Hi Everyone,

With the arrival of sunshine and warm weather in Ottawa, we have even more reason to celebrate with the availability of the latest release of Cognos Analytics, release 11.0.1(R11). It has been less than 8 weeks since the last release, which was R10, so this is a  small release in terms of content, but it addresses some of the key things that you have been asking us for.

Here are some of the highlights in the new release.

• Add custom shapes to geographic locations in your dashboards and reports with support for Custom polygons. Read Kas's blog for more details on the new capabilities here.

• Portal pages in Cognos Analytics at last! -  Access all the portal pages you created in Cognos BI within the Cognos Analytics experience. This was an important Request for Enhancement (RFE) that was raised by you. Check out Chris's blog for all the details.

• Better Dashboard performance with support for caching, take a look at Jason's blog for more details.

• Reduce risk of un-authorized modification of Report details - Enables a BI Administrator to override the default visibility settings for objects. This was another popular RFE. Read more about it in Chris's blog.

Here is a ppt overview of the new release, IBM Cognos Analytics R11 Overview.

Stay tuned for for an update on the Smarter BI & Analytics capabilities that are coming to Cognos in 2018!.

Bye for now,

Nick
#CognosAnalyticswithWatson