IBM Cognos Planning: Overview (V10.1) - ILO

Course Description

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

IBM Cognos Planning: Overview (V10.1) is a two-day, instructor-led course designed to provide administrators and project managers a comprehensive overview of the IBM Cognos Planning solution. Participants will learn the purpose and benefits of each Planning component and understand what is involved in creating a Planning Analyst model, and creating a Planning Contributor application based on a model. Participants will perform hands-on demos and workshops while learning the essentials of building a Planning solution.

Skills Gained

Introduction to IBM Cognos Planning Analyst

• Examine the components of the IBM Cognos Planning solution
• Discuss libraries, D Lists, D Cubes, and D Links
• Create libraries

Create D Lists and D Cubes

• Manually create D Lists
• Import D List items from external sources
• Modify D Lists
• Build D Cubes

Load Data

• Determine what can be used as source data
• Create file maps to assist in loading data
• Load data from an external source into a D Cube
• Load data from one D Cube to another

Introduction to IBM Cognos Planning Contributor Administration

• Review IBM Cognos Performance Management (PM) Solution
• Identify IBM Cognos Planning and its components
• Identify IBM Cognos BI and its components
• Examine the IBM Cognos Planning architecture
• Examine IBM Cognos Planning Contributor and its components
• Examine the development process for the Planning Contributor solution

Build an IBM Cognos Planning Contributor Application

• Examine best practices for building the underlying IBM Cognos Planning Analyst model
• Configure IBM Cognos Planning Administrator
• Create a Planning Contributor application using the Application wizard
• Specify navigation, orientation, and application settings
• Import the e.List and rights
• Run Go to Production and preview a Planning Contributor application

Manage Workflow and Web Application Activities

• Access the application in IBM Cognos Connection
• Examine the user roles and workflow states
• Create annotations
• Attach documents to Planning Contributor application items
• View and delete commentary
• Bounce users from the application
• Work offline

Who Can Benefit

This intermediate course is intended for Administrators and Project Managers.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.