Cognos Planning 7.3 / 8.1 Curriculum

You understand the business needs of your organization and are responsible for identifying business questions, validating requirements and design, and representing the business in the user community. If you want to know how to represent your business needs in the design of a new Planning model or Consolidation system, the following offerings are for you.

• Cognos Planning Analyst Model Building
• Cognos Planning Contributor Application Administration or,
• Cognos Planning FastTrack

As a Planner, you contribute to plans, budgets, or forecasts and produce reports. You may also input data. As a Reviewer, you are responsible for approving submissions from Planners. If you want to learn how to use Cognos Planning to plan or review budget and forecasts, the following offerings are for you.

• Cognos Planning Contributor - QuickStart for Business Users CBT

You manipulate business data to discover and understand trends and exceptions, and perform predictive modeling. You may also customize pre-defined reports for use by others. If you want to learn how to use Cognos Planning and Cognos Consolidation to analyze your data, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos Planning Analyst Model Building

You are responsible for designing and building models for deployment to other users. If you want to learn how to use Cognos Planning to design and build effective planning models and maintenance procedures, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos Planning Analyst Model Building
• Cognos Planning Contributor Application Administration or,
• Cognos Planning FastTrack

Building on your business or financial background, you set up and maintain your company's applications. You define and modify the business rules, hierarchical definitions, and table relationships. You also define and maintain source data mapping, execute loads from transactional systems, and maintain security definitions. If you want to learn how to set up, secure, and maintain the Cognos Enterprise Series applications, the following courses are for you.

• Cognos Planning Analyst Model Building
• Cognos Planning Contributor Application Administration
• Cognos Planning FastTrack

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 the Cognos Enterprise Planning Series applications, including installation, configuration, and system optimization, the following course and documentation guides are for you.

• Cognos Planning - Overview for Technical Administrators (Australia)
• Cognos Planning - Technical Administration