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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By : Ankit Garg
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook

By: Ankit Garg

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos 10 BI is the leader in the Gartner quadrant in terms of BI capabilities. There have been new features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI in terms of dashboards and BI. The book intends to highlight the latest and advanced dashboarding features introduced with IBM Cognos 10 BI. The book covers Business Insight and Business Insight Advanced in a comprehensive manner. It also covers best practices in terms of creating and distributing dashboards using IBM Cognos 10 BI, without which no BI solution would look presentable, usable and efficient. The book covers the new IBM Cognos 10 dashboarding capabilities in detail and a comprehensive manner. There whole content is divided in to step-by-step recipes, each of which covers a specific link in the whole chain of understanding and learning.Recipes are augmented with real steps and screenshots which nullify chances of error or misjudgement.These along with explanation, tips and information will help users to completely follow recipes and have a clear and concise understanding and will eventually enable them to use these in their own areas of interest.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1 Dashboarding Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Formatting and arriving at the final layout


In this recipe we will add more content to our dashboard and learn more about formatting features.

Getting ready

We will use the same setup as in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

To format and arrive at the final layout, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. We will now add more content to our dashboard—5825-04-Sample1.

  2. 2. Drag a chart and drop it in the bottom-right quadrant, just below the Forecast revenue crosstab.

  3. 3. We will use a Stacked Cone Bar chart to render forecast revenue information.

  4. 4. Drag the Chart object from the Toolbox tab and drop it just after the Forecast revenue crosstab in the bottom-right quadrant.

  5. 5. Drag Forecast revenue, Products, and Time from the Source tab and drop them onto the Default measure, Series, and Categories areas in the chart respectively.

  6. 6. From the Toolbox tab, drag a Block object and drag it just before the crosstab.

  7. 7. Drag a Text item and drop it inside the preceding block. The text item will be the subtitle...