Visualizations

Visualizations help report consumers to spot patterns and outliers and to understand data. Use IBM® Cognos® BI visualization tools to incorporate diverse types of visualizations and greater interactivity into the IBM Cognos reports.

Administrators must import visualizations from local systems and file shares into IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

A variety of ready-to-use, customizable visualizations is available from the IBM Analytics Zone (https://www.analyticszone.com/homepage/web/visualizationsDownload.action). You can choose the visualizations that match your data and answer your business question, and download them to your file system or network shares. Then, use the Library tab to import the visualizations into the library and make them available to the report authors.

Visualizations are included in a full content store deployment. When performing a partial content store deployment, administrators have the option of including visualizations. For more information, see Deployment.