Transcript Enabling IT Driven Self-Service with Cognos Business

Enabling IT Driven Self-Service
with Cognos Business Intelligence
V10.2.2
Presented by
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2
Enabling IT Driven Self-Service
FAST
• Use Cognos BI on the cloud (On or Off Premise) for speed and agility
• Report against terabytes of data in seconds leveraging new innovations in in-memory technology
• Quickly create high performance Dynamic Cubes from existing metadata
• ‘Always On’ view of system performance with Performance Monitoring & Analysis
SIMPLE
• Fast time to reports & dashboards with new templates, innovative visualizations and in-development
previews
• Simple access to local data sets
• Create personalized experiences for targeted user communities
• One-Person One-Hour for production scale deployment
RICH
• Stunning visualizations to capture insights
• Federated and optimized access to a wider variety of data sources including local and big data
• Broader community support for a wide range of disabilities
• Designed for single or multi-tenant deployments to scale via public and private clouds
Fast:
Blazing fast
performance & agility
Fast deployment & scale on-premise
Quick set-up
Easily install & configure all
Cognos BI components for
testing and prototyping
IBM Business
Intelligence Pattern &
BI Pattern with BLU
Acceleration
More Information for the
People Who Drive
Innovation
Performance
Monitoring & Analysis
Instrumentation & analysis
for a transparent view of
performance
IBM DB2 10.5 Advanced Workgroup Server Edition
Fast deployment & scale on cloud
• Fully managed by IBM
• Single vendor to deploy, maintain, support
• Deployed and available on SoftLayer
• Industry leader in cloud
• Supports Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2*
• Most current release
• Connect to existing data warehouse(s)
• Maintain a trusted, single-source of information
IBM Cloud
powers
270,000
more websites
IBM Amazon
holds
than
1,560 cloud
patents
focused on
driving
innovation
24 of the top 25
Fortune 500 trust the IBM
Cloud
*Except items in deprecation
Benefits of an IBM Cloud deployment
Lower Cost of
Ownership
• Reduce IT overhead without sacrificing revenue
• Increased utilization rates on less HW
Time-to-Value
• Rapid delivery of an environment using best practices
• End to end deployment in hours
Cost Accounting
Scalability
• Shift costs from capital to operating expense
• Eliminate up front capital expenditures
• Add or subtract users as needed
• Enhance performance or service levels
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on Cloud (Est. Q1)
• Perfect for new deployments
• Easily extend existing on-premises BI
deployments
Cognos BI on Cloud
Off-Premise
Traditional Cognos BI
On-Premise
CapEx Budget
Less Predictable TCO
Variable Effort
Updates in Months/Years
OpEx Budget
Predictable TCO
Low Effort
Updates in Weeks
Standard Support
Cognos 10.2.2
Standard Support
Cognos 10.2.2
*Except items in deprecation
Hadoop
Cloud DB
Analytic DB
Relational DB
Leverage high performing Dynamic Cubes by quickly
migrating existing Framework Manager models
Proactively plan your upgrade using the
Cube Designer Hardware Sizing Guide
Simple:
Accelerate time to
actionable insight
Build a report once and create a consistent corporate
identity with reusable style templates
Define Styles for
standardized reporting
Create Templates for
groups to provide a
starting point
Simplify Report
Maintenance by Updating
Styles Once
Leverage new visualizations and customize them
directly in Report Studio
New visualizations including,
Tornado, Polar Area, Chord, and
Combination
Updated Visualizations
to contain properties
Extensible visualization properties
are exposed in Report Studio &
Workspace Advanced
Interactive maps for greater insight
Gain critical insight and make more
informed decisions using location
data
Create simple or complex mapping
of Data depending on the
requirement
See changes to your reports in real-time and speed
authoring with Active Report Live Preview
View Active Report
Content in Report Studio
Directly
Change Layout to Match
Device Output or
Custom
Make Formatting
Changes Directly in
Preview Mode
Rich:
Address the full spectrum of
BI challenges
Conformance Updates
Application Server
• SAP NetWeaver Application Server 7.4
Content Store
• DB2 for z/OS 11
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2
• Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Portal Servers
• WebSphere Portal 8.5
• Liferay Portal
Security Libraries
• GSKit
Web Servers
• Apache HTTP Server 2.4
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 8.5
Datasources
• Cloudera Impala 1.3
• Netezza 7.1, 7.2
• DB2 for i5/OS 7.2
• TM1 10.2.2
• InfoSphere BigInsights 2.1, 3
• Apache Hive 0.11, 0.12
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 R2, 2014
• Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2012 R2,
2014
• MySQL 5.7
• PostgreSQL 9.3, 9.4
• Teradata 15
Drivers
• JT400 JDBC driver (DB2 iSeries)
Mobile
• iOS8
• Android 4.4
Support users with a broad range of disabilities with
broadened accessibility
US Section 508 Compliant,
from modeling through to
authoring
Supports assistive
technologies
Produce fully accessible,
compliant reports.
