What's New in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3?

Deliver more personalized & targeted information

IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 features enhancements for end users, business managers, business modelers, and drill-through authors. For example:

  • Users now have more options for information delivery through self-service personal alerts and enhanced dashboard interactivity.
  • Watch rules, report alerts, and watch items let users target the information they wish to receive.
  • Support for Microsoft Sharepoint 2003 and 2007; users can save report outputs to a file system.

Together with the features outlined below, IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 lets you provide higher-value, more timely information to your users.

Briefing books
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Briefing books: Tell an extended data story with multi-page reports

  • Flexible layout options (portrait or landscape, multiple paper sizes) let you fit the design to the data.
  • Mix portrait and layout options and add create multiple reports within a single book.
  • Add Table of Contents (TOCs) items directly inside reports. TOC items also provide page numbers and dynamic links to the content.
  • Span reports across two or more page widths in a PDF to show crosstabs in original size, instead of scaling down to fit on a single page.
  • Save, schedule, and burst multi-page reports as a single item.
  • "No data handling" lets you choose alternate content or remove the data frame from the report.

Personal alerts
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Personal alerts: Make informed decisions and take action more quickly by letting the information find you

  • Create notifications that inform you of value changes within any IBM Cognos 8 BI report (customer complaints, returns, revenue, etc.).
  • Choose to see the information important to you among the many fields of a general corporate report.
  • Business users can create their own alerts independent of IT.

New Transformer modeling: Now fully integrated into the Cognos 8 platform to leverage security and metadata

  • Let users build data cubes for OLAP analysis and rapid response times, without IT intervention.
  • Save complex queries as a report and convert query rows and columns into a multidimensional model.
  • Users can integrate external data sources such as Excel files.
  • Users can publish the cube as a data source in the Cognos Connection portal.

Global dashboard filtering
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Global dashboard filtering: Establish a consistent and shared context for all objects for easy, accurate comparisons

  • Use global filters such as prompts, drill-up, drill-down, or report based on drill-through context.
  • Add prompt control (for example, country) to your portal page or tabbed dashboard and see the changes automatically reflected in all related reports.

More flexible organization of information: For easier-to-find reports and analysis

  • Users can save and store reports anywhere, rather than through a root directory system.
  • Export report results directly to a server file system using the Cognos Connection portal.
  • Users decide which features to export and select from a predefined set of directory locations, making it easier to integrate Cognos content into other applications.

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