Cognos Dashboards, Explorations & Stories
In this course you will learn to
- Create dashboards using layout and type
- Enhance dashboards with tabs and filters
- Explore data with built-in AI
- Build stories
Version
11.x
Included in this course
- Hands-on exercises
- Course manual
Suggested attendees
Business analysts. No prior Cognos knowledge nor report authoring experience required, but experience as a report consumer is helpful.
Course Outline
- Dashboards
- Customize dashboards
- Create a simple dashboard
- Drag data onto a dashboard
- Format, filter and customize dashboard objects
- Set the dashboard as the home page
- Use layout and a template
- Create dashboards from uploaded files
- Enhance dashboards
- Add a tab to a dashboard
- Understand how filtering works within vs. between tabs
- Create a drill-through on a dashboard
- Explorations
- Discover insights in data in the Exploration console
- Use the visualization recommendations
- Explore relationships in data
- Experiment with data, correlated insights, driver analysis and predictive strength
- Use the natural language AI assistant
- Pin and reuse content
- Stories
- Understand and create a story
- Create and animate an interactive slideshow
