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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos is Business Intelligence software that enables businesses to fully utilize their maximum potential. It connects people with information from virtually any data source whenever and wherever they need it so that they can make better decisions, faster.Take the practical, hands-on approach to managing your reporting environment with "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence" - packed with coverage of all the latest features to truly help you maximize your potential.With this in-depth practical guide you will learn how to fully utilize IBM Cognos 10 so that your business can make smarter decisions, achieve better results and gain a deeper understanding of your company's data. You will learn about critical topics like Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Security and Administration as well as in-depth coverage of other features like Business Insight, Business Insight Advanced, and Active Reports, which were introduced with IBM Cognos 10.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sharing the dashboard


The first and most important step for sharing a dashboard is creating it and making it fit a common business need. So far, we have looked at creating the content and customizing our dashboard. Now we can look at adding comments and saving our dashboard to a shared location for others to access it. We can finish a dashboard by saving it to a public location and adding comments to any of the objects that we think need an explanation. I will save our report and put a comment on the edited chart to explain why I changed it. This comment can contain whatever information we think is pertinent for sharing with the other users.

The comment is shown in the following screenshot:

Then, when a future user opens this dashboard, they can hover over the chart and see my note. By saving the dashboard in public folders, you are able to allow others to access it and share the information that you created.

In addition to having the ability of being saved, the dashboard can be e-mailed...