2019 – Lessons Learned as an Early Adopter of Cognos 11 Dashboards

Presentation Summary

The University of Regina is an early adopter of the web-based IBM Cognos Analytics 11 reporting and ad-hoc dashboarding. This dashboarding is a completely new functionality in Release 11, competing with products like Tableau. For those considering migration from Cognos 10, or new installs (like us), we will provide a quick overview of Cognos Dashboarding and our experiences with it to date, including: general impressions of the functionality vs Tableau; enterprise implementation; and issues in sharing with the user base, especially security, distribution, and licensing. We hope to promote a locus for sharing Cognos expertise and experiences among HEDW members.