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1. 9 IBM Cognos
Advanced Reporting Techniques and Cognos
10 New Features
Albert Valdez, III
Director of Education Services, Senturus, Inc.
Helping Companies Learn From the Past,
Manage the Present and Shape the Future

2. This slide deck is part of a recorded webinar.
To view the FREE recording of this entire
presentation and download the slide deck, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this—and many other recorded webinars-- under the “IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence ”

3. Today’s Agenda
• Welcome and Introduction
• Advanced Authoring Techniques Demonstrations
1. Create a conditional drill-through report
2. Advanced Prompting with Dimensional data
3. Set up drill-through to Query Studio
4. Freeze column headers in a List Report
5. Create an Active Report
• Upcoming day-long hands-on training sessions
• Overview of Cognos Training Options
• Review and Wrap-up

4. Today’s Format
• Demonstration will begin shortly
• Please submit questions via the GoToWebinar
Question pane in the GoToWebinar control panel
• We will address questions LIVE at the conclusion of
the presentation, so if you do not get an immediate
response, please HOLD ON!
• We will try to answer EVERY question via email if we
do not get a chance to respond while you are
attending the Webinar

5. Welcome and Introduction
• Who am I?
– Albert Valdez, Director of Education Services at Senturus
– 11 years as a Technical Trainer, focused on Business Intelligence
and Performance Management
– 5 years as a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos, Inc.
– Lifetime CTT+ Certification from CompTIA
– IBM Cognos Certified
– Last 6+ Years as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect,
Education Director
• Who is Senturus?
– IBM Premier Business Partner, Cognos Platinum Partner 2002-
2008
– Full Service Solutions provider
– Data Warehouse
– Program Management
– Performance Management
– Platform-Independent

6. Demonstration Materials
• Standard Cognos 10 Samples
• GO Sales (query) relational package
• Sales and Marketing PowerCube
• Follow instructions in the Cognos 10 Business Intelligence
Installation and Configuration Guide, Chapter 9: Samples
• All Demos in the Webinar are based on this database, which
is part of every standard Cognos 10 B.I. installation
• This deck will available for download on our website following
the Webinar
• ALL Techniques demonstrated today are relevant to Cognos
10

7. New Features in Cognos 10 Report Studio
• If you are interested in an overview of ALL the Cognos 10
New Features:
– Check out our Recorded Webinar: “Cognos 10 Under the Hood”!
• What’s new for Professional Report Authors?
– Active Reports
– External Data Access
– NEW Charting Engine
– Improved overall user interface
– Enhanced Filtering, Sorting, and Calculation tools
– New Chart and Palette tools

8. IBM Cognos Advanced Authoring
Techniques Demonstration
Demo 1 (Create a Conditional Drill-through)
Purpose: We want to provide a summary report of our Retailers’ performance.
We want our users to have access to further details, but only if a Retailer meets
certain performance criteria. We can use a Conditional Block to only show the
drillable text when the Retailer has achieved at least $10 Million in total
Revenue.
To view a free recoding of this demo, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this recording under the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
section. It is entitled Cognos Advanced Report Authoring & New Features
in Report Studio v.10.

9. IBM Cognos Advanced Authoring
Techniques Demonstration
Demo 2 (Freeze Column Headers)
Purpose: We want all of our data to be on a single page. We want to freeze the
list column titles.
To view a free recoding of this demo, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this recording under the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
section. It is entitled Cognos Advanced Report Authoring & New Features
in Report Studio v.10.

10. IBM Cognos Advanced Authoring
Techniques Demonstration
Demo 3 (Prompt for a Date Range in a Dimensional Report
and Drill-through to Details in an Ad-Hoc Studio)
Purpose: Create a report the prompts for a Month and then displays results
from that month forward. Using proper Dimensional authoring techniques, we
will develop our results in stages. We also want to drill-through from the Cube
to details located in Query Studio.
To view a free recoding of this demo, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this recording under the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
section. It is entitled Cognos Advanced Report Authoring & New Features
in Report Studio v.10.

11. IBM Cognos Advanced Authoring
Techniques Demonstration
Demo 4 (Create an Active Report with Data-driven
controls)
Purpose: We have information consumers that are looking for an interactive
report that they can take on the road with them. They should be able to focus
on certain Product Lines and Sales Regions.
To view a free recoding of this demo, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this recording under the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
section. It is entitled Cognos Advanced Report Authoring & New Features
in Report Studio v.10.

12. This slide deck is part of a recorded webinar.
To view the FREE recording of this entire
presentation and download the slide deck, go to
www.senturus.com/recorded-webinars.php
You will find this—and many other recorded webinars-- under the “IBM Cognos
Business Intelligence ”

13. Cognos Training Options
• IBM Public Classroom Training
• Training from a Certified Partner, On-site or Public
• Custom On-site Training
• Small group Mentoring/Knowledge Transfer
• Remote/On-line Training
• Computer Based Training

14. About Senturus Training
• What does Senturus Training offer?
• Why not just go to the IBM/Cognos public classes?
– On-site is more cost-effective when there are more than 3
people to train
– Courses are delivered at your location, on your schedule
– Attendance is limited to your group, minimizing distractions,
and allowing our instructors to focus on your group’s
pertinent concerns
– Course content and format can be structured specifically to
your audience
• As an IBM Partner, we can offer discounts on IBM
Public training starting at 10%
• We are your Training Partner!

15. What does Senturus Training offer:
• Standard On-site Classroom delivery
– Based on Great Outdoors sample data
– Can be delivered anywhere, anytime
– Compressed format (fewer days)
– $3,495 per day list price (up to 12 students)
• Customized On-site Classroom delivery
– Based on client’s data
– Requires longer lead times so we can prepare materials
– Higher impact
– $3,495 per day of delivery and course prep
• Small Group Mentoring
– We work on your data, in your environment
– Our experts facilitate the learning process while resolving actual
issues or working toward a concrete deliverable
– Small group size allows for personalized knowledge transfer at the
appropriate pace
– Rates start at $2000/day

16. Contact Senturus
Senturus, Inc
www.senturus.com
sales@senturus.com
888-601-6010