IBM Rational Insight sample reports and dashboards

IBM® Rational® Insight (Rational Insight) ships with a set of pre-designed reports and dashboards called sample reports and dashboards. Sample reports serve as a starting point to users for designing reports of their choice. Rather than beginning with an empty screen, you can pick from a wide selection of standard reports to report and track your project's performance.

The Rational Insight sample reports make use of design best practices that are simple, parameterized, easy to understand, and triggered with a minimum of prompts. Several sample reports are available providing valuable insight into various aspects of project health and other aspects of a project that are regularly monitored. The most useful property of sample reports is that you are not forced to use them as they are. You can modify them to suit your specific project situation in a few simple steps. For instance, you can take a single project report like defect aging and modify the prompt to enable it to accept multiple projects. Group managers will find this quite handy when they want to get a consolidated view across all projects in their group.

You can access sample reports in IBM Cognos® Connection under Public Folders. Since they are already created, you can run them by clicking Run in IBM Cognos Viewer. To facilitate easy access of these reports, they are available under the following folders:

The Rational Insight also contains sample dashboards that present snapshots of program and project status information. Reports for different project or different work areas of a project can be seen "at a glance” . You can also further drill through to other reports to access more project details.

You can locate sample dashboards under Public Folders > Dashboards by Category.


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