WHAT S NEW IN COGNOS BI VERSION PLUS NEW PRODUCT PREVIEWS. Overview and Demonstration

WHAT S NEW IN COGNOS BI VERSION 10.2.1.1 PLUS NEW PRODUCT PREVIEWS Overview and Demonstration

WHAT S NEW: IBM COGNOS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Jeff Dean

What s New: IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Jeff Dean Solution Advisor IBM Business Analytics

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Agenda Overview of innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence Interactive visualization Demonstration Mobile Demonstration Performance enhancements Extended support for big data Additional innovations Q&A 9

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1.1 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1.1, central to IBM Cognos Enterprise, advances capabilities to provide interactive visualization, mobile, performance and support for big data. Interactive Visualization Mobile Performance Big Data 10 Amplify mobile business intelligence with new and innovative visualizations allowing users to quickly pinpoint trends in data. Leverage Get insights native and quicker than Get insights ever before Amplify optimized web quicker than through mobile applications ever before performance business for Android through improvements intelligence and ios to performance gained from with support new and a improvement more efficient innovative broader range s gained from memory usage, visualizations of smart more efficient reduced allowing phones and memory memory users tablets. to usage, footprint and reduced improved use of memory quickly pinpoint trends in data. footprint and improved use of compression. compression. 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 realtime streaming data.

Interactive Visualization A paradigm shift for delivering value to users The Challenge: New requirements for visualizations are constantly emerging Each requirement is unique and is difficult to meet The Solution: Provide a wider variety of visualizations with the means to extend and customize. 11

Cognos General Reporting with Interactive Visualization 12

Interactive Visualization Better Decision Making Through Increased Analysis Capability & Innovation Incorporate new and innovative visualizations in general reporting and Cognos Active Reports Authoring within Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced. Consumption and assembly in Cognos Workspace Improved usability with the Visualization library Enhance the user experience through the delivery of interactive and animated charts Integrate custom visualizations Leverage the expertise of IBM luminaries 13

New visualizations are a simple download away Browse, find and download visualizations from the extensible visualization community to quickly provide the best visual for your reporting needs Scatter Gantt Area Radar Boxplot Dial Treemap/Heatmap Plus a continually growing set of visualizations analyticszone.com/visualization 14

IBM Cognos Mobile Extended device support Support for Android phones and tablets and iphones Enhanced Security Integrated with Good Technology s security platform Interactive Visualization New and innovative visualizations including interactive and animated charts Interactive Content Integration with Cognos Workspace Redesigned interface Includes how-to videos 15

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Performance 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. 70% Less memory required for Dynamic Cube result and aggregate caches 6x Faster Burst execution 5x Faster Active Report Load Time in Cognos Mobile 3x Smaller Active Report sizes * Subject to the Benchmarking and Test Results Disclaimer 45 % Reduction in Dispatcher threads 2x Faster Dynamic Cube performance 10x More data in Active Reports 5x Less memory required for Active Reports 25 % Improvement in Batch execution times 20% Faster interactive response time 85 % Reduction in amount of disk activity 3x Faster Mobile report retrieval & execution 17

Performance and Scalability Faster and more efficient Mobile Faster Report Execution Request optimizations improves response Active Reports Faster, more data and reduced Memory consumption Optimized Internal Structure Better use of compression Improved memory consumption Report Rendering Faster Removed redundant calls, reduced unnecessary compression, improved memory usage Bursting Optimizing hardware usage Burst reports can now be distributed across report servers for better use of hardware resources Batch Faster running jobs Batch has been optimized for fast running reports Improved CPU Utilization Dynamic Cubes Faster and reduced memory consumption Simplified SQL query structure Reduced Memory Footprint Improved aggregate selection logic Dynamic Query - Faster Improved DMR first run performance Improved TM1 interactive analysis Configuration More Optimal settings Improved system defaults Disk I/O Scalability Improves Report Execution Files are now cached in memory which greatly reduces Disk I/O activity * Subject to the Benchmarking and Test Results Disclaimer 18

Business Analytics for Big Data Business Analytics for Big Data Business Big Data Analytics for Big Data Get the Most Complete View of the Business Get the Most Complete View of the Business Get the Most Complete View of the Business Combine data in motion and at rest General Hive support to access to: o Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, AWS EMR and other distributions using Hive 0.8 or Hive 0.9 Optimized access to: o BigInsights via Big SQL and SAP HANA 19

Additional Innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos Workspace New in 10.2.1.1 Embedding and Customizing Workspaces Cognos Workspace can be embedded in any third party application or organization portal enabling organizations to provide embedded analytics with a customized and unique experience for their users Embedded workspaces can include or omit parts of the IBM Cognos user interface In applications or portals that contain a prompted workspace, users can append prompt parameter values to the URL to pass new prompt parameter values to the workspace or to avoid being prompted. 21

