Course Description IBM Cognos Transformer is a two day course and can be delivered onsite or in an instructor-led online format.  It is designed to teach developers how to design, model, and build Cognos cubes. Using a combination of lectures, instructor led demos, hands-on exercises, workshops, and group exercises in a high quality learning environment participants will learn about understanding dimensional modeling as well as how to  build Cognos OLAP Cubes Pricing $795 USD Audience This is a course intended for developers. Prerequisites Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using Windows and Web functionality

Course Topics

• Module 1:  Introduction to IBM Cognos 10 BI
• Module 2:  Understanding Dimensional Structure
• Module 3:  Planning your Cube
• Module 4:  Cube Building Basics
• Module 5:  Publishing Cubes
• Module 6:  Dimensions, Levels and Categories
• Module 7:  Multiple Data Sources
• Module 8:  Measures
• Module 9:  Advanced Cube Design

You will learn

• Recognize various requirements of IBM Cognos BI
• Drill-down / Dimension Viewer / Dimension Line / Measures / Nesting
• Different Display Views / Buttons – Sort, Swap, Rank / Format Options / Calculate Options
• Business Requirements and Definitions
• Model Plans
• Transformer Application Survey
• Connecting to Data Sources - Wizard
• Connecting to Data Sources - Manual
• Levels, Dimensions and Hierarchies
• Publishing cubes
• Categories
• Alternate Drill Paths
• Category Viewer
• Special Categories
• Date Dimensions
• Manual modification of Levels, Dimensions and Hierarchies
• Relative and Non-standard Time
• Multiple Data Sources
• Scope and Association
• Measures
• Allocation
• Sub-dimensions
• Cube Customization
• Cube Groups
• Drill Through
• Custom views