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1 Sept 10, 2013 What s New! IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (released Sept 10, 2013) Analytic Catalyst TM Cognos Insight David Taylor david.taylor@us.ibm.com

Agenda Overview of innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence V10

2 Agenda Overview of innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence V Interactive visualization Demonstration Performance enhancements Extended support for big data Additional innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence V Analytic Catalyst What is it Quick demo TM1 10.2, then Cognos Insight What s new

3 IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V , central to IBM Cognos Enterprise, advances capabilities to provide interactive visualization, performance and support for big data. Interactive Visualization Performance Big Data Amplify business intelligence reporting with new and innovative visualizations allowing users to quickly pinpoint trends in data. Get insights quicker than ever before through performance improvements gained from more efficient memory usage, reduced memory footprint and improved use of compression. Gain a more complete view of the business and act quickly off insights with expanded support for big data sources including Hadoop, analytic data stores and real-time streaming data.

4 Interactive Visualization Animated charts enhance the user experience of general reporting and Cognos Active Report and allow users to pinpoint trends faster. New in A paradigm shift for delivering value to users with the introduction of visualization extensibility with RAVE (Rapid Adaptive Visualization Engine).

5 Performance Increased query speeds through more efficient use of memory in Dynamic Cubes More data and faster load times in Cognos Active Report through Improved use of compression and engine optimization. Improved bursting process for batch reports through optimized use of hardware. 5 70% Less memory required for Dynamic Cube result and aggregate caches 6x Faster Burst execution 5x Faster Active Report Load Time in Cognos Mobile 3x Smaller Active Report sizes 45 % Reduction in Dispatcher threads 2x Faster Dynamic Cube performance 10x More data in Active Reports 5x Less memory required for Active Reports 25 % Improvement in Batch execution times 20% Faster interactive response time 85 % Reduction in amount of disk activity 3x Faster Mobile report retrieval & execution

Big Data Broad interoperability enables data integration to popular big data sources Hadoop: Cloudera, Apache, Hortonworks, Amazon Web Services Elastic Map- Reduce through HIVE

6 Big Data Broad interoperability enables data integration to popular big data sources Hadoop: Cloudera, Apache, Hortonworks, Amazon Web Services Elastic Map- Reduce through HIVE adaptor Analytic data stores: DB2 BLU and SAP HANA Real-time streaming: IBM BigInsights (optimized access) Combine data in motion and at rest to get the most complete view of the business 6

7 Now, in more detail

emerging Each requirement is unique and is difficult to meet The

8 Interactive Visualization A paradigm shift for delivering value to users The Challenge: New requirements for visualizations are constantly emerging Each requirement is unique and is difficult to meet The Solution: Provide a wider variety of visualizations with the means to extend and customize.

Interactive Visualization Better Decision Making Through Increased Analysis Capability & Innovation

10.2.1.1 Extensible Visualization in general reporting authoring within Report Studio and Cognos

provide better insight to drive decision making.

Improved usability with the Visualization library to quickly find the best visual for reporting

9 Interactive Visualization Better Decision Making Through Increased Analysis Capability & Innovation Incorporate new and innovative visualizations in general reporting and Cognos Active Reports New in Extensible Visualization in general reporting authoring within Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced to provide highly visual reports from the complete BI reporting environment to provide better insight to drive decision making. Consumption and assembly in Cognos Workspace enabling users to create highly visual dashboards Improved usability with the Visualization library to quickly find the best visual for reporting needs Enhance the user experience through the delivery of interactive and animated charts Integrate custom visualizations Leverage the expertise of IBM luminaries

reporting needs Scatter Gantt Area Radar Boxplot Dial Treemap/Heatmap Plus a continually

10 New visualizations are a simple download away Browse, find and download visualizations from the extensible visualization community to quickly provide the best visual for your reporting needs Scatter Gantt Area Radar Boxplot Dial Treemap/Heatmap Plus a continually growing set of visualizations. Need a new one? Call us? analyticszone.com/visualization 10

11 Cognos Mobile with New Interactive Visualization

12 Cognos General Reporting with New Interactive Visualization (some slides first )

16 And then [Dave: do your demo now.]

17 Performance Faster Time to Insight with Mobile Business Intelligence Execute mobile reports 2x to 6x faster Smaller footprint on the ipad with Active Report compression and memory optimization Open and interact with large reports quickly with reduced server loads Mobile will display only the first page Users can swipe to go to the next page or Tap on the new Get all pages icon

18 Performance Improved Report Execution Improved report execution New memory caching on server RSVP Faster report rendering More optimized XSLT transformations for HTML output Jobs run faster Bursting can span servers and use multiple threads Optimized hardware usage

