IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports with Multidimensional Data (v11.0)

The IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports with Multidimensional Data (v11.0) course is a 2-day course that is designed to guide report authors in building their expertise with IBM Cognos Analytics by applying dimensional techniques to reports. Through interactive demonstrations and exercises, students will learn how to author reports that navigate and manipulate dimensional data structures using the specific dimensional functions and features available in IBM Cognos Analytics.

• Dimensional structures and concepts, data in reports, and report context
• Focusing your dimensional data
• Working with Calculations and dimensional functions
• Navigating dimensional hierarchies
• Using Relative functions
• Advanced drilling techniques
• Drill-through reports
• End-to-end workshop?

While class exercises are performed within a Cognos Analytics v11 environment, our expert instructors can provide guidance on all versions and their differences.

Report authors working with dimensional data sources.

This offering is intended for professional report authors who:

• have a knowledge of their business requirements
• basic Windows, and Web functionality

1. Introduction to Dimensional Concepts

• Different data sources and models
• OLAP dimensional structure
• Dimensional data items and expressions
• Differentiate the IBM Cognos Analytics query language from SQL and MDX
• Differentiate relational and dimensional report authoring styles

2. Introduction to Dimensional Data in Reports

• Work with members
• Identify sets and tuples in IBM Cognos Analytics

3. Dimensional Report Context

• Purpose of report context
• How data is affected by default and root members

4. Focus Your Dimensional Data

• Compare dimensional queries to relational queries
• Importance of filtering dimensional queries
• Different filtering techniques
• Filter based on dimensions and members
• Filter based on measure values
• Filter using a slicer

5. Calculations and Dimensional Functions

• Use IBM Cognos Analytics dimensional functions to create sets and tuples
• Perform arithmetic operations in OLAP queries
• Identify coercion errors and rules

6. Functions for Navigating Dimensional Hierarchies

• Navigate dimensional data using family functions

7. Relative Functions

• Navigate dimensional data using relative functions
• Navigate dimensional data using relative time functions

8. Advanced Drilling Techniques and Member Sets

• Default drill-up and drill-down functionality
• Identify cases when you need to override default drilling behavior
• Configure advanced drilling behavior to support sophisticated use cases
• Define member sets to support advanced drilling
• Define member sets to support functions

9. Set Up Drill-Through Reports

• Navigate from a specific report to a target report
• Drill down to greater detail and then navigate to target report
• Navigate between reports created using different data sources

10. End-to-End Workshop

• Review concepts covered throughout the course

Labs:

Hands-on

This offering is intended for professional report authors who:

• have a knowledge of their business requirements
• basic Windows, and Web functionality

The IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Active Reports (v11.0) course is a 1-day course that is designed help students gain an understanding of Active Report content and functionality within IBM Cognos Analytics 11 ?- Reporting. Through lecture, demonstrations, and exercises, students increase their IBM Cognos Analytics experience by building highly interactive reports using Active Report controls, which can then be distributed to and consumed by users in a disconnected environment, including on mobile devices.

Report authors

Basic understanding of IBM Cognos Analytics Reporting