IBM Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 is now available!
And in this release IBM is bringing one of the most impactful and exciting news from last years regarding AI capabilities: Natural language narrative insights.
Exactly. Now the dashboard creators can easily visualize insights that help them to explain the data, find outliers and key drivers that facilitate and accelerate data analysis.
And another amazing feature of Cognos Narrative Insights is that, in addition to helping Dashboard Creators identify meaningful aspects of the data, it also allows these insights to be easily shared with other users who will consume these dashboards.
Narrative insights are auto-generated and can even use data from outside the visualization (such as other measures, categories, or time dimensions) to draw conclusions, explain and highlight potential drivers or underlying causes, or further breakdown data.
How to Access the Narrative Insights?
You can see narrative insights for any eligible visualization by clicking the Narrative insights icon in the visualization or by expanding the Narrative insights section on the Analytics tab.
Favorite insights:
Dashboard authors can mark a narrative insight as favorite and choose the order in which their favorite insights will be displayed to dashboard consumers. to do that, the dashboard author just need to click in the star icon. When the dashboard is shared, other users can see the favorited narrative insights and up to three additional insights suggested by Cognos Analytics.
Dynamic:
Narrative insights are dynamic and change as the data in the visualization changes. Narrative insights, including favorited insights, don't display if they are no longer relevant to the data in the visualization. That is, the Dashboard Creator doesn't have to worry about updating insights manually when the data changes.
Sharing Insights:
As previously mentioned, now the user who will read the dashboard will also have available the insights chosen by the Dashboard Author. In this way, Cognos ensures consistency in information sharing and highlights the points that the dashboard author deems most important. In addition to the favorited narrative insights marked by the author, the consumer user will also see up to three additional insights suggested by Cognos Analytics
And this is just the beginning. Many good ones are already planned and will be coming to Cognos NLG features in the next releases
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