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ZP16 0451 560x273IBM Planning Analytics Local V2.0 and
IBM Planning Analytics Express V2.0
(IBM Europe Software Announcement ZP16-0451, dated December 6, 2016)

IBM Planning Analytics Local V2.0 and IBM Planning Analytics Express V2.0 add enhanced interface for improved planning, faster analysis, and more accurate forecasting.

IBM Planning Analytics Local V2.0

IBM Planning Analytics Local V2.0, formerly known as IBM Cognos TM1, offers a single planning and analysis solution that can be deployed locally. Version 2.0 brings an interface for improved speed, agility, and foresight: IBM Planning Analytics Workspace.

IBM Planning Analytics Express V2.0

IBM Planning Analytics Express V2.0, formerly known as IBM Cognos Express, is an offering that consists of IBM Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics, but at a lower price point for clients that have 50 or less Planning Analytics users or 100 or less Cognos Analytics users. Planning Analytics Express affords small and midsized clients, as well as departmental groups within larger enterprises, the opportunity to acquire and operate all capabilities of Planning Analytics. Clients can choose individual connectors to Cognos Analytics or Planning Analytics, or a combined offering of both solutions. Planning Analytics Express clients have access to all interim fixes, refreshes, and fix packs that are supplied to enterprise clients.

Planning Analytics Express includes the latest release of IBM Planning Analytics Local V2.0, and IBM Cognos Analytics V11.

Note: Name changes for IBM Planning Analytics Local and IBM Planning Analytics Express are as follows:

  New name   Previous name
  IBM Planning Analytics Local    
  IBM Planning Analytics Local   IBM Cognos TM1
  IBM Planning Analytics Local TM1 Server   IBM Cognos Analytic Server
  IBM Planning Analytics Local Modeler   IBM Cognos Performance Management Modeler
  IBM Planning Analytics Express    
  IBM Planning Analytics Express   IBM Cognos Express
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Administrator   IBM Cognos Express Administrator
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Connector for TM1   IBM Cognos Express Connector for Performance Management
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Cognos Analytics User   IBM Cognos Express Business Intelligence User
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Connector for Cognos Analytics   IBM Cognos Express Connector for Business Intelligence
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Connector   IBM Cognos Express Connector
  IBM Planning Analytics Express Cognos Analytics Consumer User   IBM Cognos Express Consumer User

IBM Planning Analytics is a fast, easy, flexible, and complete planning and analytics solution that helps you drive efficiency, deliver foresight, and steer business performance. This software solution enables organizations of all sizes to help optimize performance through advanced planning, analytics, modeling, and reporting.

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IBM-Cognos-Business-Intelligence-(ENUSZP14-0385)

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1
delivers additional chargeable component features
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0385 - 22.07.2014)
This announcement contains the new Cognos BI parts & rolesAchtung-80x80

Overview:

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence V10.2.1 provides the following new features to give you visibility into your businesses' past, present and future performance.

This release allows your organization to:

  • Include forward looking patterns, trends and scores alongside your existing report data.
  • Identify risks and new opportunities early to shape future business success.
  • Help make confident decisions and improve operational efficiency to reach goals faster.

This is the announcement for the following licenses & parts:

  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Forward Looking Analytics Architect
  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Analytics Administrator
  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Analytics Explorer
  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Analytics User
  • IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Information Distribution

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IBM-Cognos-Business-Intelligence-Software-withdrawal-(ENUSZP14-0407)

Software withdrawal:
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence component features
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0407 - 29.07.2014)
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Effective on the dates listed below, IBM® will withdraw from marketing, part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement.

IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence has moved to a more simplified license model with fewer license roles to address customer feedback. This withdrawal moves customers to this new license model where all users will be able to access increased functionality. For example, capabilities such as Cognos Workspace Advanced, which provides more user self sufficiency, will now be available to all roles. Some customers may see changes in their software subscription and support renewals. The software subscription and support team is prepared to help our clients navigate through these changes on their annual renewal anniversary date.

As announced last year, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence will no longer ship IBM Connections. We recognize the ability to collaborate is critical to an organization's success. This migration will provide a full entitlement as outlined below which customers can optionally choose to renew their subscription and support. For more information about IBM Connections, refer to

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/conn

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence License Descriptions
(18.03.2014)

This document describes the capabilities associated with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence licenses.

This document is intended to help sales to offer the best license options to match the customer’s buying agenda, and to ensure customers understand the rights of the different licenses. This includes customers trading up from Cognos ReportNet, Cognos PowerPlay, Cognos Metrics Manager and Cognos DecisionStream to Cognos BI as well as new Cognos BI opportunities.

