Cognos is a robust business intelligence (BI) and performance management software suite developed by IBM. It is designed to help organizations extract actionable insights from their data, facilitating informed decision-making and strategic planning. Cognos offers a comprehensive set of tools for reporting, analysis, dashboarding, and scorecarding, enabling users to create interactive and visually compelling reports and dashboards. Its capabilities include data integration, data warehousing, and advanced analytics, making it suitable for handling large volumes of data from various sources. With its user-friendly interface and powerful analytics features, Cognos empowers businesses to analyze trends, monitor key performance indicators, and improve overall operational efficiency. The platform's scalability and flexibility ensure it can meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, from small enterprises to large corporations.

Aarush IT provides comprehensive Cognos online training designed to equip professionals with the skills needed to excel in business intelligence and performance management. The training covers all essential aspects of IBM Cognos, including report creation, dashboard development, data modeling, and advanced analytics. Participants learn through a combination of theoretical lessons and practical, hands-on exercises, ensuring they gain a deep understanding of the tool's functionalities. Experienced instructors guide students through real-world scenarios, offering personalized support and insights. The flexible online format allows learners to progress at their own pace, making it accessible to individuals with varying schedules. Aarush IT's Cognos online training ensures that participants are well-prepared to leverage Cognos' powerful capabilities to drive data-driven decision-making and enhance business performance.

Cognos Online Training Course Content

Overview IBM Cognos BI, Cognos BI Architecture & Data ware Housing

• Introduction to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and analytics tool, understanding Cognos 10 and its Architecture
• Core concepts of data warehousing, various types of OLAP
• Cognos Framework Manager
• Architecture Cognos Analytics 11
• How Cognos Analytics 11 enhances the User Interface
• Advance Cognos Analytics 11 UI

New UI features of Cognos Analytics 11

• Understanding the new UI features of Cognos 11
• New navigation features
• New search engine
• The new unified user interface feature
• Three options for creating Cognos content viz. Report authoring, dashboard and data module
• Simplified administration pages& a complete modern look in Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 Query Studio

Cognos Analytics 11 Report Studio

• Introduction to IBM Report Studio, understanding what is Report Authoring
• Creating reports using Report Studio, various types of Reports, grouping, formatting, and sorting list Reports, aggregating data
• New Report Studio interface in Cognos 11
• Reporting functions and active reports
• Dashboard enhancement in Cognos Analytics 11
• Creating dashboard and drill through feature

Reporting using Filters,Formatting,Charts

• Performing filtering, grouping and sorting of Reports
• Filtering to narrow focus of Report
• Cross tab Reports, formatting and sorting Cross tab Reports
• Creating Charts, adding context to Charts

Reports using Prompts and calculations

• Learning about various Prompts on Reports
• Working with Prompts to focus data
• Searching Prompt items, customization
• Page navigation
• Displaying user Prompt selection
• Extending Report capabilities using calculation
• Creation of statistical calculations

Advance Report Building Techniques

• Reusing objects in the same Report
• layout sharing between different Reports
• working with various templates
• handling Reports with no available data
• Learning to customize Reports with showing, hiding and highlighting data
• Rendering conditional objects
• How to use the published Report in Cognos 11
• Drilling through the Report with Cognos Analytics 11
• Specifying run report options and properties of the entry
• Understanding the alerts and watch items

Drilling through Reports

• Understanding the concept of Drill through
• Comparing parameter-driven and dynamic drill through, drilling from one report to another
• enhancing report layout, combining data containers, formatting data and report objects

Advanced Dynamic Reports

• Introduction to advanced Cognos reporting
• Navigating using table of contents
• Creating dynamic titles and headers
• Detailed learning of advanced report authoring
• Editing SQL statements
• Distributing Report content to various users
• Creating Master-Detail Report
• Conditional formatting of Reports using variables, string and Boolean expressions, examining report specification and modifying
• Deploying Java Scripts and HTML items for user interaction

Cognos Analytics 11 Data Modules

• Introduction to Cognos Analytics 11 Data Modules
• creation of Data server connection
• uploading of files datasets
• Intent driven modelling, navigation and calculations, using data modules to modulate data without using Framework Manager
• Understand how Cognos 11 is a huge step in data integration and modulation, data discovery through intent-based modelling
• Connecting to a data server
• How to upload files, navigation and calculation
• Creating data modules with inputs from diverse set of data
• Other data modules, data servers, data sets, uploaded files

Working with Dashboards

• The process of dashboarding in IBM Cognos
• Creating a dashboard by adding report content and tools, exploring the drill through feature
• How to filter data in the dashboard
• What is widget-to-widget communication, sorting, grouping and calculating data