When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
This offering provides Business and Professional Authors with an introduction to report building techniques using relational data models. Techniques to enhance, customize, and manage professional reports will be explored. Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity.
- What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
- Examine dimensionally modelled and dimensional data sources
- Examine personal data sources and data modules
- Examine List reports
- Aggregate measure/fact data
- Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
- Add repeated information to reports
- Create crosstab reports
- Create complex crosstab reports
- Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab report
- Create discontinuous crosstab reports
- Create Visualization reports
- Add business logic to reports using IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
- Focus reports using filters
- Focus reports using prompts
- Augment reports using calculations
- Extend report functionality in IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting
- Customize reports with conditional formatting
- Conditionally format one crosstab measure based on another
- Drill-through definitions
- Enhance the report layout
- Use additional report building techniques
Report Authors
- Knowledge of your business requirements
- IBM Cognos Analytics for Consumers (v11.0) WBT or equivalent knowledge
What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting-
- Create a simple list report
- Create a report from a dimensionally modeled relational data source
Examine personal data sources and data modules
- Upload personal data
- Upload custom images
- Use navigation paths
- Create a report from a personal data source
Examine list reports
- Group data in a list
- Format columns in a list
- Include headers and footers in a list
- Enhance a list report
Aggregate measure/fact data
- Identify differences in aggregation
- Explore data aggregation
Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
- Create a multi-fact query in a list report
Add repeated information to reports
- Create a mailing list report
Create crosstab reports
- Add measures to a crosstab
- Data sources for a crosstab
- Create a simple crosstab report
Create complex crosstab reports
- Add items as peers
- Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
- Create a complex crosstab report
Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab
- Sort, format, and aggregate a crosstab report
Create discontinuous crosstab reports
- Present unrelated items using a discontinuous crosstab
Create a visualization report
- Create and format a visualization report
- Create a report that uses a Map visualization
- Show the same data graphically and numerically
Focus reports using filters
- Apply filters to a report
- Apply a detail filter on fact data in a report
- Apply a summary filter to a report
Focus reports using prompts
- Create a prompt by adding a parameter
- Add a value prompt to a report
- Add a Select & search prompt to a report
- Create a cascading prompt
Augment reports using calculations
- Add calculations to a report
- Display prompt selections in the report title
Customize reports with conditional formatting
- Create a multilingual report
- Highlight exceptional data and conditionally render a column
Drill-through definitions
- Let users navigate to related data in IBM Cognos Analytics
Enhance report layout
- Create a report structured on data items
- Create a condensed list report
Use additional report building techniques
- Section a report and reuse objects within the same report
- Reuse layout components in a different report
- Explore options for reports that contain no data
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
Lunch is normally an hour long and begins at noon. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and juice are available all day in the kitchen. Fruit, muffins and bagels are served each morning. There are numerous restaurants near each of our centers, and some popular ones are indicated on the Area Map in the Student Welcome Handbooks - these can be picked up in the lobby or requested from one of our ExitCertified staff.
If someone should need to contact you while you are in class, please have them call the center telephone number and leave a message with the receptionist.
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
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Our instructor Gary Taylor was good and helped us promptly with the labs whenever we needed help. He was thorough and did not rush us at all. I am very pleased and would his class to others.
The pace was comfortable and the content was interesting. The instructor kept us engaged.
The instructor taught the modules well. His delivery was exceptional, he was able to answer any questions and he delivered the presentation in a manner that everyone was able to follow.
Craig presented the materials well, he provided real world experience to give more context. He was receptive to questions and made sure the questioner understood his answers
The instructor was accommodating yet was able to move the pace of the class and accurately help out anybody who needed assistance!
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