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Ensuring Your Success.

Dear Colleague,

At DataClarity, we view education as vital. As a result, our training services are

delivered by certied Cognos consultants and are tailored or your unique technicaland business requirements.

Our world-class training courses are careully designed to enable you to leverage

the power o Cognos solutions and drive greater prociency in your organization.

From courses that cover essential skills and concepts to courses on advanced topics

and techniques, DataClarity provides the training you need in the ormat that best

suits your role, learning style, and companys objectives.

With DataClaritys training oerings, you maximize your training budget as your

teams learn rom our real-world experience, increasing their technical literacy.

For a complete listing o our currently scheduled online courses, please visit

www.CognosEducation.com or contact me directly to discuss your training needs.

We look orward to training together!

Sincerely,

Carol Frasso

Director, Education Services

919.256.6710

[email protected]

www.CognosEducation.com

Cognos Education

or your Team.

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Table o Contents

Benets o DataClarity Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

DataClarity Education Oerings

Customized Onsite Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Instructor-Led Online Training (ILO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Onsite Mentoring and Coaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Cognos 10 Courses

IBM Cognos BI Administration v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

IBM Cognos BI Analysis Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

IBM Cognos BI Business Insight v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

IBM Cognos BI Business Insight Advanced v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager Advanced v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

IBM Cognos BI Metric Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

IBM Cognos BI Overview v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

IBM Cognos BI Query Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Active Reports v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Essentials v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Intermediate v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

IBM Cognos BI Transormer v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Cognos 8 Courses / Getting Started

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Benets o DataClarity

Training.

Quality You Can Count On

Our philosophy embodies lietime

client relationships -- a way o lie that

keeps clients coming back or more.

This means never recommending

anything to a client that does not

deliver real business value, and a return

on their investment.

Expert instructors with real-world

experience

Our team o certied Cognos

consultants bring to the classroom

a solid oundation o theory and

extensive experience in designing,

developing, and deploying solutions,

with an impeccable track record o

over 600 successul projects completed

during the past 11 years.

Relevant hands-on labs

We provide relevant hands-on labs with

step-by-step instructions that reinorce

the concepts learned while preparing

students or practical situations.

Cutting-edge curriculum and resources

We deliver high-quality course content

and maintain the most comprehensive

IBM Cognos library o over three hundred

easily accessible resources including

product demos, educational webinars,

best practices articles, white papers, act

sheets, podcasts, and tips & tricks.

Tailored content to support your needs

We invest time to understand your

specic needs, then tailor our approach

and curriculum to meet your particular

technical and business requirements

by providing your organization with

state-o-the-art Cognos training that

transcends the traditional classroom

experience.

Flexible, convenient, and cost-efective

Should you desire, we can customize

the courses in varying degrees by

incorporating your data into the

curriculum itsel or merely by showing

examples o product eatures within

the client environment as an additional

demonstration during class. Done on

your site, travel-related expenses or

your students is eliminated allowing

more dollars or actual training time.

What Sets DataClarity Apart?Education makes the dierencebetween your organization and

everyone else. High- quality training

is a crucial actor to ensure that your

teams have knowledge and skills

they need to extrapolate more value

rom your perormance management

system.

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DataClarity Education

OeringsAnywhere, Anytime

Onsite Training

DataClarity oers world-class onsite

training conducted at your location,

saving you travel expenses while

keeping productivity high. We can

bring any o our oerings right to your

oce with pricing options convenient

or both small and large classes; and we

can tailor the training courses to meet

your particular technical and business

requirements.

DataClarity Onsite Cognos Training

delivers:

An expert instructor who can

present and teach concepts, guide

and assist with hands-on labs,

answer questions throughout

the course, and provide your

organization with real eld

implementation experience.

Course material that can be

customized to include your

application screens and data or an

experience specic to your business.

This option requires some advanced

planning time and additionalconsulting costs to incorporate the

desired level o customization.

Condential training atmosphere

that gives your employees the

reedom to discuss problems,

products and situations they might

not eel comortable discussing in a

public open-enrollment class.

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Flexibility to schedule learning

around your teams schedule and

minimize the impact on your users

workload demands.

Tremendous savings on a per user

basis compared to public osite

classes.

Totally eliminate user training travel

expenditures.

