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First Guide to Dashboards using IBM Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 - Second Edition [Video]

This is the code repository for First Guide to Dashboards using IBM Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 - Second Edition. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.

About the Video Course

Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 is the latest version of IBM Cognos Analytics. Its cloud version is now within the reach of individuals and small enterprises. Cognos Analytics is popular with big organizations, such as banks and pharmaceutical companies, as their enterprise tool for reporting and analytics.

Since the launch of Cognos Analytics v11, IBM has added several important new features, this course aims to covers all the latest features added to v11.1 R5. It focuses on the Dashboard Tool, and is suitable for end-users (who are simply consumers of data and need to analyze it and create dashboards for consumption) to IT developers who deliver high-quality reporting solutions.

Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 is a next-generation, sleek, unified tool that provides end-users, power-users, and IT professional with a fast, intent-driven dashboard and a report-authoring interface on top of the strong foundation that IBM Cognos has supplied over decades

What You Will Learn

• Build stunning dashboards with Cognos Analytics
• Use the new, unified Cognos Analytics interface to create, modify, and consume reports and dashboards
• Learn about the visualization capabilities available to you: how and when to use them, how to interact with them, and how to customize them
• Merge your own ad-hoc data to add value to your dashboard
• Discover the new features in IBM Cognos Analytics and how you can use them in your own organization to help drive effective business analytics and strategic decision-making

Instructions and Navigation

Assumed Knowledge

To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:

• Basic understanding of tabular data
• Basic arithmetic
• Any exposure of data-driven reports will be helpful, though not mandatory
• Familiarity with visualizations will be helpful, though not mandatory

Technical Requirements

This course has the following software requirements:

• Operating system: Any
• Browser: Any
• Memory: 2 GB or better
• Storage: 4 GB
• Cognos Analytics On Premise v11.1.x

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