Cognos Analytics Overview, New Features and Business Authoring

A 1-day course in which students will become proficient navigating and leveraging the valuable capabilities available in this new platform. The course focuses on the business analyst/casual user who needs to consume and interact with content, conduct self-service data discovery and author simple reports. We will work with data modules, dashboards and reports to create and analyze critical business information.

Self-Service OLAP Data Exploration

A 1-day, course in which students perform self-service authoring and analysis against multi-dimensional data such as Cubes and DMR packages using Cognos Analytics authoring.

Self-Service Relational Authoring and Dashboarding

A 1-day course that introduces users to Cognos Workspace and quickly transitions to a focus on traditional business authoring in a relational context.

Self-Service OLAP Authoring and Data Exploration

A 1-day course in which users work with Cognos Workspace. This course uses dimensional or OLAP data as its focus.

Beginning Professional Report Authoring

A 2-day course in which students will build fundamental authoring skills in Cognos Analytics by creating professional reports using lists, charts, crosstabs and maps. Critical techniques such as filtering, prompting, calculations, exception highlighting, drill-through, formatting and advanced layout will be covered.

Advanced Professional Report Authoring

A 2-day course in which students will expand their authoring skills. It is expected that students attending this class will have attended the two-day authoring fundamentals training or have meaningful experience with building reports in either Cognos Analytics or Report Studio before attending this class.

Dimensional Report Authoring

A 2-day course in which students will create dynamic reports against multidimensional data sources such as Power Cubes, DMR packages and TM1 by using best practices with Report Studio. Students will be exposed to multidimensional expressions, functions and prompting techniques. This course is advanced and should be attended by students with experience building traditional (relational-style) reports in either Cognos Analytics or Report Studio.

V11 New Features for Experienced Authors

A 1-day course that provides the quickest path to mastering the new user experience introduced with Cognos Analytics. The class in intended for users with experience developing reports in Cognos BI v10 Report Studio or Cognos Workspace Advanced. The new UX merges functionality and interface features found in the current 10.2 versions of both Report Studio and Cognos Workspace Advanced. 

A 1-day course that is conducted at an accelerated pace and is not intended for users new to professional authoring. This course guides experienced authors through the new user interface. Although the new UI has significant benefits, the change is drastic enough that it can potentially decelerate adoption of the new release and delay report development tasks. We will provide a map of the v10.2 user interface to v11 to create reports quickly.

Beginning and Intermediate Authoring

A 2-day, accelerated, compressed course intended for those with some experience, taking authors from the basics to fairly sophisticated reporting skills.

Advanced Authoring

A 1-day course for more experienced authors that builds on what is taught in the first course.

Expert Authoring

A 1-day course tailored to authors with extensive experience building reports who are looking for tips to sharpen and expand their skill set.

Dimensional Authoring Fundamentals

A 1-day course that teaches skills for building more dynamic, flexible and better-performing reports, regardless of the OLAP platform.

Dimensional Authoring Advanced

A 1-day course offering experienced OLAP authoring.

Active Reports Authoring Fundamentals

A 1-day course designed to kick-start your Active Reports initiative. Active Reports have proven to be an effective way to deliver reports to the growing audience of mobile users. Students will create Active Reports using features of Cognos BI v10 Report Studio including button bars, decks and other advanced techniques.

Recommended only for those with some experience building traditional reports using Report Studio.

Active Report Authoring Advanced

A 1-day course in which students will develop Active Reports using advanced techniques to create highly interactive reports using multiple controls, create custom controls, examine advanced deck features and conditionally show, hide, filter or select report objects.

Cognos Analytics Overview and New Features Jumpstart

A ½ day course for students with Cognos BI v10 experience who need a jumpstart on Cognos Analytics. Students will be introduced to the valuable capabilities available in this platform. This course offers the business analyst/casual user a concise overview of interacting with content, conducting self-service data discovery and authoring simple reports. We will work with data modules, dashboards and reports to briefly demonstrate these features to build an understanding and basic proficiency.

Cognos Analytics Self-Service Data Modules and Dashboarding

A 1-day course in which students will perform self-service analysis against personal data sources such as spreadsheets and flat files using Cognos Analytics data modules and dashboarding capabilities. 

Self-Service Analytics for the Business User

A ½ day course that introduces the business analyst to the Cognos v10.2 business intelligence platform. Students will be guided through common tasks of the information consumers need from passive report consumption through self-service data discovery. 

System Administration

A 2-day course that provides a solid foundation for any Cognos system administrator.

Framework Manager Metadata Modeling Best Practices

A 3-day course in which students will complete an end-to-end modeling and deployment exercise following best practices. We will work from a relational data source and cover OLAP Over Relational (OOR) or Dimensionally Modeled Relational (DMR) techniques. OLAP Modeling in Cognos is traditionally done via Cognos Transformer.

OLAP Modeling with Transformer

A 2-day course in which students create multi-dimensional models, build and deploy PowerCubes, work with advanced modeling techniques and tune the OLAP sources for performance.

Dynamic Cubes OLAP Modeling

A 2-day course in which students create multi-dimensional models, build, deploy and administer Dynamic Cubes, work with advanced modeling techniques and tune the environment for performance.