Widgets

Tip:Because Flexera Analytics utilizes IBM Cognos out-of-the-box functionality, refer to the IBM Cognos Analytics documentation for complete information on most how to topics such as information about using Widgets.

Widgets are the components that create a dashboard to help you derive data insights. They are visualizations of individual items of data extracted from a data source and derived from software, hardware, and procurement data within IT Asset Management.

The home page of Flexera Analytics is the My Analytics Home page (Dashboards > My Analytics Home). The My Analytics Home page contains a Widget Library for the following categories of data:

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Software Asset Management—Widgets to help you visualize and optimize the software asset lifecycle

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Hardware Asset Management—Widgets to help you visualize and optimize the management of physical computers from the

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Procurement—Widgets that provide information about the obtaining hardware and software.

Within a widget, you can change the visualization to show various views of the data. For example, some widgets provide the ability to change to a bar chart or stacked bar chart, tree maps, heat maps, tables, and more. To change the visualization, select a widget within a dashboard and click the Change visualization icon.

Important:You must select a data source in the reporting template before building a custom report.