1. Cognos 10 BI Curriculum
Administration and Development
Course Objectives Duration: 30 Hours
Course Topics
1) Business Intelligence 1 Sessions
Overview of Business Intelligence
What is Business Intelligence?
Why is BI Important and where can we use it
Components of BI
Business Intelligence Roadmap
Introduction To BI Tools
2) Data Warehousing 1 Sessions
Overview of Data Warehousing
What is Data Warehouse, Why do we need it
Data Warehouse Architecture and its components
Define Star Schema - Fact and Dimensions
Understand OLTP and OLAP Systems
DSS (Decision Support System)
RDBMS Concepts (3 Normal Forms and BCNF)
Data Warehouse VS Data Mart
3) SQL 1 Sessions
Writing Basic SQL Statements
joins, group functions, sub queries
4) Cognos 10 BI Overview and Architecture 1 Sessions
Introduce Cognos 10 BI
What’s new Cognos 10 BI
Examine the different studios in Cognos 10 BI
Identify the different data sources within the studios
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2. Highlight key cap abilities of Cognos 10BI
Understand Cognos Multi Layered architecture
5) Cognos 10 Installations and Configuration 1 Sessions
Setting up the Environment
Configuring Cognos 10
Setting up Samples in Cognos 10
Uninstalling Cognos 10
6) Cognos 8 BI Administration 1 Sessions
Create and Modify a Data Source
Create Database backups
Understand Roles, Users and Groups
Specify Permission Settings
7) Cognos 10 Connection Administration [Part-I] 1 Sessions
What is Cognos Connection
Examine Cognos Connection UI elements , Create a URL, Login, Logoff
Entry Properties: General Properties, Permissions, Report, Query, Analysis, Job, Agent
and Page Properties
Navigation- Public and Private Folder
Open reports with Report Name, Go to Links, Run Reports from a View
Run Reports- Prompt Pages, Printing a report and Open in Excel
View the run history of a report and Historical Reports
8) Cognos 10 Connection Administration [Part-II] 1 Sessions
Closing and Creating Quick links to Reports , My Folder Shortcut and Browser
Bookmark
Personalize Cognos Connection
Backups- Export of Cognos, Content Store or select items for Backups
Restore an exported Backup
Create and Customize a Page and share a single page with Multiple Users
9) Cognos 10 Framework Manager [Part-I] 1 Sessions
Introduction to Framework Manager
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3. Framework Manager Basics
User Interface, Navigation, Objects
Planning the project and data model. Framework Manager Workflow
Naming Conventions for objects in a project
Designing Project
Create project
10) Cognos 10 Framework Manager [Part-II] 1 Sessions
Importing Metadata from one and more sources Exporting Metadata Data Sources
Working with Data Source Connections
Create and Modify Data Sources
Improve Performance by setting Query Processing Type
Preparing Relational Meta data for use in Reports
Verifying Relationships
11) Cognos 10 Framework Manager [Part-III] 1 Sessions
Working with Dimensions
Working with Query Subjects- Data, Model and Stored Procedure Query Subject
Working with Query Items- Set Usage and Aggregate Property
Making Metadata Available to Report Authors
Verify Model
Set Governors
Improving Performance
12) Cognos 10 Framework Manager [Part-IV] 1 Sessions
Create or Modify Package
Controlling access to Metadata
Explore Package
Publish Package
Guideline for Modeling Metadata
Best Practices, Presentation and Database layers
Merge Metadata
Perform Calculations and Filters
13) Cognos 10 Report Studio [Part-I] 1 Sessions
Introduction to Report Studio
Report Studio User Interface
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4. Creating, Save and Run Reports
Report Templates
Managing Reports
14) Cognos 10 Report Studio [Part-II] 1 Sessions
Types of Reports
Active Reports
List Reports
Crosstab Reports
Charts
15) Cognos 10 Report Studio [Part-III] 1 Sessions
Formatting a Report
Report Layout Guidelines
Fonts, Styles, Header, Footer and Borders
Insert objects
Swap Columns and Rows
Working with Data
16) Cognos 10 Report Studio [Part-IV] 1 Sessions
Filters, Parameters and Prompts
Sorting and Grouping
Subtotals and Calculations
Working with Queries
Working with Reports
Managing changes in the Package
17) Cognos 10 Report Studio [Part-V] 1 Sessions
Conditional Formatting
Drill-through Reports
Drill-up/Drill-down Reports
Master-Detail Reports
Scheduling Reports
18) Creating Financial Reports using Report Studio [Case study –I] 1 Sessions
19) Creating Sales Reports using Report Studio [Case study –II] 1 Sessions
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5. 20) Creating Dashboard Reports using Report Studio [Case study –III] 1 Sessions
21) Cognos 10 Query Studio 1 Sessions
Introduction to Query Studio
Create Reports (List, Grouped List, Crosstab, Charts)
Changing the Appearance of Reports (Format)
Sorting and Grouping
Filters and Prompts
Subtotals and Calculations
Run and Manage Reports
Drill Through reports
22) Cognos 10 Analysis Studio 1 Sessions
Introduction to Analysis Studio
Creating a Basic Analysis
Working with data in Crosstab Exploring Data
Limiting Data
Calculating Data
Sharing Data
23) Cognos 10 Business Insight 1 Sessions
Create Dashboards
Add reports to dashboards
Customize the dashboard appearance
Sort and group reports in the dashboard
Filter reports in the dashboard
24) Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced 1 Sessions
Write reports using Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced
Specify the sequence of a report using sorting and grouping
Transform data from one format to another using function
Display information in a concise format using cross tab reports
Select data to be printed using filters
Create and customize several types of charts
Customize the format of a report
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