IBM Cognos BI v10.2 Administration Essentials: Explore the power and scalability of IBM Cognos BI for...

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Khalid Mehmood Awan

IBM Cognos BI v10.2 Administration Essentials

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

Khalid Mehmood Awan

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English

Packt Publishing Limited
16 December 2013

Enterprise software; Client-Server networking; Parallel processing

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

Key Features

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

Book DescriptionIBM 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

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

Who this book is forIf 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.

By: Khalid Mehmood Awan
Imprint: Packt Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 191mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9781782171782
ISBN 10: 1782171789
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 16 December 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown

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Khalid Mehmood Awan received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Barani Institute of Information Technology (a joint venture between ROSE and the University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalpindi). In the course of the degree, Khalid stood third in the overall software projects development. The project was a Logic-based Argument Solver developed in LisP (List Programming, an allegro tool). He is currently working at Mobilink, Pakistan, as a Senior Engineer (Planning) for Mobile Financial Services. He looks after the system KPIs and capacity planning along with product development. In the same organization previously, he was an application engineer and system administrator in the Performance Analysis team. He also worked as a system administrator for the Network Operation Center (NOC) in the same organization. He also has experience in project management working at Mobilink. He has Oracle Financial's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) expertise and gained this experience while at Mobilink. This was his first assignment at Mobilink, on which he started working in 2005. His professional interests focus on system administration, programming, and database administration, and his current projects include MobiCash (a brand name for the Mobile Financial Service of Mobilink). In addition, he also has interests in iOS programming. Previously, he was a visiting faculty at two local institutes, for teaching Computer Graphics (C Programming and OpenGL with Visual C++). The author joined Artologics (a local software house) and worked in PHP with MySQL as well.