Analysis Studio

Introduction
This document is intended for use with IBM® Cognos® Analysis Studio. Analysis Studio is a Web-based tool for exploring, analyzing, and comparing dimensional data to help you answer business questions.
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio is the component of IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson that you can use for multidimensional analysis and exploration of large data sources.
Creating a Basic Analysis
Create an analysis to help you make more effective business decisions by exploring significant relationships in your company data.
Working With Items in the Crosstab
You can manipulate the way rows and columns appear in a crosstab for more effective comparison by nesting rows or columns, swapping rows and columns, limiting the details shown in a set, and showing and hiding rows or columns.
Focusing Your Analysis
You can explore your data to look for significant comparisons and correlations.
Limiting the Items in Your Analysis
You can filter out unnecessary items using a variety of techniques, depending on your business question, how you want to compare your data, and how many items you must include in your analysis.
Using Calculations
Calculations are basic to solving problems and making decisions, and can help you to define the relationships between items of interest. For example, calculations such as rank and percentile help you instantly identify the most significant items in your analysis.
Sharing Results
After you complete your analysis and identify the data that best answers your business question, you may need to share that information with colleagues.
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio Examples
If you have some experience with IBM Cognos Analysis Studio and want to improve your skills, you can try these example tasks. Each example gives you some guidelines on how to create each sample analysis.
Troubleshooting
This chapter describes some common problems you may encounter.
Samples
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio includes sample analyses that are based on the fictional retail company, the Sample Outdoors.
Tips for IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay Users
Like IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay® Web, IBM Cognos Analysis Studio helps you answer business questions quickly and easily. Analysis Studio supports the same drill-up and drill-down behavior and drag-and-drop control as IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay while addressing demands for more effective ways to analyze large amounts of data.
Limitations When Producing Reports in Microsoft Excel Format
There are limitations when producing reports in Microsoft Excel format.
Chart Types
IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting provides many types of charts for presenting your data in a way that is meaningful for your users.
Notices