Training offering

IBM

IBM Cognos Planning: Overview V10.1

Information

Length: 2 Days
Course code: P8106GB
Price £990 before tax

Session dates

Date Location
  • 09/08/2012 Staines
    £990 before tax
This training is also available as onsite training.
Please contact us on
0870 251 1000 or email training@arrowecs.co.uk
for more information.

Description

IBM Cognos Planning: Overview (V10.1) is a two-day, instructor-led course designed to provide administrators and project managers a comprehensive overview of the IBM Cognos Planning solution. Participants will learn the purpose and benefits of each Planning component and understand what is involved in creating a Planning Analyst model, and creating a Planning Contributor application based on a model. Participants will perform hands-on demos and workshops while learning the essentials of building a Planning solution.

Participants

This course is for Administrators and Project Managers.

Prerequisite(s)

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Programme

Introduction to IBM Cognos Planning Analyst
•    Examine the components of the IBM Cognos Planning solution
•    Discuss libraries, D Lists, D Cubes, and D Links
•    Create libraries
Create D Lists and D Cubes
•    Manually create D Lists
•    Import D List items from external sources
•    Modify D Lists
•    Build D Cubes
Load Data
•    Determine what can be used as source data
•    Create file maps to assist in loading data
•    Load data from an external source into a D Cube
•    Load data from one D Cube to another
Introduction to IBM Cognos Planning Contributor Administration
•    Review IBM Cognos Performance Management (PM) Solution
•    Identify IBM Cognos Planning and its components
•    Identify IBM Cognos BI and its components
•    Examine the IBM Cognos Planning architecture
•    Examine IBM Cognos Planning Contributor and its components
•    Examine the development process for the Planning Contributor solution
Build an IBM Cognos Planning Contributor Application
•    Examine best practices for building the underlying IBM Cognos Planning Analyst model
•    Configure IBM Cognos Planning Administrator
•    Create a Planning Contributor application using the Application wizard
•    Specify navigation, orientation, and application settings
•    Import the e.List and rights
•    Run Go to Production and preview a Planning Contributor application
Manage Workflow and Web Application Activities
•    Access the application in IBM Cognos Connection
•    Examine the user roles and workflow states
•    Create annotations
•    Attach documents to Planning Contributor application items
•    View and delete commentary
•    Bounce users from the application
•    Work offline

Options

Roadmaps that reference this course are:

•    IBM Cognos Planning 10.1 – Administrator
•    IBM Cognos Planning 10.1 – Project Manager Role