IBM Cognos: overview, tools
Data analysis and reporting
Overview of data structures
Star schema, data, dimension / fact tables
Framework Manager: functionalities, components / objects
Data source, types of queries

Workshop: Setting up the environment – Discovery of the interface

Architecture and structure of a Framework Manager project
Manipulating objects
Importing data
Queries: strategy, query subjects, joins, …
Creation of business views
Filters and directories
Determinants and dimensions

Workshop: Multiple business models

Packages: definition, parameters
Implementation of a package
Consequences
Publishing a package
Validations and version management

Workshop: Package creation and publication

Security under Cognos
Access management
Script replay
Model Design Accelerator
Map management (Map Manager)

Workshop: Authorization management – Regeneration with Script Relay – Using the Map Manager