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Cognos 8 Business Intelligence





Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Pre-Requisites:-
  • All the participants must be aware of any RDBMS activities along with its application.
  • Data Warehousing Basics Knowledge.
  • Prior Experience of any Cognos Versions not required.
Overview of Cognos 8 BI
  • Introduce Cognos 8 BI
  • Examine the different studios in Cognos 8 BI
  • Identify the different data sources within the studios
  • Highlight key capabilities of Cognos 8 BI
Cognos 8 BI Architecture and Planning
  • Architecture
  • Multi-tired architecture
  • Communications
Cognos 8 Framework Manager (Metadata Modeling)
  • Introduction to Framework Manager
    • Framework Manager Basics
    • User Interface, Navigation, Objects
    • Planning the project and data model
    • Naming Conventions for objects in a project
  • Designing Project
    • Create project
    • Importing Metadata
    • Exporting Metadata
    • Multi-user Modeling
    • Segmenting and Linking
    • Create Model Documentation
  • Data Sources
    • Working with Data Source Connections
    • Create and Modify Data Sources
    • Improve Performance by setting Query Processing Type
Cognos 8 Connection
  • Examine Cognos Connection
Cognos 8 Report Studio (An Introduction)
  • Introduction to Report Studio
  • Create Reports
  • Changing the Appearance of Reports (Format)
  • Sorting and Grouping
Cognos 8 Framework Manager (Continued)
  • Preparing Relational Metadata for use in Reports
    • Verifying Relationships
    • Working with Dimensions
    • Working with Query Subjects
    • Working with Query Items
    • Supporting Multilingual Metadata
    • Adding Business Rules
    • Organizing the Model
Cognos 8 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
    • Maps
  • Formatting a Report
    • Report Layout Guidelines
    • Fonts, Styles, Header, Footer and Borders
    • Insert objects
    • Apply Table Styles
    • Swap Columns and Rows
    • Report studio environment overview
    • Display your data via multiple report types
    • Focus queries with prompts and filters
    • Extend reports using calculations
    • Sum and aggregate data
    • Query modeling
    • Enhance report layout with additional report building techniques
    • Highlight information based on business rules
Cognos 8 Report Studio (Continued) :-Day 3 :-
  • Working with Data
    • Filters, Parameters and Prompts
    • Sorting and Grouping
    • Subtotals and Calculations
    • Working with Queries
  • Working with Reports
    • Managing changes in the Package
    • Report Bursting
    • Conditional Formatting
    • Drill-through Reports
    • Drill-up/Drill-down Reports
    • Master-Detail Reports
    • Scheduling Reports
    • Create complex query results and join queries
    • Learn how to reuse existing report objects
    • Distribute reports using bursting
    • Create advanced dynamic reports