IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint: Manage Dimensions (V8.4) SPVC

Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 Business Viewpoint

• Identify some of the problems associated with managing dimensions
• Examine how Business Viewpoint addresses these problems (three pillars)
• Compare Business Viewpoint to MDM
• Examine various business scenarios
• Examine best practices to get started
• Explore objects in different views

Model Dimensional Objects

• Identify Business Viewpoint components
• Explore Business Viewpoint architecture
• Identify a Cognos 8 system
• Create a dimension
• Import lists
• Import static and dynamic hierarchies
• Create versions of dimensions

Enhance Dimensions

• Modify members in a dimension using views, filter and search
• Modify static and dynamic hierarchies
• Add attributes
• Work with sets

Administration and Security

• Change admin user password
• Add users and roles
• Set permissions on objects

Manage the Dimension Change Process

• Explain the four steps in the workflow process
• Use workflow to check the progress of tasks
• Review data and reconcile data using merge

Use Business Viewpoint Client to Synchronize Data

• Explain the purpose of Business Viewpoint Client adapters
• Nominate data
• Subscribe to data
• Compare import with nominate and subscribe
• Integrate with IBM Cognos modeling tools

Integrate with Cognos 8 BI Components

• Integrate with IBM Cognos 8 reporting tools
• Publish a dimension to a Cognos 8 package, to a Framework Manager model, and to a .csv file