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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

Sharing Cognos content — adding reports as portal tabs


In the previous recipe we saw how a portal page can be designed and Cognos content can be placed on it to share it with other users.

In this recipe we will look at another way of sharing data. Here, we want to add certain reports as individual portal tabs, each of which should quickly provide a pigeon-hole view on a certain business area.

Getting ready

Make sure that IBM Cognos 10 server is up and running along with the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples. Log on to Cognos Connection.

How to do it...

To add reports as portal tabs, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. In the IBM Cognos Connection window, navigate to Public Folders | My Portal and create a new folder with the name Potal Tab Reports, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | GO Data Warehouse (query) | Business Insight Source Reports and copy the Revenue Data, Marketing Data, and Promotion Data reports.

  3. 3. Paste these reports to...