Learning Path: The Roadway to IBM Cognos Analytics

Learning Path: The Roadway to IBM Cognos Analytics, available at $49.99, has an average rating of 3.2, with 49 lectures, 2 quizzes, based on 409 reviews, and has 1808 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn to build stunning Dashboards with Cognos Analytics Learn how and when to use visualization Create tabbed dashboards and stories using the new Dashboard tool of Cognos v11 Master the full-fledged Report Authoring tool Understand how a dashboard is different from a report, and when to use both Understand the Reporting Interface Implement crosstabs and SQL queries This course is ideal for individuals who are This Learning Path is targeted at: or Accountants, managers, controllers, sales heads, and so on will find this Learning Path useful for their day to day work and career progression or Developers, business analysts, testers, product owners of reporting system / data warehouse / MIS can use Cognos Analytics (Cognos v11) to author dashboards and stories within IT department or Those who are already using Cognos BI v8 or v10 will also find it useful as v11 is dramatically different from the previous versions It is particularly useful for This Learning Path is targeted at: or Accountants, managers, controllers, sales heads, and so on will find this Learning Path useful for their day to day work and career progression or Developers, business analysts, testers, product owners of reporting system / data warehouse / MIS can use Cognos Analytics (Cognos v11) to author dashboards and stories within IT department or Those who are already using Cognos BI v8 or v10 will also find it useful as v11 is dramatically different from the previous versions.

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Summary

Title: Learning Path: The Roadway to IBM Cognos Analytics

Price: $49.99

Average Rating: 3.2

Number of Lectures: 49

Number of Quizzes: 2

Number of Published Lectures: 49

Number of Published Quizzes: 2

Number of Curriculum Items: 51

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 51

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn to build stunning Dashboards with Cognos Analytics
Learn how and when to use visualization
Create tabbed dashboards and stories using the new Dashboard tool of Cognos v11
Master the full-fledged Report Authoring tool
Understand how a dashboard is different from a report, and when to use both
Understand the Reporting Interface
Implement crosstabs and SQL queries

Who Should Attend

This Learning Path is targeted at:
Accountants, managers, controllers, sales heads, and so on will find this Learning Path useful for their day to day work and career progression
Developers, business analysts, testers, product owners of reporting system / data warehouse / MIS can use Cognos Analytics (Cognos v11) to author dashboards and stories within IT department
Those who are already using Cognos BI v8 or v10 will also find it useful as v11 is dramatically different from the previous versions

Target Audiences

This Learning Path is targeted at:
Accountants, managers, controllers, sales heads, and so on will find this Learning Path useful for their day to day work and career progression
Developers, business analysts, testers, product owners of reporting system / data warehouse / MIS can use Cognos Analytics (Cognos v11) to author dashboards and stories within IT department
Those who are already using Cognos BI v8 or v10 will also find it useful as v11 is dramatically different from the previous versions

The latest version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is Cognos Analytics and it brings IBM right back into the game against new-age competitors such as QlikView and Tableau. This sleek, next-generation, unified tool provides you with a fast, intent-driven dashboard and report-authoring interface on top of the strong foundation that IBM Cognos has provided over decades.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

Explore Cognos and it’s high level architecture
Augment enterprise data with your offline data to produce stunning dashboards and presentations without IT costs
Learn to secure your data with advanced filters

Let’s take a look at your learning journey. Here, you will strongly focus on the new analytics dashboard tool, that is not only the future of reporting authoring but also appeals much wider audience – right from end users who are simply consumers of data, to power-users who analyze data and create dashboards for consumption, and IT developers who deliver high quality reporting solutions. In addition to analytics dashboarding, which is the completely new feature in v11, you will also learn about what users and author gain by upgrading from older v10 or v8 (why upgrade, and why not). You will get a hang of the completely new connection portal interface. You’ll also know the limitations of the dashboarding tool and shows how to mitigate them in the report development tool as it is completely dedicated to Cognos Analytics – Reporting, the advanced report authoring tool. Going further, you will master the Report Tool interface and learn how to create a report dashboard l using simple objects (for beginners). Finally, you’ll go through advanced topics to overcome the limitations of a dashboard tool such as drill-through, prompt manipulation, advanced data formatting, making the dashboards printable, conditional highlighting, and more.

