Authoring reports, dashboards, and stories

If you have the appropriate permissions, the following tools allow you to author content in Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence, often referred to as BI, refers to the skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making. This is also the name of the Pronto Xi BI module.:

• Report

  Create and modify reports.

  For information about the reportA set of data deliberately laid out to communicate business information. Depending on the context, 'report' may refer to report specification or report output. Report (more precisely, report specification) is the generic term for the objects created or edited in Cognos Analytics. Pronto Xi Business Intelligence offers a suite of standard reports. interface, see About the BI Report tool.

• Dashboard and Story

  Create dashboards and stories. With these content types you can assemble a view that contains visualisations such as a graph, chart, plot, table, map, or any other visual representation of data. Stories differ from dashboards because they provide an over-time narrative and can convey a conclusion or recommendation.

  For information about creating dashboards, see About the BI Dashboard tool.

  For information about stories, see Stories in the Cognos Analytics help.

• Data module

  Create data modules and data sets for use in other Business Intelligence content.

  You can create data modules by combining inputs from other data modules, data servers, uploaded files, data sets, and packages.

  For more information, see Creating a data module in the Cognos Analytics help.