Substantially improve Cognos user

adoption and ROI with minimal user

downtime.

Our instructors can be reached

by email with questions ollowing

training and our courseware is an

excellent reerence or revisiting

concepts and best practices.

Instructor-Led OnlineTraining (ILO)

DataClaritys is now oering Cognos

courses in instructor-led online (ILO)

ormat. The courses are exactly the

same as their classroom equivalent.

With ILO you get the benets o being

in a classroom with the convenience

and cost savings o online training.

We oer an expert instructor, coursecontent, hands-on labs, and classroom

collaboration tools right to your

desktop using an online virtual

classroom platorm.


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DataClarity Online Cognos Training

delivers:

An expert instructor who interacts

in real-time to present and teachconcepts, provide direction and

assist with hands-on labs, and

answer questions throughout the

course using online collaboration.

High-quality course content

delivered through both an online

presentation and a printed and

bound student handbook that is

shipped to your location in advance.

Relevant hands-on labs with step-by-step instructions that reinorce the

concepts learned.

User-riendly online collaboration

and interaction with both an expert

instructor and your co-learners

throughout the entire course ensures

an enjoyable and interactive learning

experience.

Tremendous savings in both time

and travel costs compared to othertraining options.

Ultimate fexibility to train when and

where you choose with easy system

prep and modest connectivity

requirements.

Onsite Mentoring andCoaching

We specialize in mentoring, educating,

and coaching and exploit all aspects oCognos technology to gain maximum

results or you. Onsite Mentoring and

Coaching can be customized to solve

your specic business or technical

challenge.

DataClarity Onsite Mentoring provides:

On-the-job coaching and

answering questions unique to your

organizations environment to enableyour teams to strengthen technical

skills, apply proven best practices,

and perorm better.

Personalized instruction to help your

organization identiy the activities

necessary to achieve your specic

business goals, bridge the gaps o

skills, knowledge and experience,

and guide your sta through any

project or challenge. Short-term assistance with strategy

and roadmap development, project

assessments and start-up, design

reviews, problem resolution, health

assessments, product installation,

customization, migration,

deployment, perormance tuning,

and other activities related to your

Cognos environment.

Onsite and online training options

to incorporate into the mentoring

process or to use a ollow-up to

urther enhance the mentoring

experience.

Extreme fexibility o mentoring

engagements which can be less

ormal or structured by your

organization and customized to your

needs.

Tremendous savings in your

organizations time and cost.

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IBM Cognos v10 Courses

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IBM Cognos BI

Administration v10Course Description

IBM Cognos BI Administration is a

two-day course and can be delivered

onsite or in instructor-led online

ormat. It is designed or IBM Cognos

BI administrators to teach the

undamental tasks o administeringservers and content in IBM Cognos BI.

Through a combination o lectures

and hands-on demo exercises,

participants will install and congure

the IBM Cognos BI sotware, implement

security, and manage the server

components.

Intended Audience

This is a course intended or IBM

Cognos BI administrators.

