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What’s New with
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Cedric Fillmore - Technical Specialist, IBM Analytics
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Get to Know IBM Cognos
Amplify mobile business intelligence with new and innovative visualizations allowing users to quickly pinpoint trends in data.
InteractiveVisualization
Gain a more complete view of the business and act quickly off insights with expanded support for big data sources including Hadoop, analytic data stores and real-time streaming data.
Big DataPerformance
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, central to IBM Cognos Enterprise, advances capabilities to provide
interactive visualization, mobile, performance and support for big data.
Get insights quickly through performance gained from efficient memory usage, reduced memory footprint and use of advanced compression.
Amplify mobile business intelligence with new and innovative visualizations allowing users to quickly pinpoint trends in data.
Mobile
Leverage native and optimized web applications for Android and iOS to support a broader range of smart phones and tablets.
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Cognos BI: Self-Service & Analytics for Everyone
Browser Mobile Devices MS Office Portal, ApplicationDesktop
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Derive Visual Insights Quickly
RAVE Extensible Visualizations
Intelligent Visualization
Recommendations
IBM Visualization Ecosystem
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Derive Visual Insights Quickly
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Elegant user interface
Personalize your background
Arrange content how you want it
Rename your workspaces
Easy to use
Automatic server configuration
Connect to multiple servers
Preview report without opening
Track progress, pause & restart your
downloads
Embedded end-user how-to tutorials
Commitment to changing technology
Support for a variety of devices
Recent enhancements to iOS and Android
Support Internal and public app stores
Analytics for a Mobile Workforce
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Increased query speeds through more efficient use of memory in Dynamic Cubes
More data and faster load times in Cognos Active Report through Improved use of
compression and engine optimization.
Improved bursting process for batch reports through optimized use of hardware.
Performance
3x
Smaller Active
Report sizes
10x
More data in
Active Reports
5x
Less memory
required for Active
Reports
5x
Faster Active Report Load
Time in Cognos Mobile
3x
Faster Mobile report retrieval & execution
70%
Less memory required
for Dynamic Cube
result and aggregate
caches
2x
Faster Dynamic
Cube performance
6x
Faster Burst
execution
25 %
Improvement in Batch
execution times
85 %
Reduction in amount
of disk activity
20%
Faster interactive
response time
45 %
Reduction in
Dispatcher threads
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Access and Combine Any Data
Data in a CSV or Excel
File
Upload to Cognos BI
Simple Modeling
Author Reports
Personal Data Sets
All Data Sources– Structured and Unstructured– In-Motion and At-Rest– Internal & External
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NEW Watson Analytics
Discovery, Exploration &
Collaboration
1 change, improves alignment, operations and reporting;
governed and scalable
10’s of insightful discoveries presented to, and evaluated
by decision makers
Cognos BI & PredictiveWatson Analytics
100’s of new questions asked by business users each day through
exploration and discovery
IT managed analyticsBusiness user led analytics
Traditional Approach New Approach
Discover What’s Interesting Through Guided Exploration
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IBM Watson Analytics – Self-service Advanced Analytics
Unified analytics experience
Visual storytelling
Intelligent automation
Data access and refinement
Report and dashboard creation
Integrated social business
Guided analytic
discovery
• Single Analytics Experience
• Fully Automated Intelligence
• Natural Language Dialogue
• Guided Analytic Discovery
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Continue to ask questions about your data using
natural language
IBM Watson Analytics - Explore
Click on the new insights provided by
Watson Analytics and explore the text
and visual results
Add in data points and see things
differently using the visualization
menu, data filters, color pallets and
more
Share images with your peers, or email
it to your team
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IT managed Business Intelligence
for the Enterprise
Support for multiple data sources
and operating environments with
customizable visualizations
A known and trusted analytics
foundation
Provides a baseline of information
to feed Watson Analytics across
one integrated and supported
environment
Value and Trust
Cognos Business IntelligenceIT Managed Self-Service
Cloud-based agile analytics for
business users
Guided flexible exploration with
cognitive computing and
automated visualization selection
Automated discovery of
combinations
and permutations of data providing
new answers
A standardized gateway to
maximize
Business Intelligence value across
the Enterprise
Revolutionize how your business transforms data into meaningful insights
IBM Watson Analytics & Cognos Business Intelligence
Exploration and Innovation
Watson AnalyticsIndividual Self-Sufficiency
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2Enabling IT-Driven Self-Service
Speed deployment to enable IT-driven self-service
Streamline the report creation process to save time and make
authors more efficient
Empower more users with increased personalization and more
targeted capabilities
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Speed deployment to enable
IT-driven self-service
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Use ‘quick set-up’ to easily install & configure all
Cognos BI components for testing and prototyping
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Targeted profiles will engage even more users and
make them more self-sufficient
Views based on skill
and required
functionality
Enables more users to
be Self-Sufficient
Customize profiles in
Report Studio &
Workspace Advanced
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Streamline the report creation
process to save time and make
authors more efficient
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Build a report once and create a consistent corporate
identity with reusable style templates
Define Styles for
standardized reporting
Simplify Report
Maintenance by
Updating Styles Once
Create Templates for
groups to provide a
starting point
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Leverage the new visualization capabilities and customize
them directly in Report Studio
Extensible visualization properties are exposed in Report Studio & Workspace Advanced
Extensible visualization data slots are now flexible, use only those that you need.