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IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics Enterprise 2.0
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP14-0284 - 10.06.2014)

IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics Enterprise 2.0

SPSS Predictive Analytics Enterprise V2.0 is one of the most complete analysis and deployment technology options for adopting predictive analytics. SPSS Predictive Analytics Enterprise brings together IBM SPSS market-leading, SPSS analytical products that span ad-hoc statistical analysis, predictive modeling, text analytics, entity analytics, and the deployment framework for integrating predictive intelligence into operational decisions. SPSS Predictive Analytics Enterprise brings together the capabilities of:

  • SPSS Statistics Standard, for in-depth statistical analysis and reporting
  • SPSS Modeler Gold, for predictive modeling and the ability to optimize how rules and models drive operational decisions
  • IBM Analytical Catalyst, for the ability to find patterns and relationships within Big Data through a browser
  • SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Real Time Scoring Service, to provide predictive scores in real-time for use by people and systems
  • IBM Analytical Server, for the ability to access big data, such as Hadoop, to broaden analytical possibilities

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IBM-Cognos-Express-V10.2.1-(ENUSZP13-0547)

IBM Cognos Express 10.2.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0547 - 15.10.2013)
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IBM® Cognos® Express® V10.2.1 delivers business intelligence reporting, analysis, and planning capabilities purpose built and priced for midsize organizations and individual workgroups.

Updates to this release include:

• Improved visualization experience
• Extended mobile support
• Integrated scorecarding capabilities
• Richer support for MicrosoftTM
• Additional enhancements

IBM Cognos Express V10.2.1 provides midsize companies and workgroups with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? And what should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs, and identify new growth opportunities while minimizing the impact on IT.

IBM Cognos Express includes everything needed for organizations that are starting out or expanding their business intelligence and planning capabilities. Both novice and advanced users can easily leverage the powerful yet easy-to-use capabilities to encourage broad adoption throughout an organization.  (...)

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Changed names

(•old/new)

  • IBM Cognos Express Complete User
    IBM Cognos Express User

  • IBM Cognos Express Reporter User
    IBM Cognos Express Business Intelligence User
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Complete Connector
    IBM Cognos Express Connector
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Complete Connector forNon-Production Env
    IBM Cognos Express Connector for Non-Production Environment
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Connector for Reporter
    IBM Cognos Express Connector for Business Intelligence
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Connector for Reporter for Non-Production Env
    IBM Cognos Express Connector for BI for Non-Production Environment
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Connector for Xcelerator
    IBM Cognos Express Connector for Performance Management
  • IBM Cognos Express Manager Connector for Xcelerator for Non-Production Env
    IBM Cognos Express Connector for Performance Mgmt for Non-Production Env

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IBM-Cognos-Executive-Viewer-V10.2.1-(ENUSZP13-0548)

IBM Cognos Executive Viewer10.2.1
personal analytics without compromise
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0548 - 15.10.2013)

IBM Cognos Executive Viewer V10.2.1 empowers business users with interactive self-service analytics that enables them to gain insights from the exact information they need to answer critical questions. This ready-to-use solution provides business users with the ability to get the exactinformation they need when they need it without the need for programming or training.

IBM® Cognos® Executive Viewer V10.2.1 provides real-time, web-based access to information from online analytical processing data sources delivering advanced analysis and reporting to business users. IBM Cognos Executive Viewer V10.2.1 extends these rich capabilities by adding conformance with the latest online analytical processing (OLAP) releases, including IBM Cognos TM1® V10.2, MicrosoftTM SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Server, and Oracle Essbase 11.  (...)

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IBM-Cognos-Insight-V10.2.1-(ENUSZP13-0438-2013-09-10)

IBM Cognos Insight V10.2.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0438 - 10.09.2013)

Adding to the momentum of continued updates to IBM® Cognos® Insight, personal analytics for the business user just got better. Cognos Insight V10.2.1 brings lines of business, functional managers, and those who want to understand more about their data, extended features to explore and discover new insights.

You can get started quickly and easily with Cognos Insight smart import options, dashboard design flexibility, built in calculations, simple analysis capabilities from your desktop without having to be a power user or rely on support from your business IT group.

IBM Cognos Insight V10.2.1 delivers:

  • Flexible independence to quickly analyze data
  • A tool for any type of user
  • A perfect tool for small team or workgroup collaboration
  • Low cost of ownership
  • Easy installation that is enterprise ready

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IBM-Cognos-Analysis-for-Microsoft-Excel-V10.2-(ENUSZP13-0592-2013-09-10)

IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel V10.2
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0592 - 10.09.2013)

IBM® Cognos® Analysis for MicrosoftTM Excel V10.2 provides the benefits of enterprise business intelligence to your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Excel so that business analysts, financial analysts, line-ofbusiness managers, and others can explore and analyze data from different sources, without IT support.

IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel V10.2 adds the following new features:

  • Direct access to IBM Cognos TM1® data sources, including:
    – Fast WAN enabled access
    – Access to Cognos TM1 views and subsets
    – Access to Cognos TM1 writeback
    – Access to Cognos TM1 sandboxes
    – Easy, formula-free report building

  • Analyze IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos TM1 data from the same tool

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IBM-Cognos-Business-Intelligence-V10.2.1-Additional-Feature-(ENUSZP13-038-2013-09-10)

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1 Additional Feature
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-038 - 10.09.2013)

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence V10.2.1 provides capabilities for query, reporting, analysis, and dashboarding and enables you to gather and organize information from multiple sources. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1 delivers analytics that everyone can use to answer key business questions.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.1 provides the ability for users to:

  • Easily view, assemble, and personalize information to follow a train of thought and generate a unique perspective.
  • Explore all types of information from all angles to assess the current business situation to have a deeper understanding of the patterns that exist in data.
  • Analyze facts and anticipate strategic implications by simply shifting from viewing data to performing more advanced predictive or what-if analysis.
  • Gain consistent access to information everywhere including on the web, desktop, and mobile devices.

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IBM-Cognos-TM1-V10.2-(ENUSZP13-0461-2013-09-10).pdf

IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0461 - 10.09.2013)

IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2

IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2 enables organizations to optimize performance through advanced planning, analytics, modeling, and reporting. Through IBM Cognos TM1's broad flexibility, you can model and then deploy varied planning solutions that address the diverse needs of every department in the organization. IBM Cognos TM1 applications are supported by its patented, 64-bit, in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) server, which provides on-demand analytics of complex multidimensional data with real-time analysis and calculation performance.

IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2 now enables you to easily model and deploy metrics and scorecards that are perfectly aligned with your budgets, actuals, forecasts, and all other versions of plan data. While users enter plan data, end users have full access to all of the KPIs and metrics that affect them, and they can immediately see how their new plans and assumptions affect the organization's KPIs and strategies.

With the proliferation of tablets, lightweight computers, and smartphones, workers commonly carry out their work responsibilities away from the office and sometimes for long periods of time. IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2 supports this trend by striving to support performance management wherever performance is executed. IBM Cognos TM1 V10.2 delivers support for the planning function.

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IBM Cognos TM1 on Cloud V10.2
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0460 - 10.09.2013)

IBM® Cognos® TM1® on Cloud V10.2 is the planning, analysis, and forecasting software that delivers flexible solutions to address requirements across the enterprise, as well as real-time analytics, reporting, and what-if scenario modeling.

IBM Cognos TM1 on Cloud V10.2, software as a service (SaaS) enables:

  • Low cost of entry and a lower total cost of ownership compared to the on premise version of Cognos TM1 .
  • Significant reduction of capital expenditures.
  • Reduction in IT expense needed to deploy enterprise planning, analysis, and forecasting processes compared to any on premise solution.
  • IBM to manage and execute upgrades to the newest releases.
  • Availability of access to licensed user anywhere in world.
  • Development environment at no additional cost that allows you to test the application, new models, calculations, and user rights before deploying to live users.


IBM Cognos TM1 on Cloud V10.2 delivers the following advances and enhancements:

  • Integrated metrics, scorecarding, and strategy management support built directly into Cognos TM1's modeling environment. Users review scorecards in the client user tools they leverage today.
  • New version of IBM Cognos Analysis for MicrosoftTM Excel, which permits advanced exploration, discovery, reporting, and analysis of IBM Cognos TM1 data in Microsoft Excel.
  • Mobile access to IBM Cognos TM1 planning applications so users can enter, review, and approve plans on an Apple iPad.
  • Improved user efficiency and productivity through dramatic improvements in query performance, as well as in all user web operations.    (...)

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IBM Cognos Express V9.0 Software withdrawal and discontinuance of support - Replacements available
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0315 - 09.07.2013)

Effective on the date listed below, IBM® will withdraw from marketing part numbers from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Withdrawal from marketing
Program number | VRM date | Program name release
5724-Y13           | 08/08/13 | IBM Cognos® Express® 9.0.0

Effective on the date listed below, IBM will withdraw support from the following product release(s) licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement:

Withdrawal from support
Program number | VRM date | Program name release
5724-Y13           | 09/30/14 | IBM Cognos Express 9.0.0

Replacement products
Withdrawn product 5724-Y13 IBM Cognos Express V9.0
Replacement product  5724-Y13 IBM Cognos Express V10.1

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IBM-Cognos-Integration-Server-and-IBM-Cognos-Command-Center-V10.1-(ENUSZP13-0244)

IBM Cognos Integration Server V10.1 and IBM Cognos Command Center V10.1
deliver business user driven data integration and automation
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP13-0244 - 14.05.2013)

IBM® Cognos® Integration Server V10.1 and IBM Cognos Command Center®

V10.1 complement the IBM technology leadership in performance management and business intelligence solutions by providing access to a variety of specialized data sources and a self-service user experience, enabling data integration and automation to be simple, fast, reliable, and secure.

