Course duration
- 2 days
Course Benefits
- Learn to learn to work with IBM Cognos' Dashboards, Stories, Explorations, and Data Modules.
Course Outline
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- New Features
- Introduction to Dashboards
- What is a Dashboard
- Data Sources for Dashboards
- Data Modules, Packages, Uploaded Files
- Introduction to Predictive Presentations
- Creating a Dashboard
- Creating Complex Dashboards
- Multi-Page Dashboards
- Tabbed Dashboards
- Applying Filters
- Adding Calculations
- Applying Formatting to a Dashboard
- Deploying and Maintaining Dashboards
- Sharing Dashboards with Other Users
- Exporting Content
- Modifying Visualizations
- Updating Source Information in Dashboards
- Introduction to Stories
- What is a Story
- Story Requirements
- Differences between Stories and Dashboards
- Creating Stories
- Visualizations, Creating Scenes, Templates and Pinned Items
- Data Sources for Stories
- Creating a Multi-Scene Story
- Relationship between Scene Objects and Relationship between Scenes
- Add Media and Websites to a Scene
- Modify timelines in stories
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- New Features
- Introduction to Stories
- What is a Story
- Story Requirements
- Differences between Stories and Dashboards
- Creating Simple Stories
- Creating and Designing Stories
- Importing Data for Stories
- Visualizations, Creating Scenes, Templates and Pinned Items
- Data Sources for Stories
- Creating a Multi-Scene Story
- Relationship between Scene Objects and Relationship between Scenes
- Add Media and Websites to a Scene
- Deploying Stories to Users
- Updating and Maintaining Stories
- Update Data Sources for Stories
- Modify Visualizations
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- New Features
- Introduction to Explorations
- What is an Exploration
- Requirements for Explorations
- The interface and relationship diagram
- Upload files
- Use the Assistant
- Explore Data
- Create and pin visualizations
- Examine Badges
- Create Decision Trees and Key Driver Analysis
- Create Advanced Explorations
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- Overview of IBM Cognos Analytics
- New Features
- Introduction to Data Modules
- What is a Data Module
- Requirements and Assumptions for Data Modules
- Data Sources
- Upload Files
- Create a simple module with an uploaded file
- Data Modules with Multiple Sources
- Why Use Multiple Data Files in a Data Module
- How to Add Multiple Files to a Data Module
- Understand Joins & Cardinality
- Assumptions in Multi-Source Data Modules
- Creating Calculations, Custom Groups and Navigation Path
- Create calculations
- Create custom groups
- Create and use navigation paths
- Using Data Modules in Reports & Dashboards
- Sharing Data Modules with Other Users
- Author Reports with Data Modules
- Create a Dashboard with a Data Module
- Maintaining Data Modules
- Updating Data Modules
- Updating Source Files
- Data Module Maintenance
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Experience in the following would be useful for this Cognos class:
- Some experience with IBM Cognos is recommended but not required. Basic knowledge of data analytics and reporting is helpful.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.