IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Advanced (v11.0.X) Course Overview

The IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Advanced (v11.0.x) course is designed for professional report authors to further their knowledge and skills in advanced report building techniques. Through a comprehensive set of modules and lessons, learners will explore a variety of complex reporting components such as query models, dimensional reporting, and interactive reports.

Starting with creating query models, participants will learn to build queries, connect them to reports, and answer business questions by referencing data from multiple queries. The course progresses to creating reports based on query relationships, including joining queries and comparing data through percentages of change.

Dimensional reporting is covered extensively, teaching users how to work with dimensional data, apply context, and focus data using advanced techniques. Learners will also gain skills in calculations and dimensional functions, enhancing reports with dynamic behavior and custom prompts.

Further modules include examine the report specification, where users learn to customize reporting objects and flow, and distribute reports, which covers report bursting to various recipients and platforms. The course also touches on enhancing user interaction with HTML, creating tooltips, and sending emails directly from reports.

Finally, the course introduces IBM Cognos Active Reports, where participants learn to create interactive reports with controls, variables, and optimize their use in active report charts and decks.

By the end of the course, learners will be proficient in advanced reporting techniques, enabling them to deliver comprehensive, interactive, and dynamic reports that drive business insights and decisions.