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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

Saving and sharing reports


Sharing reports and all other created content is done by saving the content to a location that can be accessed by the users that you want to share the data with. We will look at how we save to a public folder and how we access reports that others have created, as sharing goes both ways after all.

If we look at our final section of the toolbar, we see the four icons shown in the following screenshot:

These icons are all geared toward report creation, accessing, and saving. Here's what they do:

  • New: This allows you to create a new report from scratch

  • Open: This allows you to open a report that has previously been saved

  • Save: This will save the report that you are in

  • Save as: This allows you to save a report to a new location

Best practices would have a report developer saving a report to their My Folders location during development. Once a report is complete and ready for sharing, they can use the Save as... option and put the report into a Public Folders location...