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IBM Cognos Insight

By : Sanjeev Datta
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IBM Cognos Insight

By: Sanjeev Datta

Overview of this book

<p>Based on in-memory technology with write-back capabilities for What-if scenario planning, Cognos Insight gives spreadsheets the rich visual appeal for better analysis and planning. Leverage the collaborative features to seamlessly publish the personal analysis workspaces to an enterprise-wide Cognos Business Intelligence solution.<br /><br />"IBM Cognos Insight" is a fast paced, practical hands-on guide with step-by-step instructions to build Cognos Insight workspaces. Take advantage of the in-memory TM1 cubes as the underlying engine to answer business questions by analyzing data in the form of reports &amp; dashboards. Share these insights with other Cognos services or mobile devices to empower users with real-time data.<br /><br />This book introduces Cognos Insight as a personal yet powerful analytics application. It covers how decision making is applied in all domains of the business world and how data can be analyzed effectively in the form of fast in-memory cubes. Leverage the write-back functionality to build budgets, plans and forecasts.<br /><br />"IBM Cognos Insight" will empower new and existing users to maximize the features of the application and analyze data by building visually rich reports and dashboards in minutes.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Leveraging IBM Cognos Insight collaboration and sharing


PointScore decides to use the third option—Publish and Distribute—to share its analysis with the client leveraging their existing Cognos BI and TM1 environments. PointScore uses the Publish and Distribute wizard to input their client's web links for both, TM1 and Cognos BI. The data and reports now reside in the client's environment.

PointScore is going to provide a demonstration to its clients on its findings, using Cognos Business Insight (renamed to Cognos Workspace in BI version 10.2). This web studio makes building dashboards easier for the business user by dragging and dropping the existing BI content onto a canvas.

As seen in the following screenshot, Cognos Insight dashboards have seamlessly been integrated with the company's existing BI content, and a quick dashboard for business users has been created in Cognos Business Insight.

Now that the Cognos Insight data files have been published into the Cognos BI system, the client...