Cognos Education for your Team.

Ensuring Your Success.

Dear Colleague, At DataClarity, we view education as vital. As a result, our training services are delivered by certified Cognos consultants and are tailored for your unique technical and business requirements. Our world-class training courses are carefully designed to enable you to leverage the power of Cognos solutions and drive greater proficiency in your organization. From courses that cover essential skills and concepts to courses on advanced topics and techniques, DataClarity provides the training you need in the format that best suits your role, learning style, and companys objectives. With DataClaritys training offerings, you maximize your training budget as your teams learn from our real-world experience, increasing their technical literacy. For a complete listing of our currently scheduled online courses, please visit www.CognosEducation.com or contact me directly to discuss your training needs. We look forward to training together! Sincerely,

Carol Frasso Director, Education Services 919.256.6710 c.frasso@dataclaritycorp.com www.CognosEducation.com

12

Table of Contents
Benefits of DataClarity Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

DataClarity Education Offerings

Customized Onsite Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Instructor-Led Online Training (ILO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Onsite Mentoring and Coaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Cognos 10 Courses
IBM Cognos BI Administration v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 IBM Cognos BI Analysis Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 IBM Cognos BI Business Insight v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 IBM Cognos BI Business Insight Advanced v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager Advanced v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 IBM Cognos BI Metric Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 IBM Cognos BI Overview v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 IBM Cognos BI Query Studio v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Active Reports v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Essentials v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Intermediate v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 IBM Cognos BI Transformer v10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Cognos 8 Courses / Getting Started

knowledge
2

Benefits of DataClarity Training.

Education makes the difference between your organization and everyone else. High-quality training is a crucial factor to ensure that your teams have knowledge and skills they need to extrapolate more value from your performance management system.

What Sets DataClarity Apart?

Quality You Can Count On Our philosophy embodies lifetime client relationships -- a way of life that keeps clients coming back for more. This means never recommending anything to a client that does not deliver real business value, and a return on their investment. Expert instructors with real-world experience Our team of certified Cognos consultants bring to the classroom a solid foundation of theory and extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying solutions, with an impeccable track record of over 600 successful projects completed during the past 11 years. Relevant hands-on labs We provide relevant hands-on labs with step-by-step instructions that reinforce the concepts learned while preparing students for practical situations. Cutting-edge curriculum and resources We deliver high-quality course content and maintain the most comprehensive IBM Cognos library of over three hundred easily accessible resources including product demos, educational webinars, best practices articles, white papers, fact sheets, podcasts, and tips & tricks. Tailored content to support your needs We invest time to understand your specific needs, then tailor our approach and curriculum to meet your particular technical and business requirements by providing your organization with state-of-the-art Cognos training that transcends the traditional classroom experience. Flexible, convenient, and cost-effective Should you desire, we can customize the courses in varying degrees by incorporating your data into the curriculum itself or merely by showing examples of product features within the client environment as an additional demonstration during class. Done on your site, travel-related expenses for your students is eliminated allowing more dollars for actual training time.

DataClarity Education Offerings

Anywhere, Anytime
Onsite Training
DataClarity offers world-class onsite training conducted at your location, saving you travel expenses while keeping productivity high. We can bring any of our offerings right to your office with pricing options convenient for both small and large classes; and we can tailor the training courses to meet your particular technical and business requirements. DataClarity Onsite Cognos Training delivers: An expert instructor who can present and teach concepts, guide and assist with hands-on labs, answer questions throughout the course, and provide your organization with real field implementation experience. Course material that can be customized to include your application screens and data for an experience specific to your business. This option requires some advanced planning time and additional consulting costs to incorporate the desired level of customization. Confidential training atmosphere that gives your employees the freedom to discuss problems, products and situations they might not feel comfortable discussing in a public open-enrollment class. Flexibility to schedule learning around your teams schedule and minimize the impact on your users workload demands. Tremendous savings on a per user basis compared to public offsite classes.

Substantially improve Cognos user adoption and ROI with minimal user downtime. Our instructors can be reached by email with questions following training and our courseware is an excellent reference for revisiting concepts and best practices.

