This course provides participants with a high-level overview of the IBM Cognos Analytics suite of products and their underlying architecture. They will examine each component as it relates to an Analytics solution. Participants will be shown a range of resources to provide additional information on each product.

• Consume content in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Create reports in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Create dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Create metadata models in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Extend IBM Cognos Analytics
• Compare IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Cognos BI (Optional)

• An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
• Experience using basic Windows functionality

• An understanding of your organization’s business intelligence process and reporting needs
• Experience using basic Windows functionality

Unit 1. Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• What is IBM Cognos Analytics?
• Redefined Business Intelligence
• Self-service
• Navigate to content in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Interact with the user interface
• Model data with IBM Cognos Analytics
• IBM Cognos Analytics components
• Create reports with IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• Perform self-service analysis with Dashboards
• IBM Cognos Analytics architecture (high level)
• IBM Cognos Analytics security
• IBM Cognos Analytics groups and roles
• Package/Data source relationship
• Create Data Modules
• Upload files
• Demonstration 1: Explore IBM Cognos Analytics
• Extend IBM Cognos Analytics
• Unit summary

Unit 2. Consume content in IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• Active Report Viewer
• Where do consumers access analytics content
• Use published reports
• Drill through to related data
• Specify Run Report options
• Specify properties of an entry
• Demonstration 1: Run a report, create a report view, and email different report versions
• Unit summary

Unit 3. Create reports in IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• Reporting overview
• Package overview
• Upload files
• Data Modules
• What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?
• Business requirements for IBM Cognos Analytics
• Exploring the UI components - viewing reports
• Exploring the UI components - editing reports
• Exploring the UI components - On-demand toolbar
• Exploring the UI components - Navigate panel
• Analyzing and exploring data
• Viewing set definitions
• Modifying format and layout
• Report templates overview
• Demonstration 1: Explore IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• Demonstration 2: Enhance a report in IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
• Business drivers for Active Reports
• Creating an Active Report in IBM Cognos Analytics
• Active Report controls
• Active Report variables
• Demonstration 3: Create a simple Active Report using static and data controls
• Demonstration 4: Create a report using a Data Module
• Unit summary

Unit 4. Create dashboards in IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• What are IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards?
• IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboards capabilities
• Demonstration 1: Explore the IBM Cognos Analytics Dashboard interface
• Content used to create dashboards
• Dashboard object communication
• Sort, group, and ungroup data
• Summarizing data
• Demonstration 2: Create a dashboard from existing content
• Unit summary

Unit 5. Create metadata models in IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• Examine the role of a metadata model
• What is Framework Manager?
• Examine a Framework Manager project
• Examine the model from the author's point of view
• Framework Manager workflow
• Define Framework Manager metadata elements
• Demonstration 1: Explore Framework Manager
• Describe measures
• What are dimensions and levels?
• Describe the OLAP structure
• Describe the result: dimensional analysis
• IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
• Why Dynamic Cubes?
• Dynamic Cube characteristics
• Dynamic Cube requirements
• IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Mode
• Components and tools
• Demonstration 2: Explore the Dynamic Cube lifecycle
• Web-based modeling
• Intent-driven modeling
• Demonstration 3: Create Data Modules
• Unit summary

Unit 6. Extend IBM Cognos Analytics

• Unit objectives
• Extending IBM Cognos Analytics
• Using IBM Cognos Mobile
• Using IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office
• Demonstration 1: Explore IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office
• Unit summary

Unit 7. What's new in Cognos v11.2

• Unit objectives
• Cognos Analytics: what is new? 1/2
• Cognos Analytics: what is new? 2/2          
• Support for Mobile
• Navigation path enhancements
• IBM Carbon user experience
• Expanded job options
• Enrichment enabled for OLAP packages and cubes
• Dashboard enhancements
• The New Home Page
• Content Navigation
• Unit summary

Unit 8. Compare IBM Cognos Analytics to IBM Cognos BI (Optional)

• Unit objectives
• Cognos Analytics: what is new?
• Cognos Analytics: what has changed from Cognos BI?
• Support for legacy features
• Alerts and watch rules
• Using Event Studio
• Event Studio process flow
• Adding a task
• Specifying task execution rules
• Scheduling an agent
• Using IBM Cognos Metric Studio
• Identifying requirements
• Mapping requirements to the application
• Mapping requirements: Example
• Enhancing the Metric Studio application
• Demonstration 1: Access legacy components
• Unit summary