The IBM Cognos portal services provide a collection of small portlets that maybe used in other IBM Cognos BI sections, for example, Cognos Connection and even in other portals. Cognos BI has many portlets that are divided into four major sections. These sections further provide different portlets, which are as follows:

Furthermore, new portlets can be created, which may contain either one or multiple portlets from the preceding list. The following screenshot shows a view of the available options for portlets. A customized portlet named ECN-PS-Core is a created. This customized portlet can be used in Cognos Connection, for example, while creating a new tab page.