Course description: IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio: Intermediate (V8.4) - eLearning

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

Due to the nature of the enrollment mechanism, you see this course marked as a classroom course. However, this course is delivered as an online self-paced course, and will be available to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for a 1-year period from the time of enrollment. There is no instructor for this course. Choose any of the course instances listed under the course schedule to enroll, and you will receive information on how to access the course in 2-3 business days. After the enrollment, you will have access to the course for 1 year. (Please note: once you enroll in this course, you will not be able to unenroll.) Please do not make any travel plans for this class.

This eLearning offering is a Web-based Training (WBT). IBM Cognos WBTs are interactive multimedia modules that are intuitive and instructionally sound. Through visual content and audio, product demonstrations, hands-on learning activities, and simulation-based assessments and quizzes, the modules guide the students to mastering an IBM Cognos application.

The IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio: Intermediate (v8.4) CBT teaches the next level of report building techniques and ways of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports in Report Studio. Through interactive learning activities you will learn additional techniques to build and manage professional reports in Report Studio.

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This basic course is intended for Business authors.

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• Knowledge of your business requirements
• Experience using basic Windows functionality
• Experience using a Web browser
• IBM Cognos 8 BI Report Studio: Introduction (V8.4)

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Please refer to Course Overview for description information.

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Extend Reports Using Prompts and Calculations

• Create a prompt page
• Add calculated columns

Enhance Chart Reports

• Display items on separate axes
• Represent data graphically and numerically
• Create and customize a bubble chart

Create Query Models

• Create and connect queries
• Add calculated data items to queries
• Answer business questions using queries
• Display singletons
• Associate multiple singletons to a query
• Summarizing data with singletons

Add Advanced Report Formatting

• Break a report into sections
• Convert a list to a crosstab
• Reuse objects in reports
• Create a cover page
• Customize reports with conditional formatting
• Enhance report layout
• Force page breaks

Configure Drill-Through Capability

• Drill through from one report to another

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System Requirements:

• Pentium III
• 128 MB RAM
• Free Space - 400-450 MB approximately
• 1024 X 768 screen resolution
• Windows 2000, XP, Vista installed on your computer
• Sound card
• Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, or Firefox 1.5, 2.0
• SCORM 1.2 compatible
• Macromedia Flash Player 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 or 9.0
• Flash Global Security Setting must be set to allow Flash content to use older security rules
• Minimum color depth/quality (monitor settings) of Medium (16-bit)

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