metrics over time

Automatically set default thresholds based on

results

Metric Export

Metric Exports

IBM Cognos 8 platform continues to deliver on IT infrastructure standards

Examples of new supported environment• Internet Protocol Standard: IPv6• Web Browser: Firefox 3• Operating Systems: Linux on IBM System z• Application Server: SAP Netweaver 7, IBM

WebSphere 6.1• Database: Oracle 11g, Teradata 12

Expanded conformance & compliance

Note: For a complete list of supported environments, please see Cognos.com

Note: For a complete list of supported environments, please see Cognos.com

Summary: What’s new for IT

Build business confidence in the information with Metadata Lineage - complete traceability back to the data source

Build IT expertise with a complete System Management Methodology - a proven practice approach to manage and scale your Performance Management solution

Deliver on IT standards with expanded conformance and compliance - fit with the latest infrastructure standards

Extend PM solution with expanded data sources and the ability to capture dimensions – end-to-end PM process delivered

Thank You!

Questions?