IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Adding content and content types

The first thing to consider when creating a new dashboard is what data you want to have represented. At the end of the day, a dashboard is only as valuable as the information that it provides. So the first step is to determine what data is most relevant to the business question I am trying to answer. For the purposes of this book, I will be using the sample data of IBM Cognos, and I will be creating a sales dashboard.

When you first click on Create New, you will see a blank canvas that will show Drag objects from the content pane to the canvas to create a dashboard. You can also right-click an object to insert it at the center, as shown in the following screenshot:

The right-hand side of this screen contains the ...