Prerequisites

Understanding o reporting and

security concepts

Experience using a web browser

Web Server Architecture

Course Outline Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI

Module 2 : Administration Portal

Module 3: Architecture

Module 4: Securing IBM Cognos

Module 5: Manage IBM Cognos BI Server components

Module 6: Manage Run Activities

Module 7: Manage Content in IBM Cognos Administration

Module 8: IBM Cognos BI or Consumers

Module 9: Drill-Through Denitions

Module 10: Additional Conguration and Customization

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This is real education. I

walked away rom the course

with valuable skills and solid

understanding o Cognos

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Describe IBM Cognos BI

Recognize various components o IBM

Cognos BI

Understand the IBM Cognos BI

architecture

Understand groups and roles

Understand the IBM Cognos BI workfow

stages

Understand the components o the IBM

Cognos Administration portal

Identiy eature o 3-tier architecture

Congure logging

Understand servlets and services

Understand request fow process

Understand installation options

Understand load balancing mechanisms

Congure IBM Cognos BI

Understand Cognos application rewall

Identiy the IBM Cognos BI security

model Dene authentication, authorization, and

Cognos Namespace in IBM Cognos BI

Identiy security policy, permissions,

security policy rule, credentials and

secured unctions and eatures

Identiy administrative tasks that can be

perormed in IBM Cognos Administration

Monitor Perormance

Manage Dispatchers and Services

Log message acility

Tune server perormance

Troubleshoot the server

Formulate backup strategy

Manage current, past, and upcoming run

activities

Manage schedules

Add and manage a data source

Distribute data and create a distribution

list and contacts

Deploy IBM Cognos BI content

Maintain the IBM Cognos BI content store

Customize the appearance o Cognos BI

Display web content on a portal page

using portlets

Identiy where consumers access IBM

Cognos BI content

Use published reports

Drill through to related data

Run reports with options

Add comments to saved output

Personalize how content appearance

Manage human tasks

Set alerts and watch rules

Parameter-driven drill through vs.

dynamic drill through

Steps to enable drill-through access or a

package

Setting scope

Drill through assistant

Manage user proles

Add objects to the toolbox tab

Create a custom template option

Manage packages through IBM Cognos

Connection

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IBM Cognos BI

Analysis Studio v10Course Description

IBM Cognos Analysis Studio is a hal-

day course and can be delivered onsite

or in instructor-led online ormat. It is

designed to teach business authors

how to analyze data and navigate in

Analysis Studio.Using a combination o lectures,

instructor led demos, hands-on

exercises, workshops and group

exercises in a high-quality learning

environment, participants will learn

how to analyze data using Analysis

Studio eatures working with OLAP

or dimensionally modeled relational

metadata.

Intended Audience

This is a basic course intended or

business authors.

Prerequisites

Knowledge o your business

requirements

Experience using Windows and Web

unctionality

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI

Module 2: Exploring Analysis Studio

Module 3: Building Analysis

Module 4: Enhancing Analysis View

Module 5: Using Graphical Display

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Recognize various components o

IBM Cognos BI

Benets o creating reports with IBM

Cognos BI

Fundamental terms o Analysis

Studio

Insert objects

Dene dimensions, levels, and items

Identiy the work area, overview area,

and properties pane

Analyze and understand your data by

scheduling and managing reports

Employ drilling down and up to

dierent levels o detail

Create an analysis view

Change the rows, columns, and

measures in the analysis

Nest data within the same dimension

and rom dierent dimensions Apply lters using the Context area

Sort data

Rank data

Suppress zeros

Filter data

Create and modiy custom sets

Create calculated measures and

custom lters. Change the display o data

Use charts to display data graphically

You will learn:

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IBM Cognos BI

Business Insight v10Course Description

IBM Cognos Business Insight is a one-


or in instructor-led online ormat. It

is designed or business consumers

providing concepts to view, customize

and create dashboards in BusinessInsight using lters, widgets, and

images.

Using a combination o lectures,





how to view, create and extend

dashboard reports.

Intended Audience

This is an intermediate course intended

or business consumers.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Completion o IBM Cognos

Connection or working knowledge

o the portal.

Course Outline


Module 2: Exploring Dashboards

Module 3: Focus on Dashboard Data

Module 4: Organize Dashboard Data

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The DataClarity online

training was outstanding. The

instructor was exible about

tailoring the course material

to our organization needs.

We have been very impressed

with quality o course

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IBM Cognos BI


Cognos BI

Access Business Insight using a

variety o methods

Create a dashboard rom existing

content

Create a list and chart report

Modiy an existing dashboard

Add images, titles, and webpage

parts

Understand lters and prompts

Manage lters using the Inormation

bar

Explain drill up and drill down

unctionality

Use a Go To rom dashboards to

reports Understand how to create simple

calculations

Sort and Group dashboard data

Understand how to add comments

and share dashboards

You will learn:

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IBM Cognos BI

Business InsightAdvanced v10

Course Description

IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced

is a two-day course and can be

delivered onsite or in instructor-

led online ormat. It is designed orbusiness authors providing concepts

to create and share reports and

dashboards, perorm deeper analysis

o the data and customize the look and

eel o a report.






how to analyze data and create reports

using relational and dimensional data

models, as well as ways to customize

and extend report content.

