IBM Cognos 8 BI Transformer: Design OLAP Models (V8.4) - Instructor-led Online

Course Description

NOTE: THIS IS AN INSTRUCTOR-LED ONLINE COURSE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

IBM Cognos Education is now pleased to offer you our courses in an exciting new learning format, Instructor-led Online (ILO). You are offered a similar experience to live classroom training, with the convenience of having it delivered directly to their desktop.

IBM Cognos 8 BI Transformer: Design OLAP Models (V8.4) is a four-day, instructor-led course that provides participants with knowledge of OLAP modeling concepts using Transformer. Learn how to design, build, and maintain PowerCubes for use in IBM Cognos 8 BI so that end users can easily analyze data.

Skills Gained

• Overview of IBM Cognos 8 BI
• Discuss the fundamentals of OLAP modeling
• Plan, design, and work with the model plan
• Work with data sources and build a model
• Examine the time dimension and relative time
• Use multiple data sources
• Work with measures and currency conversion
• Create alternate hierarchies within a dimension
• Advanced dimensional modeling
• Customize cube content
• Apply security
• Optimizing PowerCubes
• Partition PowerCubes
• Maintain models and PowerCubes
• Considerations for designing successful PowerCubes
• Drill Through considerations for IBM Cognos 8 BI
• Identify common data structures

Who Can Benefit

This is an expert course for developers who design OLAP models for use in IBM Cognos 8 BI.

Prerequisites

You should have

• Understand the business need for ad hoc queries and analysis
• Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data
• IBM Cognos 8 BI: Report and Analyze Data for Business Authors (V8.4) (recommended)