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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

Chapter 6. Sharing and Collaborating with Other Users

In this chapter we will be:

  • Collaborating with other users

  • Sharing Cognos content — adding portal pages to Cognos Connection

  • Sharing Cognos content — adding reports as portal tabs

  • Sharing the Cognos Business Insight dashboard

Introduction

In this chapter we will learn about various modes of communication in Cognos, which can take place between different users, who have varying needs. This involves placing live news feeds from external sources on the dashboard, so that the information is broadcast to all the dashboard users. Users can collaborate with each other using the e-mail functionality provided in Cognos. We will also cover how we can share dashboard and reports among various users by placing Cognos content on portals.

The first recipe talks about collaboration among users using news feeds and e-mails.