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

Easier to deploy & manage

IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 features new capabilities for data modelers and system administrators. For example:

  • A Model advisor that enables modelers to more easily build and maintain robust models, and quickly revise them when business conditions change.
  • Enhanced system administration provides visibility into and across the entire BI deployment, enabling administrators to identify and resolve problems before they occur.

Combined, these new capabilities ensure that IT can maintain its service level agreements to the business, even as more users access the system and data volumes increase.

Model Advisor
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Model advisor: Build best-practice models from the start

  • Model Advisor applies current modeling guidelines to your design and identifies inconsistencies and areas for review.
  • Links to documentation provide the information you need to understand highlighted issues and take action to address them.

Metadata traceability: Improve your ability to manage change in a model

  • IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 captures change details and helps you understand their impact with improved report dependencies and impact analysis for unpublished models.
  • Initiate action by saving impact assessments for use in automated update scripts.

Model remapping:

  • Make physical changes in a model or remap existing model objects to new or modified physical objects without having to synchronize the database.
  • Modify or replace the physical layer of a model without disrupting end users.

Model branching: Maximum flexibility and freedom from dependency limitations

  • IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 enables multiple developers to work on a model using a workflow to replicate and merge models.

Enhanced system management features include:

Intuitive, at-a-glance metrics
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Intuitive, at-a-glance metrics: Immediate visibility into what is happening and why

  • New administration console provides a single view of your deployment.
  • Administrators see a snapshot of system health, including the state of the servers, dispatchers, and services.
  • Access hundreds of system metrics for immediate visibility into system performance.
  • Get visibility into past, future, and interactive requests, with information about the user (if desired).

Proactive administration
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Proactive administration:

Role-based administration:

  • Allocate tasks and capabilities across the team, so administrators can perform their tasks without needing to access other systems management areas.

Queue prioritization
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Queue Prioritization:

  • Assign or reset the priority of a scheduled report to ensure highest-priority reports are run first.

Resubmission capabilities:

  • Administrators can resubmit failed reports and other jobs on behalf of users without needing to re-specify submission criteria.


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Adaptive Authoring with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Issue Paper
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Easier to Deploy and Manage with IBM Cognos 8 BI
Issue Paper
When organizations discover how business intelligence (BI) drives higher performance, they inevitably expand their use of BI, tapping into additional data sources and delivering more information in more ways to greater numbers of users throughout the enterprise. But as BI solutions grow in size and importance, they can become challenging to maintain and administer, and IT invariably comes under increased pressure to meet service level agreements without exceeding budgets and available resources.