IBM’s Cognos Analytics 11.1 has arrived, and offers some dramatic changes that are expected to shake things up in the Analytics world.

We’re excited to see that IBM has infused much of their Watson Analytics capability into the new product, including automatic insights, easy visualisation and natural language query capabilities.

Cognos Analytics 11.1 is a platform for everyone from data scientists, to business analysts, to line of business users interested in gaining more insights from their data.

Here’s a brief overview of what you can expect in the new version:

Data preparation

Use built-in intelligence to cleanse and shape your data and leverage system recommendations to blend and join data from different sources, all within the tool.

Smart data discovery

Reveal hidden patterns and those hard-to-find answers and relationships.

Automated data visualization

Easily create your own compelling visualizations or use those recommended by the system, and get additional data insights presented in natural language.

Collaboration

Save time with re-usable content from data modules, dashboards and reports and share your output via Slack.

AI assistant

Leverage the AI Assistant to ask questions about your data and receive easy-to-understand responses in natural language.

Find out more about this exciting new version, including short demonstration videos of new features, and links to case studies.

Contact us to talk about moving to Cognos Analytics 11.1.