IBM Cognos Analytics 12 has introduced a variety of exciting updates but with one key change that will impact your legacy Map Manager reports and dashboards: Map Manager has been removed from Cognos 12. This means that any reports relying on Map Manager will no longer display maps.
If your organization has invested in spatial analytics using Map Manager, there’s good news: Attain Insight Map Intelligence provides a simple, powerful path forward that migrates your Map Manager reports and dashboards with minimal disruption.
Preserve and Extend Your Location Intelligence Investment
Map Manager allowed Cognos users to bring in custom MapInfo maps by converting them into CMF files. These files rendered geographic layers from MapInfo’s TAB-format map structures directly in Cognos reports.
Now that native support is gone, Attain Insight Map Intelligence steps in to bridge the gap to migrate your Map Manager files, reports, and dashboards to take advantage of enhanced capabilities and support for Cognos 12 and beyond.
Bring Legacy Maps Forward in 3 Simple Steps
With Map Intelligence, you can easily migrate your Map Manager maps into Cognos Analytics 12+:
- Install Attain Insight Map Intelligence
- Load your existing Map Manager maps directly into Map Intelligence
- Update your reports to reference Map Intelligence maps
There’s no need to recreate maps from scratch or abandon location-based reporting. Our approach ensures continuity and modernization without losing the spatial insight you’ve built.
Why Map Intelligence?
Map Intelligence supports MapInfo TAB files and other GIS formats providing advanced capabilities beyond Map Manager, including dynamic layers, real-time filtering, drill-through integration, and geospatial data linking, all within your existing IBM Cognos environment.
If you’re supporting legacy reports or looking to expand spatial analytics across your enterprise, Map Intelligence ensures your geographic insights stay intact and evolve with your Cognos environment.
Need help migrating your maps or updating reports and dashboards?
Contact Attain Insight today to schedule a consultation or personalized demo.
One Response
Oh dear, Map Managers departure from Cognos 12 feels like that awkward phase in a relationship where one party realizes theyve been using a deprecated file format all along. But the article has a charmingly upbeat spin! Map Intelligence sounds like the cool, modern friend helping the heartbroken Cognos user smoothly pivot to something better, without losing their spatial affection. The three simple steps are just the cherry on top of this modernization sundae. Its like getting a new, enhanced GPS when your old paper map crumples up – necessary, slightly unsettling, but ultimately offering richer directions. Kudos for not making users recreate everything from scratch; that would have been far more geographically challenging!