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IBM Cognos Analytics Newsletter - October 2020

By Robert VAUTOUR posted Wed October 28, 2020 08:12 AM

News

The first release of IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile was delivered in August! Review the concept of pin boards, which are a mobile-optimized way to view visualizations on a smart phone.

Did you know you can use Voice Activated Natural Language to explore your data with the new Cognos Analytics Mobile App? Also see how this interface is organized in four key areas.

Since our Cognos Analytics Release 11.1.7 FP1, there is now support for multiple data modules in a report.

The best-kept secret is out: re-discover Cognos Analytics. Since the 11.1.7 release, take a look at what makes Cognos Analytics stand out from other BI solutions on the market. Watch the message from IBM General Manager for Data and AI, Daniel Hernandez.

David Marmer, IBM VP of Offering Management and Dan Rebella, IBM Global Solution Leader explain how to emerge from crisis with resilience: smarter analytics for smarter business.

Motio software is now available on IBM Marketplace. Motio, an IBM Business Partner for nearly two decades, created its software to provide a set of integrated features that make it easier and faster to develop Cognos Analytics assets.

Keep current with the most popular Cognos Analytics ideas submitted. Next to the idea, there's a 'Vote' button which helps to increase the priority of your favorite idea.

Events

Virtual Classroom: Motio and IBM experts will work side by side with you for a highly specialized experience to get the most out of your Cognos Analytics upgrade. France Nov 19

Webinar: NewIntelligence provides a comprehensive head to head comparison for SAP Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and NI's QuickStart solution, powered by IBM Cognos Analytics in terms of reporting and dashboarding functionality when working with SAP Business One data. Replay

Workshop: In this hands on workshop, Rich Chester, LPA's Director of Business Intelligence, will walk participants through the Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 release. Oct 30

Events

Virtual Event: Emerge with Resiliency 2020. Join this one-day virtual event to learn how AI-infused planning and analytics solutions can help enhance business continuity, reduce risk from emerging threats, and help you prepare for and manage disruption. Nov 18

Webinar: Getting started with Cognos Analytics. Join IBM's live weekly webinar series to jump-start your Cognos experience. Let our experts show you how to easily analyze data, create dashboards and share reports in no time! Oct 29

Webinar: Ask Me Anything about Cognos Analytics hosted by our IBM Offering Managers. Get answers to your questions as well as sneak previews on product roadmap. Nov 3

Tech Corner

Download the Liquid Fill Gauge sample. It's a gauge that represents a percentage value by filling up the liquids to the threshold value. The liquid can be animated with waves along with other properties like setting colors, fonts and circle to suit your requirements.

Chrome 86 updates cause issues with Cognos Analytics!
A recent update to Chrome 86 has introduced issues which prevent the normal operation of reporting and other aspects of Cognos Analytics. The issue affects several releases, please refer to following table for details which outlines which release is affected and follow the resolution steps.

Find your step-by-step guide on how to configure Google BigQuery data source connection with Cognos Analytics. A reminder this configuration is only supported with DQM (Dynamic Query Mode).

This article will provide you with the best practices for using JDBC drivers with Cognos Analytics 11.x. Review the do's and don'ts as well as the supported drivers.

IBM Cognos Analytics Mobile Reports records activities and debugging information as well as information about user and report activity. See what logging levels are available to you in case you need to log additional information.

Gartner Peer Review Survey

We'd love your feedback and would appreciate your product review to help others considering IBM Cognos Analytics.

Cloud Corner

Frequently asked questions about cloud. Review the FAQ about your Cognos Analytics on Cloud subscription.

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.

On-Premises Corner

If you're interested in gathering more information on migration to Cognos Analytics on Cloud, this document outlines what to expect with the onboarding of your new cloud environment.

If you need to troubleshoot your Cognos Analytics gateway, these steps to enable trace gateway transactions could help.

When running an audit report against the Audit database configured on Oracle, and if "ORA-12704 Character set mismatch" error is returned, this article may help.

Recommended Resources

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

This video is intended for beginners, to help them get started with authoring dashboards.

Join PMsquare Director of Technology Ryan Dolley, as he explores the new Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 release.

In October 2020, IBM held its Data and AI Forum, a virtual event designed to give attendees the tools to accelerate their journeys to AI. During the event, L'Oréal's Laurent Mesnier shared his company's story of finance transformation and its AI journey.

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