IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Advanced (V11.1.x)

Course Description

This course provides advanced report development strategies to experienced authors so they can improve, adapt, manage, and disseminate reports. The student will also learn how to develop Active Reports, which are extremely dynamic and captivating reports that can be run offline.

Prerequisites

Understanding your company's needs you either have prior experience creating reports using IBM Cognos Analytics V11.1.x or you have completed the course IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x).

Target Audience

Authors

Learning Objectives

Please refer course overview

Content Outline

  • Building a query and connect it to a report
  • Answering a business question by referencing data in a separate query
  • Creating join relationships between queries
  • Combining data containers based on relationships from different queries
  • Creating a report comparing the percentage of change
  • Examining data sources and model types
  • Describing the dimensional approach to queries
  • Applying report authoring styles
  • Using members to create reports
  • Identifying sets and tuples in reports
  • Using query calculations and set definitions
  • Examining dimensional report members
  • Examining dimensional report measures
  • Using the default measure to create a summarized column in a report
  • Focusing your report by excluding members of a defined set
  • Comparing the use of the filter function to a detail filter
  • Filtering dimensional data using slicers
  • Examining dimensional functions
  • Showing totals and exclude members
  • Creating a percent of base calculation
  • Using query macros
  • Controlling report output using a query macro
  • Creating a dynamic growth report
  • Creating a report that displays summary data before detailed data & uses singletons to summarize information
  • Creating a prompt that allows users to select conditional formatting values
  • Creating a prompt that provides users a choice between different filters
  • Creating a prompt to let users choose a column sort order
  • Creating a prompt to let users select a display type
  • Examining report specification flow
  • Identifying considerations when modifying report specifications
  • Customizing reporting objects
  • Bursting a report to email recipients by using a data item
  • Bursting a list report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table
  • Bursting a crosstab report to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal by using a burst table & a master detail relationship
  • Creating interactive reports using HTML
  • Including additional information with tooltips
  • Sending emails using links in a report
  • Examining Active Report controls and variables
  • Creating a simple Active Report using Static and Data-driven controls
  • Changing filtering and selection behavior in a report
  • Creating interaction between multiple controls and variables
  • Creating an Active Report with a Deck
  • Creating an Active Report with 11.0 visualizations

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A web-based comprehensive business intelligence package from IBM is called Cognos Business Intelligence. It offers a suite of tools for analytics, scorecarding, reporting, and keeping track of events and data. The software is made up of a number of parts that are made to satisfy the various information needs of a business. For example, IBM Cognos Framework Manager, IBM Cognos Cube Designer, and IBM Cognos Transformer are all parts of IBM Cognos.

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