Audience
This course is for Report Authors.
Prerequisites
You should have knowledge of your business requirements.
Duration
3 days. Hands on.
Course Objectives
This offering provides Business and Professional Authors with an introduction to report building techniques using relational data models. Techniques to enhance, customize, and manage professional reports will be explored. Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity.
Course Content
What is IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
Examine dimensionally modelled and dimensional data sources
Examine personal data sources and data modules
Examine List reports
Aggregate measure/fact data
Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
Add repeated information to reports
Create crosstab reports
Create complex crosstab reports
Format, sort, and aggregate data in a crosstab report
Create discontinuous crosstab reports
Create Visualization reports
Add business logic to reports using IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
Focus reports using filters
Focus reports using prompts
Augment reports using calculations
Extend report functionality in IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting
Customize reports with conditional formatting
Conditionally format one crosstab measure based on another
Drill-through definitions
Enhance the report layout
Use additional report building techniques