IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.1)
Audience
Authors
Prerequisites
• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using the Windows operating system
• Experience using a Web browser
Key Topics
- Examine Author Reports and its interface
- Explore different report types
- Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
- Explore how data items are added queries
- Format, group, and sort list reports
- Describe options for aggregating data
- Create a multi-fact query
- Create a report with repeated data
- Create filters to narrow the focus of reports
- Examine detail and summary filters
- Determine when to apply filters on aggregated data
- Format and sort crosstab reports
- Convert a list to a crosstab
- Create crosstabs using unrelated data items
- Create charts containing peer and nested columns
- Present data using different chart type options
- Add context to charts
- Create and reuse custom chart palettes
- Introduction to visualization
- Present key data in a single dashboard report
- Identified various prompt types
- Use parameters and prompts to focus data
- Search for prompt types
- Navigate between pages
- Create expressions using functions
- Add run-time information to the reports
- Create expressions using functions
- Enhance report design with report objects
- Reuse objects within the same report
- Share layout components among separate reports
- Discuss report templates
- Choose options to handle reports with no available data
- Create multi-lingual reports
- Highlight exceptional data
- Show and hide data
- Conditionally render objects in reports
- Conditionally format one crosstab measure based on another
- Let users navigate from a specific report to a target report
- Pass parameter values to filter the data in drill-through targets
- Navigate through multiple reports
- Discuss parameter-driven drill through
- Discuss dynamic drill through
- Setup package-based drill through definitions
- Step scope
- Use the Drill-Through Assistant
- Force page breaks in reports
- Modify existing reports structures
- Apply horizontal formatting
- Specify print options for PDF reports
- Format data and report objects
- Describe IBM Cognos Analytics and Financial Performance Management (FPM)
- Describe IBM Cognos Analytics components
- Describe IBM Cognos architecture at a high level
- Define IBM Cognos groups and roles
- Explain how to extend IBM Cognos Analytics