Finally I got some time to learn and update myself on IBM BI latest tools.
Its been 7+ years I have been working in Cognos BI tool.
The Cognos Insight will be the next big thing in the market because IBM beautifully integrated TM1 and Cognos BI workspace capabilities in Cognos Insight 10.2 version.
Cognos Insight 10.2 Cognos Insight, released in Early 2012, is the Personal Analytics solution that has taken the marketplace and user’s desktops by storm, garnering a #1 ranking among all Self Service Business Intelligence Platforms in The Forrester Wave (Q2 2012). Cognos 10.2 continues to improve ease of use, and integration with IBM Cognos Enterprise to encourage collaboration and enterprise distribution while avoiding data silos that other competitive solutions can create. What’s the use of personal insight if the entire organization cannot stand to benefit?
Tree Maps Customers and Partners alike have clamored for improved data visualizations and IBM has responded in kind. The addition of Tree Maps to Cognos Insight pays homage to the applied data visualization theories of luminaries such as Edward Tufte and Stephen Few and it is a theme that is quite prevalent in Cognos 10.2. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for Tree Maps in the enterprise studios as this is a Cognos Insight-Only feature for now.
Smart Metadata A new data discovery engine in Cognos Insight will automatically detect dimensional levels in hierarchies and even differentiate between numeric attributes and measures. This means users will spend even less time importing data, further shortening the learning curve of this already intuitive platform.
Drill-able, Drag and Drop Charting and Top/Bottom Filtering Users can now drill up and down directly on charts, just as is possible in Cognos Enterprise, and they can also drag and drop dimensions and measures directly onto charts as opposed to having to retain a crosstab in prior versions. Also included is rapid top/bottom filtering in Crosstabs that is always a simple right click away.
Package Import Prior to this latest, release users could import data into Cognos Insight from existing IBM Cognos Reports. IBM takes the story of unified metadata one step further allowing users to source data directly from the same ad-hoc reporting packages that are published in the Cognos Enterprise environment. For IT and business alike this means master data management and data governance from the enterprise to the desktop: unified business logic and terminology at every step of the way.
Time Rollups Cognos Insight now has out-of-box functionality to build custom time dimensions or roll-ups. Populate entire years regardless of how sparse your data may be or customize it to match your organizations fiscal calendar.
High Fidelity Publish Customers who also have IBM Cognos TM1 Enterprise can publish their Cognos Insight dashboards to Cognos 10.2 Enterprise as full-fledged, tabbed Cognos Workspaces. This means that Cognos Insight users can share their analyses with other Cognos Enterprise users who do not have Cognos Insight capabilities. This is huge from both a customer licensing and a usability perspective as prior releases required that any users who wanted to view an Insight dashboard must have Cognos Insight capabilities, which came at the higher Advanced Business Author licensing level. To view a Cognos Workspace a user need only be at popular Enhanced Consumer license tier. What’s a Cognos Workspace you ask?
Go through some training videos below is the link.
http://ibmtvdemo.edgesuite.net/software/analytics/cognos/videos/HTVs/ci102/index.html
It has what if analysis ,budgeting and planning and visualization capabilities.
It automates the development of TM1 applications which reduces the time for end to end deployment for small or medium applications.
It completely based on self service model which provide lot of capability to end users to get their things done without involvement of IT.
I am sure in upcoming versions IBM will leverage this tool with lot of capabilities for data visualization on Big data or HDFS (Lets see).
I think we can replace the transformer cubes by using the Cognos insight by publishing the CDD workspace file on IBM Cognos BI Connection as workspace.
I will be going to start POC soon.
Let me know what other folks think about Cognos Insight.
Its been 7+ years I have been working in Cognos BI tool.
The Cognos Insight will be the next big thing in the market because IBM beautifully integrated TM1 and Cognos BI workspace capabilities in Cognos Insight 10.2 version.
Cognos Insight 10.2 Cognos Insight, released in Early 2012, is the Personal Analytics solution that has taken the marketplace and user’s desktops by storm, garnering a #1 ranking among all Self Service Business Intelligence Platforms in The Forrester Wave (Q2 2012). Cognos 10.2 continues to improve ease of use, and integration with IBM Cognos Enterprise to encourage collaboration and enterprise distribution while avoiding data silos that other competitive solutions can create. What’s the use of personal insight if the entire organization cannot stand to benefit?
Tree Maps Customers and Partners alike have clamored for improved data visualizations and IBM has responded in kind. The addition of Tree Maps to Cognos Insight pays homage to the applied data visualization theories of luminaries such as Edward Tufte and Stephen Few and it is a theme that is quite prevalent in Cognos 10.2. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait for Tree Maps in the enterprise studios as this is a Cognos Insight-Only feature for now.
Smart Metadata A new data discovery engine in Cognos Insight will automatically detect dimensional levels in hierarchies and even differentiate between numeric attributes and measures. This means users will spend even less time importing data, further shortening the learning curve of this already intuitive platform.
Drill-able, Drag and Drop Charting and Top/Bottom Filtering Users can now drill up and down directly on charts, just as is possible in Cognos Enterprise, and they can also drag and drop dimensions and measures directly onto charts as opposed to having to retain a crosstab in prior versions. Also included is rapid top/bottom filtering in Crosstabs that is always a simple right click away.
Package Import Prior to this latest, release users could import data into Cognos Insight from existing IBM Cognos Reports. IBM takes the story of unified metadata one step further allowing users to source data directly from the same ad-hoc reporting packages that are published in the Cognos Enterprise environment. For IT and business alike this means master data management and data governance from the enterprise to the desktop: unified business logic and terminology at every step of the way.
Time Rollups Cognos Insight now has out-of-box functionality to build custom time dimensions or roll-ups. Populate entire years regardless of how sparse your data may be or customize it to match your organizations fiscal calendar.
High Fidelity Publish Customers who also have IBM Cognos TM1 Enterprise can publish their Cognos Insight dashboards to Cognos 10.2 Enterprise as full-fledged, tabbed Cognos Workspaces. This means that Cognos Insight users can share their analyses with other Cognos Enterprise users who do not have Cognos Insight capabilities. This is huge from both a customer licensing and a usability perspective as prior releases required that any users who wanted to view an Insight dashboard must have Cognos Insight capabilities, which came at the higher Advanced Business Author licensing level. To view a Cognos Workspace a user need only be at popular Enhanced Consumer license tier. What’s a Cognos Workspace you ask?
Go through some training videos below is the link.
http://ibmtvdemo.edgesuite.net/software/analytics/cognos/videos/HTVs/ci102/index.html
It has what if analysis ,budgeting and planning and visualization capabilities.
It automates the development of TM1 applications which reduces the time for end to end deployment for small or medium applications.
It completely based on self service model which provide lot of capability to end users to get their things done without involvement of IT.
I am sure in upcoming versions IBM will leverage this tool with lot of capabilities for data visualization on Big data or HDFS (Lets see).
I think we can replace the transformer cubes by using the Cognos insight by publishing the CDD workspace file on IBM Cognos BI Connection as workspace.
I will be going to start POC soon.
Let me know what other folks think about Cognos Insight.
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