It’s Friday and what better way to end the week than with my fifth and final tip to help improve your day-to-day work life.

Tip 5) Monitor third-party and home-grown applications. When we introduced Control Center version 6.1 in 2016 we updated our architecture, enabling us to allow customers to track, monitor and analyze anything they want within Control Center. And we mean anything – home-grown applications, third-party applications, an FTP server and even applications from our competitors. You can monitor everything from a single screen and import/export data for specific analysis or reporting. Just download the SDK and if you need assistance we’re here to help, or you can contact one of our business partners.

BONUS – Here’s an extra tip to make your life easier now. Automate your report to management by scheduling and running weekly built-in reports. You can keep everyone up to date with current activity without any manual effort!

That concludes this blog series. Here are links to all the tips I’ve shared.

Tip 1. Avoid query overload and empower users with “Monitor this.” 
Tip 2. Set-up direct, permissioned access for business users.
Tip 3. Get started with IBM Cognos Analytics in 30 seconds with out-of-the-box workspace widgets.
Tip 4. Automate and integrate with other applications using RESTful APIs.

Let us know what you think of these tips. And if you have use cases to share, please do! We know your peers really value learning from you.