Cognos Offering Manager Michael Peter shows the new features including data tables, multi-measure visualizations, improved toolbar and focus mode in dashboarding, category color support for mapping, data module enhancements and more. See the video of the demos: https://senturus.com/resources/cognos-11-1-6-new-feature-demos/. Senturus offers a full spectrum of services in business intelligence and training on Tableau, Power BI and Cognos. Our resource library has hundreds of free live and recorded webinars, blog posts, demos and unbiased product reviews available on our website at: http://www.senturus.com/senturus-resources/.

1. Cognos 11.1.6 New Features Demo
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2. Agenda
• Introductions
• What’s new in Cognos 11.1.6
• Senturus overview
• Additional resources
• Q&A
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Topics
• Reporting
• Dashboard
• Geospatial mapping
• Jupyter Notebook
• Data module
• AI and advanced analytics
• Learn Panel
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Introductions
Michael Peter
Sr. Offering Manager
IBM
Michael Weinhauer
Director of Training and Content
Senturus, Inc.
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7. IBM Cognos Analytics
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What’s new in 11.1.6

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• Expand/collapse in crosstabs in dashboard
• New data table in report
• Categorical colour in Maps
• Measure groups and drill up/down for visualizations
• Watson Knowledge Catalog integration
• Enhanced unit formatting
• AI Learning
• Jupyter notebook R support
• Learn panel

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10. Data table
New data table with interactive features
• Expand/collapse on grouped items
• Resize column width in authoring and
consumption mode
• Filter on column headers
• Freeze column headers
• Custom indicators to represent values
• Leverage browser caching for
performance
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11. Visualization
Comparing multiple measures
• Available on column and bar charts
Drill up/down using dimensional datasource
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13. Crosstab: Expand/Collapse
Members (OLAP only)
Dashboard users can now traverse their OLAP
hierarchies in the crosstab visualization by
clicking the +/- button to view various levels of
their cubes.
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14. Authoring Improvements: UI
Docked Toolbar
• Authors can now expect a consistent
toolbar along the top of their
dashboard, contextual based on their
selection.
Authoring Pane
• Authors can now make changes to
data mappings using an authoring
pane invoked from the toolbar. This
will save having to open focus mode
to make simultaneous changes to
visualizations.
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15. Authoring Improvements: Unit Formatting
Authors can now define custom unit labels for measures
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16. Consumption Improvements
Focus Mode
• A shifted focus for consumers,
focus mode now becomes a
method to maximize the size of a
visualization to quickly review
chart content before returning to
their dashboard
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18. Categorical colour support in Maps
Dashboard and Report authors can now define
categorical colour palettes for non-continuous
data fields.

19. See the demos
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deck go to https://senturus.com/resources/cognos-11-1-6-
new-features-demo
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resources/
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21. R support in Jupyter notebooks (on-premise)

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23. Easily add or update columns due to database
changes in an existing data module
Add individual columns directly from the source view to a data
module
Useful when you:
• Add a column back which you initially
removed
• A new column was added to your database
and you want to add that to your data
module
• Update your model after a name change in
the database
Reload the schema metadata directly from a
data module
• You can reload the schema metadata directly
from a data module – as long as you have
the capability to do so
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24. Watson Knowledge Catalog Integration
Phase 1 – One source of definition/reuse of Data Server Connections defined in WKC
Define your database connections once in WKC and use it in Cognos along with multiple other products without having
to define them in silos everywhere. This enables users to visualize their data using Cognos based on their connections
defined in WKC.
Example: the Database Admin can define 100+ connections in WKC and when new CA user joins the company, they
can access the connections based on the governance set on their WKC credentials without having to ask the database
admin. The user no longer needs to setup all the 100+ connections manually either.
Cognos Analytics will only import connection details that correspond to data sources that Cognos Analytics supports
today
Demo video on next slide
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25. WKC Demo Video
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Corporation

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27. AI Learning
Your usage and preferences are used in subsequent AI recommendations to provide a more personalized
experience. For example, Cognos Analytics may recommend a Packed bubble chart. By changing the recommended
visualization to Word cloud, and saving your selection, AI learns from your usage and may recommend the Word
cloud chart next time.
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AI Learning is enabled by default, but
can be changed from your advanced
preferences settings under the Personal
menu.You must have theAI > Learning
capability to use this feature.

28. Guided dashboard creation
From the AI Assistant, you can now generate a dashboard based on specified
fields of interest. For example:
• create dashboard for profit in 2019
• generate dashboard for top 10 products by profit
• create dashboard for products by profit in Florida
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29. Stand-Alone Calculations in AI and Advanced Analytics
Stand-alone calculations are now fully supported with AI and advanced analytics features, including the AI assistant,
relationship diagram in Explore, and the decision tree, spiral, and driver analysis visualizations.
For example, in Explore, the relationship diagram is now displayed when a stand-alone calculation is used as a field of
interest.
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30. Time-series Natural Language Insights
The Details tab of a visualization in Explore now displays time-series insights
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32. Learn Panel
Ask for help in the cognitive Learn Panel.
Get answers tailored to your context
with the cognitive search.
Recommends content for you to learn
from.
Results are shown inline, rather than in a
new browser tab.
Surfaces answers from several channels:
• Documentation
• Videos
• Blogs
• Community forum
• What's New
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33. Licensing
Analytics Users can now use Explore.
We have updated the license terms to allow Analytics Users to be able to use Explore without needing
an Analytics Explorer License
Customers on the 11.1 version of Cognos can give the Explore capability to Analytics Users and above
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34. See the demos
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new-features-demo
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whitepapers, other on-demand webinars and our
dashboard gallery https://senturus.com/senturus-
resources/
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