Written by Mike Bernaiche, October 13th, 2023
IBM released Cognos Analytics 12 in June 2023, adding an enhanced experience for all users with the incredible assistant, lighting quick dashboards, and so much more. Now IBM has released Cognos Analytics 12.0.1 with some additional enhancements. Below I will provide all the details of what is new in Cognos Analytics 12.0.1
General Enhancements in Cognos Analytics 12.0.1
Favorites – In the Content view, you can now mark items as a favorite by clicking the heart icon. Your Favorite items will show up in your favorite tab.
Search Result Enhancements – a new result reason option has been added to search results to show reasons why the search returned various items.
AI-Generated Recommendations in Learn Panel - the recommendation engine makes daily updates based on what you and other users are searching for. Each search you make in the learn panel makes it better and better.
AutoComplete and Popular Search Suggestions in Learn Panel - The Learn pane now predicts your search query as you type keywords in the Search field and displays a list of search suggestions from all content types.
Assistant
Assistant and Learn Panel Integration - The Assistant now gives you the option to jump to the Learn pane if it cannot find an answer to a general usage question. You can use the Learn pane to find help in the product documentation, blogs, and videos.
Share Narrative Insights from Assistant – You can now share insights with or without a visualization via email, Slack, or Teams.
New Option for adding Visualizations to Dashboard – You can now add a visualization from the assistant to a new dashboard or a current dashboard by clicking the add to button or dragging the visualization to an open dashboard.
Usability Improvements and Natural Language Enhancements - The Assistant now understands choose source, set source, change source, and select source when you want to change the Assistant's data source. When you ask the Assistant a question that doesn't require a visualization, the Assistant now responds with just the relevant values. The assistant now understands: What is, When is, Where is, Who is.
Dashboards
Automatic Sorting in Month, Weekday, and Season Columns - In newly loaded database schemas and uploaded files, the members in the month, weekday, or season columns are automatically sorted in chronological order, no matter in which order they are listed originally.
Showing Additional Data Values in Tooltips – display additional values in the tooltip data field.
Expanding Visualization Content in PDF Content - You can configure crosstab, table, or list visualizations on the dashboard to export detailed information into new pages in the PDF output. A hyperlink at the visualization on the main canvas in the PDF file directs you to the new page where the detailed visualization information appears.
Showing and Styling Stack Labels in Stacked Visualizations – New show stacked label property to show the sum of each item in a stacked visualization.
Additional Fields in Line and Column Visualization – 2 new fields are available in this visualization. Column y start and Column Target.
Styling Titles of Repeated Row and Columns in Visualizations – When you repeat a column or row you can now add formatting to those titles.
Icon Visibility in the Visualization Header – you can hide or show icons in the visualization header now in Cognos Analytics 12.0.1
Better Documentation of all Visualizations – please see the link for this documentation.
Reporting
Excel Sheet Naming Improvements – In Cognos Analytics 12.0.1 this has been greatly improved. Please see link for all the details.
Event Agent
Event Studio – Event Studio was reinstated as a standard component in Cognos Analytics 12.0.1 and is now named Event Agent.
Administration
Activities Page Enhancements – The activities page contains many improvements and is best described here.
New Settings for Uploaded File and Data Set Size - Administrators can now use the Manage component to configure size limits for uploaded files and for data sets.
New Watsonx Data Connector - A new connection editor, watsonx.data, is available for creating data source connections.
Summary
There you have it; Cognos Analytics 12.0.1 brings some nice enhancements across the board in Cognos Analytics.
If you haven’t checked out my blog on Cognos Analytics 12, please check that out here.
Next, head over to this blog to understand why you should upgrade today.
Last, you can check out a quick demo of Cognos 12, most specifically the amazing Assistant here.
You can always reach me at services@lodestarsolutions.com to discuss your specific needs. We offer some amazing upgrade bundles to get you on the latest and greatest version.
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