Cognos Analytics 12.1.1 introduces new dashboard features that make authoring and consumption faster, more intuitive, and more personalized. Here are the top five improvements that will elevate how you build and explore dashboards. 

A Smarter and more Responsive Layout: Dashboard authoring is now smoother thanks to a new intelligent layout system. Visualizations automatically adjust size, reposition, and optimize the canvas as you add or modify content and dashboards respond better across different screen sizes.

Bookmarks & Saved Views for more personalized analysis: Bookmarks allow users to jump instantly to a common starting point, such as a region and tab of the dashboard used frequently. Saved Views go further by remembering each user’s personal filters.  

Filter Dock Enhancements for Better Usability: Authors can now control whether the filter panel is open or closed by default, resize individual filters to optimize visibility and they can also choose whether users see only this tab or all tab filters. All these improvements are giving more flexibility in how filtering is presented. 

One-Click Data Tray Export to CSV: In Authorized dashboards, consumers can now export the data tray behind a visualization a lot faster with a single click making deeper investigation allow data export. 

More Customization for Visualization Appearance: Two new styling capabilities help dashboards feel more polished and consistent. Authors can set a color for a specific data point and have it apply across all relevant visualizations, and they can now customize background colors for visualizations.