Instructor-Led Online Training (ILO)

DataClaritys is now offering Cognos courses in instructor-led online (ILO) format. The courses are exactly the same as their classroom equivalent. With ILO you get the benefits of being in a classroom with the convenience and cost savings of online training. We offer an expert instructor, course content, hands-on labs, and classroom collaboration tools right to your desktop using an online virtual classroom platform.

education
4

Totally eliminate user training travel expenditures.

DataClarity Online Cognos Training delivers: An expert instructor who interacts in real-time to present and teach concepts, provide direction and assist with hands-on labs, and answer questions throughout the course using online collaboration. High-quality course content delivered through both an online presentation and a printed and bound student handbook that is shipped to your location in advance. Relevant hands-on labs with step-bystep instructions that reinforce the concepts learned. User-friendly online collaboration and interaction with both an expert instructor and your co-learners throughout the entire course ensures an enjoyable and interactive learning experience. Tremendous savings in both time and travel costs compared to other training options. Ultimate flexibility to train when and where you choose with easy system prep and modest connectivity requirements.

DataClarity Onsite Mentoring provides: On-the-job coaching and answering questions unique to your organizations environment to enable your teams to strengthen technical skills, apply proven best practices, and perform better. Personalized instruction to help your organization identify the activities necessary to achieve your specific business goals, bridge the gaps of skills, knowledge and experience, and guide your staff through any project or challenge. Short-term assistance with strategy and roadmap development, project assessments and start-up, design reviews, problem resolution, health assessments, product installation, customization, migration, deployment, performance tuning, and other activities related to your Cognos environment. Onsite and online training options to incorporate into the mentoring process or to use a follow-up to further enhance the mentoring experience. Extreme flexibility of mentoring engagements which can be less formal or structured by your organization and customized to your needs. Tremendous savings in your organizations time and cost.

Onsite Mentoring and Coaching

We specialize in mentoring, educating, and coaching and exploit all aspects of Cognos technology to gain maximum results for you. Onsite Mentoring and Coaching can be customized to solve your specific business or technical challenge.

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

learning
6

IBM Cognos BI Administration v10

Course Description
This is real education. I walked away from the course with valuable skills and solid understanding of Cognos concepts.

Intended Audience
This is a course intended for IBM Cognos BI administrators.

IBM Cognos BI Administration is a two-day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed for IBM Cognos BI administrators to teach the fundamental tasks of administering servers and content in IBM Cognos BI. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on demo exercises, participants will install and configure the IBM Cognos BI software, implement security, and manage the server components.

Prerequisites
Understanding of reporting and security concepts Experience using a web browser Web Server Architecture

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2 : Administration Portal Module 3: Architecture Module 4: Securing IBM Cognos Module 5: Manage IBM Cognos BI Server components Module 6: Manage Run Activities Module 7: Manage Content in IBM Cognos Administration Module 8: IBM Cognos BI for Consumers Module 9: Drill-Through Definitions Module 10: Additional Configuration and Customization

You will learn:

Describe IBM Cognos BI
Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Understand the IBM Cognos BI architecture Understand groups and roles Understand the IBM Cognos BI workflow stages Understand the components of the IBM Cognos Administration portal Identify feature of 3-tier architecture Configure logging Understand servlets and services Understand request flow process Understand installation options Understand load balancing mechanisms Configure IBM Cognos BI Understand Cognos application firewall Identify the IBM Cognos BI security model Define authentication, authorization, and Cognos Namespace in IBM Cognos BI Identify security policy, permissions, security policy rule, credentials and secured functions and features Identify administrative tasks that can be performed in IBM Cognos Administration Monitor Performance Manage Dispatchers and Services Log message facility Tune server performance Troubleshoot the server Formulate backup strategy Manage current, past, and upcoming run activities Manage schedules Add and manage a data source Distribute data and create a distribution list and contacts Deploy IBM Cognos BI content Maintain the IBM Cognos BI content store Customize the appearance of Cognos BI Display web content on a portal page using portlets Identify where consumers access IBM Cognos BI content Use published reports Drill through to related data Run reports with options Add comments to saved output Personalize how content appearance Manage human tasks Set alerts and watch rules Parameter-driven drill through vs. dynamic drill through Steps to enable drill-through access for a package Setting scope Drill through assistant Manage user profiles Add objects to the toolbox tab Create a custom template option Manage packages through IBM Cognos Connection

IBM Cognos BI Analysis Studio v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Analysis Studio is a halfday course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed to teach business authors how to analyze data and navigate in Analysis Studio. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn how to analyze data using Analysis Studio features working with OLAP or dimensionally modeled relational metadata.

