Course description: IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Leverage Integration Between Cognos 8 BI and TM1 9.4 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 8 Planning: Leverage Integration Between Cognos 8 BI and TM1 9.4 classroom course. IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Leverage Integration Between Cognos 8 BI and TM1 9.4 is a four-day, self paced course that teaches application developers how to set up a Controller application and effectively use Controller in their organization's consolidation process. You will also design and generate financial reports using Controller. Through hands-on exercises, you will set up a Controller application by creating the necessary structures (such as accounts and companies), and then test the application to ensure that it works properly. You will also learn how to work with currency conversion, intercompany transactions, and investments in subsidiaries, as well as define configuration settings and user access to the application.

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This course is intended for Modelers

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You should have:

• IBM Cognos 8 Planning Analyst: Build Models (V8.4) (Required)
• IBM Cognos 8 Planning Contributor: Develop Applications (V8.4) (Required)
• Knowledge of IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager is an asset
• Knowledge of IBM Cognos 8 BI is an asset
• Knowledge of IBM Cognos TM1 is an asset

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Please refer to Course Overview

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Examine the Current Environment

• Examine the context, scope and processes found in the current release environments for IBM Cognos 8 Planning, IBM Cognos 8 BI and IBM Cognos TM1 which provides for the externalization of plan data to the enterprise

Examine Tools, Roles, and Responsibilities

• Examine the tools which make up the end to end process of providing plan data to the enterprise
• Discuss the roles of the major players in the process
• Discuss the responsibilities of the major players found in the process of externalizing plan data to the enterprise

Generate the Framework Manager Model

• Discuss the context and scope of published containers and generating Framework Manager models
• Create Express Authoring Mode reports in IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio to highlight the default content of the generated model

Enhance the Generated Framework Manager Model

• Discuss the context and scope of the generated Framework Manager model
• Explore techniques to transition the plan data into effective information to support management decisions

Plan for Reporting

• Discuss the context and scope of using IBM Cognos TM1 with Planning
• Utilize IBM Cognos TM1 to externalize the content of a Planning Published Container
• Explore different TM1 cubes based on Planning

Manage Plans Using Event Agents

• Examine the scope of event agent capabilities
• Create event agents based on workflow state which include BI and Planning content
• Create a proactive event agent for the notification of both application and published job failures

Drill to Contributor Web

• Discuss the context, scope and benefits to drilling from IBM Cognos 8 reports directly into Contributor Web
• Examine the use of URL's and hyperlinks from relational, workflow and dimensionally modeled perspectives
• Enhance Framework Manager models to allow for drilling from either a relational, workflow or dimensionally modeled context
• Discover effective techniques for using drilling for different management requirements

Use Portals and Drill Through Definitions

• Create IBM Cognos 8 Portals for Planning content
• Leverage sound BI reporting concepts through the implementation of Analyze and Query concepts with Planning
• Create analyses and reports to demonstrate the flexibility of the Analyze and Query process
• Create a Planning Workflow Analysis TM1 cube
• Enhance the Planning portal with TM1 content
• Examine the use of Conditional Blocks for reporting planning assets
• Create TM1 based portals of Plan data sourced from Published Containers

Manage Security and Administration Links

• Effective assignment of Planning Rights Administrator macro execution capabilities to Planning Contributor Users
• Examine the proper use of Administration links sourced by IBM Cognos 8 Framework Manager packages

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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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