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.
- 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
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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
Testimonials
“Mike was great. He was very detailed and made sure I fully understood the section before moving on. There are so many functions to remember, so just have to practice with the materials and labs to get acquainted with all of them.”
- Ariel, Analyst, US Military
“Trainer was amazing. I was worried about staying engaged for 4 days, but the pace and explanation was exceptional! Would love to know what other training he provides.”
- Natalie Chronister, Project Administrator III, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
The training with Thomas went very well, and I felt the course overall was well balanced. Thomas was able to help with my many specific questions related to our internal project requirements, and he was helpful, clear, and concise throughout – 5 star /excellent!
- Marco, Lead Data Platform Engineer, C. Hoare & Co.
