Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Curriculum

You are responsible for the development, maintenance and deployment of Business Intelligence Solutions. You manage budgets, objectives, risks, people and timelines associated with fulfilling a defined scope of requirements. You want to gain the fastest time to success deploying Cognos 8 Business Intelligence.

• Cognos 8 BI Authoring and Modeling FastTrack

Note: This is an accelerated course intended for those responsible for both authoring and modeling. For follow-on training, see Part 2 courses in Modeler and Professional Author training paths.

You use the Cognos Connection Portal to view reports and scorecards to help you manage corporate performance. If you want to learn how to view, run, and schedule reports and scorecards, receive notifications, and import reports into Microsoft Office applications, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI for Consumers CBT
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Scorecarding CBT

You use the Cognos Connection Portal to view reports and scorecards. If you want to learn how to view, run, and schedule a report, receive notifications, and import reports into Microsoft Office applications, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI for Consumers CBT
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.1 Introduction or,
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.2 Introduction
• Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Introduction

You use pre-defined reports to understand the status of your business and build simple queries to focus on variances and exceptions. If you want to learn how to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to retrieve both quantitative and qualitative data using ad hoc reports, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying or,
• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying CBT

• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.1 Introduction or,
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.2 Introduction
• Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Introduction

You use pre-defined reports to understand the status of your business, to build simple queries to focus on variances, to sift through large amounts of data, and to investigate different areas of your business. If you want to learn how to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to retrieve both quantitative and qualitative data using ad hoc reports, to schedule reports, run reports interactively and perform interactive analysis, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying or,
• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying CBT
• Cognos 8 BI - Analysis or,
• Cognos 8 BI - Introduction to Analysis CBT

• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT

You build sophisticated reports for yourself and others. You are responsible for gathering report requirements, creating the reports, and deploying them through the Web. If you want to learn how to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to author and format reports, filter data, create and use prompts, and administer reports in Cognos Connection, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying or,
• Cognos 8 BI - Ad Hoc Querying CBT
• Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring Part 1
• Cognos 8 BI - Report Authoring Part 2
• Cognos 8 BI - Multidimensional Report Authoring
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.1 Introduction or,
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.2 Introduction
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Event Studio CBT
• Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Introduction

You use pre-defined reports to sift through large amounts of data and to investigate different areas of your business. If you want to learn how to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to view scheduled reports, run reports interactively and perform interactive analysis, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Analysis or,
• Cognos 8 BI - Introduction to Analysis CBT
• Cognos 8 BI - PowerPlay Client for Mobile Analysis
• Cognos 8 BI Introduction to Cognos Office Connection CBT
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.1 Introduction or,
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.2 Introduction
• Cognos 8 Go! Mobile Introduction

You are responsible for designing and building models for deployment to other users. If you want to learn how to use Cognos 8 Business Intelligence to model your metadata and publish packages to the Cognos 8 BI environment, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Metadata Modeling Part 1
• Cognos 8 BI - Metadata Modeling Part 2
• PowerPlay OLAP Modeling for Series 7 Version 3 & Cognos 8 BI
• Cognos 8 BI 8.2 Metadata Modeling for SAP BW recording

You manage the technical deployment of your company's applications, review hardware and software requirements, and plan the overall system infrastructure. If you want to learn how to manage the deployment of Cognos 8 Business Intelligence, including installation, configuration, and system optimization, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI Server Administration
• Cognos 8 BI Content Administration
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.1 Administration or,
• Cognos 8 Go! Search 8.2 Administration
• Access Manager Administration

You are responsible for the design, development and administration of scorecards. If you want to learn how to plan, create, set up, and maintain scorecard applications using Cognos 8 BI Metric Studio, the following course is for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - Scorecard Application Development

You are responsible for developing applications for your company. If you want to learn how to customize Cognos 8 Business Intelligence reports, including query model customization, bursting, editing XML report specifications, and developing custom toolbox items and templates, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos 8 BI - SDK for Developers
• Cognos 8 SDK Self Paced Training

You are responsible for designing and maintaining relational data marts for use with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. If you want to learn how to move, merge, consolidate, and transform data from a range of data sources to build and maintain subject-area data marts, the following course is for you.

• Cognos 8 Data Manager