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IBM Cognos Workspace New in 10.2.1.1 Cognos Workspace: New recommended visualizations to better depict your content i.e. Marimekko charts, Pareto charts, Progressive charts and Radar charts Improved printing Use + marks in crosstab to expand items Hide tool bars Move tabs and global areas Cut, copy and paste widgets and duplicate tabs Cut, copy, and paste widgets from one tab to another, from one workspace to another, or to or from the global area enabling users to save time in creating dashboards Duplicate tabs provide a convenient way to use one tab as a template for another saving time and giving workspaces a consistent look and feel 23

IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced Cognos Workspace: Easy resize to fit content icon Ability to map Slider/Select values to group items that are alike Dynamically update the slider/select value filter when the report changes Bulk widget updates: across dashboards by dashboard by folder (using SDK) Cognos Workspace Advanced/Report Studio Show value as percentage Share sets between reports Expanded text-based filtering options Simplified custom grouping (CWA) Improved Excel formatting 24

General Reporting New in 10.2.1.1 Visualization Library Sorting and refining list of visualizations More information provided on visualizations helping users to determine what best meets their reporting needs Interactivity Provide drill up/down, drill through, tooltips and selection for server side generated visualizations enabling deeper analysis Chrome/Safari support Chrome/Safari support for Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced letting users take advantage of these popular browsers Dynamic Report Booklets Ability to combine multiple reports into a single report booklet allowing users to reuse and present a large amount of BI content for more effective consumption Features include: Table of Content can be created with reference to each report Each report will start on a new page Update to each report will automatically update the report booklet. All authored prompt pages will run at the start CSV and XML will only run the first query encountered as they do in a single report 25

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IBM Cognos Theme Designer New in 10.2.1.1 Provides a graphical user interface making it easy to tailor IBM Cognos BI Applications with organizational brand requirements Replace images, colors or edit HTML to get the look an organization is standardized on Produce multiple themes for users to chose from or differentiate themes for each tenant or application in a multi-tenancy environment Supported within IBM Cognos Connection, IBM Cognos Viewer and IBM Cognos Workspace To download Cognos Theme Designer and its documentation, go to the IBM support site here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24035533 27

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Cognos Dynamic Cubes Modeling Performance Auto-design enhancements in Cube Designer results in better hierarchies Memory Optimization reduced memory footprint and increases performance Significant reduction in memory required for member cache and query processing Overall query improvements that will benefit all users Dynamic Cubes API New in 10.2.1.1 REST-based API for the development and deployment of Dynamic Cube applications Customers and partners will now have the ability to programmatically design, deploy and manage their Dynamic Cube applications Improved Security Usability Ability to secure dimensions, levels and attributes Ability to leverage customer-defined tables to drive security definition for more control and ease of use Dynamic security refresh New Semi Aggregate Rules: First, Last, Current Period New in 10.2.1.1 Measure improvements (folders, ordering) Embedded prompts and macros in Dynamic Cubes Filtering on Dimensions 29

Cognos Dynamic Query Focused Performance improvements of DMR first run New Monitoring/Management of DQ Memory Usage through Cognos Administration New Data source support: DB2 for I, Sybase IQ, MySQL SAP HANA BigInsights 2.1 via Big SQL 30

Administration Content Management External Object Store significant reduction on Content Store size which improves performance when fetching report results Archiving repository options: - IBM Content Manager 8 - IBM FileNet - FileSystem Install and Deploy Enhancements Install select only the languages required, reducing overall installed footprint Deploy deploy My Folders content only Multi-Tenancy Multi-tenancy tab within IBM Cognos Administration provides central UI for managing tenants - General tenant administration - More control with tenant onboarding - Option to deploy public content 31

Introducing IBM Concert Guided Business Processes Personalized task list highlight priorities, and walk users through projects step by step to highlight important time sensitive tasks, and improve efficiency Focus on Collaboration Act upon insights by easily collaborating and sharing data analysis with anyone, anywhere to build consensus around business decisions Cloud deployable, Mobile Enabled Activity streams alert you to changes as well as collaborative insights as they occur across the enterprise. Prioritized tasks can be acted upon sooner 33

Transforming the analytics experience People The Insight The analytic experience must be transparently woven into the fabric of your business Tools Process 34

Transforming the analytics experience The Insight The analytic experience must be transparently woven into the fabric of your business Tools People Process The Innovation The new analytics experience must equally engage the analytics platform, business processes and people 35

IBM Concert Guided Business Processes Collaboration Mobile Performance Management BI & Predictive Risk Analytics Big Data and Analytics Platform Disclosure Management The Insight The analytic experience must be transparently woven into the fabric of your business The Innovation The new analytics experience must equally engage the analytics platform, business processes and people The First Steps IBM Concert on Cloud for Performance Management 38

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