BrightStar Partners offers comprehensive Cognos training services to ensure your organization has the knowledge to effectively deploy and use the Cognos BI suite of technology. This training can be conducted onsite at your location for class sizes up to 12 students and includes all applicable training materials and workshops. In addition, you can choose to customize the course to your data, providing even greater value to your audience.
Below is an outline of the current training courses we offer. If you are in need of specialized courses or any specific customizations, please let us know and we can make arrangements.
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| Class Name | Overview |
Class Length |
Cognos 8 & 10 Framework Manager |
This course covers the basic and intermediate functions and best practices for building and deploying Cognos Framework Manager models and packages. Topics include such as creating a project, importing and creating metadata layers, creating calculations and filters, and publishing packages. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 2 Days |
Cognos 8 & 10 Administration |
This course covers what Cognos Administrators need to know to tune and maintain Cognos 8 environments. Topics include: architecture, monitoring system load and activity, analyzing log files, performance tuning, security, servers and networks, advanced routing options, etc. | 2 Days |
Intro to Cognos 10 and What’s New in Cognos 10 |
This course introduces new features and products in IBM Cognos 10. These techniques span multiple products including Report Studio, Business Insight and Business Insight Advanced. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 1 Day |
Cognos 10 Business Insight |
This course introduces IBM Cognos 10’s dashboarding product, Business Insight. Business Users will learn to design and manipulate dashboards with existing report content. Topics include basic navigation, creating dashboards, adding widgets, filtering in dashboards, formatting and organizing dashboard content, drill behavior and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 1 Day |
Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced |
This course introduces basic and intermediate reporting techniques with IBM Cognos’® Business Insight Advanced. Basic topics include IBM Cognos Connection, designing simple lists, charts, grouping, filters, prompts, calculations, and more. Intermediate topics include dimensional report design, dashboard style reports, formatting, conditional formatting, and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 2 Days |
Cognos 10 Active Reports |
This course introduces Active Reports with IBM Cognos’® Report Studio. Topics include converting reports to Active Reports, Active Report controls and variables, creating simple Active Reports with controls and creating advanced Active Reports with decks, other controls and multiple interactive relationships, and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 1 Day |
Cognos 10 Building Reports with Multidimensional Data (Report Studio) |
This course provides advanced techniques with IBM Cognos’® Report Studio. Topics include crosstab basics with dimensional data, dimensional filters, advanced calculations with MDX functions, drill behavior and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 2 Days |
Cognos 8 & 10 Report Studio |
This course introduces basic and intermediate reporting techniques with IBM Cognos’ Report Studio. Basic topics include Cognos Connection, designing simple queries, charts, grouping, filters, prompts, calculations and more. Intermediate topics include formatting, conditional formatting, multi-query reports, drill through reports and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. | 2 Days |
Cognos 8 & 10 Advanced Report Studio |
This course provides advanced techniques with IBM Cognos’® Report Studio. Topics include the Query Explorer, bursting reports, advanced prompting, drill throughs, importing and exporting XML, and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. |
2 Days |
Cognos 8 & 10 Analysis Studio |
This course introduces analytical techniques with IBM Cognos’® Analysis Studio. Topics include Cognos Connection, changing rows, columns and measures; filters, drill down, charts, nesting, and advanced techniques. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. |
1 Day |
Cognos 8 & 10 Query Studio |
This course introduces basic querying techniques with IBM Cognos’® Query Studio. Topics include Studios, Cognos Connection, designing simple queries, grouping, filters, prompts, charts, calculations, formatting reports, conditional formatting running reports, and more. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. |
1 Day |
Cognos 8 & 10 PowerPlay Studio |
This course introduces analytical techniques with IBM Cognos’® PowerPlay Studio. Topics include Cognos Connection, changing rows, columns and measures; filters, drill down, charts, nesting, calculations and advanced techniques. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. |
1 Day |
Cognos PowerPlay Transformer |
This course introduces techniques for designing, creating and maintaining models and cubes using Cognos’® PowerPlay Transformer. The course format includes lecture, instructor-led exercises and independent workshops. |
2 Days |
