IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
Author: Dan Volitich
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 723
Release: 2008-05-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0071643591

The Only Authorized Guide to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Develop, deploy, and maintain a complete BI solution across your enterprise. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide shows you how to take full advantage of the robust service-oriented architecture and simplified role-based user interfaces. Learn how to create, share, and analyze data-rich reports that lead to increased productivity and better business decisions. Featuring real-world insight and expert tips, this is a must-have guide for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence users of all levels, from administrators to end users. Measure and monitor performance using dashboards and scorecards Assign user roles and privileges Provide complete and consistent access to a broad range of data sources via Cognos Connection Use Cognos 8 Go! to extend BI to Office applications, mobile devices, and search engines Enable business users to create reports with Query Studio Develop new insights by exploring data in multiple dimensions and perspectives with Analysis Studio Build Dimensional Reports with Report Studio Use Event Studio to identify and deliver mission-critical information Create, modify, organize, and publish a model from Cognos Framework Manager Implement sound security measures Take advantage of the management tools in Cognos Administration to ensure maximum reliability and availability

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 Handbook

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1 Handbook
Author: Dean Browne
Publisher: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages: 572
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0738434817

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) helps organizations meet strategic objectives and provides real value for the business by delivering the information everyone needs while also reducing the burden on IT. This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1. You can use this book to: - Understand core features of IBM Cognos BI V10.1 - Realize the full potential of IBM Cognos BI - Learn by example with practical scenarios This book uses a fictional business scenario to demonstrate the power of IBM Cognos BI. The book is primarily focused on the roles of Advanced Business User, Professional Report Author, Modeler, Administrator, and IT Architect.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10
Author: Sangeeta Gautam
Publisher: IBM Press
Total Pages: 1173
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 013272474X

Maximize the Value of Business Intelligence with IBM Cognos v10 -- Hands-on, from Start to Finish This easy-to-use, hands-on guide brings together all the information and insight you need to drive maximum business value from IBM Cognos v10. Long-time IBM Cognos expert and product designer Sangeeta Gautam thoroughly illuminates Cognos BI v10’s key capabilities: analysis, query, reporting, and dashboards. Gautam shows how to take full advantage of each key IBM Cognos feature, including brand-new innovations such as Active Reports and the new IBM Cognos Workspace report consumption environment. She concludes by walking you through successfully planning and implementing an integrated business intelligence solution using IBM’s best-practice methodologies. The first and only guide of its kind, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10 offers expert insights for BI designers, architects, developers, administrators, project managers, nontechnical end-users, and partners throughout all areas of the business—from sales and marketing to operations and lines of business. If you’re pursuing official IBM Cognos certification, you’ll also find Cognos certification sample questions and information to help you with the certification process. Coverage Includes • Understanding IBM Cognos BI’s components and open, extensible architecture • Working with IBM Cognos key “studio” tools: Analysis Studio, Query Studio, Report Studio, and Event Studio • Developing and managing powerful reports that draw on the rich capabilities of IBM Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced • Designing Star Schema databases and metadata models to answer the questions your organization cares about most • Efficiently maintaining and systematically securing IBM Cognos BI environments and their objects • Using IBM Cognos Connection as your single point of entry to all corporate data • Building interactive, easy-to-manage Active Reports for casual business users • Using new IBM Cognos BI v10.1 Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) to improve performance with complex heterogeneous data • Identifying, exploring, and exploiting hidden data relationships • Creating quick ad hoc queries that deliver fast answers • Establishing user and administrator roles

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Author: Dustin Adkison
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1849683573

Written as a practical guide, this book will show you how to manage your reporting environment using IBM Cognos 10 and make the most out of BI tools within your business - taking a hands-on approach to stimulate learning and develop your understanding, If you are an IBM Cognos or Business Intelligence developer or consultant, have a basic knowledge of Cognos 10 BI and a good level of understanding of Cognos 8 then this book is for you

IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes

IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
Author: Dmitriy Beryoza
Publisher: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2015-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0738440833

