IBM Cognos Planning Contributor: Develop Applications (V10.1) - SPVC - J1105G

Beschreibung

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Introduction to IBM Cognos Planning -Administrator

Review IBM Cognos Performance Management (PM) Solution
Identify IBM Cognos Planning and its components
Identify IBM Cognos BI and its components
Examine the IBM Cognos Planning architecture
Examine IBM Cognos Planning - Contributor and its components
Examine the development process for the Contributor solution

Build a Contributor Application

Examine best practices for building the underlying IBM Cognos Planning - Analyst model
Configure IBM Cognos Planning Administrator
Create a Planning Contributor application using the Application wizard
Specify navigation, orientation, and application settings
Import the e.List and rights
Run Go to Production and preview a Planning Contributor application

Manage Workflow and Web Application Activities

Access the application in Cognos Connection
Examine the user roles and workflow states
Create annotations
Attach documents to Planning Contributor application items
View and delete commentary
Bounce users from the application
Work offline

Apply Security

Examine Cognos Planning security: authentication and authorization
Examine Cognos Planning roles
Assign access rights to end users
Examine levels of user rights
Create saved selections
Examine and create access tables
Identify network considerations

Administer Applications

Review what happens during Go to Production
Back up the datastore
Display Invalid Owners and Editors
Create a planning package
Reset workflow states
Set advanced options for subsequent Go to Production processes
Examine job management and the types of jobs that can be performed
Create help text for end users
Verify that data entered is valid

Manage Data

Synchronize the Cognos Planning - Contributor application with the Cognos Planning - Analyst model
Import data into the Planning Contributor application as a planner, reviewer and administrator
Publish Planning Contributor data

Use Extensions

Examine IBM Cognos Planning - Contributor extensions
Report from Planning Contributor data using extensions
Configure Planning Contributor extensions
Use administration extensions

Automate Applications

Examine automation of common administration tasks using macros
Create and publish a macro
Group related tasks into one macro
Examine how to run macros

Consume Planning Data in Cognos BI

Examine Cognos Connection
Create a portal page to group different types of content into a single view
Examine how to access live data in Cognos Studios
Create and run agents based on planning data in Events Studio

Case Study

Create a Contributor application
Ensure planners and reviewers have the required access to the appropriate data
Modify the application to accommodate the addition of new locations
Bring test data into the application in an administrator role and an end user role
Publish data for reporting and automate this task

Use the Contributor Add-in for Excel (Optional)

Examine the Cognos Planning - Contributor Add-in for Excel
Enter, save, and submit Planning Contributor data using the Excel Add-in
Modify the display of Planning Contributor data in Microsoft Office Excel
Annotate data in Microsoft Office Excel
Save a workbook as a template

Move Data Between Planning Analyst and Planning Contributor (Optional)

Export data from Planning Analyst for use in Planning Contributor
Integrate Planning Contributor with Planning Analyst
Move data from Planning Analyst to Planning Contributor using a D-Link
Move data from Planning Contributor to Planning Analyst using a D-Link
Compare D-Links to importing data in Planning Administrator

Translate a Contributor Application (Optional)

Examine the translation cycle
Create a translation
Translate applications into different languages
Export files for translation

Ziel

Please refer to Course Overview for description information.

Anforderungen an die Teilnehmer

You should have:

Completed the IBM Cognos Planning Analysts: Build Models (V10.1) course

You should have:

Knowledge of your organization's data and structure
Knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel

Teilnehmer

This intermediate course is for Modelers.