Building Rich Dashboards with IBM Business Insight

Web Seminar:
Building Rich Dashboards with IBM Business
Insight
May 18, 2012, 1:30 PM ET

Welcome and Introduction
Carol Frasso
Director Education Services
DataClarity

Alan Przyworski
Principal, Education Services
DataClarity

Session Objectives
 New dashboards tool Business Insight

 New interface with Business Insight using
Business Insight Advanced reports

 Demo and dive in lab/workshop

 Questions and Answers

What is IBM Cognos
Business Insight?
• Web-based for interactive dashboards
• Use to provide insight into your business
• Facilitates collaborative decision making

What is IBM Cognos Business
Insight?
 It’s an interactive, self-service workspace
 Use it to assemble and share dashboards
 Assemble content for a personal or shared
dashboard without IT intervention
 Arrange elements in an intuitive, WYSIWYG
interface
• Share and collaborate on key information
 Add comments to clarify and question
 Search for existing content and begin
authoring in context

What is IBM Cognos Business
Insight?
 Interact with information for greater
understanding
 Personalize the look and feel with easy
formatting options
 Create calculations
 Select alternate visualizations
 Conduct further analysis in context
 Examine data lineage

What is IBM Cognos
Business Insight?
 Features from IBM Cognos Go! Dashboard
and IBM Cognos Viewer are now merged
into one user interface.

 This brings information
consumption, rather than viewing and
opening folders, to the forefront of the
experience.

What is IBM Cognos
Business Insight?

• IBM Cognos Viewer and IBM Cognos
Connection are still available and maintained
in this release.

• A Web-based tool to create interactive
dashboards using Cognos content and
external data sources for analysis of business
data.

Drag-and-drop dashboard
assembly
Drag-and-drop content

Reports
Real-time
and
monitoring Business Insight analysis

TM1 Unified BI workspace Metrics
cubes
Toolbox

Launching Business Insight
My Actions>Create my dashboards Cognos Connection

OR

Getting Started Page (cont.)

• Displays when Business Insight is
launched.
• Use to perform the following:
 View or open dashboards
 Create a new dashboard
 View How-to-videos

• Can be disabled From Actions
Menu > My Preferences

Application Bar
Actions Menu used to access
Return to Home page
the application

Create a new dashboard Access help system

Open an existing dashboard Add to or remove from
Favorites

Save a dashboard
Open panel to insert content or
toolbox widgets onto dashboard
Email the dashboard as a link

Refresh all dashboard widgets Search for content

Set layout and edit style

 Drag and drop content onto the canvas
 Existing BI content
– Whole reports
– Report parts
– Folders
– Prompts
 Metric studio content
– Watch lists
– Scorecards
– Strategies
– Metric types
– Individual metrics

 Drag and drop content onto the canvas
 Cognos functionality
– Slider and select filters
– My Inbox
• Receipt of personal alerts and
workflow tasks
 External content
– Web pages
– Images
– RSS feeds

Using toolbars and menus
 The main toolbar.
– Controls for dashboard-wide options
– Access content search

 On demand menus control individual widget behavior and properties

Toolbox Widgets
• Web Page: used to display HTML based
content.
• Image: used to display images.
• My Inbox: used to show a RSS feed of secured
approval requests, ad-hoc tasks and
notification requests
• Text: used to enter, format and display text
• RSS Feed: Used to display RSS news feeds.
• Select Value Filter: used to filter data in
other widgets.
• Slider Filter: used to filter in other widgets
by using a range slider filter.

Widget Toolbar
• Displayed when widget is selected
from the dashboard layout.

The widget menu: Interact with
information
•Select alternate views
and visualizations

 Filter, sort, calculate
 Drill up and down
 Group data
 Add commentary

The widget menu: Communication
and manipulation
•Set communication between widgets
 Filters, prompts and coordinated drilling

Working with Widgets
• Containers used to display
objects on dashboard layout
• The following widgets available
from Content tab:
 Report Widget
 Cognos Navigator
 PowerPlay
 TM1

Widget Communication
• When widget is broadcasting
information it is a source widget
• When widget is listening to one or
more widgets it is a target widget

Source and Target
Widgets
• Communication occurs between the
following source and target widgets:
 Report broadcasts to Report
 Slider filter broadcasts to Report
 Select value filter broadcasts to Report
 Image broadcasts to Web page
 RSS feed broadcasts to Web page
 My Inbox broadcasts to Web page

Interface with Business Insight
using Business Insight Advanced
reports

 Seamless round-trip integration with IBM
Cognos Business Insight Advanced.

 This allows for more advanced
exploration and enhancement options
for the objects included on the
workspace

reports
• Dashboard author can use/modify Business
Insight Advanced report in Business Insight
dashboard

reports
• Author then can go back to Business Insight
Advanced studio via do more option and
modify report

reports
• Modified report can then be submitted
back into the dashboard

Business Insight – 10.1.1
improvements

 Thumbnails (10.1.1)
 Swap rows and columns (10.1.1)
 Content pane placement (10.1.1)
 Resize charts (10.1.1)

Summary
 New dashboard tool Business Insight
 New interface with Business Insight using
Business Insight Advanced reports
 10.1.1 improvements

Demonstration and dive in lab:
Business Insight
Dashboards

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Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Time: 1:30 PM EST
Discover the true value of deploying mobile BI in your organization, including next
generation mobile analytics solutions from IBM and DataClarity for the iPad, iPhone,
and Android-based tablets and phones.

• Deeper Insight into Performance with IBM Cognos Report Studio
Date: Friday, June 1, 2012 Time: 1:30 PM EST
See how improvements in Report Studio give your organization timely access and
richer insight into information.

• Raising the Analytics Bar with IBM Cognos Active Reports
Date: Friday, June 15, 2012 Time: 1:30 PM EST
Learn about the various IBM Cognos Active Reports features and how they can be
used to create and distribute interactive reporting applications.

Interested in Learning More?
• Request a Cognos Training Plan for your organization
- E-mail a request to info@dataclaritycorp.com
- Submit a request at www.CognosEducation.com
- Call or e-mail Carol Frasso
919.256.6710
c.frasso@dataclaritycorp.com

• Visit www.CognosEducation.com

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