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IBM Cognos 10.1 Course Details

By Besant Technologies

Course Name IBM Cognos 10.1

Category Business Intelligence & Reporting Tool

Venue Besant Technologies

No.24, Nagendra Nagar, Velachery Main Road,

Address Velachery, Chennai – 600 042
Landmark – Opposite to Phoenix Market City

Official URL Cognos Training

Demo Classes At Your Convenience

Training Methodology 10% Theory & 90% Practical

Course Duration 25-30 Hours

Class Availability Weekdays & Weekends

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Why Besant Technologies?

 Training by highly experienced and certified professionals
 No slideshow (PPT) training, fully Hand-on training
 Interactive session with interview QA’s
 Real-time projects scenarios & Certification Help
 Most competitive & affordable course fees
 Placement support for all courses
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Cognos Training Outline

Overview of Business Intelligence

 What is Business Intelligence

 Why is BI important and where can we use it
 Components of BI
 Business Intelligence Roadmap

Overview of Data Warehousing

 What is Data warehouse, why do we need it

 Data warehouse architecture and its components
 Define star schema – fact and dimensions
 Understand OLTP and OLAP Systems

Overview of Cognos 10.1 BI and Architecture

 Introduce Cognos 10.1 BI

 Examine the different studios in Cognos 10.1 BI
 Identify the different data sources within the studios
 Highlight key capabilities of Cognos 10.1 BI
 Understand Cognos multi layered architecture

Cognos 10.1 BI Administration

 Create and modify a data source

 Create database backups
 Understand roles users and groups
 Specify permission settings

Cognos 10.1 Connection

 What is Cognos connection

 Examine Cognos connection UI elements – create a URL, Login, Logoff
 Entry properties: General Properties, Permission, Report, Query, Analysis, Job, Agent
and Page Properties
 Navigation - Public and Private Folder
 Open reports with report name, Go to links, Run reports from a view
 Run Reports – Prompt Pages, Printing a report and Open in excel
 View the run history of a report and historical reports
 Closing and creating quick links to reports – my folder
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 Shortcut and browser bookmark

 Personalize Cognos connection
 Backups – Export of Cognos
 Content store or select items for backups
 Restore an exported backup
 Create and customize a page and share a single page with multiple users

Cognos 10.1 Framework Manager (metadata modelling)

 Introduction to framework manager

 Framework manager basics
 User interface, navigation, objects
 Planning the project and data model, framework manager workflow
 Naming conventions for objects in a project
 Designing project
 Create project
 Importing metadata from one and more sources
 Exporting metadata
 Data sources
 Working with data source connections
 Create and modify data sources
 Improve performance by setting query processing type
 Preparing relational metadata for use in reports
 Verifying relationships
 Working with dimensions
 Working with query
 Subjects – data, model and stored procedure query subject
 Working with query items- set usage and aggregate property
 Making metadata available to report authors
 Verify model
 Set governors
 Improving performance
 Create and modify package
 Controlling access to metadata
 Explore package publish package
 Guideline for modelling metadata
 Best practices – presentation and database layers
 Merge metadata
 Perform calculations and filer
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Cognos 10.1 Query Studio

 Introduction to query studio

 Create reports (List, Grouped List, Crosstab, Charts)
 Changing the appearance of reports (Format)
 Sorting and grouping
 Filters and prompts
 Subtotals and calculations
 Run and manage reports
 Drill through reports

Cognos 10.1 Analysis Studio

 Introduction to Analysis Studio

 Creating a basic analysis
 Working with data in crosstab
 Exploring data
 Limiting data
 Calculating data
 Sharing data

Cognos 10.1 Report Studio

 Introduction to report studio

 Report studio user interface
 Creating, save and run reports
 Report templates
 Managing reports
 Types of reports
 List reports
 Crosstab reports charts
 Formatting a report
 Report layout guidelines
 Fonts, styles, header, footer and orders
 Insert objects
 Swap columns and rows
 Working with data
 Filters, parameters and prompts
 Sorting and grouping
 Subtotals and calculations
 Working with queries
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 Working with reports

 Managing changes in the package
 Conditional formatting
 Drill-through reports
 Drill-up / drill-down reports
 Master-detail reports
 Scheduling reports