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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

Designing an end user view of your data


Designing an end user view should be the easiest step of the modeling process. By this point, we have already defined all relationships, usage, and formatting of the underlying data. Now, we just have to decide how best to present it to the end users. For our example, we will be best served if we provide two simple query subjects. One will include order information and the other will include product information.

To start things off, we will once again create a new namespace under Product Orders. This time we will name it Presentation View.

With our new namespace created, right-click on Presentation View and go to Create | Query Subject. We will name this first query subject Order Information and then choose the option to be imported from the model.

When deciding what to include, it is important to remember to only add items that may be useful to your end users. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. From Business View, we will drag in all items from Order Header...