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

Reach a broader range of user communities

New features in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 help business and financial analysts work more effectively and provide everyday users with more information in less time. For example:

• Express authoring provides a streamlined GUI for easy crosstab creation and statement-style reports.
• Work with live data and see formatting changes reflected on the fly.
• Scorecard portlets and metric-intelligent diagrams provide more information in fewer clicks.

Combined with the additional features below, IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3 helps you increase the value of your BI implementation by meeting the needs of your entire user base, from frontline workers to executive decision-makers.

See express authoring

Express authoring mode: Build, edit, and share crosstabs and statement-style reports

• Streamlined interface presents only those objects, calculations, and layouts specific to working with crosstabs
• Users work with live data throughout the entire process.
• Drag data sets into rows or columns; data appears automatically.
• Double-click on parent data to see children appear automatically.
• Icons and wizards for styling options and calculations accelerate the editing and design process.

See Transformer

Improved Transformer capabilities: Leverage IBM Cognos 8 BI security and metadata

• Build and publish data cubes from existing queries for sub-second response times and additional OLAP exploration.
• Publish data cubes to the Cognos Connection portal for others to use.
• Create hierarchies, define relationships, and publish cubes with a few mouse clicks. Tell me more.

See scorecard portlets

Scorecard portlets: Provide additional context in fewer clicks

• Users can access a wide range of performance information from within Cognos Connection portal without needing to open a report.
• Information includes: metrics, metric types, accountabilities, metric watch lists, strategic metric lists, and history charts.

Metric-intelligent diagrams: Accelerate decision-making

• Bring more information to the forefront without needing additional clicks.
• Users can hover over a metric to see impact analysis, metric history, ownership, thresholds, and more.

See self-service strategy maps

Self-service strategy maps: Reduce the burden on IT for small but important modifications

• Business users can add new strategic objectives and supporting metrics to their scorecards without IT intervention.

Additional Resources:

More Targeted Information with IBM Cognos 8 BI

Issue Paper

The wider adoption and increased use of business intelligence (BI) software broadens the range of people working with reports, analysis, dashboards, and scorecards. It can also threaten to overwhelm them with information; particularly as new data sources are connected to a BI system. What is most reliable? What can they trust? BI software must be more flexible, and ensure it helps make data serve the users, rather than the other way around.

Fiducia IT AG

Customer Testimonial

Find out how Fudicia IT used Cognos to create a new revenue stream, expand user self service to BI, communicate with the over 850 banks it serves, and gain more transparency throughout the organization.

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