Cognos Integration Server is a data bridge that:

  • Bridges from Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, and Oracle Hyperion Planning applications to IBM DB2® , Oracle RDBMS, MicrosoftTM SQL Server, and text file output.
  • Enables Oracle Hyperion data to be used with a variety of performance management processes, reporting applications, and data warehouses.

Cognos Command Center enables business users to automate processes across their business applications by:

  • Automating complex tasks across multiple computing environments and applications.
  • Offering plug-ins supporting essential business processes such as automated data reconciliation and business intelligence applications such as performance management and Oracle Hyperion.

Cognos Integration Server and Cognos Command Center are each available in a Starter Edition and a Standard Edition.

Overview

IBM Cognos Integration Server V10.1 and IBM Cognos Command Center V10.1 are based upon Star Analytics' software products. The software helps address the crossenterprise challenge to integrate and automate a hybrid mix of applications and heterogeneous business analytics information.

IBM Cognos Integration Server extracts and moves data into data warehouses and repositories for use with performance management and business intelligence applications. It supports a variety of data sources, including, but not limited to:

  • Oracle Essbase
  • Oracle Hyperion Planning and
  • Oracle Hyperion Financial Management

IBM Cognos Command Center introduces simplicity and control by enabling business
users to automate processes across their business applications. The product:

  • Enables self-service automation allowing business users to view and run business processes on an ad-hoc basis.
  • Provides an interface designed for business users that supports mobility.
  • Centralizes automation processes providing insight and control of who ran what, where, when, and how.

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IBM Cognos Insight V10.1.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0225 - 12.06.2012)

IBM Cognos Insight V10.1.1 provides the most versatile analytic capabilities with greater simplicity. IBM Cognos Insight V10.1.1 30 Day Trial, a separate offering from the IBM Cognos Insight 10.1.1 Standard Edition, allows all users to independently explore your data and build scenario models on your own without IT intervention. IBM Cognos Insight V10.1.1 is based on proven IBM technology that will grow with you when you are ready. (...)

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IBM Cognos Controller V10.1.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0223 - 05.06.2012)

IBM Cognos Controller V10.1.1 delivers the timely,accurate information that finance organizations need for regulatory compliance, planning, analysis, and performance management. (...)

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IBM-Cognos-Express-V10.1 (ENUSZP12-0194 / 15.05.2012)

IBM Cognos Express V10.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0194 - 15.05.2012)

IBM Cognos Express V10.1 provides workgroups and midsize companies with consistent, reliable information to answer three critical business questions: How are we doing? Why? and What should we be doing? With insights drawn from answering these questions, managers can make better, faster decisions to drive greater efficiencies, reduce costs, and identify new growth opportunities. (...)

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IBM Cognos Executive Viewer V10.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0195 - 15.05.2012)

IBM® Cognos® Executive Viewer V10.1 delivers advanced analysis and reporting to business users through real-time, web-based access to information from online analytical processing data sources. IBM Cognos Executive Viewer 10.1 extends these rich capabilities by adding conformance with the latest online analytical processing (OLAP) releases, including IBM Cognos TM1® V10.1, MicrosoftTM SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Server, and Oracle Essbase 11. (...)

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IBM-Cognos-TM1-V10.1 (ENUSZP12-0027 / 07.02.2012)

IBM Cognos TM1 10.1
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0027 - 07.02.2012)

For the best business outcomes, your company needs to plan, forecast, and budget effectively. You must also get the right information to the right people in the form they need it, and be able to make changes quickly. IBM® Cognos® TM1® V10.1 provides a complete planning, budgeting, and forecasting nvironment that supports the full range of business requirements. It provides an on-demand approach to consolidating, viewing, and editing enormous volumes of multidimensional data. Using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server, IBM Cognos TM1 V10.1 enables on-demand analytics for complex data or large data sets with real-time query and calculation performance enabling dynamic planning and forecasting - and reforecasting. (...)

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IBM-Cognos-Insight-10.1 (ENUSZP12-0020 / 07.02.2012)

IBM Cognos Insight 10.1
personal analytics without compromise
(IBM Announcement ENUSZP12-0020 - 07.02.2012)

IBM Cognos Insight 10.1 empowers all users to independently explore data, build scenario models, and share insights without Information Technology (IT) assistance. But, unlike other dashboard products, Cognos Insight is based on proven enterprise technology that will grow with you when you are ready so that you can easily extend into predictive analytics, managed reporting, and performance management. (...)

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