Reporting gives you access to a complete list of self-serve report types, is adaptable to any data source, and operates from a single metadata layer for a variety of benefits such as multilingual reporting.
With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of BI delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of BI users.
New features in version 8.4
- Increased visual appeal includes new background designs and colors. Users can add gradient colors and behind charts.
- IBM Cognos 8 v4 New chart types: Merimekko, Stepline, Sparkline, Sparkbar, Spark Win/Loss
- Report annotations: Users can add comments directly within the body of HTML-rendered reports.
- Enhanced suppression: Suppress all types of reports against relational, dimensionally-modeled relational, and OLAP sources. Also, users can also suppress rows, columns, or rows and columns based on "zero" values, "divide by zero" values, missing values, and overflow values.
- Extended filters now include wildcards, range, and between operations.
- Associated frames now drill together.
- Strategy Maps and Impact Diagrams now available as portlets that can be integrated into IBM Cognos Connection, IBM WebSphere, and MS Sharepoint portals.
- Data lineage: Users can access and view major transformations to data as it moves through the system.
- Expanded data access: Use data from IBM Cognos Now! and IBM Cognos TM1.
More targeted information
- Use tabbed portlet pages to navigate across multi-style, multi-page reports with critical information.
- Use briefing books to maximize your professional report presentation with customized page orientation, horizontal pagination, multiple tables of content, and personalized 'no data' scenarios.
- Schedule and burst multi-page reports to ensure that stakeholders receive relevant, consistent, and timely information.
- Save and store reports to any LAN location to save time, increase convenience, and facilitate easy access to reports and information.
- Use global filters to update the content across multiple objects in a portal page.
More user communities
- Allow business analysts to quickly and intuitively create and format statement-style reports with live data with the express authoring mode.
Complete reporting coverage
- User interface supports 10+ languages; reports delivered in 25+ languages.
- Multiple export formats: Excel, PDF, XML, HTML, and CSV.
- Flexible distribution methods: centralized access, email, application integration, and Office.
- A single architecture for viewing, querying, analyzing, and authoring for collaborative contributions to any report including dashboards.
- Report against any heterogeneous data source.
- Web-based deployment.
Advanced authoring capabilities
Intuitive and accessible self-service report authoring.
- Federated queries.
- Adaptive layout adjusts automatically when objects are added, moved, or removed.
- Embed live applications, Web sites, and non-BI content within a report.
- Drag-and-drop authoring incorporates data, text, charts, graphs, and images.
- Edit reports with prompts and toolbar commands.
- Interactive visualizations and charting abilities.
- Work with data using familiar business terms.
- Use a variety of charts: crosstabs, bar/3D bar, pie/doughnut, line, gauge, funnel, scatter, dot density, waterfall, and more.
- Create complex, multi-page layouts using different data sources without programming or workarounds.
- Conditional suppression and automatic calculations
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