Please login or register. Did you miss your activation email? Author Topic: Cognos 8 BI 8. Transformer has been re-engineered so it is now a "true" Cognos 8 application.
Interesting news Seems to me that because Transformer will "reworked", they'll probably charge for it. Hi, To the best of my knowledge, it's still bundled in with the Administrator license. New URL for downloading the custom visualisation command line tools — location for downloading the custom visualisations command line tools has changed. Custom visualisations support nested and hierarchical categories — support hierarchical categories. You can use hierarchical categories by using the Class Segment in your custom visualisation.
In addition to an increase in accuracy, the confidence intervals are now more reliable than in the previous release. For more information on the forecasting enhancements click here.
Value axis ticks interval — with the option of Value axis tick interval you can set the interval on the value axis. Search and Zooming in on Maps — when you use a map in a dashboard, you can search and automatically zoom into items that are matched on your maps.
For example, you can zoom into small regions that are spread over a large area. Refreshing a custom visualisation in preview mode in Dashboard — you can now refresh the custom visualisation in a dashboard in preview mode.
Perform multiple requests concurrently — as you interact with the relationship diagram, you can perform multiple requests concurrently. Each request that you submit is now managed and cached independently. Display members in the data tree — expand hierarchies to display the members in the data tree. Now you can show or hide all levels of the hierarchy, including the child members.
Schematics — these are visualisations that can map data directly onto an arbitrary graphic representation. Schematics can, for example be floor plans, seating arrangements, mechanical drawings, or schematic geographical representations. A schematic is a library of similar images, like seating plans or stadium layouts, that use similar keys and that are conceptually bundled together to provide some organisation. New URL for downloading the custom visualisation command line tools — the location for downloading the custom visualisations command line tools has changed.
Custom Visualisations Now Support Nested and Hierarchies — custom visualisations now support hierarchical categories. Search and Zooming in on Maps — when you use a map in a report, you can search and automatically zoom into items that are matched on your maps.
Legends are more compact in PDF and reports — if you use Members in the Data Tree — the data module tree shows the content of relational and dimensional sources.
In both relational and dimensional sources, members are shown in the data tree. Custom Tables — custom tables are created from tables that exist in the data module.
Showing the query information — modelers can view the query information SQL for tables and relationships. Redesigned user experience for intent modelling — when adding tables to a data module, you can engage the system to suggest the most appropriate tables for your module. The selection of tables is based on keywords that you select.
Starting with this release, the keywords are visualised using an interactive word cloud, as shown in the following example:. The user interface for creating a data module proposal includes a confidence score that reflects, in percentages, the predicted ability of the proposal to fulfill your modelling objective. Package enrichment enhancements — the user interface for package enrichment was redesigned.
Hot off the press! In the latest release of Cognos Analytics Visualisation is a clear winner in this release which I will focus on in this post. It is all about making the user experience as easy and informative as possible with quick access to walking through tours, videos and embedded samples.
Have you ever being in a situation where you wished you could have easily created a custom visualisation for your business need? Now you can! Developers can create and test custom visualisations interactive viewer only as HTML output locally, before making them available to other users. Forecasting is an automated set of tools for modeling time-dependent data. It leverages a popular class of exponential smoothing models to discover and model trend, seasonality and time dependence in the observed data.
Automated model selection and tuning makes forecasting easy to use for all users. Visualisations get a boost to the legends as well. Now, you have a more compact design which uses the space more efficiently. The default position is now above the visualisation. You can also adjust the legend by dragging the splitter in the visualisation. Context-based dashboard generation allows you to create a dashboard based on column data from your most recently generated charts.
KPI visualisation is available in the dashboard. Personally, I have been looking for something like this in the dashboard since the first version. Some of my clients would be very happy about this. Improvements to crosstab and table formatting. Learn how Brown Brothers upgraded their business intelligence and analytics functionality with Cognos Analytics, and the impact it had on their family business. One of my favourite features in this release is the ability to share your content directly within Cognos.
Better yet, you can also annotate the visual before collaborating with your colleagues. Not to mention, there are more options with the mapping of visuals. This is a very useful feature. You can use the Target data slot in bar and column visualisations in reports, dashboards, and explorations to show measures that need to be compared against a target value.
I must admit, the exploration feature probably makes more sense to the more advanced users or those wanting to wear a data science hat. Nevertheless, it is very interesting to be able to uncover relationships between fields in your data sets. When you start a new exploration and select a data source, the default view is the relationship diagram showing primary relationships. The field of interest is the focal point and is represented by a dark blue circle.
Related fields are organised into purple circles. Lines connect the fields and represent relationships. The thickness of the line indicates the strength of the relationship. Primary relationships are the direct relationships between the field of interest and the other fields. Secondary relationships are the relationships between other fields directly or indirectly related to the target.
I need to put it on my resume. Thanks, Winson. If you would like anther one, you can add 8. Can you please provide the release dates for the above listed version. Terence Curran Posted April 15, 0 Comments. Santosh Kumar Posted April 16, 0 Comments. I feel like Cognos express which released after 8. Register or Login.
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