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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

Collaborating with other users


In this recipe we will see how users can collaborate with each other using widgets in the Cognos Business Insight interface. We will open the 5825-01-Sample2 dashboard we had created in Chapter 5, Creating Dashboards in Cognos Business Insight. We will open the dashboard in the Cognos Business Insight interface and discuss in detail the following functionalities:

  • RSS Feed

  • My Inbox

  • Email Link

Getting ready

Make sure that IBM Cognos 10 BI server is running. The GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples should be installed.

How to do it...

To collaborate with other users, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log on to Cognos Connection.

  2. 2. Navigate to Public Folders | IBM Cognos Business Insight Samples.

  3. 3. Open 5825-01-Sample2 in the Cognos Business Insight interface.

  4. 4. In the Toolbox tab we have the RSS Feed widget, as shown in the screenshot just after the following information box.

    Note

    The RSS Feed widget is useful for saving or retaining updated information on websites...