IBM Cognos BI v10.2 Administration Essentials

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Explore the power and scalability of IBM Cognos BI to achieve effective performance management

Overview

Apply drill-through definition feature to different areas of Cognos BI

Manage User profiles and User Interface Profiles

Full of step-by-step explanations on all the routine Cognos BI tasks of an administrator

In Detail

IBM Cognos BI v10.2 is an advanced suite of business intelligence tools that empower a business with a wide range of capabilities to plan, design, develop, manage reports, analysis, and design dashboards to deliver effective business intelligence strategies. This book particularly focuses on understanding the administration aspects of managing a Cognos BI environment.

This fast-paced guide will provide you with practical hands-on experience of all the necessary features to administer an IBM Cognos environment. The book starts by providing you with a detailed explanation of administering the servers' environment, managing content and creating a drill-through definition. Furthermore, this book will also help you to identify security features, perform logging and auditing, monitor performance, customize appearance of Cognos, and more to help make your Cognos environment secure and reliable.

The book introduces you to the new features of Cognos BI, to highlight the administrative capabilities offered by the latest release of the IBM Cognos 10 suite of BI tools. It then takes you through IBM Cognos BI's architecture and components, while providing a detailed explanation of some of the core areas of Cognos BI Administration. The book gives practical explanations on implementing important features such as creating and deploying the drill-through feature, security system performance, maintain content, manage User profiles and User Interface Profiles, and so on. Indeed, IBM Cognos BI v10.2 Administration Essentials will be your essential guide to Cognos BI Administration.

What you will learn from this book

Create and explore drill-through feature/definition

Manage the IBM Cognos BI Server components

Get to grips with Cognos Administration Portal

Customize your Cognos environment.

Troubleshoot issues with logging

Use audit logs and reports with Cognos BI

Explore various aspects of content auditing

Get introduced to Cognos Mobile & Multi-tenancy, two of the key new features of IBM Cognos BI 10.2

Identify tenancy information

Understand the secure features, functionalities, and capabilities of IBM Cognos BI

Approach

A practical and fast-paced guide, with step-by-step explanations to give you all the information you need to know the power of Cognos BI Administration.

Who this book is written for

If you are a Cognos BI administrator or architect, this is the book for you. You must have basic knowledge of databases and business intelligence. You also need to be familiar with Cognos BI and must have worked in any section of reports studio, modelling or maps, to get the best out of this book.