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From TDWI News-

The C8.3 enhancements aren’t confined to the back end. The revamped suite boasts several end-user (or user-focused) improvements, too—including a new Express Authoring mode that lets users quickly create and publish crosstabs and statement-style reports. Cognos officials say that C8.3 delivers a raft of reporting improvements—including, for example, support for horizontal pagination and improved navigation in multi-page reports. There are also a few portal improvements, including a global filtering capability, new metrics portlets, personal report subscriptions, and watch rules.

The new C8.3 reporting improvements, which are more in the line of user self-service capabilities, should get a warm reception from both business power users and the IT teams that struggle to support them.