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Cognos Connection I
Cognos Connection is a web-based portal that allows users (such as executives, sales associates, finance managers, IT departments, and consumers) to run reports, queries, metrics, and analyses; perform administrative functions; and access other Cognos 8 content. Cognos Connection gives users a single access point to application-specific data available in Cognos 8 for their corporation. Users can customize Cognos Connection and the appearance of data in a variety of ways—by organizing content within folders, selecting separators in list view, setting a default home page, and changing the default language, to name a few. In this chapter, you will learn how to set and use these options and others.
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