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IBM Cognos Analytics newsletter - July 2020

By Robert VAUTOUR posted Tue July 28, 2020 12:28 PM

News

The Business Application Research Center (BARC) names IBM a 2020 market leader in integrated Planning & Analytics, with products including: IBM Planning Analytics powered by TM1, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Watson Studio, and IBM SPSS.

Forbes names IBM Cognos Analytics one of the 10 best data analytics tools in 2020.

Learn about our technical experts and their areas of focus with the new My Favorite Things series. We kick things off with a focus on Tim Aston, Offering Manager for the new mobile experience on Cognos. Read about it here.

The new IBM Accelerator Catalog has been drawing a lot of attention! The Accelerator Catalog is a learning and ideation space for maximizing your investment in IBM Analytics solutions. Find templates and samples of custom visualizations, best practice guides, industry use cases, schematics, workforce planning models, and even in-product interactive experiences to see how you can use our products in a variety of industries, departments, and roles to quickly and accurately get to the answers you need.

The exciting 11.1.7 release of Cognos Analytics is coming soon! In the meantime, read this blog to get caught up on new features released in April with 11.1.6.

Our COVID-19 dashboard continues to be kept up to date with latest data compilation provided by multiple third party sources including the World Health Organization, state and local agencies as well as other public sources.

Events

Virtual Classroom: Motio and IBM experts will work side by side with you for highly specialized experience to get the most out of your Cognos Analytics upgrade.
Americas (Spanish) Aug 6

Webinar: Ask Me Anything about Cognos Analytics with IBM Offering Managers. Aug 4 & Sep 1

User Conference: PMSquare's 2-day Business Analytics Conference (BACON) - Free, virtual sessions and labs. Sep 16 & 17

Events

Our first virtual Community Day was a great success! The event held on May 19 included 10+ Cognos and Planning Analytics sessions from roadmaps to client stories and product enhancements. All sessions are now available on demand through mid-August.

Webinar: Expand the reach of your analytics with release 11.1.7 of IBM Cognos Analytics. Jul 30

Webinar: Data & AI series, "Trusted insights, confident decisions: AI-driven analytics" Jul 29

Tech Corner

Optimize dashboard layouts for mobile devices. Download this sample extension to add mobile rendering support to IBM Cognos Analytics dashboards.

Enable AI Learning features based on usage for visualizations in dashboards and exploration. With AI learning, your usage and preferences are used in subsequent recommendations to provide a more personalized experience.

This downloadable route map custom visualization by Intito was developed to visualize the routes of delivery vehicles geospatially, but the visualization can be utilized in other use cases as well.

Ensure your dashboards and reports are actionable and presentable with the Business Analytics Design Cheat Sheet.

Looking to improve performance on dashboards with many objects? Consider changing the cache size of dynamic queries.

Consider these security best practices for Cognos Analytics by Andrew Copeland of Sempre Analytics.

Have you ever converted a model to a new data source and run into case issues with your metadata? If so, use the FMMD_ModelUpdate utility to help automate the case conversion.

Cloud Corner

Want to know which features are available across different offerings of Cognos Analytics, such as on-premises vs. cloud? See this recently updated matrix of features. Note: it changes often as new features are added.

Business Analysts Wanted!

The IBM User Experience Program is looking for your input on new features to help make preparing data faster and easier in a brief 10-minute online research activity.

Click here to help us understand the way you think about data prep so we can design a better data prep experience together.

On-Premises Corner

Save report outputs to a file system by reviewing the steps outlined by PMSquare.

If you accidentally delete your administrator access, what do you do? These steps might be of value.

Uncover the truth hidden in your data with the Cognos Analytics free trial. And if you want to get some hands-on experience with Planning Analytics, access the Planning Analytics free trial. These trials are 30-days and free with no download required.

Recommended Resources

IBM is bringing you a native mobile experience, including proactive notifications and the Cognos Analytics assistant. Smarts and AI are built into Cognos Analytics, so our mobile app should be no different. Watch a preview of this exciting new app.

Read a case study to learn how Nukissiorfiit use intelligent analytics to help Greenland's resource use go greener and leaner.

Learn tips from the CQM to DQM conversion at Performance Food Group from this recording by Motio.

Watch the playback of the training session on Jupyter Notebooks Integration by LPA.

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