Functionality mapping from Cognos BI to Cognos Analytics

IBM® Cognos® Analytics is the next version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

The following table describes where you can find BI functionality in Cognos Analytics. The companion applications are only available in the user interface if they are installed and if legacy applications are enabled in a custom installation of Cognos Analytics. Some, but not all of the companion applications, are installed separately.

Table 1. BI to Cognos Analytics functionality mapping
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence IBM Cognos Analytics
Cognos Connection Welcome portal
Cognos Viewer The viewer is not named. Depending on the item you view, there is different functionality in the viewer.
Report Studio Reporting: to create a new report, in the Welcome portal, click New icon, then click Report. For a report entry in a content list, if you click More icon, then click Edit, the report opens in Reporting.
No equivalent, new in Cognos Analytics. Data modeling: to create a new data module, in the Welcome portal, click the New New icon icon, and then click Data module.
Cognos Administration Managing: incorporates part of the administration functionality. Access from the Welcome portal. Link to the full Administration console from the Manage panel.
Workspace Advanced Reporting: incorporates Workspace Advanced functionality. Page preview in Reporting is similar to Page preview in Workspace Advanced.
Drill-through definitions Companion application: to access Drill-through, in the Welcome portal navigation bar, click New New icon, then Other. Drill-through definitions support Framework Manager packages, but not data modules.
Event Studio Companion application: to access Event Studio, in the Welcome portal navigation bar, click New New icon, then Other.
My Inbox Notifications: if you select Save to the system for subscriptions and report output versions, you go to Notifications in the Welcome portal, open the notice and click a link to the report version.

Also, you can access My Inbox from your personal settings.
Analysis Studio Companion application: to access, in the Welcome portal, click New New icon, then Other.
Query Studio Companion application: to access, in the Welcome portal, click New New icon, then Other.
Workspace Dashboarding: incorporates Workspace functionality. However, for some additional functionality, you can access the Workspace companion application if it was installed. In the Welcome portal navigation bar, click New New icon, then Other.
Framework Manager Framework Manager