Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics (v11.0) J4008G
Who should attend?
Multi-role (consumers, business authors, professional authors, developers, administrators, modelers, project managers)
Course objectives
Please refer to course overview
Course content
1: IBM Cognos Anlaytics
- 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
Previous knowledge
• An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
• Experience using basic Windows functionality