On completion of this Learning Path, you’ll master the art of dashboard creation with advanced report authoring using IBM Cognos Analytics.�

Meet Your Expert:

We have the best works of the following esteemed author to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

Abhishek Sanghani worked with Cognos 8.x and 10.x for 12 years and delivered countless reporting solutions; he is thoroughly excited to see Cognos 11.x taking a big leap in self-service authoring and dashboard reporting. Currently, he leads a team of software developers, in a large global financial services company, to deliver analytical applications with dashboards and self-service capabilities. Version 11.x being fairly recent, he is involved in testing it from all aspects to assess when and where to use it in the deliveries. He also tries other products such as QlikView, Tableau, and Micro strategy. He believes such experiences with other products make one’s viewpoint wider, and understanding deeper.

The other technology that interests Abhishek is Micro strategy. He possess advanced skills in TM1, Oracle, Micro strategy, SQL Server, and SSAS. He also has a book written on IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio, followed by a video course for Cognos 10 Report Studio Fundamentals. Both have been very fulfilling experiences. He believes this could be a natural and organic update of those Report Studio works. Note that this course focuses on the brand new Dashboarding tool.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: First Guide to Dashboards using IBM Cognos Analytics

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Introduction to Business Intelligence

Lecture 3: Cognos and Its High-Level Architecture

Lecture 4: Setting Up an Account for Cognos on the Cloud

Lecture 5: Sample Databases and Files

Lecture 6: Welcome Portal

Lecture 7: Where’s Report Studio Gone?

Lecture 8: Your First Dashboard

Lecture 9: On the Back Stage – Connecting to Databases

Lecture 10: Creating Your Own Data Modules

Lecture 11: Adding Your Own Data to Dashboards

Lecture 12: Improving Module – Examining the Data Model

Lecture 13: Refining Module – Filtering and Cleaning

Lecture 14: Extending Module – Creating Custom Calculations

Lecture 15: Generating Stitched Facts – How and Why?

Lecture 16: How to Change Visualization Properties?

Lecture 17: Singletons, Static Texts, and Display Order

Lecture 18: Changing Widget Connections

Lecture 19: Navigation Group for Drill Down

Lecture 20: Creating a Story Using Pins

Lecture 21: Changing the Theme and Background

Lecture 22: Adding Multimedia and Info-Graphics

Lecture 23: Sharing Story and Dashboard Using Custom URL

Chapter 2: Going beyond Dashboards with IBM Cognos Analytics

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Printability

Lecture 3: Crosstabs

Lecture 4: Detailed Properties of Visualizations

Lecture 5: Drill-Through to Another Report

Lecture 6: Master-Detail Relationship/Repeaters

Lecture 7: Opening the Report Interface

Lecture 8: Adding Data

Lecture 9: Adding Report Pages and Prompt Pages

Lecture 10: Toolbox

Lecture 11: Crosstab in Detail

Lecture 12: Nested Crosstab

Lecture 13: Discontinuous Crosstab

Lecture 14: Examining and Overriding SQL Queries

Lecture 15: Populating Values in Prompt Control

Lecture 16: Using Prompt Parameters

Lecture 17: Mandatory and Optional Prompts

Lecture 18: Cascading Prompt

Lecture 19: Prompts on Report Page

Lecture 20: Difference between Charts and Extensible Visualizations

Lecture 21: Heatmap Visualization

Lecture 22: Gauge Control

Lecture 23: Sparkline

Lecture 24: Container within Container

Lecture 25: Drill-Through to Another Report (Drill-Through Links)

Lecture 26: Finishing Touches

Instructors

Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 22 votes
2 stars: 15 votes
3 stars: 79 votes
4 stars: 169 votes
5 stars: 124 votes

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