IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.2) B6358G...

Who should attend

• Professionals who need practical knowledge of IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.2) B6358G
• Technical, project, service management or business teams responsible for applying the topic at work
• Managers planning team capability uplift or certification pathways

Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting

• Examine IBM Cognos Analytics
• Reporting and its interface
• Explore different report types
• Create reports in preview or design mode
• Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
• Examine dimensionally modeled and dimensional data sources
• Explore how data items are added queries
• Examine personal data sources and data modules

Examine data tables and list reports

• Create a data table
• Group, format, and sort list reports
• Describe options for aggregating data
• Create a multi-fact query
• Create a report with repeated data

Create crosstab reports

• Format and sort crosstab reports
• Create complex crosstabs using drag and drop functionality
• Create crosstabs using unrelated data items

Create visualization reports

• Understand visualization categories
• Create and customize visualizations
• Understand client-side visualizations
• Create enhanced map visualizations

Focus reports using filters

• Create filters to narrow the focus of reports
• Examine detail and summary filters
• Determine when to apply filters on aggregate data

Focus reports using prompts

• Identify various prompt types
• Use parameters and prompts to focus data
• Search for prompt types
• Navigate between pages

Extend reports using calculations

• Create calculations based on data in the data source
• Add run-time information to the reports
• Create expressions using functions

Customize reports with conditional formatting

• Create multilingual reports
• Highlight exceptional data
• Show and hide data
• Conditionally render objects in reports

Drill-through definitions

• Introduction to drill-through definitions
• Navigating to related data
• Introduction to bookmark references

Enhance report layout

• Force page breaks in reports
• Format data and report objects
• Modify existing report structures

Use additional report building techniques

• Enhance report design with report objects
• Add objects to reports
• Convert a list to a crosstab
• Reuse objects within the same report
• Share layout components among separate reports
• Choose options to handle reports with no available data

Useful links: IBM Training | Data and Analytics training at CourseMonster | CourseMonster course page

Additional workplace outcomes: Participants can explain where IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.2) B6358G Training Course | CourseMonster fits in a wider IBM skills roadmap, identify related certifications or follow-on courses, and apply the concepts to real project, operations or service delivery scenarios.

• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer

Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting

• Examine IBM Cognos Analytics
• Reporting and its interface
• Explore different report types
• Create reports in preview or design mode
• Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
• Examine dimensionally modeled and dimensional data sources
• Explore how data items are added queries
• Examine personal data sources and data modules

Examine data tables and list reports

• Create a data table
• Group, format, and sort list reports
• Describe options for aggregating data
• Create a multi-fact query
• Create a report with repeated data

Create crosstab reports

• Format and sort crosstab reports
• Create complex crosstabs using drag and drop functionality
• Create crosstabs using unrelated data items

Create visualization reports

• Understand visualization categories
• Create and customize visualizations
• Understand client-side visualizations
• Create enhanced map visualizations

Focus reports using filters

• Create filters to narrow the focus of reports
• Examine detail and summary filters
• Determine when to apply filters on aggregate data

Focus reports using prompts

• Identify various prompt types
• Use parameters and prompts to focus data
• Search for prompt types
• Navigate between pages

Extend reports using calculations

• Create calculations based on data in the data source
• Add run-time information to the reports
• Create expressions using functions

Customize reports with conditional formatting

• Create multilingual reports
• Highlight exceptional data
• Show and hide data
• Conditionally render objects in reports

Drill-through definitions

• Introduction to drill-through definitions
• Navigating to related data
• Introduction to bookmark references

Enhance report layout

• Force page breaks in reports
• Format data and report objects
• Modify existing report structures

Use additional report building techniques

• Enhance report design with report objects
• Add objects to reports
• Convert a list to a crosstab
• Reuse objects within the same report
• Share layout components among separate reports
• Choose options to handle reports with no available data

Useful links: IBM Training | Data and Analytics training at CourseMonster | CourseMonster course page

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