Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics (v11.0) Schulung

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

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

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

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

Create metadata models in IBM Cognos Analytics

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

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)

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