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IBM Cognos Analytics Newsletter - August 2020

By Robert VAUTOUR posted Mon August 24, 2020 11:23 AM

News

If you haven't done it yet, check out the information about the latest long-term release of Cognos Analytics 11.1.7. This article is a great launching point to explore what's new.

We are extremely excited and proud to announce the first release of our new IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile application for our Cloud Hosted and On-Demand Cloud customers. You can download now in the Apple App Store.

Ensure to review the supported environment compatibility report for our new Long Term Support Release Cognos Analytics 11.1.7. NOTE: type "Cognos Analytics" for the product name, then select your refined choice of Cognos Analytics.

Our vendor-supported client driver versions that were tested for each Cognos Analytics 11.1.x release has been updated with the recent release of Cognos Analytics 11.1.7.

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.

Your business can't afford to not have a data and analytics platform. LPA Software Solutions provides 5 use cases to justify your data analytics platform.

IBM Cognos Transformer is not included as part of IBM Cognos Analytics versions 11.0.x and 11.1.x. But it is possible to install and configure Transformer 11.0.x to be accessible with a Cognos Analytics environment.

Events

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

Webinar: Learn how to modernize IBM Cognos Analytics to IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Aug 26

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

Webinar: How to use dumb dashboards to create smarter users. Sep 3

Events

Webinar: Data Exploration and Dashboard creation - what's new for the Business user. Sep 3

Workshop: Cognos Analytics upgrade workshop with Motio. Learn about managing your Cognos Analytics content inventory with Motio and prepare for an upgrade with Grandview, Motio and IBM. Sep 15

Webinar: AI in BI. Find out how you can augment intelligence in Cognos Analytics. Sep 8

User Group: Join LPA's virtual user group. Be part of the group which will discuss Cognos Analytics new features, data sets, dashboard, visualizations as well as advanced planning and forecasting with Planning Analytics. Sep 17

Tech Corner

You can analyze what-if scenarios using machine learning. This sample extension builds a machine learning (ML) predictive model to simulate what-if scenarios. You can use this tool to predict a target measure and answer what-if questions.

Are you looking for an organizational chart visualization? This chart and more are available to use. Check out some examples of this and other new visualizations available which you can download from our Accelerator Catalog.

IBM's Martin Keller provides a few tips on Cognos Analytics and WAN Performance.

This technique will help to avoid full outer joins in cases where multi-fact combinations rather than aggregations are desired. This type of reporting commonly occurs with human resource (HR) data, but also occurs in various other types of subject areas.

Cloud Corner

Get help managing users in an integrated environment for Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud with SSO (Single Sign-On). This integration now allows users to seamlessly move between Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics.

Setting up bursting for cloud object store: The service credential names are not what you expect, so find the details on how to set up a cloud bursting location. Or, if you're looking for an Alternative to Burst to Cloud Storage? Learn how to save report outputs to Box.

Ready to EXPLORE!

Ready to EXPLORE the latest release of Cognos Analytics?

Join us for the launch of EXPLORE on Tuesday, August 25th at 10 AM EST. We're hosting a 30-minute livestream for you to learn, ask questions, and even chat with fellow Cognos Analytics users.

Join us with this link (password: readytoexplore) or learn more about it here.

On-Premises Corner

If you cannot connect to SQL Server Content Manager database in Cognos Analytics 11.1.x when TLS 1.0 is disabled, this article can help to resolve.

If images are not being displayed when reports run in Cognos Analytics as PDF using SSL webserver, this article may help to resolve.

Recommended Resources

Have you ever wondered about changing the color palette on a visualization or how colors are assigned to values in a visualization? The answer is a property called "Color Consistency."

What can you do with the new Cognos Analytics Mobile app? See how Cognos Analytics for Mobile can be used to quickly see how your business and organization is performing.

If you want to optimize your current dashboards for mobile consumption, check out this video from our Offering Manager Matt Denham and look in the video notes for links to the necessary extensions.

Watch highlights of what's new in Dashboards in the latest Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 release.

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