IBM Cognos Express Advisor: Navigating Data Fundamentals (V9.0) - eLearning

Introduction to IBM Cognos Express Advisor

• Explore IBM Cognos Express Advisor

Analyze Data with Views and Charts and Enhance Analysis using Calculations

• Create a chart from a view to analyze your data in a visual format
• Create a table and chart in the same view
• Create a chart with secondary chart scaling
• Print Views
• Create calculations to gain additional perspectives on your data
• Create calculations or perform special operations using functions to enable in depth analysis of your data
• Create dynamic views that recalculate data when members change

Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Assess performance by applying Traffic Lights
• Create views that perform specific tasks
• Create notes to provide additional information to views

Format and Print Data

• Describe how to format data in IBM Cognos Express Advisor
• High light negative values using formatting
• Use formatting to make a view easier to read
• Use additional formatting options
• Print data from Express Advisor

Explore Data in Excel

• Describe how you can use IBM Cognos Express Advisor with Excel
• Export data to Excel
• Work with exported data in Excel

Data Advisor

• Describe how you can use Data Advisor to import and model data
• Select data in Data Advisor
• Define relationships in Data Advisor
• Create dimensions in Data Advisor
• Generate a cube and package from an analysis definition.