This document provides an overview and summary of new features in IBM Cognos 10.2 business intelligence software. It discusses enhancements to Cognos Workspace and Cognos Insight user experiences, expanded data source support and in-memory processing in Dynamic Query Mode, new capabilities in Report Studio, and other improvements. The document aims to help users understand how to get started with Cognos Insight and the differences between Cognos Insight and Cognos Workspace. It includes demonstrations of the software.

1. IBM Cognos 10.2
What‘s New?
Webinar
December 12, 2012
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3. Welcome and Introduction
• Who we are:
– Greg Herrera, Co-Founder, CEO
– Jim Frazier, Vice President, Sales
– Albert Valdez, Director of Education Services
• 12+ years as a technical trainer, focused on business intelligence and
performance management
• 5 years as a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos, Inc.
• Lifetime CTT+ certification from CompTIA
• IBM Cognos Certified
• Last 7+ Years as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect, Education
Director
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4. Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance
Management
– Business Intelligence
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
• Consolidate, close, report and file (CCRF)
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four
consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing
private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 12-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,200 projects for 500+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise.
Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
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5. A few of our 500+ Clients
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6. Today‘s Agenda
• Welcome and Introduction
• IBM Cognos 10.2 New Features Overview
• What‘s new in Cognos 10 (high-level)
• Quick Licensing Overview
• We want to make things SIMPLE for you!
• What‘s new in v10.2 (detailed)
• How to get started with Cognos Insight
• Cognos Workspace vs. Cognos Insight
• Cognos Insight and Cognos Workspace
Demonstrations
• Excel Big Data server configuration
• Upcoming Senturus Training
• Q&A
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8. Overview
IBM Cognos 10 New Features
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9. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10 – IBM Launch,
October, 2010
1. Unified workspace with greater power, intuitive navigation and cleaner look
2. Breadth of analytics across historical, real-time and predictive information
3. Collaborative BI through built-in collaboration and social networking
4. Easy data inclusion by the business from one value, to entire data sets and
external files
5. Analytics on the go for more devices and disconnected interaction
6. Faster performance with in-memory processing
7. Seamless upgrade and ease of ongoing management
8. Trusted expertise with built-in training videos, ‗how-to‘ books and user
communities
9. Expanded deployment options include Cloud, System z, and Power
10.Cognos 10 Ready added value of TM1, Planning, Analytic Applications and
SPSS Modeler
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10. IBM Cognos 10: Under the Hood
1. User Interface Improvements: Collaboration, Analysis Fee
• Cognos Workspace
• Cognos Insight (free personal edition available)
• Active Reports
• Cognos Collaboration
2. Predictive analytics and advanced statistics
3. Real Time Monitoring
4. New Mobile Capabilities
5. Enhanced access to External Data Free
6. Easier upgrades with Lifecycle Manager
7. Improved performance and scalability (Dynamic Query Mode)
8. Quicker Framework Manager development
9. Major improvements in graphics and visual appeal
10. More flexible and robust server administration
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11. IBM Cognos 10.2 Licensing Matrix
BI BI BI Business BI Business BI Business BI Advanced BI BI BI Admin
Consumer Enhanced Author Analyst Manager Business Professional Professional ($14,300)
($918) Consumer ($1,490) ($1,490) ($1,490) Author Author ($3,440)
($1,140) ($1,730) ($2,870)
($400 add)
Cognos BI Capability
Business Insight        
(Cognos Workspace)
Biz Insight    
Advanced(Cognos
Workspace Adv)
Active Reports        
Cognos Search        
Cognos Collaboration        
Query Studio     
Analysis Studio    
Report Studio   
Metric Studio   
Event Studio  
Transformer  
FM Model Development 
IBM Cognos Mobile        
*as of 10.1.1*
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12. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2
October, 2012
Workspace User Experience
1. For BOTH Cognos Insight and Cognos Workspace (formerly
Business Insight):
1. More interactive visualizations (drilling, filtering on Charts)
2. Top/Bottom Filtering, Expand/Collapse, Freeze Headers
3. Tabbed Workspaces
2. For Cognos Insight:
1. Enhanced Data Import
1. Import Directly from Existing Packages
2. “Smart” Metadata
3. Time Rollups
2. More integration with BI
1. High-Fidelity Publish (requires TM1)
3. Business Insight Advanced is now Cognos Workspace Advanced
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13. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2
October, 2012
Dynamic Query Mode
1. Expanded Data Sources from Original Release to Include:
1. MSAS; SAP Netweaver; IBM DB2 and InfoSphere; SQL Server
2005, 2008, and 2012; IBM Netezza; Oracle 10g, 11g;
Teradata; Salesforce.com; Siebel; SAP R/3;
2. IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
1. In-memory OLAP cubes the load data directly from relational
data warehouses
2. Part of Dynamic Query Mode, leverage 64-bit framework
3. Enables OLAP-style analytics over terabytes of warehouse
data
4. Leverages in-memory and in-database aggregate awareness
5. Modeling is achieved via GUI interface using Cube Designer
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14. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2