Intended Audience
This is a basic course intended for business authors.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Exploring Analysis Studio Module 3: Building Analysis Module 4: Enhancing Analysis View Module 5: Using Graphical Display

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Fundamental terms of Analysis Studio Insert objects Define dimensions, levels, and items Identify the work area, overview area, and properties pane Analyze and understand your data by scheduling and managing reports Employ drilling down and up to different levels of detail Create an analysis view Change the rows, columns, and measures in the analysis Nest data within the same dimension and from different dimensions Apply filters using the Context area Sort data Rank data Suppress zeros Filter data Create and modify custom sets Create calculated measures and custom filters. Change the display of data Use charts to display data graphically

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

10

IBM Cognos BI Business Insight v10

Course Description
The DataClarity online training was outstanding. The instructor was flexible about tailoring the course material to our organization needs. We have been very impressed with quality of course materials and hands-on labs.

Intended Audience
This is an intermediate course intended for business consumers.

IBM Cognos Business Insight is a oneday course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed for business consumers providing concepts to view, customize and create dashboards in Business Insight using filters, widgets, and images. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn how to view, create and extend dashboard reports.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality Completion of IBM Cognos Connection or working knowledge of the portal.

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Exploring Dashboards Module 3: Focus on Dashboard Data Module 4: Organize Dashboard Data

11

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Access Business Insight using a variety of methods Create a dashboard from existing content Create a list and chart report Modify an existing dashboard Add images, titles, and webpage parts Understand filters and prompts Manage filters using the Information bar Explain drill up and drill down functionality Use a Go To from dashboards to reports Understand how to create simple calculations Sort and Group dashboard data Understand how to add comments and share dashboards

12

IBM Cognos BI Business Insight Advanced v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced is a two-day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructorled online format. It is designed for business authors providing concepts to create and share reports and dashboards, perform deeper analysis of the data and customize the look and feel of a report. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn how to analyze data and create reports using relational and dimensional data models, as well as ways to customize and extend report content.

Intended Audience
This is an intermediate course intended for professional business authors.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality Experience using Microsoft Excel (recommended)

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Examine Business Insight Advanced Module 3: Introduction to Reporting Concepts and The Great Outdoors Module 4: Create Business Insight Advanced Reports Module 5: Explore Dimensional Hierarchies Module 6: Highlight and Present Data Module 7: Working with External Data Module 8: Analyzing Data Module 9: Designing Effective Reports

13

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Launch Business Insight Advanced through different methods Explore user interface components of Business Insight Advance Create list and chart reports Understand the concepts and design of The Great Outdoors Identify the data available to satisfy report requirements Identify the data available to create effective reports Choose a report format Build a report Use available query items and calculated query items Explore dimensional hierarchies Recognize hierarchies Use hierarchies to create effective reports Interact with a report of hierarchical data to drill up and drill down Identify sets Present data effectively: sort data output, summarize data, group related rows, suppress data and filter data. Understand query item properties Use formatting to improve the visual effectiveness of reports Use conditional styles to highlight query items on a report. Understand multiple data analysis processes Create a report for each process

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

14

IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager v10

Course Description
Very informative, improved my knowledge and understanding of Cognos methodology at my own pace. Many thanks.

Intended Audience
This is an advanced course for data architects and developers of who design metadata models for IBM Cognos BI.

IBM Cognos Framework Manager: Designing Metadata Models is a three day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. This course provides participants with metadata modeling concepts and instruction on how to model metadata for predictable reporting and analysis using Framework Manager. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn the full scope of the metadata modeling process, from creating the initial project to enabling end users to author and analyze the data using the functionality of IBM Cognos BI.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Knowledge of common industry standards for data structures and design Experience with SQL Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data Experience using IBM Cognos BI Report Studio (recommended)

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI and Framework Manager Module 2 Preparing Metadata in Framework Manager Module 3: Relational Modeling in Framework Manager Module 4: Dimensional Modeling in Framework Manager Module 5: Modeling in Framework Manager Part II Module 6: Advanced Framework Manager Techniques

15

You will learn:

