Training offering

IBM Cognos TM1: Interact with Data (V9.5)

Description

IBM Cognos TM1: Interact with Data (V9.5) is a one-day, instructor-led course designed to show Contributors how to navigate and interact with TM1, and how to use the front end tools and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with Multidimensional cubes. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, learn how to connect and access TM1, build views, browse data and navigate through the user interface.

Participants

This basic course is intended for Contributors.

Prerequisite(s)

You should have:
•    Experience using the Windows operating system and a Web browser
•    Experience using Microsoft Excel
•    Knowledge of your business requirements

Programme

1: Getting Started Using TM1
•    Review financial performance management
•    Understand how TM1 enables financial performance management
•    Identify the TM1 user community
•    Describe the components and objects of TM1
2: Explore and Customize Multidimensional Data
•    Examine the structure of a cube
•    Examine Cube Viewer to understand how to browse data in a cube
•    Create subsets to focus data in a cube
3: Refine Your Analysis Using Spreadsheets and Active Forms
•    Analyze cube data with Excel using snapshot and slice methods
•    Examine the process from the cube viewer, to Excel, and then to the web
•    Contribute data to a cube using spread methods
•    Filter data in a cube
•    Create dynamic reports using Active Forms
4: Format and Print Results
•    Use TM1 application to organize reports
•    Publish Excel reports to the Web
•    Access Websheets

Options

Roadmaps that reference this course are:

•    IBM Cognos TM1 9.5 – Contributor Role
•    IBM Cognos TM1 9.5 – Modeler Role