Cognos Analytics 11.1.x Overview

Dashboards

• Expand crosstab hierarchies
• Fields pane
• Visualization toolbar is docked at the top of a dashboard
• Changed dashboard reset experience
• Customize unit labels
• Focus mode
• Guided dashboard creation
• Use AI to personalize recommended visualizations
• Use stand-alone calculations with AI and advanced analytics features
• Support for categorical coloring in a map visualization
• Map rendering when data contains invalid latitude or longitude

Stories

• Expand crosstab hierarchies
• Fields pane
• Customize unit labels
• Focus mode
• Use AI to personalize recommended visualizations
• Support for categorical coloring in a map visualization
• 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 personalize recommended visualizations
• 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 visualization in a report
• Comparing measures in a visualization
• Support for categorical coloring in a map visualization
• Changed handling of invalid lat and long coordinates in map visual

Modeling

• 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

Dashboards

• Improvements to crosstab and table formatting
• Display members in the data tree
• Drill through from a dashboard to another dashboard
• Customize tabs
• Show or hide rows and columns in a crosstab
• Customize missing values
• Assistant-suggested questions based on context
• New URL for downloading the custom visualization command line tools
• Custom visualizations support nested and hierarchical categories
• Enhancements for forecasting
• Value axis ticks interval
• Searching and zooming in a map
• Refreshing a custom visualization in preview mode in Dashboard

Explorations

• Enhancements for forecasting
• Perform multiple requests concurrently
• Display members in the data tree

Notebooks

• Jupyter notebooks now available on Microsoft Windows 10

Reporting

• Schematics
• New URL for downloading the custom visualization command line tools
• Custom visualizations support nested and hierarchical categories
• Searching and zooming in a map
• Legends are more compact in PDF and reports

Modeling

• Members in the data tree
• Custom tables
• Showing the query information
• Generating the query SQL
• Redesigned user experience for intent modeling
• Package enrichment enhancements

Samples

• New Jupyter notebook samples
• New location for Cognos Analytics base samples

Administration

• Cloud storage for reports
• New parameter for customizing alerts
• New capabilities in 11.1.5
• Microsoft Azure Analysis Services data server
• Changes to the Google BigQuery data server connections
• Support for MemSQL data server connections
• Whitelist of email domains
• Security token regeneration for a secure gateway

Dashboards

• Custom visualizations
• Forecasting
• Improvements to visualization legends
• Waterfall visualization available in dashboard
• Context-based dashboard generation
• KPI visualization available in dashboard
• Improvements to crosstab and table formatting
• Null suppression in a crosstab or table

Stories

• Capability to export a story to PDF
• Multipurpose widgets in scene templates
• Exact entry and exit times in a timeline

Explorations

• Forecasting
• Waterfall visualization available in Explorations
• Improved experience for comparing two visualizations
• Improvements to the starting points page
• KPI widget available in Explorations
• Context-based dashboard generation

Notebooks

• Jupyter notebook data in a report

Reporting

• Improvements to visualization legends
• Custom visualizations
• Jupyter notebook data in a report
• IBM Plex font
• Navigation menu customization

Modeling

• Range joins
• New join optimization filters
• Numeric or text style for numeric data groups
• Automatic data module validation
• New way to access the properties panel
• The _as_of_date parameter available to Cloud and multitenant users

Samples

• The Weather Company sample
• Custom visualizations samples

Administration

• Customized alerts
• New capabilities and a renamed license role
• Global parameters available to Cloud and multitenant users
• Presto driver name change
• Salesforce connection URL change
• Computer Associates IDMS deprecation
• The Weather Company data server connection