Intended Audience


or proessional business authors.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Experience using Microsot Excel

(recommended)

Course Outline


Module 2: Examine Business Insight Advanced

Module 3: Introduction to Reporting Concepts and The Great Outdoors

Module 4: Create Business Insight Advanced Reports

Module 5: Explore Dimensional Hierarchies

Module 6: Highlight and Present Data

Module 7: Working with External Data

Module 8: Analyzing Data

Module 9: Designing Eective Reports

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IBM Cognos BI


Cognos BI

Launch Business Insight Advanced

through dierent methods

Explore user interace components o

Business Insight Advance

Create list and chart reports

Understand the concepts and design

o The Great Outdoors

Identiy the data available to satisy

report requirements

Identiy the data available to create

eective reports

Choose a report ormat

Build a report

Use available query items and

calculated query items

You will learn:

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Explore dimensional hierarchies

Recognize hierarchies

Use hierarchies to create eective

reports

Interact with a report o hierarchical

data to drill up and drill down

Identiy sets

Present data eectively: sort data

output, summarize data, group

related rows, suppress data and lter

data.

Understand query item properties

Use ormatting to improve the visual

eectiveness o reports

Use conditional styles to highlight

query items on a report.

Understand multiple data analysis

processes

Create a report or each process

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IBM Cognos BI

Framework Manager v10Course Description

IBM Cognos Framework Manager:

Designing Metadata Models is a three


or in instructor-led online ormat. This

course provides participants with

metadata modeling concepts andinstruction on how to model metadata

or predictable reporting and analysis

using Framework Manager.






the ull scope o the metadata

modeling process, rom creating the

initial project to enabling end users to

author and analyze the data using the

unctionality o IBM Cognos BI.

Intended Audience

This is an advanced course or data

architects and developers o who

design metadata models or IBM

Cognos BI.

Prerequisites Knowledge o your business

requirements

Knowledge o common industry

standards or data structures and

design

Experience with SQL

Experience gathering requirements

and analyzing data

Experience using IBM Cognos BI

Report Studio (recommended)

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI and Framework Manager

Module 2 Preparing Metadata in Framework Manager

Module 3: Relational Modeling in Framework Manager

Module 4: Dimensional Modeling in Framework Manager

Module 5: Modeling in Framework Manager Part II

Module 6: Advanced Framework Manager Techniques

Very inormative, improved

my knowledge and

understanding o Cognos

methodology at my own pace.

Many thanks.

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IBM Cognos BI Fundamentals

Describe Cognos Connection

Understand Modeling Basics

Understand Framework Manager

basics

Understand Framework Manager

Workfow

Create a New Project and Import

Metadata

Prepare Metadata

Understand Usage and Aggregate

Properties

Understand Relationships and

Cardinality

Create a Parameter Map

Create a Filter and Calculation

Namespace

Create Stand Alone Filters

Model Metadata in Framework

Manager

Understand Three Tier Framework

Manager Model

Model as a Star Schema

Understand Model Query Subjects

Use Model Query Subjects to Merge

Snowfake Query Subjects

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Create True Facts and True

Dimensions using Model QuerySubjects

Use Model Query Subjects or

Business Friendly Inormation

Add Calculations to Model Query

Subjects

Create Time Dimensions

Understand Role Playing Dimensions

Work with Determinants

Create Presentation View in the

model

Understand Conormed Dimensions

and Query Generation

Dene Dimensionally Modeled

Relational (DMR) Metadata

Understand Regular Dimensions

Create Regular Dimensions based on

Model Query Subjects

Dierentiate Query Subjects, Regular

Dimensions and Determinants

Creating Measure Dimensions

Understand Scope Relationships

Star Schema Groupings

Create a Dimensional Reporting

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Framework ManagerAdvanced v10

Course Description

IBM Cognos Framework Manager

Advanced is a one day course and can

be delivered onsite or in instructor-led

online ormat. This course providesparticipants an understanding o

Security, Optimizing and Tuning

Framework Manager Models.


instructor led demos and hands-on


environment, participants will learn the

advanced modeling techniques using

the unctionality o IBM Cognos BI

Framework Manager.

Intended Audience

This is an advanced course or

developers o who design metadata

models or IBM Cognos BI.

