IBM Cognos Workspace

Cognos Workspace provides a new way for end users to consume the required information from Cognos reports in their own hand-made workspace.

This tool was introduced in v10 and can be launched from the Connection portal from the right-top corner like other studios. Using this tool, you can create a workspace and then pull in required reports or parts of reports on it. You can also pull analysis and queries built using Analysis Studio and Query Studio respectively.

The whole idea is that rather than running tens of different reports, you can choose and pull in the required parts from all these reports together so that next time you just open your workspace to view them all in one go. This is a great tool for end users, as they can actually pull contents that are sourced from totally different databases/cubes on one screen and make use of that information. While Workspace won't let them create any new list, crosstab, or chart, it just allows them to collate the required parts from existing reports to make the best of it. This can also be used to quickly build dashboards and share them publicly.

Explore more about the Workspace tool using the IBM user guide from Info Centre. Look for Cognos Workspace User Guide 10.2.0 on the IBM website.