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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
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Preface

Exploring the Properties pane


In this recipe we will explore the Properties pane on the Cognos Business Insight Advanced interface. Each widget we drag-and-drop onto the work area has a list of properties that can be set to customize its look and feel as well as behavior.

The Properties pane displays the properties for each widget we use to design the dashboard. For instance, a bar chart is a widget, which we might want to place on the dashboard. It has its own set of properties such as color palette and size, which can be adjusted, to customize its look and feel.

Getting ready

Ensure IBM Cognos 10 BI Server is started. The GO Sales and GO Data Warehouse samples should be configured on the server and working.

How to do it...

We will now open a sample report in Cognos Business Insight and explore the Properties pane in detail. Perform the following steps:

  1. 1. Log on to the Cognos Connection and navigate to Public Folders | Samples | Models | Interactive Samples. Open Recruitment Report in Cognos...