Kurs informasjon: IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced: Author Self-Service Reports (V10.1)

The IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced: Author Self-Service Reports (V10.1) course will be offered globally as a 2-day Instructor-Led Training course. This course will develop the skills the participants will need to use IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced to create effective reports. This course is part of the customer education offerings timed for version 10.1 release of IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced. This course will contain topics related to creating reports with IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced for the business author.

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Roadmaps:

• IBM Cognos BI 10.1 – Business Author Role

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This course is for Business Authors.

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Students should have:

• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using basic Windows and Web functionality
• Completion of IBM Cognos BI for Consumers (V10.1) WBT or working knowledge of IBM Cognos Connection (recommended)
• Experience using Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access (recommended)

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Please refer to course overview.

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Overview of IBM Cognos BI

• describe IBM Cognos BI and Financial Performance Management
• describe IBM Cognos BI components
• describe IBM Cognos architecture at a high level
• define IBM Cognos groups and roles
• explain how to extend IBM Cognos BI

Examine IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced

• examine user interface components
• cover different launching methods of IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced
• determine browser options

Introduction to the Great Outdoors Company

• describe the IBM Cognos class database, the Great Outdoors Company
  • Product Lines and Products
  • Distribution Channels

Describe sources of data used in IBM Cognos reporting (packages, namespaces, queries, query items, measures, dimensions, hierarchies)

• comparison of data types: relational, DMR (Dimensionally Modeled Relational), OLAP
• dimensional data structure

Create a Report

• explain object types
• define report layouts
• list
• crosstab
• chart
• financial

Explore Hierarchies

• define hierarchies
• explore drill down and drill up with hierarchies
• identify sets

Articulate Your Data

• describe sorting (relational and dimensional)
• explain aggregated data
• discuss grouping data
• discuss suppression options (empty cells, nulls, zeros)
• discuss filtering data (relational and dimensional)

Highlight Report Data

• explain query item properties
• discuss formatting objects
• discuss conditional styles

Integrate External Data

• define external data
• discuss security permission for user access to external data capability
• discuss steps to integrate external data
• discuss mapping data
• explain how to link external data
• discuss data attributes

Analyze Your Data

• discuss data analysis processes
  • time-series
  • rank
  • comparison
  • correlation
• explain types of reports and best practice for report analysis
  • operational
  • descriptive
  • predictive

Design Effective Reports and the Report Development Process

• discuss stages of report development for business authors
  • analyze data based on gathering requirements
  • design effective report based on requirement analysis
  • deploy to users
• discuss elements of effective reports
  • determine the business need
  • create reports for visual communication: conciseness, clarity, emphasis,answer, questions

Extend IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced Reports with Report Studio

• discuss how Report Studio functionality may add additional value to meet business needs
  • report prompts
  • drill through
  • query capabilities
  • functions and calculations
  • drill through with parameter-passing

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