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Course Name: IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Overview (V8.4) (P1406) Training
   
Deployment Options: Onsite - Instructor-Led Training
   
Course Duration: 1 day depending on audience background and options
   
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Introduction:
 
IBM Cognos 8 Planning: Overview (v8.4) is a one-day, instructor-led course designed to provide administrators and project stakeholders a comprehensive overview of the IBM Cognos 8 Planning solution. Participants will learn the purpose and benefits of each Planning component and understand what is involved in creating an Analyst model, and creating a Contributor application based on a model. Participants will perform hands-on demos and workshops while learning the essentials of building a Planning solution.
 
Audience:
 
This course is intended for Administrators and Project Stakeholders
 
Prerequisites:
 

You should have

  • IBM Cognos 8 Planning 8.4 – Administrator
 
Customize it:
 
This 1-day IBM Cognos course will be customized to your needs and specifications. Eno.com will assist you in identifying those needs and specifications. A word to the wise, there are many vendors of IBM Cognos training. They will typically have a broad and general course, one size fits all, already developed and just put your organization?s name on the title slide. This minimizes their effort and time investment. At Eno.com, every course is made to your exact and exacting specifications. We help you ensure what you are getting is what you really eed even if at the beginning you weren't too sure of what that was. We fit the class to your needs. We never fit you into our standard, one size fits all, class. Please call or e-mail to schedule a no-obligation conference call to help us understand your audience background and training objectives.
 
Objectives:
 
 
Course Outline
 
Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst

•Examine the components of the IBM Cognos 8 Planning solution
•Discuss libraries, D Lists, D Cubes, and D Links
•Create libraries

Create D Lists and D Cubes

•Manually create D Lists
•Import D List items from external sources
•Modify D Lists
•Build D Cubes

Load Data

•Determine what can be used as source data
•Create file maps to assist in loading data
•Load data from an external source into a D Cube
•Load data from one D Cube to another

Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor Administration

•Review IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management (PM) Solution
•Identify IBM Cognos 8 Planning and its components
•Identify IBM Cognos 8 BI and its components
•Examine the IBM Cognos 8 Planning architecture
•Examine IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor and its components
•Examine the development process for the Contributor solution

Build a Contributor Application

•Examine best practices for building the underlying IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst model
•Configure the Contributor Administration Console
•Create a Contributor application using the Application wizard
•Specify navigation, orientation, and application settings
•Import the e.List and rights
•Run Go to Production and preview a Contributor application

Manage Workflow and Web Application Activities

•Access the application in IBM Cognos Connection
•Examine the user roles and workflow states
•Create annotations
•Attach documents to Contributor application items
•View and delete commentary
•Bounce users from the application
•Work offline
 
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