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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

Introduction


In this chapter we will look at the graphical user interface (GUI) of Cognos Business Insight Advanced. To reiterate, Cognos Business Insight Advanced is a web-based tool used to author reports and analyze data.

The advanced version enables business users to get an insight into their data without getting into the complexities of the Cognos Report Studio.

The reports created in Cognos Business Insight Advanced can be accessed in Cognos Report Studio as well. Independent reports created using Cognos Business Insight Advanced can be used in Cognos Business Insight to design and develop dashboards.

We will have a look at the interface of Cognos Business Insight Advanced, with which we will create custom reports on different set of data later in this book.

We will then use these reports, in Cognos Business Insight, to design a dashboard.