IBM Cognos BI Reporting Fundamentals

Will guide the participants on different tools for generating reports by applying filters. How to present data graphically and present data using maps is also explained.

This course is intended for architects who have experience building infrastructure and applications on the Microsoft Azure platform. Students should have a thorough understanding of most services offered on the Azure platform. The students typically work for organizations that have an active solution on Azure and are planning to enhance existing solutions or deploy more solutions to the Azure platform. This course also is intended for architects who want to take the Microsoft Certification exam, 70-535, Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions.

PREREQUESITES

• The professional report authors with the skills outlined below can be ideal participants for this course:
• Knowledge of their business requirements
• Knowledge of SQL and XML
• Completed IBM Cognos BI for Consumers (10.2) course

Training Outcome

By the end of the training, the participants can inculcate the following skills

• Familiar with IBM Cognos BI components, architecture, groups, and roles
• Understand Report Studio, its interface, and different ways of creating reports
• Create reports using filters, applying different functions for sorting, grouping, and managing repeated data
• Create charts for representing data graphically
• Work with various prompt types to focus data and navigate between pages
• Use additional report building techniques for using the objects within the same report and sharing components among different reports
• Customize reports and enhance report layout for different queries and different print options
• Work on Drill-through process