Getting Started with IBM Cognos

Name: Getting Started with IBM Cognos
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Learn Business Analytics tool IBM Cognos

Created byEdionik Solutions

Last updated 9/2018

English

What you'll learn

ETL and Reporting Tools
Creating your first Report
Creating your first active Report
Setting Preferences for Active Report

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 30m total length

Introduction to IBM Cognos Course2:02
Explore how IBM Cognos, a comprehensive business intelligence and reporting tool, supports aggregation, flexible reporting, dashboards, crosstabs, and visualisations for power users and executives.
Overview of Data Warehouse6:00
Explore how a data warehouse consolidates data from multiple sources for analytical reporting and decision making. It stores historical and current data separate from operational systems.
Overview of Data Warehouse Schemas3:50
Explore data warehouse schemas, focusing on star and snowflake designs, with fact tables and dimensions like item, location, time, and supplier; compare normalization and redundancy.
ETL and Reporting Tools3:10
Explore how ETL and reporting tools extract data from heterogeneous sources, use a staging area, transform with calculations and joins, and load into targets for business intelligence reporting.
Creating My first Report2:59
Create your first report in IBM Cognos by selecting my first report, configuring properties, dragging items to the scene, adjusting font size to ten points, and saving the active report.
Creating My first report Part-24:27
Learn how to create your first IBM Cognos report by adding source data, dragging a visualization into a table, and configuring a crosstab.
Creating My First active Report6:02
Learn to create your first active report in IBM Cognos by starting a new report, selecting templates, configuring properties and color palettes, and dragging education level and activities into layout.
Setting my Preferences for Active Report2:29
Learn to set your preferences for an active report in IBM Cognos, adjust language options and logging levels, and preview how these changes affect report performance.

Requirements

You should be familiar with the fundamentals of running and viewing reports or manage schedules, portal layouts, and other users' permissions before starting with this course.

Description

IBM Cognos Business intelligence is a web based reporting and analytic tool. It is used to perform data aggregation and create user friendly detailed reports. Cognos also provides you an option to export the report in XML or PDF format or you can view the reports in XML format.

IBM Cognos provides a wide range of features and can be considered as an enterprise software to provide flexible reporting environment and can be used for large and medium enterprises. It meets the needs of Power Users, Analysts, Business Managers and Company Executives.

Power users and analysts want to create ad-hoc reports and can create multiple views of the same data. Business Executives want to see summarize data in dashboard styles, cross tabs and visualizations. Cognos allows both the options for all set of users.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is an advanced topic. Even though the content has been prepared keeping in mind the requirements of a beginner.

Enjoy learning!!!

Who this course is for:

Analysts
Business Managers
Company Executives