November 2012
Beginner to intermediate
984 pages
25h 8m
English
Overview
Maximize the Value of Business
Intelligence with IBM Cognos v10 -- Hands-on, from Start to
Finish
This easy-to-use, hands-on guide brings together all the
information and insight you need to drive maximum business value
from IBM Cognos v10. Long-time IBM Cognos expert and product
designer Sangeeta Gautam thoroughly illuminates Cognos BI
v10’s key capabilities: analysis, query, reporting, and
dashboards.
Gautam shows how to take full advantage of each key IBM Cognos
feature, including brand-new innovations such as Active Reports and
the new IBM Cognos Workspace report consumption environment. She
concludes by walking you through successfully planning and
implementing an integrated business intelligence solution using
IBM’s best-practice methodologies. The first and only guide
of its kind, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10
offers expert insights for BI designers, architects, developers,
administrators, project managers, nontechnical end-users, and
partners throughout all areas of the business—from sales and
marketing to operations and lines of business. If you’re
pursuing official IBM Cognos certification, you’ll also find
Cognos certification sample questions and information to help you
with the certification process.
Coverage Includes
• Understanding IBM Cognos BI’s components and open,
extensible architecture
• Working with IBM Cognos key “studio” tools:
Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Report Studio, and Event
Studio
• Developing and managing powerful reports that draw on the
rich capabilities of IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace
Advanced
• Designing Star Schema databases and metadata models to
answer the questions your organization cares about most
• Efficiently maintaining and systematically securing IBM
Cognos BI environments and their objects
• Using IBM Cognos Connection as your single point of entry
to all corporate data
• Building interactive, easy-to-manage Active Reports for
casual business users
• Using new IBM Cognos BI v10.1 Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) to
improve performance with complex heterogeneous data
• Identifying, exploring, and exploiting hidden data
relationships
• Creating quick ad hoc queries that deliver fast
answers
• Establishing user and administrator roles
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