IBM Cognos BI Exercise

Johan Wikström BI Consultant, IBM

Joonas Soukki BI Consultant, IBM
21.09.2015
Cognos BI Exercise - Agenda
• 09:15 Introduction to BI Exercise & Cognos BI (1/2)
• 09:30 Working with Workspace – Exercise
• 09:50 Introduction to Cognos BI (2/2)
• 10:00 Working with Workspace Advanced – Exercise…
• 10:45 Break
• 11:00 …Working with Workspace Advanced – Exercise

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Introduction to Cognos BI (1/2)
What is Cognos BI?

• IBM Cognos BI is a tool that helps decision-makers to

plan, understand and optimize business performance
• How are we doing?
• Why are we doing well or not doing well?
• What should we be doing?

• It is a software that combines various essential BI

capabilities together
• Key components from the report & dashboard
development viewpoint
• Cognos Workspace
• Cognos Workspace Advanced
• Query Studio
• Analysis Studio
• Report Studio
• Event Studio

• Intuitive web-based UI for report administrators,

developers, professional authors, dashboard users…

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Introduction to Cognos BI (1/2)
What is Cognos BI?

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• 1. Public Folders and My Folders

• All content can be stored publicly or privately

• 2. Folder Structure
• All created content (e.g packages, reports, dashboards, views…) are stored in predefined folders

• 3. Launch Menu
• A list of capabilities that users can select based on their needs

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Introduction to Cognos BI (1/2)
What is Cognos BI?

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Working with Workspace
99. Aalto BI – Exercise Workbook.pdf

• 1.1. GETTING STARTED (p. 6)

• 1.2. INTERACTING WITH CONTENT (p. 7)
• 1.3. ANALYZING INFORMATION WITH WORKSPACE ADVANCED (p. 9)
• 1.4. AUGMENTING WORKSPACE WITH ADDITIONAL CONTENT (p. 10)
• 1.5. SUMMARY (p. 15)

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Introduction to Cognos BI (2/2)
Cognos Solution Architect in a Nutshell

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Introduction to Cognos BI (2/2)
Cognos Solution Architect in a Nutshell

Cognos Workspace

IBM Dynamic Cubes

Cognos Workspace
Datamart1 Advanced
T1
T3
Query Studio
IBM Framework
Database Manager
Analysis Studio
T1 T3
T2 T4

Report Studio
Datamart2

T2
IBM Transformer
T3
Event Studio

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Working with Workspace advance (p.16-46)
99. Aalto BI – Exercise Workbook.pdf

• 2.1. GETTING STARTED (p.17)

• 2.2. CREATE A SIMPLE AD HOC QUERY (p.19)
• 2.3. PERFORM ANALYSIS THROUGH FILTERS, CALCULATIONS AND CONDITIONAL FORMATTING (p. 21)
• 2.4. ADD A CHART AND LAYOUT THE REPORT (p. 24)
• 2.5. ADDITIONAL CHART FORMATTING (p. 26)
• 2.6. EDITING REPORT ITEMS DIRECTLY FROM WORKSPACE (p. 35)
BREAK 15-20min
• 2.7. PERFORM ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS (p. 36)
• 2.8. CREATE A FINANCIAL STYLE REPORT (p. 40)
• 2.9. SUMMARY (p. 46)

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Q&A

Johan Wikström BI Consultant, IBM (johan.wikstrom@fi.ibm.com)

Joonas Soukki BI Consultant, IBM (joonas.soukki@fi.ibm.com)
21.09.2015