Prerequisites

Completed IBM Cognos Framework

Manager: Designing Metadata

Models (Version 10) or prior

Framework Manager developmentexperience


requirements

Knowledge o common industry

standards or data structures and

design

Experience with SQL

Experience gathering requirements

and analyzing data Experience using IBM Cognos BI

Report Studio (recommended)

Course Outline

Module 1: Securing the Framework Manager Model and Packages

Module 2: Optimize and Tune Framework Manager Models

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Understand SQL Generation with

Query Subjects

Understand Source Query Subject

Understand SQL Generation When

Modiying Relationships

Understand Various SQL Type

Settings

Understand SQL Generation in

Complex Queries

Understand Multi-act, Multi-grain

SQL on Conormed Dimensions

Stitch Queries in Single and Multi-

Fact Queries

Sett Security in Framework Manager

Manage Framework Manager

Packages

Work with Materialized Views

You will learn:

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Understand Minimized SQL

Set Limits on Query Execution using

Governors

Create a Model with both Relational

and OLAP Model

Understand Metadata Caching

Improve SQL Perormance by Query

Processing Techniques

Understand Rollup Processing and

Aggregations

Manage Member Unique Names or

DMR in Framework Manager

Model or Drill-Through in

Framework Manager

Create Drill-Through Denitions

Analyze and Publish and OLAP Data

Source

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Course Description

IBM Cognos Metrics is a two day

course and can be delivered onsite or

in an instructor-led online ormat. It

is designed to teach developers howto design, model, and build Metrics

applications and reports.



exercises, workshops, and group

exercises in a high quality learning

environment participants will learn

about understanding metrics modeling

and extracts as well as how to build

Scorecards.

Intended Audience

This is a course intended or

developers.


requirements


unctionality

IBM Cognos BI

Metric Studio v10

Course Outline


Module 2: Congure the Metric Store

Module 3: Metrics Extracts

Module 3: Projects and Metrics Stores

Module 4: Scorecards

Module 5: Metric Types

Module 6: Metric Studio


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You will learn:

Recognize various components o IBM

Cognos BI

Confgure SQL Metric Store

Create Metric Store Database in SQL

Server

Create Metric Store User and Security

Metric package creation

Directory setting up database

connections

Metric database initialization

Metrics Extracts

Create a Metrics Extract rom a Relational

Data Source

Create a Metrics Extract rom a Cognos

Power Cube

Create a Metrics Extract rom a fat le

Projects and Metrics Stores

Create Project and Metric Package

Reerence

Congure and Initialize Metric Store

Select Cube Import Source or Extract

Map Scorecards

Time Hierarchy and Currency Mapping

Create Metric Type and Map Metrics

Include/Exclude Metric Values

Execute Extract

Transer Data rom Staging Area to Metric

Store

View Scorecard Create a Metrics Extract rom a Relational

Package

Scorecards

Viewing Scorecards

Creating Scorecards

Metric Types

Value types (i.e., Revenues, Expenses)

Filters

Mouse Over Chart

Historical Data

Chart Types

Calendar

List

Editing Data (Metric Maintenance)

Comments Actions

Metrics

Actual and Target individual values

Diagrams

Qualifers

Re-use o a metric within one scorecard

Projects

Manual project tracking

External Reports

Report Studio

Watch Lists

Add to Watch Lists

Details

Alerts

Adding Shortcuts

Strategies

Creating Strategies

Creating Strategy Elements


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IBM Cognos BI

Overview v10

Course Description

IBM Cognos BI Overview is a one-day

course and it can be delivered onsite

or in instructor-led online ormat. It is

designed to provide participants with ahigh level overview o the IBM Cognos

BI suite o products.


instructor led demos and hands-on


environment, participants will be

introduced to the elements o IBM

Cognos BI.

Intended Audience


consumers, business authors,

proessional authors, developers,

administrators, modelers, and projectmanagers.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Understanding o your organizations

