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This course provides authors with an introduction to build reports using Cognos Analytics Techniques to enhance customize and manage reports will be explored Activities will illustrate and reinforce key concepts during this learning opportunity Authors 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 Knowledge of your business requirements Experience using IBM Cognos Analytics as a consumer IBM Analytics Cognos Analytics 11 x

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• Course Outline

• What is IBM Cognos Analytics - Reporting-
  - The Welcome page
  - Consume report content
  - Interactive filtering
  - Working with reports
  
  Dimensionally modeled relational data
  
  Use personal data sources and data modules
  - Upload personal data
  - Upload custom images
  - Using navigation paths in a data module
  
  Examine list reports
  - Group data
  - Format columns
  - Include headers and footers
  
  Aggregate fact data
  - Identify differences in aggregation
  
  Multiple facts and repeated information
  - Use shared dimensions to create multi-fact queries
  - Present repeated information
  
  Add repeated information to reports
  - Create a mailing list report
  
  Create crosstab reports
  - Add measures to a crosstab
  - Data sources for a crosstab
  
  Create complex crosstab reports
  - Add items as peers
  - Create crosstab nodes and crosstab members
  
  Work with crosstab data
  - Format, sort, and aggregate a crosstab
  
  Create discontinuous crosstab reports
  
  Create visualization reports
  - Visualization categories
  - Customize visualizations
  - Client side visualizations
  - Enhanced map visualizations
  
  Focus reports using filters
  - Create filters to narrow the focus
  - Use advanced detail filters
  - Apply a filter with aggregation
  - Use summary filters
  
  Focus reports using prompts
  - Examine parameters and prompts
  - Create a parameter for a report item
  - Add a prompt page
  - Add a prompt item to a report
  - Identify a prompt type
  - Create a cascading prompt
  
  Use calculations
  - What are calculations-
  - Add Date and Time functions
  - Add string functions
  - Display prompt selections in report titles
  
  Customize reports with conditional formatting
  - Three steps for conditional formatting
  - Create a variable
  - Assign the variable to a report object
  - Format based on the conditional value
  - Conditionally render report objects
  
  Drill-through definitions
  - Navigate to related data
  
  Enhance report layout
  - View the structure of a report
  - Use Guided report layout
  - Force page breaks
  - Create horizontal pagination
  - Modify the report structure
  - Format objects across reports
  
  Use additional report-building techniques
  - Enhance a report design
  - Add objects to reports
  - Convert a list to a crosstab
  - Explore reuse

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