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New Features in 8.4

New Features in 8.4 Agenda IBM Cognos 8 Planning New Contributor Template Administration improvements Integration with other modules IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Detail enhancements of existing Studios New products IBM Cognos 8 Controller Performance gains

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New Features in 8.4

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  1. New Features in 8.4

  2. Agenda • IBM Cognos 8 Planning • New Contributor Template • Administration improvements • Integration with other modules • IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence • Detail enhancements of existing Studios • New products • IBM Cognos 8 Controller • Performance gains • New administration functionality

  3. IBM Cognos 8 Planning • New Contributor Template • Built in Java • Integration with other modules • Administration improvements

  4. New Contributor Template

  5. Contributor Template • User controlled nesting • Cube • Model • User Cube Order • Persistence • Word Wrap • Date Picker • Hierarchies • Zoom • Freeze Panes • Sorting & Hiding

  6. Key New Features • BiFs • Contributor Link improvements • FM model generation improvements • Publish improvements • Validations > Check > Prevent

  7. Integration • Full integration into Cognos 8 Portal • Full integration into Cognos 8 security model • CDS (now PDS) live data connection • Event authoring on planning data • Seamless access to Cognos 8 BI Suite

  8. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence • Detailed Enhancements in Existing Studios • New Products • Go Dashboard! • Business Viewpoint • Existing Functionality you may not have seen • Go Mobile! • Office Connection • CAFE

  9. Detailed Enhancements of Existing Studios • Better look and feel to reports • Reports within folders arranged as Tabs or Links • End user can now ask for alerts on numbers within a report • Drilling synchronisation for multiple queries • Extended suppression in all studios • Lineage • Enhanced administration tools • New PowerPlay Studio

  10. New Products within Business Intelligence • Go Dashboard! • Business Viewpoint

  11. Go Dashboard! • Users can create their own Dashboard • Highly graphical look and feel • Content chosen from any existing report • Users can change display types • Great start point for introducing users to BI

  12. Go Dashboard!

  13. Business Viewpoint – Typical Issues • “I wish the sales hierarchy reflected the latest re-organization.” • Operations Manager • “When will the data warehouse reflect my new customer list?” • Brand Manager • “I want to realign my cost centers so I have plan and actual views.” • Financial Analyst

  14. Business Viewpoint – Today’s Position • Working individually with own definitions and structures • Manually reconciling dimensions and hierarchies in spreadsheets • Spending time manually tracking changes because there is no automated process in spreadsheets • Manually rolling up and reconciling spreadsheets to gain a corporate view • Moving at the pace of IT not the speed of business

  15. Maintain Enable the business to easily create their own perspectives with highly visual interface and fully flexible model Govern Replace manual, error-prone efforts with fully transparent, automated and auditable processes Share Deliver shared, approved viewpoints across Performance Management and provide bi-directional interfaces to external systems Business Viewpoint

  16. Business Viewpoint

  17. Business Viewpoint

  18. Business Viewpoint

  19. Existing Functionality you may not have seen! • Go Mobile! • Office Connection • CAFE

  20. Go Mobile! • Delivers existing IBM Cognos Reports / Dashboards • Variety of mobile devices supported • Easy to navigate user interface • Integrated part of IBM Cognos 8 BI

  21. Go Mobile!

  22. Office Connection • Displays existing Cognos 8 Content • Supports Word, PowerPoint and Excel • Create your report template • Add your commentary • Save! • Next month – simply refresh and add revised commentary

  23. Office Connection

  24. Cognos Addin For Excel • Displays existing Cognos 8 Content • Pulls content through into Excel • Includes all formatting and formulas • Allows users to manipulate via Excel

  25. Cognos Addin For Excel

  26. IBM Cognos 8 Controller • Performance gains • New administration functionality

  27. Thank You!

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