When deciding whether or not you should upgrade your IBM Cognos stack, one major factor should involve assessing whether or not the release is stable. There are many avenues used when assessing the stability of a given release. Find assessment tools here.
Read MoreExciting News: MotioCI and MotioPI Professional are included ‘in the box’ when you upgrade to Cognos Analytics 11.1 and available for free for a limited time.
Read MoreSeveral changes have been made to the Reporting interface in Cognos 11.1. In this post, I take an in-depth look at these changes and I think you will agree that for the most part they are very positive.
Read MoreWorking together with IBM and PMsquare, the University of Louisville built a solution that automatically captures and models data from wearables and other sources, and visualizes it in intuitive dashboards for coaches and athletes.
Read MoreIn Cognos 11.1, IBM brings long sought improvements to Cognos’ core features while adding advanced analytics and artificial intelligence driven by Watson. Best of all, this huge enhancement is free to all Cognos customers.
Read MoreThe drilldown techniques in Cognos are wonderful, click on a column or a row in a table, and you can drill down, and down, and down. But drilling up doesn’t always work well, and sometimes you just want to go back directly to the top level. Sadly Cognos doesn’t provide a quick and easy breadcrumb solution, but with the advanced drill options it’s possibly to make one so let’s dig into drilldown breadcrumbs in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreCognos comes with a lot of built-in groups and roles that are difficult to manage from a security standpoint and do not always cater to the needs of every organization. PMsquare recommends an intersection approach of capabilities and functional group security to create a flexible and maintainable model for Cognos security.
Read MoreIn April IBM introduced a new program that streamlines licensing for IBM Analytics customers. The FlexPoints program simplifies current perpetual based IBM licensing along three core platforms: Data Science and Business Analytics; Hybrid Data Management; and Unified Governance and Integration.
Read MoreIn this article, I will examine how to streamline and improve data-level security in Cognos Framework Manager.
Read MoreDo you find yourself adding the same image or making the same formatting changes to all of your Cognos reports? Do the standard Cognos colors for lists and crosstabs not do it for you?
Read MoreCognos Framework Manager (FM) is an essential part of using IBM Cognos Analytics. In addition to being the designated Business Intelligence (BI) modelling tool of the Cognos family, FM is where operators can implement data-level security.
Read MoreAlong with the 11.0.4 release of Cognos Analytics, IBM released an automated script to configure IIS as the gateway. This has made standing up a new environment significantly easier. Let’s explore how to configure IIS in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreIn this post, I will show a helpful Cognos reporting tip – how using Text Variable property can fix this problem.
Read MoreDo you remember how tedious it was to custom skin Cognos in the 10.x portal? Fortunately, in the new and more extensible version of Cognos Analytics, much of that process of customizing your environment is now much easier to implement and maintain.
Read MoreHave you ever made a change to a report that broke something unintended? How do you quickly revert back to the previous version? How do you see all of the recent changes to figure out which one caused the issue? This is where version control becomes incredibly useful.
Read MoreIn this article, I will explore how to get one of my most popular widgets for Cognos 10 – the searchable checkbox list – to work in Cognos Analytics interactive mode. In theory it should still work for non-interactive mode, but what do we have for interactive mode?
Read MoreIBM was identified as a BI platform leader for analytics solutions in a recent analyst publication from the Business Application Research Center. The report, known as the BARC Score, evaluates enterprise BI platform solutions on two core dimensions: market execution and portfolio capabilities.
Read MoreAn often requested feature in Cognos is the ability to make a list with expandable rows. There are a few different scripts to support this in Cognos 10, but they do not work in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreDid you realize that you can connect your Cognos Analytics system to a cloud-based big data analytics warehouse? You can, and it’s not that difficult to set up Google BigQuery in Cognos Analytics.
Read MoreIn this article I continue to explore ways to use custom JavaScript in Cognos to modify prompts.
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