COGNOS Course Content

Introduction to Data warehousing? Introduction to Business Intelligence? Who needs Data warehousing? Why Data warehousing is required? Data warehousing Architecture Differ OLTP & OLAP? Data Mart -Need ,Advantages ETL - Process What is a Dimension? What are Facts? Star Schema? Snowflake Schema? Dimension Modeling? Slowly changing Dimensions? Conformed Dimension?

About Cognos 10 BI

Architecture Cognos Suit walk through Cognos Features, Need & Importance. Cognos Connection

Walk through elements on the screen Manage Folders(Public & My folders) How to Connect to different Data Source Import and Export of Package(Deployment) Set up Scheduling of Reports Frame Work Manager

Introduction about Frame work Manager Workflow of Frame work Manager Designing a Project Working with Data Sources Designing and preparing Metadata Model Working With Packages Query Studio

Introduction About Ad-hoc Reports Reporting using Query Studio (List, Crosstab, Chart Reports & others) Working with Data ( Applying Filters, Prompts & Calculations, Sorting, Grouping &Sections ) New Features in Cognos 10

Business Insight Business Insight Advanced Active Reports Overview of Cognos 8 Components & comparison with cognos10 Introduction to Report Studio

Type of Report Templates Creating List, Crosstab, Chart & Others Reports Introduction to Filters(creating, editing &removing filters) Parameters & Prompts (Definition, Creating prompt Page& Usage of Multiple prompts in Reports)

Formatting Reports(Fonts, styles, Header &Footers ) Types of Prompts (Select& search ,Tree, generated prompt, Date, Time) Cognos 10 Advanced Reporting Topics

Conditional Blocks - Need ,usage Conditional Formatting Complex Reports (Master Detailed, Drill Through reports) Introduction to Query Explorer (Building reports using queries, joins) How to use HTML & JAVA scripts in Reports-Need ,Importance Import Many more Advanced Reports Other Topics

Import & Export XML Reports Open Reports from XML Creating , Editing Queries Workflow of how report runs in backend. How to create portal Pages Analysis Studio

About Analysis Studio Insert Data Explore Data Types of Reports

Drill up & Drill down for Detail Event Studio

Introduction to Event Studio Discuss Event Studio window Events, Agents, Tasks..