Essentials for IBM Cognos Analytics Training

ExistBI is an IBM Cognos Partner

Course Description

This unique 5-day IBM Cognos training is intended for core project team members wanting to acquire a broad understanding of IBM Cognos Analytics platform implementation. During the ILT segments, participants will perform hands-on demonstrations and exercises that cover three essential topic areas: modeling, report authoring, and administration of IBM Cognos Analytics.

This training can be held on the on-premise version or Cognos Analytics on Cloud Hosted is a SaaS, single-tenant cloud offering that is hosted in an IBM Cloud data center. This offering gives you access to the most current functionality of Cognos Analytics to develop dashboards, reports, and explorations, to view scheduled reports, to consume active reports, and more.

Cognos Analytics prerequisites:
  • Knowledge of common industry-standard data structures and design
  • Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data
  • Knowledge of Web application server architectures
  • Security systems administration

Course Summary

Next Public Course Dates

UK & Europe:

  • 24 - 28 February 2025
  • 10 - 14 March 2025
  • 24 - 28 March 2025

US & Canada:

  • 3 - 7 March 2025
  • 17 - 21 March 2025
  • 7 - 11 April 2025

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Duration
  • 5 Days
Available Formats
  • Public Virtual Live Instructor-Led
  • Private Virtual Live Instructor-Led
  • Private Onsite
Audience
  • Developers
  • Technical Analysts
  • Project Managers

Course Modules

Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics

  • Describe IBM Cognos Analytics and its position within an analytics solution
  • Describe IBM Cognos Analytics components
  • Describe IBM Cognos Analytics at a high level
  • Explain how to extend IBM Cognos Analytics

Specifying determinants

  • Use determinants to specify multiple levels of granularity and prevent double-counting

Customizing reports with conditional formatting

  • Create multi-lingual reports
  • Highlight exceptional data
  • Show and hide data
  • Conditionally render objects in reports
  • Conditionally format one crosstab measure based on another

Upcoming Public Virtual Live Instructor-led Course Dates

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