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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

Opening a dashboard in IBM Cognos Business Insight


In this recipe we will open an existing dashboard. We will use samples provided with the IBM Cognos 10 BI setup.

Getting ready

IBM Cognos 10 BI Server should be up and the GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples should be installed and configured.

How to do it...

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

  1. 1. Open Cognos Connection, using the gateway URI in a web browser. Navigate to Business Insight Samples, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. 2. Click on Recruitment Dashboard, which is the third entry in the screenshot. This will open the dashboard in Cognos Business Insight, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. 3. The preceding dashboard is the collection of a crosstab and three charts. We will focus on each of the areas one by one in the next recipes. Take note of the rightmost area circled in red. It indicates that the section is collapsible. This is the subject of discussion for the next recipe.

How...