Course Description
This offering gives Business and Professional Authors a basic understanding of relational data model report building strategies. We'll look at ways to improve, alter, and manage professional reports. Key topics will be illustrated and reinforced through activities throughout this learning opportunity.
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of your business requirements
- Consumer Analytics with IBM Cognos (v11.0) WBT or comparable expertise
Target Audience
Report Authors
Learning Objectives
- What is IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
- Examining dimensionally modelled and dimensional data sources
- Examining personal data sources and data modules
- Examining List reports
- Aggregating measure/fact data
- Using shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
- Adding repeated information to reports
- Creating crosstab reports
- Creating complex crosstab reports
- Formatting, sorting, and aggregating data in a crosstab report
- Creating discontinuous crosstab reports
- Creating Visualization reports
- Adding business logic to reports using IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
- Focusing reports using filters
- Focusing reports using prompts
- Augmenting reports using calculations
- Extending report functionality in IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
- Customizing reports with conditional formatting
- Conditionally formatting one crosstab measure based on another
- Drill-through definitions
- Enhancing the report layout
- Using additional report building techniques
Content Outline
- Creating a simple list report
- Creating a report from a dimensionally modelled relational data source
- Uploading personal data
- Uploading custom images
- Using navigation paths
- Creating a report from a personal data source
- Grouping data in a list
- Formatting columns in a list
- Including headers and footers in a list
- Enhancing a list report
- Identifying differences in aggregation
- Exploring data aggregation
- Creating a multi-fact query in a list report
- Creating a mailing list report
- Adding measures to a crosstab
- Data sources for a crosstab
- Creating a simple crosstab report
- Adding items as peers
- Creating crosstab nodes and crosstab members
- Creating a complex crosstab report
- Sorting, formatting, and aggregating a crosstab report
- Presenting unrelated items using a discontinuous crosstab
- Creating and formatting a visualization report
- Creating a report that uses a Map visualization
- Showing the same data graphically and numerically
- Applying filters to a report
- Applying a detail filter on fact data in a report
- Applying a summary filter to a report
- Creating a prompt by adding a parameter
- Adding a value prompt to a report
- Adding a Select & search prompt to a report
- Creating a cascading prompt
- Adding calculations to a report
- Displaying prompt selections in the report title
- Creating a multilingual report
- Highlighting exceptional data & conditionally render a column
- Let users navigating to related data in IBM Cognos Analytics
- Creating a report structured on data items
- Creating a condensed list report
- Section a report & reusing objects within the same report
- Reusing layout components in a different reports
Exploring options for reports that contain no data
FAQs
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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