New Features in 8'4

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New Features in 8.4
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Agenda

• IBM Cognos 8 Planning
• New Contributor Template
• Administration improvements
• Integration with other modules
• IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
• Detail enhancements of existing Studios
• New products
• IBM Cognos 8 Controller
• Performance gains
• New administration functionality

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IBM Cognos 8 Planning

• New Contributor Template
• Built in Java
• Integration with other modules
• Administration improvements

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New Contributor Template
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Contributor Template

• User controlled nesting
• Cube
• Model
• User Cube Order
• Persistence
• Word Wrap
• Date Picker
• Hierarchies
• Zoom
• Freeze Panes
• Sorting Hiding

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Key New Features

• BiFs
• Contributor Link improvements
• FM model generation improvements
• Publish improvements
• Validations gt Check gt Prevent

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Integration

• Full integration into Cognos 8 Portal
• Full integration into Cognos 8 security model
• CDS (now PDS) live data connection
• Event authoring on planning data
• Seamless access to Cognos 8 BI Suite

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IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

• Detailed Enhancements in Existing Studios
• New Products
• Go Dashboard!
• Business Viewpoint
• Existing Functionality you may not have seen
• Go Mobile!
• Office Connection
• CAFE

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Detailed Enhancements of Existing Studios

• Better look and feel to reports
• Reports within folders arranged as Tabs or Links
• End user can now ask for alerts on numbers within
  a report
• Drilling synchronisation for multiple queries
• Extended suppression in all studios
• Lineage
• Enhanced administration tools
• New PowerPlay Studio

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New Products within Business Intelligence

• Go Dashboard!
• Business Viewpoint

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Go Dashboard!

• Users can create their own Dashboard
• Highly graphical look and feel
• Content chosen from any existing report
• Users can change display types
• Great start point for introducing users to BI

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Go Dashboard!
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Business Viewpoint Typical Issues

• I wish the sales hierarchy reflected the latest
  re-organization.
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  Operations Manager
• When will the data warehouse reflect my new
  customer list?
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  Brand Manager
• I want to realign my cost centers so I have plan
  and actual views.
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  Financial Analyst

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Business Viewpoint Todays Position

• Working individually with own definitions and
  structures
• Manually reconciling dimensions and hierarchies
  in spreadsheets
• Spending time manually tracking changes because
  there is no automated process in spreadsheets
• Manually rolling up and reconciling spreadsheets
  to gain a corporate view
• Moving at the pace of IT not the speed of business

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Business Viewpoint
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Business Viewpoint
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Business Viewpoint
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Business Viewpoint
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Existing Functionality you may not have seen!

• Go Mobile!
• Office Connection
• CAFE

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Go Mobile!

• Delivers existing IBM Cognos Reports / Dashboards
• Variety of mobile devices supported
• Easy to navigate user interface
• Integrated part of IBM Cognos 8 BI

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Go Mobile!
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Office Connection

• Displays existing Cognos 8 Content
• Supports Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Create your report template
• Add your commentary
• Save!
• Next month simply refresh and add revised
  commentary

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Office Connection
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Cognos Addin For Excel

• Displays existing Cognos 8 Content
• Pulls content through into Excel
• Includes all formatting and formulas
• Allows users to manipulate via Excel

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Cognos Addin For Excel
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IBM Cognos 8 Controller

• Performance gains
• New administration functionality

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Thank You!