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) provides a proven enterprise BI platform with an open data strategy. Cognos BI provides customers with the ability to use data from any source, package it into a business model, and make it available to consumers in various interfaces that are tailored to the task. IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes complements the existing Cognos BI capabilities and continues the tradition of an open data model. It focuses on extending the scalability of the IBM Cognos platform to enable speed-of-thought analytics over terabytes of enterprise data, without having to invest in a new data warehouse appliance. This capability adds a new level of query intelligence so you can unleash the power of your enterprise data warehouse. This IBM Redbooks® publication addresses IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 and specifically, the IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities. This book can help you in the following ways: Understand core features of the Cognos Dynamic Cubes capabilities of Cognos BI V10.2 Learn by example with practical scenarios by using the IBM Cognos samples This book uses fictional business scenarios to demonstrate the power and capabilities of IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes. It primarily focuses on the roles of the modeler, administrator, and IT architect.

Big Data Analytics with IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes

Big Data Analytics with IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
Author: David Cushing
Publisher: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2015-11-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0738454486

With IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence, you have a proven enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform with an open-data access strategy. Because Cognos Business Intelligence uses a business language that is relevant to consumers, you can pull data from various data sources. Then, you can package it into a business model and make it available to consumers in various interfaces that are suited to the task. IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes, which is a feature of the Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 software, complements the existing query engine. As explained in this IBM Redbooks® Solution Guide, it extends Cognos scalability to enable speed-of-thought analytics over terabytes of enterprise data, without being forced to rely on a new data-warehousing appliance. With this capability, which adds a new level of query intelligence, you can unleash the power of your large enterprise data warehouse.

IBM Business Analytics and Cloud Computing

IBM Business Analytics and Cloud Computing
Author: Anant Jhingran
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781583473634

Business intelligence and analytics software enable businesses to analyze performance data in order to make better decisions through the use of cloud computing--an Internet-based model for convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. This book is a practitioner's guide for successful evaluation and design for implementation of Cognos Business Intelligence cloud solution, for either Cognos 8 BI or Cognos Business Intelligence Version 10. With pragmatic and practical information about the best practices and guidelines, as well as specific software and configuration steps, this guide for solutions and IT architects includes detailed screen shots, code samples, and input instructions.

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10: The Official Guide

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10: The Official Guide
Author: Dan Volitich
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0071775927

The only authorized guide to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.1 Updated for the latest release of the software, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10: The Official Guide explains how to create, implement, and manage an enterprise BI solution. Maximize all of the new and enhanced features, including the powerful modeling, monitoring, and analytics capabilities. Build and deliver reports that foster informed business decisions and better results. Filled with real-world examples and expert advice, this practical resource is ideal for anyone working with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10.1--from administrators to end users. Monitor performance using dashboards and scorecards Assign user roles and privileges Provide a single access point to application-specific data via Cognos Connection Access content from Microsoft Office applications and mobile devices Collect and analyze BI data in an interactive dashboard with Cognos Business Insight Use Cognos Administration tools for system management Implement appropriate security measures Create BI reports with relational and dimensional data using Business Insight Advanced Use Report Studio to build dimensional reports and statistical analyses Identify and deliver mission-critical information using Event Studio Monitor business performance with Metric Studio Create, modify, organize, and publish a model in Framework Manager Ensure report integrity with Lifecycle Manager

Exploiting IBM PowerVM Virtualization Features with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence

Exploiting IBM PowerVM Virtualization Features with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Author: Dino Quintero
Publisher: IBM Redbooks
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0738434582

This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to leverage the virtualization strengths of the IBM Power platform to solve customer system resource utilization challenges and maximize system throughput and capacity. This IBM Redbooks publication will help you leverage the strengths of the POWER platform, provide implementation scenarios with Cognos® 8 Business Intelligence (BI) with the comprehensive set of the IBM PowerVMTM virtualization features, and identify and document best practices for exploiting the IBM PowerVM virtualization features within Cognos BI deployments to maximize utilization of system resources and maximize Cognos throughput and capacity. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (BI consultants, technical support staff, IT architects, and IT specialists) responsible for providing business intelligence solutions and support for Cognos BI on POWER® systems.