by Abhishek Sanghani | Released April 2017 | ISBN: 9781788292863

Create amazing Dashboards using Cognos Analytics and see how to reap useful information by combining variety of dataAbout This VideoBe familiar with the terminologies, high Level Architecture and Data FlowAugmenting Enterprise Data with your offline data to produce stunning dashboards and presentations without IT CostsIn DetailCognos Analytics is the latest version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence offering, that bring IBM back in the game against new age competitors like QlikView, Tableau. It is a next-generation, sleek, unified tool that provides end users, power-users and IT professional a fast, intent-driven dashboard and reports authoring interface on top of the strong foundation that IBM Cognos has proved over decades.This course is strongly focused on the new Analytics Dashboard Tool, that is not only the future of reporting authoring but also appeals much wider audience – right from end-users who are simply consumers of data, to power-users that analyze data and create dashboards for consumption, and IT developers who deliver high quality reporting solutions.In addition to Analytics Dashboarding which is the completely new feature in v11, you will also learn about what users and author gain by upgrading from older v10 or v8 (why upgrade, and why not). You will get a hang of the completely new 'Connection Portal' interface Show and hide more

1. Chapter 1 : Introduction and High-Level Architecture
   • The Course Overview 00:05:06
   • Introduction to Business Intelligence 00:03:19
   • Cognos and Its High-Level Architecture 00:06:51
2. Chapter 2 : Setup and Sample Database
   • Setting Up an Account for Cognos on the Cloud 00:04:23
   • Sample Databases and Files 00:04:42
3. Chapter 3 : Welcome to Welcome Portal
   • Welcome Portal 00:07:16
   • Where’s Report Studio Gone? 00:04:34
   • Your First Dashboard 00:07:17
4. Chapter 4 : It’s All about Data
   • On the Back Stage – Connecting to Databases 00:04:24
   • Creating Your Own Data Modules 00:08:17
   • Adding Your Own Data to Dashboards 00:10:43
5. Chapter 5 : Taking Data Modules to Next Level
   • Improving Module – Examining the Data Model 00:10:15
   • Refining Module – Filtering and Cleaning 00:05:34
   • Extending Module – Creating Custom Calculations 00:05:28
   • Generating Stitched Facts – How and Why? 00:09:36
6. Chapter 6 : Dashboard Authoring in Detail
   • How to Change Visualization Properties? 00:07:46
   • Singletons, Static Texts, and Display Order 00:08:11
   • Changing Widget Connections 00:09:41
   • Navigation Group for Drill Down 00:09:42
7. Chapter 7 : Creating a Story and Giving Finishing Touch
   • Creating a Story Using Pins 00:16:10
   • Changing the Theme and Background 00:05:40
   • Adding Multimedia and Info-Graphics 00:09:30
   • Sharing Story and Dashboard Using Custom URL 00:08:51
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