Increase confidence by managing security at the individual
user level in multi-tenant deployments
• Create New
Reports
from THROUGH
Cognos Workspace
• Summary
Query Subjects
YOU
CAN
COGNOS
BI 10.NEXT
• Start directly in Workspace and create reports
• Control grouping and aggregation in ways
without having to leave your environment
previously only possible in reports
• Expand and Collapse in Viewer
• Define a join between aggregated values and
detail values
• Additional interactive controls when viewing
reports to drill into hierarchies
• Specify the granularity of filters and calculations
available to ad hoc users
• Tabbed Reports in Viewer
• Bridge Query Subjects
• You can now create reports with tabs in lieu of
pages for easier and simpler consumption
• Identify bridge tables in your database
• Restrict Output Types
• Avoid double counting in stitched query
aggregations
• You can add an additional level of security by
allowing user to only export to certain formats
• Filter entire rows of a multi-fact data stream when
filtering the bridge
• Maintain Tree Prompt State
• Parameter Map Freshness
• You can now review and update tree prompts
more easily when re-running prompted reports
• Control the frequency for which parameter map
values are refreshed
• Color and Transparency
• See data updated seconds before a report is run
• Easier to find and use your commonly used colors
and transparency
• Balance the performance benefits of caching with
data latency requirements
• Name Individual Excel tabs for Exports
• You can now name individual Excel worksheet tab
name using page break (pageset / pagegroup)
data items
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IBM Watson Analytics & Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud-based agile analytics for
business users
IT managed Business Intelligence for the
Enterprise
Guided flexible exploration with
cognitive computing and automated
visualization selection
Support for multiple data sources and
operating environments with
customizable visualizations
Automated discovery of combinations
and permutations of data providing
new answers
A known and trusted analytics
foundation
A standardized gateway to maximize
Business Intelligence value across the
Enterprise
Exploration and Innovation
Watson Analytics
Individual Self-Sufficiency
Provides a baseline of information to
feed Watson Analytics across one
integrated and supported environment
Value and Trust
Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Managed Self-Service
Revolutionize how your business transforms data into meaningful insights
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2
Enabling IT Driven Self-Service
FAST
• Deploy Cognos BI on the cloud for speed and agility
• Report against terabytes of data in seconds leveraging new innovations in in-memory technology
• Quickly create high performance Dynamic Cubes from existing metadata
• Optimized for high performance on Power 8
• ‘Always On’ view of system performance with Performance Monitoring & Analysis
SIMPLE
• Fast time to reports & dashboards with new templates, innovative visualizations and in-development previews
• Simple access to local data sets
• Create personalized experiences for targeted user communities
• One-Person One-Hour for production scale deployment
RICH
• Stunning visualizations to capture insights
• Federated and optimized access to a wider variety of data sources including local and big data
• Broader community support for a wide range of disabilities
• Designed for multi-tenant deployments and scale via public and private clouds