Couple of weeks back I got a glance into the COGNOS 10.2.1 version that is yet to release and last week I saw an update to the IBM COGNOS app on iPad which had an extra sample report added to it - 'Control Metrics' and some additional features like pinch and zoom; the 'to highlight, draw on the report' option...etc. It is just fantastic and amazing to see such small things added in to make a huge impact for the end user's usability. I have added a screen short of the sample report from IBM COGNOS iPad app.
I love the colors and the new graphs used to represent the data. I am sure months of work would have gone into creating these wonderful reports from top data scientist at IBM COGNOS. The idea of including gestures and small animations to these Active Reports add the wow factor.
I should say, we had implemented the left panel using JQuery on the 8.4 report studio but now in IBM COGNOS 10 report studio, I am assuming it will be a built-in features. This shows that IBM COGNOS is working very closely with a lot blogger out there who add in sample XML showing their creative scripting on top of the IBM COGNOS report studio.
I looked into the some of the sample report XML that I found online, the reports are really really complex. One important thing to notice is that, IBM COGNOS 10 Active Reports are designed for a certain set of reports where we got to show a lot of content at high level but not the general detailed list or cross tab data. There are some limitation like the filtering options but lets keep it a side for now.
Over the last couple of months, I have been working on creating some really cool reports with new themes and graphs. Am very excited using this new version of IBM COGNOS 10 features.