October, 2012
Report Studio
1. Access to Macro Functions in the Expression Editor Components
1. Easy access to powerful functions, much like what you see in
Framework Manager
2. Better control of dynamic security at the report level
3. Easier access to advanced Prompt syntax
2. Fully documented and exposed Prompt API
1. No longer need to “hack” into source code
2. Fully supported
3. Samples included with javascript
4. Why?
1. Set dynamic default prompt values
2. Validate prompt values
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15. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2
October, 2012
Report Studio
3. Static Repeater Table Control for Active Reports
1. Makes the Repeater Control Interactive
2. Supports repeating grids of custom content such as images or
buttons
4. New Export to Excel options
1. Standard Excel 2007 now supports 16,384 columns by
1,048,576 rows (requires advanced server configuration)
2. Excel 2007 Data
1. Lightweight, list only, no formatting to native .xlsx
format
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16. Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2
October, 2012
Other Compelling New Features
1. Improvements to Mobile
1. Push notifications
2. Multi-page Report Trickle
3. Multi-key Bursted Reports
2. Cognos Configuration Validation utility
3. New Archiving Features
4. Cognos Style Management Utility
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18. How to get started with Cognos Insight
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19. How to get started with Cognos Insight
Download Free Version
Use the link above,
Then click
“FREE DOWNLOAD”…
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20. How to get started with Cognos Insight
Then, Log In or Register
Click Free Download
Save and Run the Executable
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21. Cognos Insight Documentation
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22. Cognos Insight Accelerators
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23. IBM Cognos Workspace
What is Cognos Workspace?
 New WYSIWYG canvas for business managers to easily
assemble dashboards, view/interact/analyze the result
set, and share the results to follow a train of thought and
generate a unique perspective around information
Key Capabilities
• Assemble and Format – Drag-and-drop trusted content, filters, and other content
(RSS, HTML, text, and images). Modify and arrange layout, add colors and text, add
comments, and personalize widgets
• Interact and Analyze – User can change display, add calculations, filter/prompt, drill
up/down, and sort data and seamlessly move to Cognos Workspace Advanced for
additional analysis
• Share and Collaborate – Dashboards are consumable by others, dashboard objects
can be shared and distributed, and integrated with Lotus Connections
Benefits
• Enhances self-service – Easy dashboard creation and assembly empower business
users
• Deeper insight into Performance – Powerful analysis capabilities for continual and
in-place data exploration
• Reduces IT bottlenecks – Facilitate self-service while leverage information from
trusted and properly IT governed content
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24. Cognos Workspace Addresses Key Challenges
What Cognos heard from customers
Existing Customers
• Limited interactivity within the Report Viewer (e.g. no sorting, filtering, display
changes, annotation, etc.)
• Disconnected ―Studio hopping‖ required for true interactivity (e.g. Report
Viewer to Query Studio / Analysis Studio to Report Studio)
• Large amount of time, effort, and unsupported techniques to hard-code in
simple interactions (e.g. change display type, sorting, etc.)
New Customers
• Limited ability to interact and manipulate the data and view and desire a more
―google‖ like experience
• Reliance on Excel or other tools to combine information together as existing
tools are too difficult to use
• Reliance on IT to create many one-off reports
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26. COGNOS INSIGHT VS. COGNOS
WORKSPACE
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27. Self-sufficient vs. Self-service
• Cognos Workspace (and Cognos
Workspace Advanced) = Self-service
workspace (dashboard) assembly (and
business authoring)
– Workspace assembly requires existing report
content
– Authoring requires a data model/package
• Cognos Insight = Self-sufficient analysis,
modeling and planning
– No model required
– No reports required
– No enterprise server required*
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28. Self-sufficient vs. Self-service
Cognos Insight  Common  Cognos Workspace
Standalone – no server Dashboard Self-serve
Multi-tab dashboards assembly assembly
Restructure data Edit widgets Zero footprint
Explore points TM1 write-back Enterprise
Add calculations and Respects data security
business rules security More widgets
Distributed planning Prompt
support
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29. Demonstrations
IBM Cognos 10 In Action
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30. IBM Cognos 10 Cognos Workspace
• Demonstration
– Create and customize a workspace from a local
file and perform analysis using Cognos Insight
on the Desktop
– Create and customize a workspace from existing
report content on the Web using Cognos
Workspace
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31. IBM Cognos 10 Large Worksheet Support
• Demonstration
– Configure the Dispatcher to allow up to 1
Million rows for MS Excel 2007 output
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32. Cognos Training Options
• Upcoming Senturus Public Training Events:
– Tuesday-Wednesday, January 8-9, 2013, on-line:
• Beginning and Intermediate Professional Report Authoring with IBM
Cognos Report Studio
– Thursday, January 10, 2013, on-line:
• Advanced Report Authoring with IBM Cognos Report Studio
– Friday, January 25, 2013, on-line:
• Multi-Dimensional Report Authoring with IBM Cognos Report Studio
– Wednesday, January 23, 2013, on-line:
• Authoring Active Reports with IBM Cognos Report Studio
– Thursday-Friday, January 31-February 1, 2013, on-line:
• OLAP Modeling with IBM Cognos Transformer
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33. Cognos Training Options
• Upcoming Senturus Public Training Events:
– Thursday-Friday, February 7-8, 2013, on-line:
• Metadata Modeling with IBM Cognos Framework Manager
– Friday, February 15, 2013, on-line:
• Self-Service Authoring with IBM Cognos 10 Workspace Advanced
• Register on-line at
http://www.senturus.com/training_course_schedule.
php.
• Sign-up before January 1 to lock in current pricing!
• Give Senturus a chance to deliver a tailored training
solution – you wont‘ be sorry!
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35. Contact Senturus
www.senturus.com
info@senturus.com
888-601-6010
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