IBM Cognos BI Fundamentals Describe Cognos Connection Understand Modeling Basics Understand Framework Manager basics Understand Framework Manager Workflow Create a New Project and Import Metadata Prepare Metadata Understand Usage and Aggregate Properties Understand Relationships and Cardinality Create a Parameter Map Create a Filter and Calculation Namespace Create Stand Alone Filters Model Metadata in Framework Manager Understand Three Tier Framework Manager Model Model as a Star Schema Understand Model Query Subjects Use Model Query Subjects to Merge Snowflake Query Subjects Create True Facts and True Dimensions using Model Query Subjects Use Model Query Subjects for Business Friendly Information Add Calculations to Model Query Subjects Create Time Dimensions Understand Role Playing Dimensions Work with Determinants Create Presentation View in the model Understand Conformed Dimensions and Query Generation Define Dimensionally Modeled Relational (DMR) Metadata Understand Regular Dimensions Create Regular Dimensions based on Model Query Subjects Differentiate Query Subjects, Regular Dimensions and Determinants Creating Measure Dimensions Understand Scope Relationships Star Schema Groupings Create a Dimensional Reporting Package

16

IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager Advanced v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Framework Manager Advanced is a one day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. This course provides participants an understanding of Security, Optimizing and Tuning Framework Manager Models. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos and hands-on exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn the advanced modeling techniques using the functionality of IBM Cognos BI Framework Manager.

Prerequisites
Completed IBM Cognos Framework Manager: Designing Metadata Models (Version 10) or prior Framework Manager development experience Knowledge of your business requirements Knowledge of common industry standards for data structures and design Experience with SQL Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data Experience using IBM Cognos BI Report Studio (recommended)

Intended Audience
This is an advanced course for developers of who design metadata models for IBM Cognos BI.

Course Outline
Module 1: Securing the Framework Manager Model and Packages Module 2: Optimize and Tune Framework Manager Models

17

You will learn:

Understand SQL Generation with Query Subjects Understand Source Query Subject Understand SQL Generation When Modifying Relationships Understand Various SQL Type Settings Understand SQL Generation in Complex Queries Understand Multi-fact, Multi-grain SQL on Conformed Dimensions Stitch Queries in Single and MultiFact Queries Sett Security in Framework Manager Manage Framework Manager Packages Work with Materialized Views Understand Minimized SQL Set Limits on Query Execution using Governors Create a Model with both Relational and OLAP Model Understand Metadata Caching Improve SQL Performance by Query Processing Techniques Understand Rollup Processing and Aggregations Manage Member Unique Names for DMR in Framework Manager Model for Drill-Through in Framework Manager Create Drill-Through Definitions Analyze and Publish and OLAP Data Source

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

18

IBM Cognos BI Metric Studio v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Metrics is a two day course and can be delivered onsite or in an instructor-led online format. It is designed to teach developers how to design, model, and build Metrics applications and reports. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops, and group exercises in a high quality learning environment participants will learn about understanding metrics modeling and extracts as well as how to build Scorecards.

Intended Audience
This is a course intended for developers.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Configure the Metric Store Module 3: Metrics Extracts Module 3: Projects and Metrics Stores Module 4: Scorecards Module 5: Metric Types Module 6: Metric Studio

19

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI

Metric Types
Value types (i.e., Revenues, Expenses) Filters Mouse Over Chart Historical Data Chart Types Calendar List Editing Data (Metric Maintenance) Comments Actions

Configure SQL Metric Store

Create Metric Store Database in SQL Server Create Metric Store User and Security Metric package creation Directory setting up database connections Metric database initialization

Metrics Extracts
Create a Metrics Extract from a Relational Data Source Create a Metrics Extract from a Cognos Power Cube Create a Metrics Extract from a flat file

Metrics
Actual and Target individual values Diagrams

Projects and Metrics Stores

Create Project and Metric Package Reference Configure and Initialize Metric Store Select Cube Import Source for Extract Map Scorecards Time Hierarchy and Currency Mapping Create Metric Type and Map Metrics Include/Exclude Metric Values Execute Extract Transfer Data from Staging Area to Metric Store View Scorecard Create a Metrics Extract from a Relational Package

Qualifiers
Re-use of a metric within one scorecard

Projects
Manual project tracking

External Reports
Report Studio

Watch Lists
Add to Watch Lists Details Alerts Adding Shortcuts

Strategies
Creating Strategies

Creating Strategy Elements

Scorecards
Viewing Scorecards Creating Scorecards

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

20

IBM Cognos BI Overview v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos BI Overview is a one-day course and it can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed to provide participants with a high level overview of the IBM Cognos BI suite of products. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos and hands-on exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will be introduced to the elements of IBM Cognos BI.

