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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 an end user view of your data


Designing an end user view should be the easiest step of the modeling process. By this point, we have already defined all relationships, usage, and formatting of the underlying data. Now, we just have to decide how best to present it to the end users. For our example, we will be best served if we provide two simple query subjects. One will include order information and the other will include product information.

To start things off, we will once again create a new namespace under Product Orders. This time we will name it Presentation View.

With our new namespace created, right-click on Presentation View and go to Create | Query Subject. We will name this first query subject Order Information and then choose the option to be imported from the model.

When deciding what to include, it is important to remember to only add items that may be useful to your end users. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. From Business View, we will drag in all items from Order Header...

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