IBM Cognos Analytics Courses

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This course has been designed to give delegates a preview of the new features and functionality of IBM Cognos Analytics 11. This half day course is based on a pre-defined data package enabling delegates to learn report building techniques using relational and dimensional models. Trainees will work through hands-on demos and exercises to gain understanding of functionality and techniques for creating, customising and managing reports, charts and dashboards.

Prerequisites: An understanding of your business requirements or knowledge of IBM Cognos Report Studio 10

• Navigating the welcome screen
• Set preferences
• My content / Team content
• Create a folder
• Search facility
• Content properties

• Edit modes
• Report package types
• Icon
• Toolbox
• Object properties
• Context menus
• Build a list report
• Add groups and totals
• Report run formats
• Foreign language reporting
• Build chart report
• View multi page report on tabs
• Explore queries
 

• Add a report filter

• Upload spreadsheet files

• Visualizations
• Add text and images

• Notifications
• Subscribe

BSG Training - delivering ICT Training Solutions for you

This course has been designed to give maximum learning and development capabilities to Professional Report Authors of IBM Cognos Analytics 11. This three-day course is based on a pre-defined data package enabling trainees to learn report building techniques using relational and dimensional models. Trainees will work through hands-on demos and exercises to gain understanding of techniques for enhancing, customising and managing reports, charts and dashboards.

Prerequisites: An understanding of your business requirements

• Charts Overview
• Chart Properties
  i. Secondary Axis
  ii. Exploded Slices
• Query Explorer
  i. Additional Queries
• Secondary Axis

• Model Filters v Report specific filters
• Detail and Summary filters
• Auto-aggregation
• Before and After
• Apply Filters
• Format Data

• Parameters
• Creating Prompts
• Cascading Prompts

• Query & Layout Calculations
• Display parameterised filter results on report page

• Pass values from Source to Target reports

• Add a Page Set
• Add additional pages
• Report Reference
• Tabbed Output

• Link objects using Master – Detail relationship
• Layout Component Reference
• Repeater Table

• Package Icons
• Members
• Calculations
• Overview of Dimensional Functions

• Controls & Variables
• Connections & Interactive Behaviour
• Control Enable
• Add Images
• Build an Active Report dashboard

• Create a dashboard
• Templates
• Modes
• Themes
• Add Media
• Visualizations
• Add visualizations to a dashboard
• Convert visualizations

BSG Training - delivering ICT Training Solutions for you

This course has been designed to give maximum learning and development capabilities to Business Analysts and end users of IBM Cognos Insight 10.2.1. This one-day course enables trainees to get hands-on with this desktop tool to import and analyse external data sources, create their own workspaces, explore charts and create IBM Cognos TM1 Cubes by connecting to an existing IBM Cognos TM1 server.

• Explore the components of IBM Cognos Insight
• Examine methods of importing data
• Explore data
• Create rules and calculations
• Format and restructure Dimensions
• Create charts
• Use time roll ups
• Export data
• Enhance a Workspace
• Distribute a Workspace
• Distribute a Workspace for a wider audience
• Contribute to a plan on an IBM Cognos TM1 server
• Maintain a Workspace on an IBM Cognos TM1 server