Intended Audience
This is a course intended for consumers, business authors, professional authors, developers, administrators, modelers, and project managers.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality Understanding of your organizations reporting needs

Course Outline
Module 1: IBM Cognos BI Components Overview Module 2: Examine Cognos Connection Module 3: Organizing Content Module 4: Personalizing Cognos Connection Module 5: Explore Reports Module 6: Dashboard Concepts

21

You will learn

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Understand report types Create and save ad-hoc reports Create list, grouped list, and crosstab reports View, print, or distribute a report in Cognos Connection Identify Consumer Access to BI Content Understand Cognos Connection Administrator and User Capabilities Dashboard Concepts Examine Business Insight Manage Published Reports Change Preferences Access External Files with Links Create a new portal page Modify a portal page Add pages or dashboards to Cognos Connection Enhance reports by adding filters Add titles/subtitles Format report objects Reorder and rename columns Create groupings, sections, and page breaks Understand aggregation and summarization Use different types of prompts Understand calculations and parameters

22

IBM Cognos BI Query Studio v10

Course Description
Very satisfied with what I received. The hands-on training was very helpful and the instructor enhanced the experience. I look forward to any subsequent courses in the future.

Intended Audience
This is a basic course intended for business authors.

IBM Cognos Query Studio is a half-day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed for business authors who want to learn to create, modify and organize ad hoc reports. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn how to create ad hoc reports, as well as perform basic administrative tasks such as scheduling reports and report delivery in multiple formats.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Creating Basic Query Studio Reports Module 3: Enhancing Query Studio Reports Module 4: Advanced Query Studio Functionality

23

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Launch Query Studio Understand report types Create and save ad-hoc reports Create list, grouped list, and crosstab reports View, print, or distribute a report in Cognos Connection Enhance reports by adding filters Add titles/subtitles Format reports objects Reorder and rename columns. Create groupings, sections, and page breaks Understand aggregation and summarization Use different types of prompts Understand calculations and parameters

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

24

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Active Reports v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Active Reports is an advanced one day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed to enhance participants experience with Report Studio by using active report controls to build interactive reports that can be used by report consumers. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn build on advanced report authoring techniques.

Intended Audience
This is an advanced course intended for professional report authors.

Prerequisites
IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Essentials IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Fundamentals

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos BI Module 2: Introduction to Active Reports Module 3: Filter and Select in Active Reports Module 4: Advanced Features

25

You will learn:

IBM Cognos BI Fundamentals Describe Cognos Connection Understand concepts using Active Reports Use Active Report Controls Work with Report Variables Examine Interactive Behavior Properties Convert a Report to an Active Report Debug Active Reports Distribute Active Reports Use Data Controls for Filter and Select Work with Decks Examine Cards in a Data Deck Select Controls for Data Decks Examine Interactive Behavior Properties Define Master-Detail Relationships Use Drill Through with Active Reports Explore Drill up and Drill Down Cascade Interactive Controls

26

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Essentials v10

Course Description
The training class exceeded my expectations. Ive got exposure to real field implementation and all the extras were great.

IBM Cognos Report Studio Essentials is a two day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed for professional report authors to learn the essential report building techniques to provide polished reports to executives, managers and end users within your organization. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn

how to create reports using data models, as well as ways to enhance, customize and manage professional reports.

