IBM Cognos Analytics (v11.0)
Cognos Analytics is a powerful analytics platform powered by artificial intelligence that enables businesses to understand their data and to apply it across the entire value chain. Users can visualize their data, analyze it, and share actionable insights with others within their organization.

Author Active Reports by IBM Cognos

⏳ Time duration: 1 day
🌐 Location: Virtual
󠀁🗣 Language: English
✅ Partner: IBM

                                                   


What will you accomplish?

In this course you will learn:
🗹 Ways to easily connect and combine data
🗹 Visualize and understand data
🗹Discover hidden patterns in your data

Who is this course for?

Individuals who possess experience using basic Windows functionality and knowledge of an organization’s business intelligence processes and reporting needs.

For more information, please check this page on IBM's website, as well as this blog on P2L about IBM Cognos Analytics.

Course Outline

1: IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Describe IBM Cognos Analytics
  • Describe IBM Cognos Analytics components
  • Describe IBM Cognos architecture at a high level
  • Describe IBM Cognos security at a high level

2: Consume content in IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Where do consumers access BI content?
  • Use published reports
  • Drill through to related data
  • Specify run report options
  • Specify properties of an entry
  • Alerts and Watch Items
  • 3: Create reports in IBM Cognos Analytics
  • Overview of reporting and report authoring
  • Identify package types, uploaded files, and data modules available for reporting
  • Examine IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
  • Examine the interface
  • Explore different report types
  • Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
  • Create a report view
  • Create a subscription
  • Create an Active Report
  • Import and report on personal data

4: Create dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Describe IBM Cognos Dashboarding
  • Identify the IBM Cognos Dashboarding user interface
  • Add report content and tools to create dashboards
  • Widget-to-widget communication
  • Filter data in the dashboard
  • Sort, group, and ungroup, and calculate data

5: Create metadata models in IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Define IBM Cognos Framework Manager and its purpose
  • Describe the IBM Cognos Framework Manager environment
  • Describe IBM Cognos Cube Designer
  • Get high-level content from Dynamic Cubes course and/or FM course
  • Web-based Modeling
  • Create Data Modules

6: Extend IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Introduction to IBM Cognos Mobile
  • Key features
  • Examine Cognos Mobile architecture
  • Identify supported products
  • Introduction to IBM Cognos BI for Microsoft Office
  • Describe Cognos Analysis for Excel (CAFÉ)

7: Compare IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Cognos BI (Optional)

  • New features in IBM Cognos Analytics
  • Changes from IBM Cognos BI to IBM Cognos Analytics
  • Legacy option
  • Examine Event Studio
  • Examine the role of Event Studio in Performance Management
  • List the benefits of Event Studio
  • Examine Metric Studio
  • Identify scorecards, metrics, and metric types
  • Organize metrics with strategies
  • Track initiatives with projects

 

 

 

Schedule (iMVP)

Nov 21, 2022