What's new in IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition 10.2

Jul 18, 2013
  • New theme:
  • IBM Cognos Insight includes a new theme, called Diamond Plate. The Diamond Plate theme includes a diamond plate pattern as the workspace background and a new color palette.
  • Dotted guidelines to align widgets:
  • When you drag widgets around the canvas, IBM Cognos Insight now displays a dotted line to show you where to drop the widget to align it with the other widgets on your workspace.
  • New charts:
  • You can now create bubble charts and scatter charts to display the relationships between measures of data at the same time. For example, create a scatter chart to show revenue and cost. Plot revenue on the y-axis and cost on the x-axis. Or create a bubble chart to show revenue, cost, and number of sales. Number of sales is represented by the size of the bubbles.
  • Expand or collapse all data in the content pane:
  • You can now expand or collapse the entire tree in the content pane using the new Expand All and Collapse All icons in the content pane toolbar.
  • Show charts above crosstabs:
  • You can change the order in a crosstab and chart widget to display the chart above the crosstab. This feature can help you analyze your data more quickly at a glance, because the chart gives a snapshot of the data and the crosstab gives more details.
  • Display more or less data in new crosstabs:
  • You can now change how many levels of data are displayed in crosstab widgets in new workspaces. You can choose to display the entire data hierarchy, only the dimensions and one child level of data, or only the dimensions.
  • Drill up and drill down:
  • You can now drill up and down on the data in your crosstabs and charts in several new ways.
  • Axis range:
  • You can now set the range of values in chart axes to begin at the lowest value in your data instead of beginning at zero. This is useful if your range of values has only slight variations. For example, if your values range from 2.134 to 2.765, you can optimize that axis to display values from 2 to 3 instead of the default display of 0 to 3.
  • Update notifications:
  • IBM Cognos Insight Standard Edition and IBM Cognos Insight Personal Edition now alert you when an update to your version of Cognos Insight is available.