IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.1.x) (B6258G)

Overview

This course provides authors with an introduction to build reports using Cognos Analytics. Techniques to enhance, customize, and manage reports will be explored. Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity.

Audience

Authors

Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of your business requirements
  • Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer

Objective

What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?

  • The Welcome page
  • Consume report content
  • Interactive filtering
  • Working with reports

 

Dimensionally modeled relational data

 

Use personal data sources and data modules

  • Upload personal data
  • Upload custom images
  • Using navigation paths in a data module

 

Examine list reports

  • Group data
  • Format columns
  • Include headers and footers

 

Aggregate fact data

  • Identify differences in aggregation

 

Multiple facts and repeated information

  • Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
  • Present repeated information

 

Add repeated information to reports

  • Create a mailing list report

 

Create crosstab reports

  • Add measures to a crosstab
  • Data sources for a crosstab

 

Create complex crosstab reports

  • Add items as peers
  • Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members

 

Work with crosstab data

  • Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab

 

Create discontinuous crosstab reports

 

Create visualization reports

  • Visualization categories
  • Customize visualizations
  • Client side visualizations
  • Enhanced map visualizations

 

Focus reports using filters

  • Create filters to narrow the focus
  • Use advanced detail filters
  • Apply a filter with aggregation
  • Use summary filters

 

Focus reports using prompts

  • Examine parameters and prompts
  • Create a parameter for a report item
  • Add a prompt page
  • Add a prompt item to a report
  • Identify a prompt type
  • Create a cascading prompt

 

Use calculations

  • What are calculations?
  • Add Date and Time functions
  • Add string functions
  • Display prompt selections in report titles

 

Customize reports with conditional formatting

  • Three steps for conditional formatting
  • Create a variable
  • Assign the variable to a report object
  • Format based on the conditional value
  • Conditionally render report objects

 

Drill-through definitions

  • Navigate to related data

 

Enhance report layout

  • View the structure of a report
  • Use Guided report layout
  • Force page breaks
  • Create horizontal pagination
  • Modify the report structure
  • Format objects across reports

 

Use additional report-building techniques

  • Enhance a report design
  • Add objects to reports
  • Convert a list to a crosstab
  • Explore reuse
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Course Outline

What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting?

  • The Welcome page
  • Consume report content
  • Interactive filtering
  • Working with reports

 

Dimensionally modeled relational data

 

Use personal data sources and data modules

  • Upload personal data
  • Upload custom images
  • Using navigation paths in a data module

 

Examine list reports

  • Group data
  • Format columns
  • Include headers and footers

 

Aggregate fact data

  • Identify differences in aggregation

 

Multiple facts and repeated information

  • Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
  • Present repeated information

 

Add repeated information to reports

  • Create a mailing list report

 

Create crosstab reports

  • Add measures to a crosstab
  • Data sources for a crosstab

 

Create complex crosstab reports

  • Add items as peers
  • Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members

 

Work with crosstab data

  • Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab

 

Create discontinuous crosstab reports

 

Create visualization reports

  • Visualization categories
  • Customize visualizations
  • Client side visualizations
  • Enhanced map visualizations

 

Focus reports using filters

  • Create filters to narrow the focus
  • Use advanced detail filters
  • Apply a filter with aggregation
  • Use summary filters

 

Focus reports using prompts

  • Examine parameters and prompts
  • Create a parameter for a report item
  • Add a prompt page
  • Add a prompt item to a report
  • Identify a prompt type
  • Create a cascading prompt

 

Use calculations

  • What are calculations?
  • Add Date and Time functions
  • Add string functions
  • Display prompt selections in report titles

 

Customize reports with conditional formatting

  • Three steps for conditional formatting
  • Create a variable
  • Assign the variable to a report object
  • Format based on the conditional value
  • Conditionally render report objects

 

Drill-through definitions

  • Navigate to related data

 

Enhance report layout

  • View the structure of a report
  • Use Guided report layout
  • Force page breaks
  • Create horizontal pagination
  • Modify the report structure
  • Format objects across reports

 

Use additional report-building techniques

  • Enhance a report design
  • Add objects to reports
  • Convert a list to a crosstab
  • Explore reuse