BI Data Analytics

To demonstrate easy of use for quick analysis and spotting issues, you can provide a dashboard with below features: Dashboard running without Navigation and App bar Dashboard running in Expand mode Option to set as Home Drill down /up in a table/chart Show Treemap with Repeat Rows Global Filters and Tab specific Filters Filters on Canvas - Keep them limited Use List as selection and associating information Use of Info-graphics to compare figure across static categories Define calculation for available data set  I think, Cognos dashboard are useful to reuse modeling done in FM and do exploratory analysis to find out answers quickly. This can also be helpful to define which chart will suit for representing data. For Advanced Dashboard with download features, Interactive Mode reports are suitable. So once you define key metrics to keep monitoring, it will be easy for analyst to provide requirement and comparing with detail reporting.

Cognos Analytics 11.0.7 release Dashboard issues: Logo Image doesn’t work with relative URL ( this was raised in 11.0.6 as well). I have to provide full path:-      https:// /bi/images/test_Images/my_log.jpg Pdf download is not possible for Dashboard Drill through to Cognos reports and passing parameter is not possible from Dashboard Limit of 3000 records in dashboard Canvas per widget – should be customizable similar to Active Reports ( Use Cases for Exploratory Analysis - If we want to list down operations -overall and link to detail reports  using dashboard) Infographics icon are used only for summary Visualization. When they are dragged over other charts, they don't represent data values. There is no dynamic calculations available for changing image based on other filter ( say gender) to show different images.

There is nice feature of Data Player added in IBM Cognod Analytics. We can use data player feature in a Dashboard to show trends transition over time filter. This will auto play the filter to next selection and refresh charts on dashboard. This works fine with fast data retrieval queries. However, if the query for chart is slow compared to filter query, it can result in chart data not changing while data player changes to the next selection. There is need to control the time the data player transitions to have the consistency between Data Player filter and output.