Performance Platform Enhancements mostly black-box Faster and reduced memory consumption in Dynamic Cubes Improved agg selection logic Streamlined SQL structure

TM1 Java API Configuration More optimal settings More internal connections between services Dynamic Query Dynamic Cubes Compatible Query The initial run of a report

19 Performance Platform Enhancements mostly black-box Faster and reduced memory consumption in Dynamic Cubes Improved agg selection logic Streamlined SQL structure Improved data type primitives are more memory-efficiant Faster queries with Dynamic Query First-run performance improved Improved TM1 via tweaks to MDX engine New TM1 Java API Configuration More optimal settings More internal connections between services Dynamic Query Dynamic Cubes Compatible Query The initial run of a report built on a Dynamic Cube ran in seconds. After the initial execution, the same report ran in a split second. Stefan Luthardt Head of Business Intelligence Fiducia IT AG

Business Analytics for Big Data Get the Most Complete View of the

Sources * Stream Computing* Hadoop Systems Data Warehouse Combine

Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, AWS EMR and other

9 Optimized access to: BigInsights via Big SQL and SAP HANA Our

20 Business Analytics for Big Data Get the Most Complete View of the Business IBM Business Analytics IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V IBM Big Data Platform Other Big Data Sources Enterprise Data Sources * Stream Computing* Hadoop Systems Data Warehouse Combine data in motion and at rest General Hive support to access to: Apache Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, AWS EMR and other distributions using Hive 0.8 or Hive 0.9 Optimized access to: BigInsights via Big SQL and SAP HANA Our business generates a lot of data, and the Cognos BI platform helps us understand all our "big data". As a result we have a complete view of what is happening in the business so that we can effectively communicate our transformation strategy. Mark Lacks Manager, Strategy Analytics & Business Intelligence Mueller

21 Additional Innovations in Cognos Business Intelligence V

IBM Cognos Mobile Elegant user interface Personalize your background Arrange content how you want it Rename your workspaces Easy to use Automatic server

22 IBM Cognos Mobile Elegant user interface Personalize your background Arrange content how you want it Rename your workspaces Easy to use Automatic server configuration Connect to multiple servers Preview report without opening Track progress, pause & restart your downloads Embedded end-user how-to tutorials 23

23 IBM Cognos Mobile HTML5 prompts Mobile replaces some default BI prompts with touch friendly HTML5 prompts Applicable to Date, DateTime, select value (not tree prompt) Applicable to the ipad native app & WebApp Auditing All activity done by mobile users is now tracked in the Cognos IPF Audit logs New audit reports were created and deployed with BI Samples Support for HTML Saved Outputs through the native ipad app Report Fidelity Mobile will display what the BI Server renders (formatting, colours, fonts, drill-through etc) Applicable to the ipad native app & WebApp Zooming on Active Reports Users will be able to zoom on ARs created in RP1

24 General Reporting New in Visualization Library Sorting and refining list of visualizations More information provided on visualizations helping users to determine what best meets their reporting needs Interactivity Extending selection based interactivity for elements such as the axis and legend items. Previously support was limited to certain chart elements (e.g. bars, points, lines, etc.). Provide drill up/down, drill through, tooltips and selection for server side generated visualizations enabling deeper analysis Chrome/Safari support Chrome/Safari support for Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced letting users take advantage of these popular browsers Dynamic Report Booklets Ability to combine multiple reports into a single report booklet allowing users to reuse and present a large amount of BI content for more effective consumption Features include: Table of Content can be created with reference to each report Each report will start on a new page Update to each report will automatically update the report booklet. All authored prompt pages will run at the start CSV and XML will only run the first query encountered as they do in a single report

25 IBM Cognos Workspace New in Cognos Workspace: New recommended visualizations to better depict your content i.e. Marimekko charts, Pareto charts, Progressive charts and Radar charts Use + marks in crosstab to expand items Hide tool bars Move tabs and global areas Cut, copy and paste widgets and duplicate tabs Cut, copy, and paste widgets from one tab to another, from one workspace to another, or to or from the global area enabling users to save time in creating dashboards Duplicate tabs provide a convenient way to use one tab as a template for another saving time and giving workspaces a consistent look and feel

26 IBM Cognos Theme Designer New in Provides a graphical user interface making it easy to tailor IBM Cognos BI Applications with organizational brand requirements Replace images, colors or edit HTML to get the look an organization is standardized on Produce multiple themes for users to chose from or differentiate themes for each tenant or application in a multi-tenancy environment Supported within IBM Cognos Connection, IBM Cognos Viewer and IBM Cognos Workspace To download Cognos Theme Designer and its documentation, go to IBM developerworks ( and search for "IBM Cognos Theme Designer"

27 Questions on Cognos BI?

Analytic Catalyst Automatically uncover key insights and statistically interesting relationships from big data sets IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst uses the power of SPSS Analytics Server to help

It automates portions of data preparation, automatically interpreting results and presenting analyses in interactive visuals with plain language summaries. The result?

