Course Description IBM Cognos BI Overview is a one-day course and it can be delivered onsite or in instructor-led online format. It is designed to provide participants with a high level overview of the IBM Cognos BI suite of products. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos and hands-on exercises in a high-quality learning environment, participants will be introduced to the elements of IBM Cognos BI. Pricing $595 USD June 1, 2012 9:00AM - 5:00PM CST ... Audience This is a course intended for consumers, business authors, professional authors, developers, administrators, modelers, and project managers. Prerequisites Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality Understanding of your organizations reporting needs

Course Topics

• Module 1: IBM Cognos BI Components Overview
• Module 2: Examine Cognos Connection
• Module 3: Organizing Content
• Module 4: Personalizing Cognos Connection
• Module 5: Explore Reports
• Module 6: Dashboard Concepts

You will learn

• Recognize various components of IBM Cognos BI
• Benefits of creating reports with IBM Cognos BI
• Understand report types
• Create and save ad-hoc reports
• Create list, grouped list, and crosstab reports
• View, print, or distribute a report in Cognos Connection
• Identify Consumer Access to BI Content
• Understand Cognos Connection – Administrator and User Capabilities
• Dashboard Concepts
• Examine Business Insight
• Manage Published Reports
• Change Preferences
• Access External Files with Links
• Create a new portal page
• Modify a portal page
• Add pages or dashboards to Cognos Connection
• Enhance reports by adding filters
• Add titles/subtitles
• Format report objects
• Reorder and rename columns
• Create groupings, sections, and page breaks
• Understand aggregation and summarization
• Use different types of prompts
• Understand calculations and parameters