PowerPlay Studio Explorer

IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay® Studio Explorer provides a comprehensive tool set to support a multidimensional approach to business analysis. It lets you examine many combinations of the key dimensions and measures in your data. You can determine the impact that each area of your business has on overall results and compare that with other dimensions as you explore and analyze further.

When exploring information you can

  • add your own calculations to the results
  • filter data
  • suppress, highlight, and sort values
  • choose the type of display, such as crosstab, pie chart, or bar chart, and the amount of data shown
  • publish, export, print, or bookmark reports

When you open a cube or report in PowerPlay Studio Explorer, the data appears in the display type specified by your administrator.

  • Enhanced

    There are two enhanced display options, both provide the same functionality. The default display type, Enhanced - IBM Cognos Analytics, is consistent with other IBM Cognos Analytics studios. The Enhanced - Series 7 display type preserves the same appearance as IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay Web.

  • Generic

    Your administrator may select the generic display type to improve user response times for low network bandwidth environments, such as dial up lines. Also, the generic display works with Web browsers that do not support enhanced Java-based Web pages. While the user interface options are different in the generic display compared to the enhanced display, you can achieve the same results in both display types.