Data, Analytics & BI
IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.2)
Author reports in IBM Cognos Analytics.
3 daysFoundation11 modulesv11.2
About this course
Author reports in IBM Cognos Analytics. You will build list, crosstab and visualisation reports, focus them with filters and prompts, extend them with calculations and customise layouts for business users.
Curriculum
11 modules
- Examine IBM Cognos Analytics
- Reporting and its interface
- Explore different report types
- Create reports in preview or design mode
- Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
- Examine dimensionally modeled and dimensional data sources
- Explore how data items are added queries
- Examine personal data sources and data modules
- Create a data table
- Group, format, and sort list reports
- Describe options for aggregating data
- Create a multi-fact query
- Create a report with repeated data
- Format and sort crosstab reports
- Create complex crosstabs using drag and drop functionality
- Create crosstabs using unrelated data items
- Understand visualization categories
- Create and customize visualizations
- Understand client-side visualizations
- Create enhanced map visualizations
- Create filters to narrow the focus of reports
- Examine detail and summary filters
- Determine when to apply filters on aggregate data
- Identify various prompt types
- Use parameters and prompts to focus data
- Search for prompt types
- Navigate between pages
- Create calculations based on data in the data source
- Add run-time information to the reports
- Create expressions using functions
- Create multilingual reports
- Highlight exceptional data
- Show and hide data
- Conditionally render objects in reports
- Introduction to drill-through definitions
- Navigating to related data
- Introduction to bookmark references
- Force page breaks in reports
- Format data and report objects
- Modify existing report structures
- Enhance report design with report objects
- Add objects to reports
- Convert a list to a crosstab
- Reuse objects within the same report
- Share layout components among separate reports
- Choose options to handle reports with no available data
Who it's for
Report authors and business analysts using Cognos.
Before you start
- Knowledge of your business requirements
- Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer
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