Course Content of Cognos 10.1 Online Training

Course Duration : 30 Hours

COGNOS Business Intelligence 10.1

1)Cognos Administration:

Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 BI Administration
Manage Scheduled Activities (Past, Present and Future)
Manage Content in IBM Cognos Administration
Manage content in IBM Cognos Connection
Create and Manage Drill through Definitions
How to connect to different Data Sources
How to provide security to the Package
Import and Export of Package (Deployment)
Report migration from one version to Other Version (Eg 8.4 to 10.1)
Security Maintenance by using Groups, Roles and Capabilities.
Creating Port let Page,URL,Multipage Dashboards
End-to-end Workshops 

2) Framework Manager

About Framework Manager
Creation of Interface and Usage
Creating Model & Namespace (Layers)
Importing Metadata
Creating Query Subjects & Query Items
 Merging Query Subjects
 Creating Relationships & Setting Cardinalities
 Creating Parameter Maps & Macros
 Usage of Session Parameters
 Creation of Model Filters, Prompts & Calculations
 Creating Package & Security Settings 
Creating Multidimensional Package
 Multi-developer environment (Segmenting and linking& Branching and Merging) 
 Synchronize Projects
 Framework Manager Repository Control
 Add Business Rules and Set Governors 
 Publishing Package
 Performance Improvement Tips
 Creation of Multilingual Metadata 

2.1 Cognos 10 New Features in Framework manager:
Model Design Accelerator

3) Query Studio:

Business Authoring with Cognos Query Studio

Create ad hoc reports in Query Studio

Add data to existing ad hoc reports

Customize ad hoc reports 

View ad hoc reports in different formats

Create ad hoc reports with filters and calculations

Create ad hoc charts and crosstabs 

Create ad hoc exception reports

Define custom groups

4) Report Studio:

Type of Report Templates
Creating list, Cross Tab, Chart, repeater, Maps & Other Reports
Report templates, formatting Reports – fonts, style, header, footer, boarder…etc
Generating and Creating Prompt Page
Types of Prompts
Query Calculations & Layout Calculations
Filters and Dynamic Filters
Conditional Block
Conditional Formatting
Master Details
Cascading Prompt
HTML Items & Hyperlinks
Setting Burst Options
Drill through
Drill up &  Drill down
Setting Variables
Report Functions
Report Validation
Reports Run with Options 

5) Analysis Studio:

About Analysis Studio 
Insert Data
Explore Data 
Types of Reports 
Drill up & Drill down for Detail 
Bookmark creation 
Charts and Cross tab Analysis
Suppression Concepts 
Custom Groups 

6) Event Studio: 
Create agents
Use parameters and calculations 
Add tasks (email, report, database update, agent) 
Manage task execution rules 
Reset the event list 
Run an agent 
Schedule an agent 
Cognos 10 New tasks: Approval, Notification tasks 

7) Transformer: 
Discuss the basics of OLAP analysis 
Review Transformer capabilities and its role in IBM Cognos 10 BI 
Discuss Transformer components 
Define categories and members 
Using multiple Data sources in Transformer 
Define the regular,Time,Measure dimensions 
Cration of Signons 
Building the Powercubes 
Creation special,Manual categories 
Defining security by using custom views 
Drill thru creation 
Time based partition cubes 
8) Cognos 10 New features: 

8.1)Active Reports: 
Discuss the value of Active Reports  
Examine an Active Report and its controls  
Convert an existing report to an Active Report  
Debug and save an Active Report  
Use filter and select in Active Reports  
Examine decks and cards  
Use advanced features with Active Reports  

8.2) Business In sight:  

Self-service Authoring with Cognos 10 Business Insight  
Introduction to Business Insight  
Sorting output  
Suppress and filter data  
Control display properties  
Add formatting  
Add basic calculations  

8.3) Business Insight Advance:  

Extend your analysis with Advanced Business Insight functionality:  
Apply conditional styles  
Create advanced set definitions  
Add advanced calculations  
Group and sort data  
Create advanced filter definitions  
Extend reports with external data

 
And Many more Concepts……………..