Monday, August 8, 2011

IBM Cognos 10 Business Insight (Advanced Features)

Assembly &Formatting
Business managers can quickly and easily create dashboards by pull together a few key reports to share with the team without having professional report writer. Once items have been added to a Business Insight canvas, users may choose to manipulate the content as follows:

Chart types can be changed,
Lists / Crosstabs can be converted to charts  
Color palettes can be changed
Grouping can be carried out Resizing can be done

Interactivity & Analysis
Customize the look and feel of information by changing chart types, adding calculations, or formatting the results. Analyze this information further in context to what I’m doing without needing to start from scratch. Once content has been added additional analysis can be performed without having to hop to a different studio.

Drill Up / Down
Filter
Calculations
Sorting

To access more interaction there is the ‘Do More’ function which will take the user to Business Insight Advanced. Once the activities have been completed simply press the ‘Done’ button to take you back to Business Insight.

Insight Share & Collaborate
Add comments and assumptions to information to provide additional clarity for the rest of the team. Comments can now be added to Reports or Report Widgets Individual cells or data items in reports or report parts (only in Lists or Crosstabs)

Export Content to share with others in the following formats:
Excel, PDF, CSV, XML

Collaboration Hub
Business Insight is now a launch-point for Lotus Connections

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