Upgrade and save ---- A new self-service user experience tailored to business users and new visual data exploration capabilities with better visuals…all at no additional cost.
Many long-time Cognos BI customers have relied on its professional reporting capabilities to understand what is happening in their business and have been waiting for us to add more visual data exploration capabilities and improve the user experience for business users’ self-service. The wait is over! Cognos Analytics is an evolution of Cognos BI. It was designed to address your need for an easy-to-use analytics solution that enables business users to monitor and stay on top of the data that matters most to them.
The Cognos Analytics team is committed to making the upgrade to Cognos Analytics as straightforward as possible. As a result, we are hosting a series of Cognos Analytics Upgrade Summits to demonstrate the benefits, walk-through a number of upgrade scenarios and provide detailed information and demos of our Cloud and hybrid offerings. We will also have a number of technical experts on hand to answer all of your questions. You can find more details on
upcoming roadshows here.
Here are the top 10 reasons why we believe now is the right time to make the move.
- Get more for less. Cognos Analytics features one unified interface for all users, with a personalized experience based on the type of user, their role and the level of access required. In the cloud version, you can freely mix and match user roles without an impact on pricing.
- Create great-looking visualizations in a wide variety of types, including geospatial mapping. The system will automatically suggest the best visualization type based on your data. You can even add your own types of visualizations.
- Quickly find what you are looking for. Natural language search makes it fast and easy to find the content you are looking for. Intent-based modeling helps you build customized data modules.
- Deliver the data discovery functionality your business users need. Business users can quickly find or upload the data they need and use the built-in intelligence to guide them in visual data exploration and the creation of great-looking dashboards and infographics.
- Optimize your time with faster creation of professional reports. Create pixel-perfect reports and dashboards off of trusted data and quickly distribute out to your team, division or entire enterprise.
- Tell stories with your data. Stories are a powerful mechanism to communicate with people. Cognos Analytics can help you quickly build a compelling story by combining widgets with enhanced graphic overlays, voiceovers and other dynamic elements.
- Save time with re-usable data modules. No need to start from scratch; build upon the expertise of others with re-usable widgets, dashboards, reports and data modules.
- Access analytic insights where and when you need them. When you are traveling you need access to the latest information whether you are online or offline. With Cognos Analytics, the experience is consistent across most devices. You can even build a dashboard on an iPad.
- Get analytics your way. Customize and extend your analytics experience by changing the look and feel of the user interface and adding additional functionality.
- Take advantage of the agility and flexibility of cloud while preserving data security. “Bridge” your on-premises license to a Cognos Analytics on Cloud subscription and preserve your data wherever it is: on the cloud, on-premises or both.
Get started with Cognos Analytics today!
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