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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

You're reading from   IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Discover the practical approach to BI with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849683562
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dustin Adkison Dustin Adkison
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. IBM Cognos Connection 2. Introducing IBM Cognos Workspace FREE CHAPTER 3. IBM Cognos Active Reports 4. IBM Cognos Mobile 5. IBM Cognos Query Studio 6. IBM Cognos Analysis Studio 7. IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced 8. IBM Cognos Report Studio 9. IBM Cognos Framework Manager 10. Administration and Performance Tuning 11. Streamlining Common Administrator Tasks 12. User Adoption Index

Designing a business view of your data


In our business view layer, we will look to define additional relationships if needed, create calculated items, format our data, rename the database objects to logical names, and compress our snowflake design down to a simple star design. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. We will start by creating a new namespace to hold the Business View namespace.

  2. We will again right-click on the base Product Orders namespace and go to Create | Namespace. We will name this namespace Business View.

    We will next look at consolidating our query subjects in order to have a star design with only one level from the fact table. We want to start by creating our fact table from the data available in our underlying table, ORDER_DETAILS.

  3. To create a new query subject under your newly created Business View namespace, right-click on Business View and go to Create | Query Subject.

  4. We're going to name this new query subject Order Details and choose the first option, Build the query based...

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