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Reporting
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.
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!
| • | Increased visual appeal includes new background designs and colors. Users can add gradient colors and behind charts.
| | • | 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 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. |
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 Microsoft 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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