Course description: IBM Cognos TM1 Master Course (V9.5.1) SPVC

PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENT FOR THIS SELF PACED VIRTUAL COURSE (SPVC). ONCE YOU ARE ENROLLED IN THIS COURSE, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CANCEL YOUR ENROLLMENT.

After you receive confirmation that you are enrolled, you will be sent further instructions to access your course material and remote labs. You will then have a 30 day window in which to complete your course.  Within this 30 days, you will have 336 hours of elab time. The self-paced format gives you the opportunity to complete the course at your convenience, at any location, and at your own pace. The course is available 24 hours a day, but lab system access is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. When you are not using the elab system, ensure that you suspend your elab to maximize your hours available to use the elab system. Once you have accessed the course, help is available Monday through Friday; questions will be responded to within 24 hours.

NO EXTENSIONS FOR THIS COURSE WILL BE GRANTED.

This is the self paced training version of "IBM Cognos TM1 Master Course (V9.5.1)" classroom course. IBM Cognos TM1 Master Course (V9.5.1) is a five-day, self paced course. This course covers advanced TM1 techniques and practices, giving you a series of in-depth methods and examples around the TM1 product which will support and guide developers who need to build high concurrency customer applications. This course is part of the customer education offerings for IBM Cognos TM1 9.5.1.

This course contains topics on TM1 Object Locking, TM1 Caching, Advanced Rules and Feeders, TM1 Server Configurations, TM1 Cube Dependencies, TM1 Backup and Deployment Strategies, and much more.

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Roadmaps that contain this course are:

• IBM Cognos TM1 9.5 – Modeler Role

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This expert course is for Senior Modelers.

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You:

• Must have IBM Cognos Certifications in both, IBM Cognos TM1 Design and Develop Models (9.5) and IBM Cognos TM1 Analyze Data (9.5).
• Should have a minimum of 18 months experience with TM1 and be in a senior role.
• Should have direct design and implementation experience with at least 1 high concurrency TM1 customer application.
• Should have intermediate knowledge of all TM1 components and architecture, paying special attention to  performance, optimization, design practices and functionality with occasional assistance.
• Should have basic working knowledge of the IBM Cognos suite of products.

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Please refer to Course Overview.

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Day 1

• Introduction
  • Course description and introductions

• Understanding TM1 Object Locking
  • TM1 locking and discussion

• TM1 Monitoring Tools
  • Monitoring of log files

• TM1 Caching
  • TM1 caching behavior and design principles

• Advanced Rules and Feeders
  • Feeders, performance and rules

• TM1 Server Configurations and Cube Dependencies
  • Settings and performance optimizations

• CCS - TM1 Backup and Deployment
  • Customer Case Study - Batch file backups and migrations

• CCS - Time Based Calculations in TM1
  • Customer Case Study - Discuss different methods of time calculations

• Advanced Turbo Integrator
  • Concurrency and performance via TI

Day 2

• Active Forms, Actions Buttons and TM1 Web
  • Best practices and optimization

• TM1 Contributor Planning Applications
  • Installation, Configuration, workflow, performance

• CCS - TM1 Contributor
  • Customer Case Study - Common requirements and solutions

• CCS - Reproducing BIF Functionality for Forecasting in TM1 Contributor
  • Customer Case Study - BIF's, methods, rules and cube discussion

• TM1 Perspectives Best Practices
  • TM1 Perspectives and performance

• TM1 Sandbox Concepts
  • Controls and benefits

Day 3

• High User Concurrency Applications with Partitioned Models
  • Understanding partitioning

• Separate Read/Write Servers using Replication and Synchronization
  • Understanding Rep and Sync

• TM1 Server Multi-User Testing
  • Implementation Performance testing

• CCS - Large Scale TM1 Applications
  • Customer Case Study - Large scale planning and data volumes

Day 4

• Effective Use of  BI on TM1
  • Framework Manager, Report Studio and Security

• TM1 as a C8 Datasource
  • Configuration and replication

• CCS - IBM Cognos BI with TM1
  • Customer Case Study - Integration points, reports and auditing, workflow

• IBM Cognos TM1 Package Connector
  • Environments, Components and Benefits

• TM1 vs Transformer PowerPlay
  • OLAP, key capabilities, user performance

• IBM Cognos Controller - FAP
  • Financial Analytics Publisher

Day 5

• Server Sizing Spreadsheet
  • Server sizing outline

• Enhancement Discussion
  • Round table discussion

• Appendix A - CCS - Web Interfaces
  • Demand planning and sales forecasting

• Appendix B - CCS - Replication and Synchronization
  • Enterprise Planning solution, reporting and practices

• Appendix C - Allocations
  • Comparisons and technique

• Appendix D - CCS - Enhancement Discussion
  • Situation, solution and requests

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Minimum Requirements (for PC) to use SPVC

• Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7
• Firefox, including V3.6.6
• Internet Explorer, including V8
• browser settings include:
• Java Runtime Environment must be installed and enabled in the web browser
• Web browser must be set to enable/allow JavaScript
• Web browser Pop-up blocking mechanisms must be set to allow pop-ups from elearn.ihost.com
• Cookies must be enabled
• Flash-enabled
• CITRIX, for the remote lab (instructions to install included with the SPVC)

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