IBM Cognos Analytics: Introduction to Authoring (v11.0) eLearning

Course Description

Contains: instructional and interactive content, demonstrations and hand-on simulated exercises.

The IBM Cognos Analytics: Introduction to Authoring (v11.0) course presents you with ways to create, enhance, customize, and manage reports and charts using IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting. Participants will view demonstrations and work through scenarios that illustrate key introductory concepts while exploring the basics of the Reporting tool.

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Objectives

1: Introduction to the Reporting application

• Identify the basics of IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• Create and generate a report
• Work with dimensionally-modeled relational and dimensional data sources
• Work with personal data sources and data modules

2: Create list and crosstab reports

• Work with list reports
• Aggregate data in list reports
• Multi-fact queries in list reports
• Add repeated information to list reports
• Create simple crosstab reports
• Create complex crosstab reports
• Sort and format crosstab reports

3. Present data graphically

• Create chart reports
• Work with gauge charts and pie charts
• Customize charts
• Display visualizations in reports

4. Focus reports using filters and prompts

• Focus reports using filters
• Focus reports using prompts

Audience

Authors

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using the Windows operating system
• Experience using a Web browser