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Overview

This course provides participants with a high-level overview of the IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboard tool and its underlying architecture. They will explore the powerful features of IBM Cognos Analytics dashboards to transform raw data into actionable insights. Through interactive lessons, practical exercises, and real-world scenarios, learners will gain the skills to create, customize, and share dynamic dashboards that drive data-informed decisions.

Learners will gain hands-on experience through exercises that enhance their ability to create and customize dashboards, stories, and explorations.

By the end of this course, learners should be proficient in creating and customizing dashboards, using Cognos Analytics tools and AI Assistant, integrating and visualize data from multiple sources, employing advanced features like 3D maps, forecasting, and drill-through definitions to enhance insights, and much more.

Audience

This course is intended for data professionals in multiple roles: business analysts, report authors, developers, data administrators, data modelers, project managers, and technical users who are involved in data preparation, reporting, and business intelligence within their organization.

Skills Gained

After completing this course, learners should be able to:

  • Customize dashboard visualizations
  • Explore and use AI Assistant for dashboard design
  • Select and integrate at least two different types of data sources into a dashboard
  • Customize a dashboard with widgets
  • Configure a dashboard with interconnected visualizations
  • Adjust the timeline of objects in a scene to control appearance and disappearance during playback
  • Create an exploration from a data source
  • Apply forecasting techniques to predict future trends using historical data in visualizations
  • Apply cascading filters to guide logical data exploration in dashboards

Prerequisites

Participants should have the following skills:

  • An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
  • Experience using basic Windows functionality
  • An understanding of Cognos reporting

Outline

This course provides participants with a high-level overview of the Cognos Analytics Dashboard tool and its underlying architecture.

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