IBM Cognos Analytics + Watson Studio Cloud: Better Together

IBM Watson Studio Cloud empowers data science teams to cleanse data, build and deploy AI models on the fully managed IBM Cloud. Cognos Analytics is IBM’s premier business intelligence solution for sharing actionable insights across your organization.

It’s our pleasure to announce the release of the Cognos Analytics and Watson Studio Cloud Integration. Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Watson Studio on Cloud now work better together. We’re connecting Cognos Analytics users to Jupyter notebooks in Watson Studio Cloud. Watson Studio also offers a suite of additional data science capability including AutoAI, access to GPU’s and SPSS Modeler.

Why integrate?

We’ve been hearing a lot of feedback from our business analytics and data science communities around pain points that data scientists and business analysts encounter. Namely, data science and BI teams are often siloed in a way that makes it difficult to access a single version of the truth. With this integration, we aim to provide data science and BI teams a single ecosystem to make the most of your organization’s data.

How does it work?

The integration between the two offerings serves as a bridge to empower data scientists and business analysts to collaborate on the cloud. Our first release supports ETL and data shaping use cases and future releases will include embedding capabilities. Data scientists can easily script against governed Cognos data in Watson Studio and share results back into their Cognos ecosystem.

For step by step instructions, check out our code pattern that walks you through an examination of credit risk-related data using Watson Studio and Cognos Analytics.

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