Essentials for IBM Cognos BI (v10.2.2) Course Overview

This course is proposed for center undertaking colleagues wishing to secure a wide comprehension of a business knowledge (BI) stage usage. You will perform hands-on demos and workshops that cover three basic theme zones: demonstrating, report composing, and organization of a BI stage. All through the course, you will be guided to additional inside and out preparing offerings and ways prompting confirmation.

eLearning

• IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office: Integrate with Microsoft Office (v10.1/10.2) (B5130G)
• IBM Cognos BI Event Studio: Create and Manage Agents (v8.4/10.1) (B5131G)
• IBM Cognos Transformer: Create PowerCubes (v10.1) - recording (B5169G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced: Introduction (v10.2.2) (B5A83G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced: Intermediate (v10.2.2) (B5A84G)
• IBM Cognos BI for Consumers (v10.2.2) (B5A88G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace: Create Workspaces (v10.2.2) (B5A17G)

Note: While class practices are performed inside a Cognos v10.2.2 condition, our master educators can give direction on all variants and their disparities.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Diagram of IBM Cognos BI
• Basic information structures
• Displaying prerequisites
• Making a pattern venture
• Reusable metadata
• Distinguishing revealing issues
• Display inquiry subjects
• Display for unsurprising outcomes
• Figurings and channels
• Time measurements
• Indicating determinants
• Making the introduction see
• Making investigation objects
• Prologue to the announcing application
• Making list reports
• Utilizing channels
• Make crosstab reports
• Graphical information
• Utilizing prompts
• Utilizing estimations
• Restrictive designing
• Penetrate Throughs
• Utilizing social information
• Organization
• Engineering
• Secure nature
• Overseeing run exercises
• Overseeing content in organization

Essentials for IBM Cognos BI (v10.2.2) Course Outline

Outline of IBM Cognos BI

• Portray IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) and its situation inside the IBM Smarter Analytics approach and offerings
• Portray the IBM Cognos 10 Family of offerings
• Portray IBM Cognos BI endeavor parts
• Portray IBM Cognos engineering at an abnormal state
• Portray IBM Cognos BI security at an abnormal state
• Disclose how to expand IBM Cognos BI

Recognize Common Data Structures

• Characterize the part of a metadata demonstrate in Cognos BI
• Recognize the attributes of regular information structures
• Comprehend the relative benefits of each model sort
• Look at connections and cardinality
• Recognize distinctive information traps
• Distinguish information get to methodologies

Characterizing Requirements

• Analyze key displaying proposals
• Characterize revealing necessities
• Investigate information sources to recognize information get to methodologies
• Recognize the upsides of demonstrating metadata as a star outline
• Demonstrate in layers

Making a Baseline Project

• Take after the IBM Cognos and Framework Manager work process forms
• Characterize a task and its structure
• Portray the Framework Manager condition
• Make a benchmark venture
• Upgrade the model with extra metadata

Planning Reusable Metadata

• Check connections and question thing properties
• Make proficient channels by designing brief properties

Display for Predictable Results: Identify Reporting Issues

• Depict multi-truth questions and when full external joins are fitting
• Portray how IBM Cognos utilizes cardinality
• Recognize revealing traps
• Utilize instruments to examine the model

Display for Predictable Results: Virtual Star Schemas

• Comprehend the advantages of utilizing model question subjects
• Utilize nom de plumes to dodge questionable joins
• Consolidation inquiry subjects to make as view conduct
• Resolve a recursive relationship
• Make a mind boggling relationship articulation

Display for Predictable Results: Consolidate Metadata

• Make virtual realities to disentangle composing questions
• Make virtual measurements to determine truth to-actuality joins
• Make a combined displaying layer for introduction purposes
• Combine snowflake measurements with show inquiry subjects
• Streamline realities by stowing away superfluous codes

Computations and Filters

• Utilize computations to make normally required question things for creators
• Utilize static channels to diminish the information returned
• Utilize macros and parameters in computations and channels to progressively control the information returned

Actualizing a Time Dimension

• Set aside a few minutes based questions easy to creator by actualizing a period measurement
• Resolve perplexity caused by various connections between a period measurement and another table

Indicating Determinants

• Utilize determinants to indicate numerous levels of granularity and counteract twofold including