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See changes to your reports in real-time and speed
authoring with Active Report Live Preview
View Active Report
Content in Report
Studio Directly
Change Layout to
Match Device Output
or Custom
Make Formatting
Changes Directly in
Preview Mode
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Empower more users with
increased personalization
and targeted capabilities
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Quickly upload and easily model personal data sources
for end-to-end analysis with My Data Sets
Upload CSV, XLS, XLSX, and create reports and dashboards
Manage uploaded data files without IT
Administrators can define who has privileges
Data in a CSV or
Excel File
Upload to Cognos
BI
Simple Modeling
Author Reports
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YOU CAN THROUGH COGNOS BI 10.NEXT
Filter related widgets
by selecting values
Create interactive
dashboards for easy
analysis
Define custom buttons
that specify a filter
action
Quickly focus your analysis by using Dynamic Filters in
Cognos Workspace
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Learn more about these exciting innovations
at www.AnalyticsZone.Com
See the new features in action
Read blogs on key topics from product experts
Test drive a trial version of Cognos BI V10.2.2
Let us know what you think!
1. ‘Sign up’ or ‘Sign in’ to www.AnalyticsZone.Com
2. Click on Downloads and Trials and select “Business Intelligence” on the menu
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Analytics-driven organizations are distinguished by their ability to leverage:
All perspectivesPast (historical, aggregated)Present (real-time, scenarios)
Future (predictive, prescriptive)
At the point
of impact
All decisionsMajor and minor
Strategic and tacticalRoutine and exceptionsManual and automated
All informationTransaction/POS data
Social data Click streams
SurveysEnterprise content
External data (competitive, environmental, etc.)
All peopleAll departments
Front line, back officeExecutives, managers
EmployeesSuppliers, customers and
consumersPartners
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Cognos and PureData for AnalyticsPowered by Netezza… A Blazing Fast Combination!!
Cedric Fillmore - Senior Technical Specialist, IBM Analytics
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Cognos and PureData for Analytics (PDA)
5 reasons to use Cognos BI with PDA
1. Interactive analysis – engaging self-service interfaces
2. Enterprise scalability – supports thousands of users
3. Compelling visualizations – on the web, mobile, or emailed
4. Optimized queries – intelligently balances local and remote data processing
5. No wait time – instantaneous responses when in-memory cache is leveraged
C O G N O S+ Blazing Fast
Results!!=
PDA Appliance
100+ Joint Customers
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Generates SQL specifically optimized for each version of Pure Data for Analytics (PDA) to
exploit its analytical functions as much as possible
Blends PDA data with other popular sources of business data
Powerful, efficient data summarization
Security-aware in-memory caching avoids redundant queries
Dynamic query mode employs a 64-bit extensible Java query engine
Compatible query mode for easy upgrades from Cognos 8
DynamicQuery
CompatibleQuery
DynamicCubes
The Query Layer of Business Intelligence
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Cognos Dynamic Cubes
High performance analytics over growing data volumes
Aggregate awarenessAggregate acceleration
Optimize in-memory caching
with in-database processing
The initial run of a report built on a Dynamic Cube ran in 12-15 seconds. After the initial execution, the same report ran in a split second.
Stefan Luthardt
Head of Business Intelligence , Fiducia IT AG
New security features will give us better flexibility to customize and support different security
scenarios.
Unigroup
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Cognos Report Performance – Avg Report Run Times
Important Takeaways:
1. Processing large datasets within PDA appliance is extremely fast
2. Processing time per record decreases as dataset gets larger
3. Want to perform processing as close to data as possible (moving large datasets costs time)
Data Source 1– Data resides in local SQL server database– Record count was 3,200,000
Data Source 2– Data resides in PDA– Base record count was 3,200,000– Maximum record count was 100,000,000
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Get to Know IBM Cognos
“
An end to end Business Analytics solution drives
lightning fast analytics
Shashi Vangala, Manager & Chief Solutions Architect of Business Intelligence
“…Performance is the mantra for us…embed larger extents of
data…enabled extended visibility into the trends…”
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Implementation Details: IBM Cognos Setup
Install PDA (Netezza) Drivers
Create ODBC /JDBC connections
Configure connectivity to IBM Netezza
Create Cognos data source
Create Framework Manager model / package
Create analytics content
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Install PDA (Netezza) Drivers
Run: nzodbcsetup.exe
Select all defaults with the exception of the
"Bit size" to install. You want to install both 32-
bit and 64-bit drivers.
Run: nzjdbcsetup.exe
Select all defaults
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Create an ODBC Connection
Open the ODBC data source Admin console
Select system DSN tab
Select ADD
Select Netezza SQL
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Create a JDBC Connection
Open a command window
cd to c:\JDBC
Enter the following command
java -jar nzjdbc.jar
Select add
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Configure Connectivity to IBM Netezza
Within the Netezza client install directory, locate and copy
the nzjdbc.jar (c:\jdbc).
Within the IBM Cognos 10 install directory, locate the
..\v5dataserver\lib and the ..\p2pd\web-inf\lib directory.
Copy the nzjdbc.jar file into both these directories.
In order for the Netezza driver to be picked up by IBM
Cognos 10, the IBM Cognos 10 service will need to be
stopped and started.
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Define Cognos Data Source
Create a new connection in the Cognos admin portal
Select "Netezza" as the data source type from the drop down.
Configure both JDBC and ODBC tabs.
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IBM Cognos on PureData for Analytics
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