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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

Exploring the Application bar


In this recipe we will focus on the Application bar, which is placed at the top of the IBM Cognos Business Insight window.

Getting ready

We will use the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples shipped with IBM Cognos 10 BI. Ensure that IBM Cognos 10 BI Server is running and samples are set up properly.

How to do it...

To explore the Application bar, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Open Cognos Connection and navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | Business Insight Samples.

  2. 2. Click on Revenue Data Dashboard to open it, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. We will explore the region circled in the preceding screenshot. This is the Application bar, which we briefly saw in Chapter 1, IBM Cognos 10 Dashboard Components.

  4. 4. The top-leftmost icon has menu items, which perform various tasks with the dashboard. Users can e-mail the link of the dashboard via mailbox using the Email Link... option, configured while setting up the IBM Cognos BI Server.

  5. 5. Click...