Cognos Online Training


Course Overview

Cognos Online Training : 

Cognos is a developer of Business Intelligence software developed by IBM. Cognos online training is designed for the Business users who have no technical Knowledge to extract corporate data, analyze it and assemble reports. Cognos 10.1 is a combination of nearly three dozen software products.
The main objective of Cognos Business Intelligence is to bring the right information at the right time. Usually, the data is pulled from several sources and transformed into accurate and consistent information which is stored in the Data Warehouse. Now Cognos BI is one of the largest suppliers of Business Intelligence Tools globally and the name is recognized as a leader in their field of Business Intelligence reporting studio.
BigClasses Trainer-lead Cognos Online Training is live, real-time and interactive. It is not self-paced or pre-recorded, and provides many of the same benefits of in-person classroom training, with live chat and online collaboration features, information flow between students and their instructors or peers can equal or even surpass that of the classroom training.

Cognos Course Content

Course Content of Cognos 10.1 Online Training

Course Duration : 40 Hours


COGNOS Business Intelligence 10.1
Introduction to data warehousing
Introduction to Cognos 10.1
Query studio:

  • Types of reports
  • Query studio templates
  • User interface
  • Operation on list report
  • Data formatting
  • Expand and collapse group
  • Custom groups
  • Filters and calculations
  • Conditional formatting

Report studio:
  • Types of reports
  • User interfaces
  • Page structure and page view
  • Operations on list
  • Discontinuous cross tab
  • Advances sorting and grouping
  • Map reports and gauge chart
  • Formatting the data
  • Types Filters and calculations
  • Prompts
  • Tree prompt
  • Cascading prompts
  • Drill through
  • Drill through on charts
  • Drill up and drill down
  • Bookmark
  • Master – Detail relationship
  • Re usability of queries
  • Working with MDX functions
  • Variables
  • Conditional styles and formatting
  • Conditional formatting with charts
  • Render variable
  • Conditional blocks
  • Conditional layouts
  • Layout component reference
  • Bursting
  • Dashboard reports
  • Understating the reports from query explorer
  • Understanding and exploring the tools in toolbox
  • Performance tuning

Analysis studio:
  • Introduction to analysis studio
  • Types of analysis
  • Rows columns and context
  • Suppress zeros and nulls
  • Filters and calculations
  • Top and bottom rows
  • Sorting
  • Drill up and drill down
  • Convert to chart
  • Replacing columns and rows
  • Open in report studio

Event studio:
  • Benefits of event studio
  • Process flow
  • Specify event condition
  • Tasks
  • Task execution rules
  • Agents
  • Scheduling an agent

Frame work manager:
  • User interface
  • Project and model
  • Approaches for modeling
  • Data source connection
  • Importing the metadata
  • Objects in FM
  • Types of query subjects
  • Filters and calculations
  • Usage property and aggregate property
  • Relationship and cardinality
  • Packages
  • DMR approach
  • Regular and measure dimension
  • Scope relationships
  • OLAP sources
  • Security
  • Linking and segmentation
  • Transaction logging
  • Edit governors
  • Function sets
  • SQL types
  • Query processing types
  • Performance tuning of the model
  • Macros
  • Session parameters
  • Synchronization
  • Performance tuning

Cognos 10.1connections
  • Public folders / private folders
  • Directory tool
  • Schedule management
  • Content administration
  • My preferences
  • Name spaces
  • Security
  • Cognos EP 7, Cognos Reportnet
  • Cognos 8.1, Cognos 8.2, Cognos 8.3
  • Cognos Metric Studio, Cognos Transformer 8.3.
  • C. Drill through definitions

All COGNOS Products installation
All explanations are with real time scenarios

Course Highlights

Highlights of Cognos online training : 


  • During Cognos online training, you will learn fundamental and advanced report building techniques using relational data models, and methods of enhancing, customizing, and managing professional reports.
  • You will participate in hands-on demos and workshops that illustrate key concepts of Cognos BI while learning how to use the product.
  • Providing server access to learn more at your own pace.
  • Tailor-made Course Curriculum by Real-time experts.
  • Most affordable Fee Structure, Industry-centric Approach.
  • World-class teaching methodology, We Provide goal oriented, comprehensive training based on your specific educational needs
  • We provide free 24/7 server access to help our trainees practice exercises and demos in real-time.
  • We offer Placement assistance.

About Trainer

Trainer Information 

  • Our Cognos trainer is having 6+ years of DWH experience
  • He has worked for different clients like GSK. Unicorn HRO, Boeing
  • He is a Cognos certified from IBM ( cog – 112 )
  • He has trained more than 120 batches online, offline and corporate.
  • He has conducted many corporate workshops a and successfully trained more professionals
  • The students he trained most are from US and Europe.
  • Online Training techniques of BigClasses are specially designed for the global learners and are globally proven.
  • BigClasses has taken utmost care to recruit the trainers for online training.
  • Our trainer is capable of designing sophisticated course material.
  • Our Trainers are enthusiastic learners, which helps them to acquire up-to-date knowledge.
  • Our Trainers aims at quality teaching, which earned them multitudes of learners.