Unleashing Metrics Outside the Box: Customizing Your IBM Rational Insight Deployment
Introduction
This workshop will enable users on the IBM Rational Insight solution and how to customize it to achieve their specific business needs. In this workshop, you will learn about the Rational Insight solution, how to author a report and how to customize IBM Cognos Data Manager and IBM Cognos Framework Manager to meet additional reporting needs. Though this specific scenario deals with Rational Insight with Rational Team Concert as the data source, the concepts explained in this workshop are applicable to anyone using IBM Rational Insight or IBM Cognos BI with any data source.
Prerequisites
- You have a working deployment of IBM Rational Insight version 1.1.1.3 and the Insight Developer tools.
- You have a working deployment of IBM Rational Team Concert version 4.0.5
- You have integrated Insight and RTC (see Integrating CLM with an existing Rational Insight deployment on how to do this
- You have loaded atleast two weeks worth of defect data from RTC into the CLM/Insight data warehouse
The Workshop
For this workshop, after fulfilling the pre-requisites, you must download the presentation and the workbook. First, review the presentation and then begin the workbook’s set of labs as directed.
Download the workshop collateral.
Additionally, here are videos that walk through the four labs of this workshop:
Key Take-aways
- Understand the Rational Insight solution and how it can help run businesses more efficiently
- Understand the capabilities of the Insight components and how they work together to achieve target report requirements
- Understand how to customize the Insight solution to accommodate custom KPIs based on specific business needs
About the Authors
- Marc J. Nehme
Blog: marcnehme.com/blog
Twitter: marc_nehme
LinkedIn: Marc Nehme
- Paulo Cezar Lacerda Neto
Twitter: pclacerda
LinkedIn: Paulo Lacerda
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