reporting needs

Course Outline

Module 1: IBM Cognos BI Components Overview

Module 2: Examine Cognos Connection

Module 3: Organizing Content

Module 4: Personalizing Cognos Connection

Module 5: Explore Reports

Module 6: Dashboard Concepts


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You will learn


IBM Cognos BI


Cognos BI

Understand report types

Create and save ad-hoc reports

Create list, grouped list, and crosstab

reports

View, print, or distribute a report in

Cognos Connection

Identiy Consumer Access to BI

Content

Understand Cognos Connection

Administrator and User Capabilities

Dashboard Concepts

Examine Business Insight

Manage Published Reports

Change Preerences

Access External Files with Links

Create a new portal page

Modiy a portal page

Add pages or dashboards to Cognos

Connection

Enhance reports by adding lters

Add titles/subtitles

Format report objects

Reorder and rename columns

Create groupings, sections, and page

breaks

Understand aggregation and

summarization

Use dierent types o prompts

Understand calculations and

parameters


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IBM Cognos BI

Query Studio v10Course Description

IBM Cognos Query Studio is a hal-day

course and can be delivered onsite

or in instructor-led online ormat. It

is designed or business authors who

want to learn to create, modiy and

organize ad hoc reports.Using a combination o lectures,





how to create ad hoc reports, as well

as perorm basic administrative tasks

such as scheduling reports and report

delivery in multiple ormats.

Intended Audience

This is a basic course intended or

business authors.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Course Outline


Module 2: Creating Basic Query Studio Reports

Module 3: Enhancing Query Studio Reports

Module 4: Advanced Query Studio Functionality

Very satisfed with what

I received. The hands-on

training was very helpul and

the instructor enhanced the

experience. I look orward to

any subsequent courses in the

uture.

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IBM Cognos BI


Cognos BI

Launch Query Studio

Understand report types

Create and save ad-hoc reports

Create list, grouped list, and crosstab

reports

View, print, or distribute a report inCognos Connection

Enhance reports by adding lters

Add titles/subtitles

Format reports objects

Reorder and rename columns.

Create groupings, sections, and page

breaks

Understand aggregation and

summarization

Use dierent types o prompts

Understand calculations and

parameters

You will learn:

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IBM Cognos BI

Report Studio ActiveReports v10

Course Description

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Active

Reports is an advanced one day

course and can be delivered onsite

or in instructor-led online ormat. Itis designed to enhance participants

experience with Report Studio by

using active report controls to build

interactive reports that can be used by

report consumers.






build on advanced report authoring

techniques.

Intended Audience

This is an advanced course intended or

proessional report authors.

Prerequisites IBM Cognos BI Report Studio

Essentials

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio

Fundamentals

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos BI

Module 2: Introduction to Active Reports

Module 3: Filter and Select in Active Reports

Module 4: Advanced Features

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IBM Cognos BI Fundamentals

Describe Cognos Connection

Understand concepts using Active

Reports

Use Active Report Controls

Work with Report Variables

Examine Interactive Behavior

Properties

Convert a Report to an Active Report

Debug Active Reports

Distribute Active Reports

Use Data Controls or Filter and

Select

Work with Decks

Examine Cards in a Data Deck

Select Controls or Data Decks

Examine Interactive Behavior

Properties

Dene Master-Detail Relationships

Use Drill Through with Active Reports

Explore Drill up and Drill Down

Cascade Interactive Controls

You will learn:

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IBM Cognos BI

Report Studio Essentials v10Course Description

IBM Cognos Report Studio Essentials is

a two day course and can be delivered

onsite or in instructor-led online

ormat. It is designed or proessional

report authors to learn the essential

report building techniques to providepolished reports to executives,

managers and end users within your

organization.






how to create reports using data

models, as well as ways to enhance,

customize and manage proessional

reports.

Intended Audience


or proessional report authors.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Course Outline


Module 2: Creating Basic Reports

Module 3: Report Studio Enhancements

The training class exceeded

my expectations. Ive

got exposure to real feld

implementation and all the

extras were great.

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IBM Cognos BI


Cognos BI

Understand the Cognos portal

and various activities that can be

perormed within it

Understand dierent reporting styles

in Report Studio

Understand the concept o

dimensions, measures, anddimensional reporting styles

Understand Report Studio and its

interace

Understand basic Report Studio tasks

Create list reports including group,

ormat, and sort list reports

Understand data aggregation

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Create cross tab reports

Format and sort crosstab reports

Create complex crosstabs using drag

and drop unctionality

Create chart reports

Create lters, understand summary

and detailed lters

Determine when to apply lters on

aggregate data

Create prompts, identiy variousprompt types, search prompts, use

parameters

Extend reports using calculations

(query and layout)

Use tables, blocks, ormatting data

Use sections, headers and ooters,

pages and bookmarks

IBMC

ogno

sv10

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IBM Cognos BI

Report StudioIntermediate v10

Course Description

IBM Cognos Report Studio

Intermediate is a one day course and

can be delivered onsite or in instructor-

led online ormat. It is designedor proessional report authors to

learn intermediate report building

techniques to provide polished reports

to executives, managers and end users

within your organization.






how to customize reports using Report

Studio eatures including conditional

ormatting, master-detail reports and

drill through.