Intended Audience
This is an intermediate course intended for professional report authors.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Creating Basic Reports Module 3: Report Studio Enhancements

27

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Understand the Cognos portal and various activities that can be performed within it Understand different reporting styles in Report Studio Understand the concept of dimensions, measures, and dimensional reporting styles Understand Report Studio and its interface Understand basic Report Studio tasks Create list reports including group, format, and sort list reports Understand data aggregation Create cross tab reports Format and sort crosstab reports Create complex crosstabs using drag and drop functionality Create chart reports Create filters, understand summary and detailed filters Determine when to apply filters on aggregate data Create prompts, identify various prompt types, search prompts, use parameters Extend reports using calculations (query and layout) Use tables, blocks, formatting data Use sections, headers and footers, pages and bookmarks

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

28

IBM Cognos BI Report Studio Intermediate v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Report Studio Intermediate is a one day course and can be delivered onsite or in instructorled online format. It is designed for professional report authors to learn intermediate report building techniques to provide polished reports to executives, managers and end users within your organization. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops and group exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will learn how to customize reports using Report Studio features including conditional formatting, master-detail reports and drill through.

Intended Audience
This is an intermediate course intended for professional report authors.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality Completion of Report Studio Essentials or working knowledge of Report Studio

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Highlight Data with Conditional Formatting Module 3: Creating a Master-Detail Report Module 4: Defining Drill Through Definitions for Reporting Module 5: Examining a Query Model

29

You will learn:

Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI Describe the primary benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI Understand the Cognos portal and various activities that can be performed within it Understand different reporting styles in Report Studio Understand the concept of dimensions, measures, and dimensional reporting styles Use conditional variables to customize reports. Hide and show report objects, which can be based on input or defined condition or calculation. Highlight data in a report based on user input or defined condition or calculation. Add multiple layouts to the report Create multilingual reports Understand Master Detail Relationships Create Master Detail Reports Setup drill-through reports Understand drill-through scenarios Understand different types of drillthrough reports Create and setup different types of drill-through reports Understand relational queries Understand Query Model Effect of data Aggregation/ Summarization on queries Filtering effect on Queries Working with Joins/Unions/Intersect/ Except Create a Join Relationship Create a Query using various operators (Union, Intersect and Except Operators) in Report Studio Working with Queries in Custom SQL/MDX

30

IBM Cognos BI Transformer v10

Course Description
IBM Cognos Transformer is a two day course and can be delivered onsite or in an instructor-led online format. It is designed to teach developers how to design, model, and build Cognos cubes. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops, and group exercises in a high quality learning environment participants will learn about understanding dimensional modeling as well as how to build Cognos OLAP Cubes.

Intended Audience
This is a course intended for developers.

Prerequisites
Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Outline
Module 1: Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI Module 2: Understanding Dimensional Structure Module 3: Planning your Cube Module 4: Cube Building Basics Module 5: Publishing Cubes Module 6: Dimensions, Levels and Categories Module 7: Multiple Data Sources Module 8: Measures Module 9: Advanced Cube Design

31

You will learn:

Recognize various requirements of IBM Cognos BI Drill-down / Dimension Viewer / Dimension Line / Measures / Nesting Different Display Views / Buttons Sort, Swap, Rank / Format Options / Calculate Options Business Requirements and Definitions Model Plans Transformer Application Survey Connecting to Data Sources - Wizard Connecting to Data Sources - Manual Levels, Dimensions and Hierarchies Publishing cubes Categories Alternate Drill Paths Category Viewer Special Categories Date Dimensions Manual modification of Levels, Dimensions and Hierarchies Relative and Non-standard Time Multiple Data Sources Scope and Association Measures Allocation Sub-dimensions Cube Customization Cube Groups Drill Through Custom views

IBM Cognos v10 Courses

32

IBM Cognos V8 Courses

33

experience

Cognos 8 Courses
The right training, at the right time
DataClarity has a complete catalog of courses to meet your Cognos 8 education needs. We currently offer the following IBM Cognos 8 courses: IBM Cognos BI Administration IBM Cognos Analysis Studio IBM Cognos Connection IBM Cognos Framework Manager IBM Cognos Query Studio IBM Cognos Report Studio Essentials IBM Cognos Report Studio Intermediate Please contact DataClarity Education today at 877.454.4898 or visit www. CognosEducation.com and complete our Cognos 8 Online Course request form to inquire about availability and full course descriptions.

Extremely valuable content, a great instructor, and very good interaction with the students. Now Im more prepared for the work Ill be doing in the coming months.

Getting Started
Learn more, pay less
Whether you plan to invest in a Cognos solution, want to validate your current one, or give your teams the knowledge and skills they need to drive better results, we are ready to create a custom education plan for you. Contact us now. Well make it easy to get started today! 800.963.5508 | www.DataClarityCorp.com

34