Základní info
The IBM Cognos 8 Planning Professional Workshop is a 5-day, instructor-led, workshop intensive course that teaches you how to use your existing product knowledge to map Cognos Planning solutions to your customer's or company's business needs. You will participate in team/role based workshops designed to give experience in addressing scenarios typically encountered by Cognos Planning consultants in the field.
Dostupnost tohoto kurzu v zahraničí
Kurz je určen pro:
This course is for IBM Cognos Planning model designer/model builders and application administrators.
Předpokládané znalosti:
You should have:
- IBM Cognos 8 Planning Analyst: Build Models
- IBM Cognos 8 Planning Contributor: Develop Applications
Obsah:
Examine the stages of an IBM Cognos 8 Planning implementation
- Benefits of using a methodology when creating a Planning solution
- Iterative development when creating a Planning solution and the benefits of using it
- Gathering customer requirements and design a solution to fulfill these requirements
Design considerations for an IBM Cognos Planning solution
- What is meant by design
- Design for ease of use, maintainability, optimum performance and scalability
Design for optimal performance
- What can affect performance
- Specific aspects of design and the effect on performance of a solution
- Analysis of example models with focus on how they perform
Interaction with other systems
- Design for interaction with IBM Cognos 8 BI
- Examination of Framework Manager with Planning data
- Links with other systems
Common challenges and designs to accomplish them
- What are the common design challenges for Planning
- Examples of solutions to these challenges
Prepare the solution for the production environment
- Automation in Analyst and Contributor
- Effective use of the deployment functionality of Contributor
- Security for Planning
- Benefits of documentation
- Planning functionality to support documentation
- Maintenance in the production environment
- Resources to support a Planning solution
Using Planning information outside of the Planning environment
- How can Planning information be used outside of the Planning environment
- Use of IBM Cognos 8 BI with Planning data
A Case Study in which a Planning solution is analyzed, designed, built and prepared for a production environment using both Analyst and Contributor
Practical tasks and examples throughout the course to support learning
