Tableau/Qlikview style Dashboard

[mrcool]

Hi All,

We are using cognos 10.2.2 and trying to build interactive dashboards. As of now I have active reports with extensie visualizations in my mind and also to use them in workspace.
We are going to use dynamic cubes as a source for these reports. My user requirement is that they want to change the dimensions in the graphs on adhoc basis. I don't think that is straight forward in workspace.
These kind of requirements are easy to do in Tableau or qlikview and I still think IBM is way behind this.
I am also having trouble in filtering the items that are not on the layout. You may say why not use the filters in the report but implemting prompt filters using OLAP source is not a easy task. I have implemented these filters earlier using transformer cubes but it was not straight forward.
In active reports I think it is easy to filter charts even when the items are not included in the report by adding the items in the extra fileds section but it is not easy to do with crosstabs and lists.
I would like to know your experiences with workspace dashboards and using them on IPADS.

Thanks,
MC

[bdbits]

To me, the native mobile apps are designed for consuming pre-designed content with defined parameters. If you can predict the dimension sets they want to look at, you could swap those in and out based on a prompt and some conditional rendering. But it sounds more like you want free-form ad hoc query capabilities, in which case I think you would be better off putting them directly into Cognos Connection via their mobile browser. You could give them a customized Workspace Advanced, for instance, tailored to the things they will want to be doing.

Personally, while it is a lot different thinking dimensionally rather than relationally, I do not find filtering OLAP sources particularly difficult.

Different products have different target users and different strengths. If you want a Tableau/Qlikview interface, maybe you should be giving them Tableau/Qlikview.

Or if you have some time to wait, there are some significant Cognos GUI changes coming supposedly by the end of the year. (I am skeptical of them hitting that target, though.) Whether it will help meet your needs or not, I do not know. But I am sure it will be THE topic at this year's annual conference in October (in the US).