Enhanced Assistant capabilities

The Cognos® Analytics Assistant offers type-ahead support to improve usability, understands modifiers like aggregations and filters, and can generate a complete dashboard based on your data.

A type-ahead feature guides you as you enter questions. Suggestions are based on the columns found in your data source.

Include modifiers in your questions to produce more specific results. Supported modifiers include aggregations (e.g., total, average, maximum), top/bottom, filters, and much more.

The keyboard shortcut to retrieve your last question has changed from Up arrow to Shift + Up arrow.

Ask the Assistant to create dashboard and a fully-populated dashboard is generated for you. Content is based on the context of your data source and advanced analytics will automatically determine the key measures to include in visualizations. Upon completion, you can edit the content or save it as-is.

For more details, refer to the Assistant documentation.