Intended Audience

This is an intermediate course intendedor proessional report authors.

Prerequisites


requirements


unctionality

Completion o Report Studio

Essentials or working knowledge o

Report Studio

Course Outline


Module 2: Highlight Data with Conditional Formatting

Module 3: Creating a Master-Detail Report

Module 4: Dening Drill Through Denitions or Reporting

Module 5: Examining a Query Model

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IBM Cognos BI

Describe the primary benets o

creating reports with IBM Cognos BI

Understand the Cognos portal

and various activities that can be

perormed within it

Understand dierent reporting styles

in Report Studio

Understand the concept o

dimensions, measures, anddimensional reporting styles

Use conditional variables to

customize reports.

Hide and show report objects, which

can be based on input or dened

condition or calculation.

Highlight data in a report based on

user input or dened condition or

calculation.

Add multiple layouts to the report

Create multilingual reports

Understand Master Detail

Relationships

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Create Master Detail Reports

Setup drill-through reports

Understand drill-through scenarios

Understand dierent types o drill-

through reports

Create and setup dierent types o

drill-through reports

Understand relational queries

Understand Query Model

Eect o data Aggregation/

Summarization on queries

Filtering eect on Queries

Working with Joins/Unions/Intersect/

Except

Create a Join Relationship

Create a Query using various

operators (Union, Intersect and

Except Operators) in Report Studio

Working with Queries in Custom

SQL/MDX


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Course Description

IBM Cognos Transormer is a two day

course and can be delivered onsite or

in an instructor-led online ormat. It

is designed to teach developers howto design, model, and build Cognos

cubes.



exercises, workshops, and group

exercises in a high quality learning

environment participants will learn

about understanding dimensional

modeling as well as how to build

Cognos OLAP Cubes.

Intended Audience


developers.


requirements


unctionality

Course Outline


Module 2: Understanding Dimensional Structure

Module 3: Planning your Cube

Module 4: Cube Building Basics

Module 5: Publishing Cubes

Module 6: Dimensions, Levels and Categories

Module 7: Multiple Data Sources

Module 8: Measures

Module 9: Advanced Cube Design

IBM Cognos BI

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IBMC

ogno

sv10

Cours

es

You will learn:

Recognize various requirements o

IBM Cognos BI

Drill-down / Dimension Viewer /

Dimension Line / Measures / Nesting

Dierent Display Views / Buttons

Sort, Swap, Rank / Format Options /

Calculate Options

Business Requirements and

Denitions

Model Plans

Transormer Application Survey

Connecting to Data Sources - Wizard

Connecting to Data Sources - Manual

Levels, Dimensions and Hierarchies

Publishing cubes

Categories

Alternate Drill Paths

Category Viewer

Special Categories

Date Dimensions

Manual modication o Levels,

Dimensions and Hierarchies

Relative and Non-standard Time

Multiple Data Sources

Scope and Association

Measures

Allocation

Sub-dimensions

Cube Customization

Cube Groups

Drill Through

Custom views


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IBM Cognos V8 Courses

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Cognos 8 Courses

The right training, at theright time

DataClarity has a complete catalog

o courses to meet your Cognos 8

education needs.

We currently oer the ollowing IBM

Cognos 8 courses:

IBM Cognos BI Administration

IBM Cognos Analysis Studio

IBM Cognos Connection

IBM Cognos Framework Manager

IBM Cognos Query Studio

IBM Cognos Report Studio Essentials

IBM Cognos Report Studio

Intermediate

Please contact DataClarity Education

today at 877.454.4898 or visit www.

CognosEducation.com and complete

our Cognos 8 Online Course request

orm to inquire about availability and

ull course descriptions.

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a great instructor, and very

good interaction with the

students. Now Im more

prepared or the work Ill be

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