Business Strategy & Perspectives
We recap Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, looking at changes, what the future holds and, most important, where to focus and why as the BI and analytics space continues to evolve.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
AI is popping up in BI (business intelligence) platforms. Power BI has Key Influencers, Tableau has Explain Data and Cognos Analytics has Explorations. In our blog, we stack up AI functionality in the big three platforms, demo’ing how well they can uncover hidden relationships in data and giving you the pros and cons of each.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
The Senturus Analytics Connector enabled Aero Precision to say so long to time consuming, static reports and achieve its vision for producing automated, interactive, at-a-glance Tableau dashboards using live Cognos data. Numbers – and formatting – are consistent across reports, critical markers and historical trending are finally being surfaced, and they are saving $100K annually in one department alone.
We were working on a project in Cognos Report Studio in which the reports were using different cubes. The client wanted users to be able to drill from one cube to the other. Drilling from one dimensional report to another report that is using a different cube can be difficult to set up, but we’ll show you how.
The end is…not near! IBM is now offering two support options for Cognos 10.2.x, which had been slated to end support after April 30, 2018. These welcome cushions give users more time to effectively manage the migration to Cognos Analytics and offer some workaround assistance.
We have seen a significant shift in the number of people making the move from Cognos v10 to Cognos Analytics. V11 features substantial improvements over its predecessor and IBM has worked out the gremlins since the initial release. If you’ve been holding out on upgrading, it may be time to make your move.
Business Strategy & Perspectives
The Senturus Analytics Connector is an effective way to tie Tableau into Cognos as a data source and offers huge time savings for IT and analysts both. But why take our word for it? We recently invited our client Ixia, a network testing company, to join us in a webinar and share its experience with our Analytics Connector.
The Cut, Copy, Paste functionality has changed in Cognos Analytics such that you have to use a Wizard to browse to where you want to copy to. This is fine for most situations but the ability to navigate through an LDAP or AD tree is not available. We offer a useful – albeit unsupported – workaround that might be helpful if you need to leverage something that was possible in Cognos BI 10.
If you said “Slicers” think again. Working with a client recently, we came across some issues with reporting against Dynamic Cubes and determining when to use a Detail Filter or Slicer. We got on the horn with an IBM rep who has deep knowledge of the architecture of Dynamic Cubes. He shared insight that sort of blew our minds.
While working on a model with an outdated and convoluted SQL join, a team member decided to change it into a Framework Manager Parameter map. The challenge was the large amount of values per key/value pair. Here’s a creative solution – and the equally creative thought process – addressing the challenge.
