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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

Creating a dashboard in Cognos Business Insight


In this recipe we will be creating a dashboard in Cognos Business Insight. We will use the 5825-04-Sample1 dashboard we have created in the previous chapter on Cognos Business Insight Advanced and the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples we have already installed.

Getting ready

IBM Cognos BI Server should be started. The GO Data Warehouse and GO Sales samples should be installed.

How to do it...

To create a dashboard in Cognos Business Insight, perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log on to IBM Cognos Connection and create a new folder with name of IBM Cognos Business Insight Samples, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Navigate inside the newly created folder and open Business Insight from the Launch menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. Click on the Create New button to open the Cognos Business Insight graphical interface.

  4. 4. On the right-hand side pane, note the dashboard—5825-04-Sample1 that we created in the previous chapter on...