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Newsletter - August Edition: Cognos Analytics with Watson

By NICK PLOWDEN posted Tue August 30, 2022 06:41 PM

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New Releases

Cognos, Analytics release 11.2.3 is now available from Passport Advantage. In the 11.2.x stream, Cognos Analytics with Watson has continued to push the envelope enabling Analytics Everywhere! Enhancing how and where our users can navigate and extract value from their data. These enhancements ranged from a major user experience overhaul and additional visualizations, to sorting the metadata tree in Data Modules and expanded support for JSON Web tokens. Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.3 builds on the previous releases to provide enhanced functionality and workflows to our users across Modeling, Reports, Dashboards, Administration and more! Check out the blog post. In addition, this blog post discusses what is new in Multivariate Forecasting and AI features in release 11.2.3.

Cloud Pak for Data Cognos Analytics release 4.5 is ready for your organization now! We're excited to introduce Cognos Analytics deployed on Cloud Pak for Data. It is a containerized solution that runs on Red Hat OpenShift and integrates with the entire suite of data, AI and analytics services that can be deployed on Cloud Pak for Data. This allows users to easily connect and integrate services such as Watson Knowledge Catalog with Cognos Analytics for intelligent data cataloging, backed by active metadata and policy management. Get the details here.

Events

Webinar: Go Above and Beyond with IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics. Armed with a suite of analytics tools designed to prepare you for the future, go above and beyond identifying what is happening in your business – get to the why, and plan for what’s next. Aug 31

Webinar: Ask Me Anything: Cognos Analytics with Watson September
2022 Edition. Sep 13

Tech Corner

PMSquare: Cognos Server Maintenance Guide. Routine Cognos server maintenance is critical in order to ensure your environment performs optimally and remains reliable. Failure to attend to this could likely cause unnecessary downtime and impact critical deadlines. Our partner, PMSquare, suggests some key checks to assist in maintaining your Cognos Analytics servers. Check out the story.

Cognos Fix Lists. Access a comprehensive list of defect corrections for Cognos Analytics Components here.

Have an idea to improve Cognos?
Submit your new feature ideas or enhancements about Cognos via the Ideas portal. You can also look at other user ideas and vote on your favorites! Check it out here.

Find your Cognos content more quickly than ever starting with Cognos Analytics 11.2.3. Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.3 is chock full of new features. And if you use the search function in Cognos, you're going to love these new capabilities. In fact hundreds of you voted on them in the IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal! Get the details here.

Recommended Videos

Tune in to the new Cognos Analytics Learning Series. This collection of videos is intended for new business users to Cognos, to help them to quickly get started. This getting started video series consists of six modules that cover the key aspects of Cognos and there are additional videos that you can refer to as you gain more experience in using it. Check out the series here.

Getting started - Introduction to managing content in 11.2.2. This video is intended for someone new to IBM Cognos Analytics. In the video the terms content, private content and public content are defined. It also demonstrates how to manage content using move, copy and hide. Watch it in the Accelerator Catalog.

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