IBM Cognos 8 Now! Workbench: Designing Applications (V4.6) - ILO
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- Vendor:
- IBM Corporation
- Course:
- O2601
- Start Date:
- Unscheduled
- Length:
- 2 Days
- Location:
- Expired Class Date
- Tuition:
- $1,400
No Dates
Scheduled
Course Description
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 Now! Workbench: Designing Applications (V4.6) is a two-day, instructor-led course that will provide administrators and developers with the practical skills required to create rules, views, and alerts in the Workbench. You will use Workbench objects to create dashboards that present their metrics and monitor business performance against corporate objectives. Lectures and hands-on experience will provide you with the knowledge to enable visibility into metrics within their organization.
Skills Gained
Overview of IBM Cognos Now!
- Discuss challenges facing businesses
- Discuss solutions for line of business managers
- Explore the appliance advantage
- Compare IBM Cognos 8 and IBM Cognos Now!
- Examine the different appliance models
Introduction to IBM Cognos Now! Workbench
- Discuss IBM Cognos Now! architecture
- Identify the components of IBM Cognos Now!
- Discuss differences in modeling for IBM Cognos Now! dashboards vs. IBM Cognos 8 BI
- Explore the Workbench user interface
Create Agents, Data Streams, and Lookup Tables
- Examine agents
- Examine data streams
- Describe data lookup tables
- Discuss data caching
Create Views Into Your Data
- Describe views and view fields
- Define views clauses
- Discuss aggregation within views
- Filter, order, and maintain view results
- Distinguish between stateless and stateful views
- Discuss rolling windows
Analyze Your Data with Cubes
- Describe cubes
- Define dimensions
- Distinguish between cubes and views
- Create cubes with dimensions and measures
Monitor Business Performance by Exception
- Describe business activities and scenarios
- Describe rules and alerts
- Examine rule actions
- Discuss rule templates
- Describe reportlets
Create a Dashboard to Present Business Information
- Describe dashboards and dashboard objects
- Understand the relationship between the Workbench and a dashboard
- Explore navigation in the Dashboard
Secure the Workbench and Dashboard with Permissions
- Describe IBM Cognos Now! security
- Discuss user management
- Assign permissions
- Import and export metadata
IBM Cognos 8 Integration
- Discuss the benefits of integration between IBM Cognos 8 and IBM Cognos Now!
- Describe portal integration
- Drill-through to reports using parameters
- Embed an IBM Cognos 8 report in a dashboard
Configure the Appliance for Performance
- Perform initial tasks
- Manage data sources
- Backup and restore the appliance data
- Locate and read appliance logs
- Perform system updates
- Perform appliance maintenance
Who Can Benefit
This advanced course is intended for administrators and developers.
Prerequisites
You should have:
- Knowledge of SQL
- Knowledge of database structures
- Basic knowledge of networking
