IBM® Cognos® Business Insight is a new report consumption environment that provides an integrated Business Intelligence experience for business users. This Web-based tool allows you to use IBM Cognos content and external data sources to build sophisticated, interactive dashboards. For more information about IBM Cognos Business Insight, see the IBM Cognos Business Insight User Guide.
Alternatively, you can create dashboards using pages and portlets in IBM Cognos Connection. For more information, see Pages and Dashboards.
You can launch IBM® Cognos® Business Insight:
From the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Welcome page
From IBM Cognos Connection by clicking the new dashboard
button in the toolbar
In a Web browser by entering the URL for IBM Cognos Business Insight using the following format: http://machinename/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=icd or the URL that your administrator provides
By clicking the hyperlinked name of an existing dashboard object from IBM Cognos Connection
From the Launch menu in IBM Cognos Connection and IBM Cognos Administration
From a dashboard listed in the search results in IBM Cognos Connection
The browser chrome includes toolbars and menus on a Web browser. Whether the browser chrome is displayed depends on how you launch Business Insight. Business Insight opens in a chromeless browser if you launch from the IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence Welcome page. If you launch directly in a browser by entering a URL, then your browser displays the chrome.