Cognos Training

Prism Technologies is a modern and dynamic organisation offering Cognos trainings to companies throughout India. We provide a unique blend of consultancy and hands-on training providing you with the productive skills to improve your performance.

Prism is a corporate training firm present in Mumbai, Pune & Bangalore. We have provided corporate trainings across INDIA in other locations as well including Hyderabad, New Delhi, Noida,Gurgaon Kolkatta & Chennai as well.

We will not train you to use redundant features that are part of some academic curriculum; instead we will show you how to unleash the power that lies behind this super-suite of software.

Our  Cognos courses cover Powerplay to administration to Report Studio, Metrics Manager, Query studio, TM 1 etc whilst each session is tailored to your client needs.

Among some of the courses we offer in Cognos are-

Cognos 8 BI Migrate from Series 7 Powerplay:
The course educates about the Powerplay web & client applications It also teaches about how to migrate powerplay applications and how to administer new and migrated applications.

Cognos 8 BI Administration:
This course teaches new administrators the important responsibilities of administering servers and content. It will enable them to implement security, and manage the server components. Participants will also be able to schedule tasks, manage & deploy content; set up package based drill-through access.

Cognos 8 BI Data Manager - Building Datamarts with Enterprise Data:
The course teaches how to move, merge, consolidate, & transform data from a range of data sources to build, maintain subject-area data marts. Participants will learn to create a catalog and add connections to data sources and targets. They shall also learn to deliver fact and dimension data to a data mart through the use of builds and the dimensional framework and also learn how to automate common functionality and handle complex data issues, such as unbalanced hierarchical structures.

Cognos 8 BI Authoring and Modelling Fast Track:
This course is technical overview, it covers standard content in an accelerated and appended format. This will provide accelerated training on authoring and modeling and covers report creation in query studio and report studio, data analysis using analysis studio, model building using framework manager & reporting environment administration.

Cognos 8 BI Framework Manager - Designing Metadata Models:
This course provides knowledge of metadata modeling concepts for predictable reporting and analysis results using framework manager. They will learn the entire metadata modeling process, from initial project creation, to publishing of metadata to the web.

Cognos 8 BI Metadata Modelling Part 2:
This course provides knowledge on how to model metadata with framework manager using modeling recommendations as a modeling strategy. They shall learn the generic modeling structures and techniques, and the basic modeling concepts and naming conventions in the framework manager environment.

Cognos 8 BI Authoring and Modelling Fast Track:
This course is technical overview, it covers standard content in an accelerated and appended format. This will provide accelerated training on authoring and modeling and covers report creation in query studio and report studio, data analysis using analysis studio, model building using framework manager & reporting environment administration.

Cognos 8 BI Analysis Studio - Analysing Data:
The course teaches business analysts to navigate & analyse data in analysis studio. They will discover trends, identify opportunities, and learn how to make better business decisions. Participants will also learn techniques such as filtering, ranking, asymmetrical cross tabs, & graphing to help them analyse large data.

Cognos 8 BI Powerplay Administration:
This course teaches participants how to administer powerplay applications. It shall enable them to identify the components and architecture, set server properties, schedule, monitor, log, and audit powerplay activities, set cube and report properties, and set security.

Cognos 8 BI Powerplay Client - Explore and Build Reports:
This course is designed to help participants with the skills needed to analyse business data and create reports in powerplay client. They will learn how to drill through cube data, replace categories and measures in a crosstab, change the display to view the data in one of several graphical formats, format each display to enhance their analysis, sort, rank, and filter data, and create calculations. They shall also learn to create reports, how to build a report crosstab, perform and add calculations, use advanced nesting functions, create subsets, and distribute reports.

Cognos 8 BI Powerplay Studio - Web Exploration:
The course is designed to teach participants the basic skills they need to view, explore, format and distribute powerplay reports using powerplay studio. They will learn to create reports, view multidimensional cube data, add calculations, and use graphical displays. It also covers drag and drop within crosstabs, ranking, custom subsets and scenario dimensions.

Cognos 8 BI Report Studio - Authoring Professional Reports Fundamentals:
The course is designed for professional report authors who wish to learn report building techniques using relational data models, and ways of enhancing, customising, and managing professional reports.

Cognos 8 BI Report Studio - Authoring Professional Reports Advanced:
The course is designed for professional report authors who wish to learn advanced report building techniques using relational data models, and ways of enhancing, customising, and distributing professional reports.

Cognos 8 BI Report Studio - Authoring Reports with Multidimensional Data:
This course enables participants to build on their experience with report studio by applying dimensional techniques to reports. Participants shall learn how to author reports that navigate and manipulate dimensional data structures using specific dimensional functions and features available in Report Studio.

Cognos 8 BI Query Studio - Building Ad Hoc Reports:
The course is designed for business authors, who want to learn how to create, modify and organise ad hoc reports. It shall cover the following topics: how to use different report capabilities, how to graphically display the data, and how to create reports with a consistent look and feel through the use of templates. It also teaches basic administrative tasks, such as scheduling reports and delivering reports in different formats like HTML, PDF, Excel and so on.

Cognos 8 BI Query Studio - Building Ad Hoc Reports:
The course is designed for business authors, who want to learn how to create, modify and organise ad hoc reports. It shall cover the following topics: how to use different report capabilities, how to graphically display the data, and how to create reports with a consistent look and feel through the use of templates. It also teaches basic administrative tasks, such as scheduling reports and delivering reports in different formats like HTML, PDF, Excel and so on.

Cognos 8 BI Report Authoring Part 2:
The course is designed for professional report authors. They shall learn advanced techniques for creating, modifying, and distribution professional reports using report studio. They will also learn to examine and create query models, burst reports, examine and edit XML report specifications, author advanced reports, manage the task execution rules, create a schedule for an agent, and work with agents.

Cognos 8 BI Reporting and Analyzing Data for Business Authors:
This course teaches how to create, modify, and manage ad hoc reports. Participants will learn how to create and publish statement style reports using multidimensional data. They will also learn how to navigate and analyse multidimensional data.

Cognos 8 BI Authoring and Modelling Fast Track:
The course is a high level, technical overview that covers standard content in an accelerated and appended format. It provides accelerated training on authoring and modeling and covers report creation in query studio and report studio, data analysis using analysis studio, model building using framework manager and reporting environment administration.

Cognos 8 BI Metrics Manager - Designing Scorecards:
This course teaches participants how to plan, create, set up, and maintain scorecard applications. They will learn to load data from supported data sources using metric designer and to use alternative data loading methods such as flat files and SQL scripts. Participants will also learn how to secure objects within the scorecard application and the application itself.

Cognos 8 BI Server Administration:
The course provides practical skills on administering the server environment. Participants will learn about the server administrator workflow processes, architecture, security implementation, managing the server components, and setting up office connection.

Cognos 8 BI Transformer - Designing OLAP Models:
The course teaches OLAP modelers how to design, build, and maintain power cubes. It also teaches about the key concepts and also about how to use the product.

Cognos 8 BI Essentials for Project Management:
This course teaches how to move, merge, consolidate, and transform data from a range of data sources to build and maintain subject-area data marts. Managers will learn to create a catalog and add connections to data sources and targets. They shall also learn to deliver fact and dimension data to a data mart through the use of builds and the dimensional framework and will also learn about how to automate common functionality and handle complex data issues, such as unbalanced hierarchical structures.

Courses can be customized according to client needs.

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