Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics v11.0 B6008G

Multi-role (consumers, business authors, professional authors, developers, administrators, modelers, project managers)

Please refer to Course Overview and Outline.

• 1: 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
• 2: 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
• 3: 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
• 4: 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
• 5: 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
• 6: 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)
• 7: 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