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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 — general options


In this recipe we will explore another important area of Cognos Business Insight Advanced. We have seen similar explanations in previous chapter as well, in the context of Cognos Business Insight. In this recipe we will revisit and look at the kind of capabilities it provides on the Cognos Business Insight Advanced interface.

We will divide the Application bar into two areas for the sake of simplicity. First part will focus on the generic options that most word processors have. The second part will cover what is specific to Cognos Business Insight Advanced.

Getting ready

Make sure that IBM Cognos 10 BI server is up along with the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples.

How to do it...

We will now open a report in Cognos Business Insight Advanced and look at the Application bar in detail. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log on to Cognos Connection and navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | Interactive Samples. Open Recruitment Report in...