IBM Cognos Express: What's New (V9.5) - eLearning

Overview of new features

• Overview of New Features and Functions
• Review of benefits IBM Cognos Express
• Changes to architecture
• High level list of changes per product module

IBM Cognos Express Advisor

• Explore the new functionality of extended traffic lights with shapes/symbols
• Examine the new chart type of dial
• Understand how the new functionality supports dashboards in Advisor.
• TM1/ICAS 9.5 data entry conformance
• Demonstration of new features to create a dashboard

IBM Cognos Express Data Advisor

• New modeling of relational or multidimensional data
• New option to process multidimensional model on the client or on the server
• Changes to the Analyze function.
• Ability to limit the date range during the process of creating the time dimension
• Demonstration to create a relational model and to use it in reporter.
• Demonstration to examine the changes to the analyze function.

IBM Cognos Xcelerator

• What constitutes IBM Cognos Xcelerator in V 9.5
• Changes to web cube viewer
• Improved performance of larger websheets
• New features for data entry.
• Demonstration on simple picklists
• Demonstration to examine sandboxes

IBM Cognos Express Planner

• Context and scope of the IBM Cognos Express Planner
• Explore both administrator and end user interfaces
• Create and deploy a Planner Application
• Secure and activate a Planner Application
• Demonstration to design a Planner application
• Demonstration to apply security to a Planner application
• Demonstration to explore the end user interface for Planner.

IBM Cognos Express Manager

• Understand Backup and Restore
• Know the central location for software download
• Know the new roles and data sources available
• Demonstration to examine interface changes and new data source
• Demonstration to examine backup and restore.