B5282G IBM Cognos Transformer: Design OLAP Models (V10.2)

Il centro presenta a continuazione il programma pensato per migliorare le tue competenze e permetterti di realizzare gli obiettivi stabiliti. Nel corso della formazione si alterneranno differenti moduli che ti permetteranno di acquisire le conoscenze sulle differenti tematiche proposte. Inscriviti per poter accedere alle seguenti materie.

• Discuss IBM Cognos and Performance Management
• Describe IBM Cognos BI components
• Explain how to extend IBM Cognos BI

• Discuss the basics of OLAP analysis
• Review Transformer capabilities and its role in IBM Cognos 8 BI
• Discuss Transformer components
• Define categories and members

• Describe the purpose of a model plan
• Match business requirements to the model
• Discuss an approach for creating a model plan

• Discuss the types of data used by Transformer
• Create data source files and define properties
• Preview source data and SQL
• Add IBM Cognos data sources to the model
• Discuss data filtering

• Create model structures and modify property sheets
• Confirm the data source origin
• Generate categories to populate the model
• Modify the model using the dimension diagram
• Verify the model and create a PowerCube
• Publish as a data source and package

• Describe model types and data entities
• Define members and member unique names
• Address changes that Impact a MUN
• Discuss when category codes can change

• Define a regular time dimension
• Examine standard and nonstandard time dimensions
• Limit the range of valid dates

• Compare trends over time
• Set the current period
• Create relative time categories
• Customize relative time categories

• Discuss the use of multiple data sources
• Plan the data sources
• Define data source types
• Uniqueness

• Identify and resolve conflicts between data sources
• Validate a multiple data source model
• Discuss a unique move

• Discuss the purpose and uses of measures
• Describe regular and calculated measures
• Set measure properties
• Compare rollup options
• Create a calculated measure
• Create calculations before or after rollups
• Create a category count

• Discuss measure allocation
• Allocate measures as a constant and by another measure
• Check measure distribution

• Apply and use currency conversion techniques

• Discuss primary and alternate hierarchies
• Describe the benefits of alternate hierarchies
• Create an alternate drill-down path
• Define convergence levels and identify uniqueness issues

• Discuss techniques for customizing dimensions
• Add a new source level to an existing dimension
• Create a manual level in a dimension
• Create orphan categories
• Modify a dimension using a subdimension
• Create a special category
• Create a scenario dimension
• Use calculated columns and categories

• Create various types of PowerCubes
• Omit dimensions and exclude measures
• Create and apply dimension views

• Examine the security environment
• Identify the IBM Cognos BI security model
• Define authentication and authorization
• Identify security policies

• Review model security
• Create custom views
• Assign security to custom views
• Assign custom views to PowerCubes
• Combine custom views with dimension views
• Examine a union of custom views

• Maintain models and PowerCubes
• Understand data source, model, cube updates
• Synchronize the model and data source
• Incrementally update PowerCubes
• Copy and activate a newer version of the PowerCube without affecting users

• Identify conformed values between data sources
• Discuss using drill through in IBM Cognos BI
• Define a report drill through
• Define a package-based drill through
• Identify drill-through values
• Discuss modeling recommendations

• Examine cube groups
• Plan for disk space
• Optimize PowerCube inputs and outputs
• Determine factors that affect PowerCube build time and user response time

• Identify the pros and cons
• Develop a partitioning strategy
• Create a time-based partitioned cube
• Automatic vs. manual partitioning
• Understand multi-file PowerCubes

Blank Model Plans (Optional)

Identify Common Data Structures (Optional)

Dotazione:
Each participant will have a station set up with operating systems and software needed for the exercises.