Part 4 -- “IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide” Authoring IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Content
This section of the book includes chapters that cover self-service query authoring, advanced reporting techniques, Analysis Studio, Scorecards and Metrics, and Event Management.
If your job function is as a Cognos report developer then you’ll love this section of the book.
The book walks a user through creating a query within Query Studio and generating a filtered report. It then moves onto more advanced reporting techniques by adding calculations, layouts, drill downs, prompts and query management using Report Studio.
The Go Data Warehouse is used as the basis for learning Analysis Studio in this section. A review of dimensions and measures is provided to help you create your own report. The ever present Time Dimension is covered as the book continues into more advanced reporting techniques.
Creating a metric from a dimensional source is illustrated by the GO METRICS package. Metric Studio is taught to us by a concise example of adding metrics to a scorecards within Metric Studio on page 403.
Event Management are covered in Chapter 14 and we are given several examples of using Event Management for day-to-day operations such as Modify a Task on page 434.
…continued in Part 5 -- “IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide” Administration of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
…read the previous post -- Part 3 -- “IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide” Accessing and Using IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
