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

Course Description

This course introduces authors to creating reports with Cognos Analytics. We'll look at ways to improve, alter, and manage reports. Key topics will be illustrated and reinforced through activities throughout this learning opportunity.

Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of your business requirements
  • Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer

Target Audience

Authors

Learning Objectives

  • What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting? 
  • Dimensionally modelled relational data 
  • Use personal data sources and data modules 
  • Examine list reports Aggregate fact data 
  • Multiple facts and repeated information 
  • Add repeated information to reports 
  • Create crosstab reports 
  • Customize reports with conditional formatting 
  • Drill-through definitions 
  • Work with crosstab data 
  • Create discontinuous crosstab reports
  • Create visualization reports 
  • Focus reports using filters
  • Focus reports using prompts 
  • Use calculations 
  • Enhance report layout 
  • Use additional report-building techniques

Content Outline

  • The Welcome page
  • Consume report content
  • Interactive filtering
  • Working with reports

Dimensionally modelled relational data

  • Upload personal data
  • Upload custom images
  • Using navigation paths in a data module
  • Group data
  • Format columns
  • Include headers and footers
  • Identify differences in aggregation
  • Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
  • Present repeated information
  • Create a mailing list report
  • Add measures to a crosstab
  • Data sources for a crosstab
  • Add items as peers
  • Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
  • Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab

Create discontinuous crosstab reports

  • Visualization categories
  • Customize visualizations
  • Client side visualizations
  • Enhanced map visualizations
  • Create filters to narrow the focus
  • Use advanced detail filters
  • Apply a filter with aggregation
  • Use summary filters
  • Examine parameters and prompts
  • Create a parameter for a report item
  • Add a prompt page
  • Add a prompt item to a report
  • Identify a prompt type
  • Create a cascading prompt
  • What are calculations?
  • Add Date and Time functions
  • Add string functions
  • Display prompt selections in report titles
  • Three steps for conditional formatting
  • Create a variable
  • Assign the variable to a report object
  • Format based on the conditional value
  • Conditionally render report objects
  • Navigate to related data
  • View the structure of a report
  • Use Guided report layout
  • Force page breaks
  • Create horizontal pagination
  • Modify the report structure
  • Format objects across reports
  • Enhance a report design
  • Add objects to reports
  • Convert a list to a crosstab
  • Explore reuse

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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, score carding, 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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