Extensible visualizations

You can use extensible visualizations in IBM® Cognos® reports to visualize data.

Visualizations must be imported into IBM Cognos Administration. The Visualization Gallery is empty until your administrator imports the visualizations and makes them available to you. Your administrator can set permissions to restrict access to only certain report authors.

The visualizations come from the site AnalyticsZone (https://www.analyticszone.com). For more information about administration and visualizations, see the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Administration and Security Guide.

Because visualizations are extensible, they can be customized by an author with the necessary skills. You can create client-side visualizations that report consumers can run when they are not connected to the web. You can also use visualizations on mobile devices.

Some of the visualizations that you can add to your reports are treemaps, heatmaps, packed bubble visualizations, and network diagrams.

You can set properties that are available for each visualization type. These properties are determined by the visualization definition. Typically, you can set such properties as width, height, animation effect, and fixed-axis scaling.

Extensible visualizations support all Active Report interactivity. For example, you can use Active Report controls to dynamically filter visualizations to view only the data that you want to analyze.

For more information about visualizations and their uses, go to Many Eyes® (http://www-958.ibm.com).