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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 Insertable Objects pane


In this recipe we will explore the Insertable Objects pane on Cognos Business Insight Advanced interface. The Insertable Objects pane contains objects that can be added to a report by dragging-and-dropping onto the work area. These objects form the basic building blocks of reports and dashboards.

Getting ready

Ensure that IBM Cognos 10 BI Server is running. We will use the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples that are shipped with IBM Cognos 10 BI setup to complete the recipe.

How to do it...

We will now open an existing report in Cognos Business Insight Advanced and start exploring various features it offers on the interface. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log on to Cognos Connection and navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | GO Data Warehouse (query) | Business Insight Advanced. Open Employees Expenses by Region in Cognos Business Insight Advanced, as explained in the previous recipe. Shown on the rightmost side is the Insertable Objects pane...