IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.6 was released in April 2020. Contact us to arrange an upgrade/ install or training.
IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1 has been hailed as a revolution in enterprise business intelligence and analytics, utilising artificial intelligence to answer the what and why. This latest release (R6) has brought in a whole raft of exciting new features, providing new and enhanced AI capabilities that make it faster and easier to create sophisticated dashboards and work with your data. There are a wide range of new capabilities that we are excited to share with you, and they range from, support for stand-alone calculations with AI and advanced analytics features, to the new cognitive Learn pane that helps users understand how to use Cognos Analytics. Here are the key highlights:
Dashboards
- Expand crosstab hierarchies
- Fields pane
- Visualisation toolbar is docked at the top of a dashboard
- Changed dashboard reset experience
- Customise unit labels
- Focus mode
- Guided dashboard creation
- Use AI to personalise recommended visualisations
- Use stand-alone calculations with AI and advanced analytics features
- Support for categorical colouring in a map visualisation
- Map rendering when data contains invalid latitude or longitude
Stories
- Expand crosstab hierarchies
- Fields pane
- Customise unit labels
- Focus mode
- Use AI to personalise recommended visualisations
- Support for categorical colouring in a map visualisation
- Map rendering when data contains invalid latitude or longitude
- Use stand-alone calculations with AI and advanced analytics features
Explorations
- Guided dashboard creation
- Use AI to personalise recommended visualisations
- Map rendering when data contains invalid latitude or longitude
- Use stand-alone calculations with AI and advanced analytics features
- Natural language details for time series
Notebooks
- Support for R programming language in Jupyter notebooks
Reporting
- Data tables
- Drilling up and down in a visualisation in a report
- Comparing measures in a visualisation
- Support for categorical colouring in a map visualisation
- Changed handling of invalid latitude and longitude coordinates in a map visualisation in a report
Modelling
- Add individual columns to a data module
- Reload the schema metadata from a data module
- Framework Manager model update utility
Samples
- New industry-specific base samples
Administration
- Enhanced Analytics User license
- Watson Knowledge Catalog support
- New AI Learning capability
- IBM App Id support
- Vendor-supported driver versions tested with 11.1.6
- IBM Performance Server for PostgreSQL
Installation and configuration
- Reordered cipher suite values in Cognos Configuration
Next steps
Contact us now to request a demo