Making the Presentation View

• Distinguish the measurements related with a reality table
• Recognize accommodated versus non-acclimated measurements
• Make star composition groupings to furnish creators with coherent groupings of question subjects
• Quickly make a model utilizing the Model Design Accelerator

Making Analysis Objects

• Apply dimensional data to social metadata to empower OLAP-style inquiries
• Sort individuals for introduction and consistency
• Characterize individuals and part one of a kind names
• Recognize changes that effect a MUN

Prologue to the Reporting Application

• Look at Report Studio and its interface
• Investigate diverse report writes
• Make a straightforward, arranged, and organized report
• Investigate how information things are added to inquiries

Make List Reports

• Gathering, organization, and sort list reports
• Portray choices for conglomerating information
• Make a multi-truth question
• Make a report with rehashed information

Center Reports Using Filters

• Make channels to limit the focal point of reports
• Look at detail channels and rundown channels
• Decide when to apply channels on total information

Make Crosstab Reports

• Organization and sort crosstab reports
• Make complex crosstabs utilizing simplified usefulness
• Make crosstabs utilizing disconnected information things

Show Data Graphically

• Make diagrams containing peer and settled segments
• Introduce information utilizing diverse outline compose alternatives
• Add setting to outlines
• Make and reuse custom outline palettes
• Prologue to representation
• Introduce enter information in a solitary dashboard report

Center Reports Using Prompts

• Recognize different incite composes
• Utilize parameters and prompts to center information
• Scan for incite writes
• Explore between pages

Broaden Reports Using Calculations

• Make counts in light of information in the information source
• Add run-time data to the reports
• Make articulations utilizing capacities

Redo with Conditional Formatting

• Make multi-lingual reports
• Feature remarkable information
• Show and conceal information
• Restrictively render questions in reports
• Restrictively organize one crosstab measure in light of another

Bore Through starting with One Report then onto the next

• Give clients a chance to explore from a particular answer to an objective report
• Pass parameter esteems to channel the information in bore through targets
• Explore through numerous reports

Make a Report Using Relational Data

• Depict social information
• Pick a report organize
• Fabricate a report
• Utilize accessible inquiry things
• Utilize computed question things
• Prologue to IBM Cognos BI Administration
• A short diagram of IBM Cognos BI
• The part of the Administrator in connection to the
• IBM Cognos BI organization work process
• The part of IBM Cognos Administration and IBM Cognos Configuration

Distinguish IBM Cognos Architecture

• The highlights of the IBM Cognos BI engineering
• The three building levels
• IBM Cognos BI servlets and administrations
• The default servlet compartment and other options to its utilization
• Illustration: IBM Cognos BI ask for handling
• Inspect the log server
• Execution arranging
• Establishment arranging and choices
• Load adjusting instruments
• Demand proclivity
• Design alternatives
• The IBM Cognos Application Firewall

Secure the IBM Cognos BI Environment

• Distinguish the IBM Cognos BI security show
• Characterize validation and approval in IBM Cognos BI
• Distinguish security approaches
• Secure the IBM Cognos BI condition

Oversee Run Activities

• Oversee present, forthcoming and past exercises
• Oversee plans
• Empower and cripple plans
• Set line need for plans
• Suspend a calendar until a later time

Oversee Content in IBM Cognos Administration

• Include an information source
• Disseminate information and make a conveyance list
• Populate the perception library
• Plan an organization
• Make arrangement organizers
• Fare and import sections
• Recognize how to keep up the IBM Cognos BI content store
• Arrange sparing substance
• Tweak the presence of IBM Cognos BI utilizing styles
• Utilize portlets to show custom Web content

eLearning

• IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office: Integrate with Microsoft Office (v10.1/10.2) (B5230G)
• IBM Cognos BI Event Studio: Create and Manage Agents (v8.4/10.1) (B5131G)
• IBM Cognos Transformer: Create PowerCubes (v10.1) - recording (B5169G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced: Introduction (v10.2.2) (B5A83G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced: Intermediate (v10.2.2) (B5A84G)
• IBM Cognos BI for Consumers (v10.2.2) (B5A88G)
• IBM Cognos Workspace: Create Workspaces (v10.2.2) (B5A17G)