Cognos Education Roadmap

Your Cognos solution will deliver the performance, information, and business advantage you want on time and on budget. Cognos Training Services ensures a successful and efficient deployment plan. This plan includes the proper training at the right time, working closely with your project managers to tightly integrate this strategy with implementation rollout.

 

There are 3 key phases of the Cognos Approach where training is critical for Success — Define and Plan, Design and Build, and Deploy.

Use the charts below, or download the Roadmap (127 KB, PDF), to help you understand when to train your staff aligned with the key phases of your project implementation.

 

• Phase 1: Define and Plan

• Phase 2: Design and Build

• Phase 3: Deploy

 

Phase 1: Define and Plan

To help prepare for the first stages of your project, your project team will need initial training on core product competencies. This will enable them to better understand the development, implementation and deployment requirements during subsequent stages of the project.

 

PROJECT TEAM - MANAGERS
Activity	Understand project participation and requirements. High-level project plans.
Cognos Offerings	FastTrack Training Cognos Consulting Services (One-on-one knowledge transfer)
Training Goals	See how and where maximum business ROI can be obtained. Ensure overall project plan is realistic, and that the project can be delivered on time and on budget.

 

PROJECT TEAM - ADMINISTRATORS
Activity	Establish core product competency and troubleshooting skills.
Cognos Offerings	Administrator Courses by Product All Courses
Training Goals	Ensure a better understanding of the development, implementation and deployment requirements during subsequent phases of the project. Ensure efficient application performance, integration and minimize risk of the "unknown".

 

Phase 2: Design and Build

In the Design and Build stages your modelers, professional authors, developers, and initial business authors (user champions) will need training to help with planning and delivery, model design, portal design, and usability acceptance.

 

PROJECT TEAM - MANAGERS
Activity	Detail project & training plans.
Cognos Offerings	Engage a training manager to help develop a plan
Training Goals	Ensure design will deliver on strategic business requirements.

 

PROJECT TEAM - TECHNICAL
Activity	Understand best practices in project lifecycle, design and architecture.
Cognos Offerings	Modeler, Author and Developer Courses by Product All Courses
Training Goals	Reduce costly on-the-job learning curve and project delays.

 

PROJECT TEAM - BUSINESS USERS
Activity	Initial business stakeholders. Establish Cognos product or application competency.
Cognos Offerings	Author and Consumer Courses by Product All Courses
Training Goals	Through testing, ensures application delivers required business functionality. Ability to articulate further refinements and needs.

 

Phase 3: Deploy

To help accelerate adoption, it is critical to train your business users prior to deployment.

 

PROJECT TEAM - BUSINESS USERS
Activity	All business users establish core product or application competency.
Cognos Offerings	Author and Consumer Courses by Product All Courses Customization Enterprise Training Solutions
Training Goals	Shorten on-the-job learning cycle. Speed adoption of application. Reduce reliance on help desk. Maximize ROI by getting it out there!

 

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