March 19th, 2012Cognos 10: Offers Many Innovations
IBM Cognos 10 is getting immensely popular in the current time. It is a solid move for broadening its scope much beyond the BI towards including group decision making, mobile BI and integrated statistics.
The goal here is towards focusing on integrating in the form of broader role for the BI to decision making process having the ability of actually record as well as track the decisions. Then it emphasizes to measure the results coming against them. Let us examine this topic in detail.
Cognos 10 meets the shortcomings associated with role defined capabilities felt earlier on. The complete issue in regard to “studio clutter” confusing some BI users earlier on is dealt with lots of care. The business Insight enables the users to easily aggregate as well as organize the BI through an analytic approach to plan content within an easy unified interface.

The users are able to access some increased functionality with lots of ease. Moreover, there is no need to change the studios and interfaces. You can not ask for anything better. This seamless slide to the expanding functionality virtually remains unnoticeable during the actual use.
You might be wondering why to go for Cognos 10 and not choose Cognos 9. The answer to it centers around two aspects. Firstly, it’s regarded a key release and warrants being 10 and not 9. Secondly, the TM1 (Applix) has already a 9.x release in the market. This information would help you take the right decision.
Now it’s possible to easily run the reports as well as queries in both the Cognos 8 as well as Cognos 10 at same time. After that you can do a comparison of the processing differences arising out of them. This would decrease the testing required in the version upgrades.
Cognos 10 comes up with the Dynamic Query. It is a latest feature that arises through the performance enhancements. This enabled feature would add a lot to your ease and the reports, queries as well as cube building get shortened. This is achieved through caching as well as query routing techniques. The results displayed the performance enhancements of the order of up to nearly 30-40 percent.


