Whats new in Cognos 10

Hi Guys ,

I have been using cognos 8.4 for about 3 years now .We are planning to move to cognos 10 starting next year.Demo environment has already been prepared and we are checking whats new and whats good in Cognos 10 so i will keep on updating things as i discover .

To start with

Report studio

1) It has automatic sorting of column values .You dont need to write that java script any more or play around with drill through

2) If some of you guys have faced it .The columns heading could not be freezed directly from cognos to excel .You had to save the report to excel and then freeze the column headers or write a java script for it .This can be done automatic now .

3) I was not aware of this , you can actually drill up /drill down in excel .Its called analysis for excel. It requires additional licencing though . But could be good if your users mostly use excel.

4) Cognos 10 gives you active reports which are lot more fun to use .Flashy i would say .

5) Cognos 10 allows you to add data from external sources with ease .Like you have a excel in which you have some data which you want to compare with your existing report .You can directly pick the excel from your desktop as datasource in report studio .No need to go to framework publish package any of those .Directly you can pick from desktop.