IBM Cognos 10.

2 BI Demo

IBM Cognos Course Overview:

In this training, participants acquire skills needed to develop activity, modeling and some admin
works. Each and every concept is supported with documents and real-time scenarios. Hands-on
practice adds to the training benefits.

What Is IBM Cognos BI?

Cognos is IBM's business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite. The
software is designed to enable business users without technical knowledge to extract corporate
data, analyze it and assemble reports. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI) provides reports,
analysis to help support the way people think and work when they are trying to understand
business performance. You can freely explore information, analyze key facts and quickly
collaborate to align decisions with key stakeholders.

Data Warehouse:
The Data Warehouse is Subject oriented, Integrated, Time variant, Non-volatile.
The collection of data in support of management decision processes
Subject oriented: e.g. customers, patients, students, products
Integrated: Consistent naming conventions, formats, encoding structures; from multiple data
sources
Time-variant: Can study trends and changes
Non-volatile: Read-only, periodically refreshed

Data Warehouse Vs Operational Systems

Data Warehouse (OLAP):
Added regularly, but loaded data are rarely changed directly
Does not mean the data warehouse is never updated or never changes
Generally concerned with historical data
High analytical capability
Historical data only

Operational Systems (OLTP):

Updated constantly
Data changes according by need, not as a fixed schedule
Primarily concerned with current data
Data Warehouse Business Benefits
Understand business trends
Better forecasting decisions
Analyze daily sales information and make quick decisions
Solution for maintaining your company's competitive edge
High degree of scalability
Strategic enterprise level decision support

Cognos 10 BI

Cognos 10 is a Web based product which provides a platform for viewing and creating reports,
analyze data and monitoring events thus enabling the users to take effective business decisions.

Components of Cognos 10 BI

Component Function
Cognos Connection Publishing, managing, and viewing content
Query Studio Ad hoc querying
Report Studio Managed reporting
Event Studio Event management and alerting
Framework Manager Modelling the data
Analysis Studio Analyzing data
Multi-tiered Cognos Architecture

Tier 1: Web communication in Cognos 8 takes place through gateways which reside on one or
more Web servers. Types of gateways supported are CGI, ISAPI, apache_mod, servlet. When a
Cognos 8 gateway receives a request, it encrypts password and extracts information needed to
submit request to a Cognos 8 server. It then adds a default namespace to the request and
passes the request to dispatcher for processing.

Tier 2: Application tier contains one or more Cognos 8 servers. A Cognos 8 server runs requests
forwarded by a dispatcher.

Dispatcher: Starts Cognos 8 services configured and routes requests. It can route requests to a
local service (report service, presentation service, job service and so on). It can also route
requests to a specific dispatcher to run a given request.

Content manager: Content Manager is the Cognos 8 service that manages the storage of
application data, including security, configuration data, models, metrics, report specifications,
and report output. Content Manager stores information in a content store database, which is
typically located in Tier 3 of the architecture.

Tier 3: This contains Content store, data sources and metric store. Content Store is a relational
DB which contains information like as follows:
Report specifications
Published models and packages
Data source connection information
Namespace info
Scheduling and bursting information
Supported types are Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, and Sybase

Benefits of IBM Cognos BI Training

Scenario Oriented Training
Materials and Certification Guidance
Access For Hands-On
Customized Course Agenda for IBM Cognos BI
Course Material Prepared By Experts
Flexible training formats
Teaching style is entirely hands-on

Course Content:
1. Introduction to Data Warehouse
2. Introduction to Cognos
3. Cognos Connection
4. Introduction to Query Studio
5. Introduction to Report Studio
6. Report Studio: Work with Data
7. Report Studio: Prompts & Advanced Report
8. Cognos 10.1 Active Reports
9. Introduction to Framework Manager
10. Advanced Framework Manager
11. Introduction to Event Studio
12. Introduction to Analysis Studio and Cubes
IBM Cognos External Certifications:
1. Cognos 8 BI Author V2 (BI0-112)
2. IBM Cognos 8 BI Professional (COG - 180)
3. IBM Cognos 8 BI Technical Specialist (COG-105)
4. IBM Cognos 8 BI Author (COG-112)
5. IBM Cognos 8 BI Administrator COG-122)
6. Cognos 8 BI Metadata Model Developer (COG-132)
7. IBM Cognos 8 BI Data Warehouse Developer (COG-125)
8. Cognos 8i BI reports

Cognos 10.1/10.2 Training Course Contents

Introduction to Data Warehouse
Introduction to DWH
Characteristics of DWH
Data Warehouse Concepts
Data mart Vs Data Warehouse
Data warehousing architecture
OLAP vs OLTP
Business Intelligence Concepts
ETL Concepts
Reporting Concepts
Industry leading ETL and Reporting tools
Define Fact, dimension and identifier
Star schema and Snowflake schema
Slowly changing dimension

Introduction to Cognos
About Cognos 10.1
3 Tier Cognos 10.1 Architecture
Cognos Connection
Query Studio
Event Studio
Report Studio
Analysis Studio
Framework Manager
Cognos Connection
Log on to Cognos Connection
Models and Packages
Create a URL Create a shortcut
Properties of an Entry
Search for an Entry
Bookmark an Entry
Personalize the portal
Scheduling and manage reports
Create Jobs

Introduction to Query Studio

Introduction
Features in Query Studio
About Ad-hoc Reports
Types of Report (List, Cross Tab, Chart Reports & Others)
Applying Filters, Prompts & Calculations
Sorting, Grouping, Sections & Aggregate Functions
Apply page break on Reports
Run and Manage reports
Define custom group
Conditional formatting
Expand and Collapse groups
Apply Swap and Rows on Reports

Introduction to Report Studio

Basic Report Structure
User Interface
Work with Objects Set options
Create a Report
Page Structure View
Reports Layout
Reuse objects
Set object properties
Work with Data
Filter Data
Sort Data
Create Sections
Format Data
Header & Footer
Add a Summary
Create Calculations

Prompts & Advanced Reports

Include Prompts
Build Prompt Page Tool
Prompts & Prompt Page
Insert prompts into the report
Manage changes in the model
Conditional Formats
Drill-through reports
Master-detail reports

Cognos 10.1 Active Reports

Introduction to Active reports
Key Features
Purpose
Active Report structure
Row Number
Variable Text item
Deck & Data Deck objects
Tab Control& Data Tab Control
Button Bar & Data Button Bar
Toggle Button Bar & Data Toggle Button Bar
Radio Button Group & Data Radio Button Group
Check Box Group & Data Check Box Group

Framework Manager - I
Introduction to Framework Manager
Objects to work with - Projects, Models, Query subjects, etc
Create a project
Work with Metadata
Multilingual Reports
Manage Projects
Work with dimensions
Modify properties of Query Items
Create a filter
Organize the model
Framework Manager -II
Verify models
Create & modify packages
Access to metadata
Publish a package
Authorization
Cognos Namespaces
Application security
Users, Groups & Roles
Access Permissions
Initial Security setup
Content Store security
Deployment Specs & Planning
Deploy Cognos Entries

Introduction to event Studio

Basic event Studio structure
Working with different Tasks
Managing the Task execution rules
Reordering the tasks
Work with New calculation item
Running the event report

Introduction to Analysis Studio/Cubes

Insert Data
Change the number of Visible Items
Analyze data using Analysis Studio
Nest Data
Replace Data
Sort Data
Explore Data
Define a filter

Thank You!