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IBM Cognos BI What's New (V10.1)

Course outline

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Duration

2 days

Course Description

IBM Cognos BI What's New (V10.1) is a two-day instructor led course that provides participants with knowledge of new features offered in IBM Cognos BI (V10.1). Through lecture and hands-on experience, participants will discover the high-value benefits of this release, including a simplified, more engaging business user experience, a richer, self-service reporting and analysis environment, workflow and collaboration, and easy application administration and life cycle. This course will cover the following high level topics.

Abstract

IBM Education Advantage Program eligibility:

  • Yes - IBM Education Pack - online account

Audience

This intermediate course is for consumers, business authors, professional authors, administrators, modelers and project managers.

Pre-requisites

You should have:

  • Experience with using IBM Cognos 8 BI
  • Knowledge of your business requirements

Course Objective

Please refer to course overview.

Key topics

Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Insight

  • Identify IBM Cognos Business Insight and its benefits
  • Navigate and identify general functionality
  • Create a dashboard from existing content
  • Sort, filter, group/ungroup, calculate data
  • Search content
  • Access IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced to modify a report
  • Invoke collaborative discussion

Collaboration with Activities

  • Start a dashboard activity in IBM Cognos Business Insight
  • View dashboard activities in IBM Cognos Business Insight
  • Collaborate beyond the dashboard environment

Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced

  • Navigate the user interface
  • Perform authoring, including, ad-hoc query, data analysis, exploration, and importing external data
  • Format data and layout
  • Integrate with capabilities in Report Studio

Report Studio Enhancements

  • Identify and work with new features in Report Studio, including:
  • improvements in report creation capabilities
  • the new Active Report report type

Introduction to IBM Cognos Statistics

  • What is IBM Cognos Statistics?
  • Architecture of IBM Cognos Statistics
  • Data sources used in IBM Cognos Statistics
  • Use of the case variable in statistical objects

Enhanced Event Management

  • Collaborate on a multi-task scenario
  • Automate the interaction of people around a process or a list of work, including notifications, approvals, escalations and status tracking
  • Provide the interface to link people to processes and information events

Extended System Management

  • Identify enhancements in:
  • monitoring
  • scheduling
  • credential management
  • identifying the relationship between packages and their data sources

Model Design Accelerator

  • What is Model Design Accelerator?
  • Create a star schema using Model Design Accelerator
  • Generate a model and publish a package

Other Product and Environment Improvements

  • Dynamic Query Mode (DQM)
  • Improvements in data lineage
  • Enhancements to/for:
  • SAP BW data sources
  • IBM Cognos Real Time Monitoring (RTM)
  • IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office
  • IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel
  • IBM Cognos Mobile
  • Business Viewpoint
  • Data Manager
  • upgrade process
  • Support for multi-version coexistence

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.