28 Analytic Catalyst Automatically uncover key insights and statistically interesting relationships from big data sets IBM SPSS Analytic Catalyst uses the power of SPSS Analytics Server to help accelerate analytics by identifying key drivers from big data. It automates portions of data preparation, automatically interpreting results and presenting analyses in interactive visuals with plain language summaries. The result? Statistical analysis and discovery on big data are all more accessible to business users. Reveals the most statistically-interesting relationships in big data Its results first approach allows users to quickly interact without having to worry about specifying the proper technique Complex analyses are automatically interpreted for users in plain language and interactive visualizations Users with basic statistics knowledge can share insights with applied analysts or statisticians for use in more thorough analyses

29 Analytic Catalyst Demo

30 TM Performance Measurement Engagement Deployment

31 Performance Measurement Engagement Deployment Enable faster insight and sharper execution through dramatic performance gains made in query processing, work in WAN configurations, and browser performance. Improved Performance for Web Users Faster Reporting Analysis Reports, dashboards, charts update faster than ever before, sometimes many times faster due to multithreading Faster experience for TM1 Web users Less screen flashing Shorter wait for updated values Due to new Java architecture Improvements in Core Architecture WAN Excel performance now comparable to LAN performance Faster response in Performance Modeler

achievement FAST ADOPTION - RAPID ROI Scorecards appear in the same interfaces used today Metrics are modeled in the same Performance

32 Performance Measurement Engagement Deployment Join metrics, scorecards and strategy maps with the high participation planning, forecasting, and profitability analysis to drive closed-loop performance management processes Create a culture of metrics pursuit and achievement FAST ADOPTION - RAPID ROI Scorecards appear in the same interfaces used today Metrics are modeled in the same Performance Modeler environment used today Leverage same data and metadata sources used to build planning models Status, Trend, and Variances updated in real-time

33 Performance Measurement Engagement Deployment Engage Engage the the entire entire workforce workforce from all the roles, regular all levels, management all jobs, contributors all departments to the with most the sophisticated tools and business software analysts profiles with they the require, tools and eliminating software delay, profiles wasted they require, effort, and eliminating offline-shadow delay, wasted systems. effort, and offline-shadow systems. Engage the Excel power-users & analysts Build reports in seconds Access entire TM1 planning model no rekeying or import Cognos Analysis for Excel Cognos Insight Engage the desktop modeler and planner Modeling, offline planning, what-if exploring, visualize Extend with Local Data Collect insights and plans from mobile, remote users. Powerful options for Approvers easy environment for for Contributors Cognos Mobile Contributor Cognos TM1 Web Powerful planning and modeling in familiar environment Design sheets quickly in Excel Fast performance

organization whether starting in in finance or or operations

34 Performance Measurement Engagement Deployment Drive performance management through every part of of the organization whether starting in in finance or or operations with one easy to to design, deploy, and run package on on premise or or via cloud.

35 Just One slide on Insight

36 Cognos Insight Print and export workspaces: users can now print and export to PDF any tab of a Cognos Insight Workspace. Combination charts: display multiple measures on a single chart by using combination line / bar charts. Work with attributes: If you ve imported member attributes with your data set you can now filter by them, create new attributes and display them on a workspace. Spread data: This is an exciting new feature for the finance crowd or TM1 users: The ability to spread data by a number of new methods. This includes relative proportional spread, equal leaves, equal spread, repeat, straight line, and growth percentage. Import external data into TM1 plans: when using Cognos insight as a TM1 client and contributing to a plan, you can import external data from a text file and incorporate it into your plan. Drill through to view details: users can now right-click crosstab a crosstab cell and drill through to view related data in another cube. In order to enable this new feature your IBM Cognos TM1 administrator should create drill through links in IBM Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler. Distributed mode improvements: In the IBM Cognos TM1 Applications portal, you can now start IBM Cognos Insight in distributed mode from a parent element. You can also now open a Central application type in distributed mode. Scorecards: with the move of Metrics Studio and scorecarding to the TM1 platform, you can now view and use scorecards that your administrator has created in IBM TM1 Performance Modeler.

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