How To Create Dashboards In Cognos 10

Authoring powerful dashboards is just hard and time consuming. In fact, many of us spend days to build reports using traditional dashboard development methods.

That's why we're excited to release DataClarity Studio, the self-service business user authoring tool for IBM Cognos Report Studio that allows you to build dashboards in minutes not days. We're rethinking dashboards creation, to give you the fastest most efficient way to create, customize, and deploy Cognos BI/Cognos Analytics dashboards. With DataClarity Studio, you have the context to work faster while maintaining high standards for quality and best practices irrespective of authoring skill level.

Here are three big focus areas to help you with your Cognos Report Studio authoring.

Cognos dashboard authoring should be fast and simple

How do you author your governed dashboard when you don't have Cognos experience? And what type of visualization is more appropriate to accommodate your needs? With DataClarity Studio, you can connect to any modeled and governed Cognos package and map it to prebuilt templates. The choice is yours, based on your particular use case, requirements, or corporate branding.

With drag and drop visualizations, building your report dashboards becomes fast, simple, and powerful. Choose your template from the online library -- with a few clicks you select and apply your style to any template, add calculations, and configure your dashboard.

By leveraging self-service authoring capabilities in DataClarity Studio, you can create a Cognos BI/Cognos Analytics report dashboard in virtually less than a minute.

Rich templates and styles library to empower you

From selecting the right type of visualization to building and customizing reports, dashboard authoring can be tedious. What if you could have an authoring tool that does more of the heavy lifting? With DataClarity Studio, you can select from over 100 templates and styles that employ visualization, dashboarding, and design best practices to help you accelerate Cognos Report Studio authoring.

As you add your own data, adjust the optional fields, and customize a dashboard, the report will be updated automatically, and you are only one click away from visualizing your updates. With prebuilt templates including predefined data fields, you can build your report dashboards faster, without being a Cognos authoring expert.

Seamless integration with IBM Cognos Report Studio

Dashboard authoring is a critical step in your analytical process, and you want to be able to export, open, and analyze your new created report dashboards in Cognos Analytics. That's why DataClarity Studio reports are 100% compatible with Cognos Analytics and can be fully edited should additional modifications be desired.