Description

Students will explore IBM Cognos Analytics report authoring and different report object types (list, crosstab, chart, visualization, etc.). They will also create and format reports using grouping, headers, footers, and other formatting options. Also covered is the ability to focus reports by filtering data and using prompts. Students will learn to add value to reports using calculations and additional report-building techniques as well as how to enhance reports with advanced formatting and exceptional data highlighting.

Objectives

What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting-
Dimensionally modeled relational data
Use personal data sources and data modules
Examine list reports
Aggregate fact data
Multiple facts and repeated information
Add repeated information to reports
Create crosstab reports
Customize reports with conditional formatting
Drill-through definitions
Work with crosstab data
Create discontinuous crosstab reports
Create visualization reports
Focus reports using filters
Focus reports using prompts
Use calculations
Enhance report layout
Use additional report-building techniques

Course Overview

Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting

Examine IBM Cognos Analytics
Reporting and its interface
Explore different report types
Create reports in preview or design mode
Create a simple, sorted, and formatted report
Examine dimensionally modeled and dimensional data sources
Explore how data items are added queries
Examine personal data sources and data modules

Examine data tables and list reports

Create a data table
Group, format, and sort list reports
Describe options for aggregating data
Create a multi-fact query
Create a report with repeated data

Create crosstab reports

Format and sort crosstab reports
Create complex crosstabs using drag and drop functionality
Create crosstabs using unrelated data items

Create visualization reports

Understand visualization categories
Create and customize visualizations
Understand client-side visualizations
Create enhanced map visualizations

Focus reports using filters

Create filters to narrow the focus of reports
Examine detail and summary filters
Determine when to apply filters on aggregate data

Focus reports using prompts

Identify various prompt types
Use parameters and prompts to focus data
Search for prompt types
Navigate between pages

Extend reports using calculations

Create calculations based on data in the data source
Add run-time information to the reports
Create expressions using functions

Customize reports with conditional formatting

Create multilingual reports
Highlight exceptional data
Show and hide data
Conditionally render objects in reports

Drill-through definitions

Introduction to drill-through definitions
Navigating to related data
Introduction to bookmark references

Enhance report layout

Force page breaks in reports
Format data and report objects
Modify existing report structures

Use additional report building techniques

Enhance report design with report objects
Add objects to reports
Convert a list to a crosstab
Reuse objects within the same report
Share layout components among separate reports
Choose options to handle reports with no available data

IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (V11.2) Virtual Classroom Live May 20, 2025

Price: $2,400

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