A vital aspect of any business intelligence implementation is training. CDP offers a range of user and administrator training courses which employ a combination of demonstration and hands-on workshops that help to accelerate the learning process.
CDP offers public or customised courses at either our premises or at the client site.
If you wish to book yourself onto a course in Auckland, Christchurch or Wellington, browse the course outlines, check the training schedule and please email your request to education@cdp.co.nz.
Cognos Contributor Overview is a one day workshop designed
to provide attendees with an understanding of how
Contributor web applications are designed, built and
deployed from Planning Analyst models. It equips them with
the knowledge and ability to perform basic administrative
tasks on existing Contributor applications.
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Cognos Planning Analyst Overview is a two day workshop
designed to provide users with an understanding of the key
concepts of Analyst, along with basic modelling knowledge.
Through a variety of theory and practical modelling
examples, attendees gain confidence to explore existing
models and learn skills required for performing simple
tasks.
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Relational Reporting Bootcamp is a two day workshop designed
to take new report authors or report authors with no formal
training through report building techniques with relational
data.
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Dimensional Reporting Bootcamp is a two day workshop
designed for report authors with some relational report
building experience who want to learn dimensional reporting
techniques.
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The CDP Masterclass series offers a selection of targeted,
solution-based workshops for those wanting to take their
Cognos BI expertise to the next level. Designing Dashboards
is a one-day workshop focused on the fundamental principles
of dashboard design, and the tools and techniques you will
need to build meaningful dashboards.
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IBM Cognos Report Studio: Author Professional Reports
Fundamentals V10.1 is a three-day, instructor-led course. It
is designed for professional report authors to learn report
building techniques using relational data models, and ways
of enhancing, customising, and managing professional
reports. Attendees will participate in hands-on demos and
workshops that illustrate key concepts while learning how to
use the product.
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IBM Cognos Report Studio: Author Professional Reports
Advanced (V10.1) is a two-day, instructor-led course.
Building on topics learned in the Fundamentals course, the
Advanced course is designed for professional report authors
to learn advanced report building techniques using
relational data models, and ways of enhancing, customizing,
and managing professional reports. Attendees will
participate in hands-on demos and workshops that illustrate
key concepts while learning how to use the product.
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IBM Cognos Framework Manager: Design Metadata Models V10.1
is a five-day, instructor-led course that provides
participants with introductory to advanced knowledge of
metadata modeling concepts, and how to model metadata for
predictable reporting and analysis results using Framework
Manager. Participants will learn the full scope of the
metadata modeling process, from initial project creation, to
publishing of metadata to the Web, so that end users can
easily author reports and analyse data.
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IBM Cognos Query Studio: Build Ad Hoc Reports (V10.1) is a
one-day, instructor-led and instructor-led on-line course
designed for business authors who want to learn how to
create, modify and organize ad hoc reports. This course
covers how to use different report capabilities, how to
graphically display data, and how to create reports with a
consistent look and feel through the use of templates. The
course also covers basic administrative tasks, such as
scheduling reports and delivering reports in different
formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, Excel)
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IBM Cognos BI Analysis Studio: Analyze Data (V10.1) is a
one-day, instructor-led course that teaches business authors
to navigate and analyze data in Analysis Studio. Through a
combination of lectures and hands-on workshops, attendees
will discover trends, identify opportunities, and learn how
to make better business decisions. Participants will learn
techniques such as ranking, filtering, asymmetrical
crosstabs, and graphing to help them analyze large volumes
of data (whether OLAP or dimensionally modeled relational
metadata). They will also learn to manage reports through
IBM Cognos Connection.
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IBM Cognos Report Studio: Author Professional Reports with
Multidimensional Data V10.1 is an advanced two-day,
instructor-led course in which students build on their
experience with Report Studio by applying dimensional
techniques to reports. Through interactive demos and
workshops, students will learn how to author reports that
navigate and manipulate dimensional data structures using
specific dimensional functions and features available in
Report Studio.
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IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced: Author Self-Service
Reports (V10.1) is a two-day instructor-led training course.
This course will develop the skills the participants will
need to use IBM Cognos Business Insight Advanced to create
effective reports with relational and dimensional data.
Through interactive demos and workshops, this course will
present topics related to creating reports with IBM Cognos
Business Insight Advanced for the business author.
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IBM Cognos Data Manager: Build Data Marts with Enterprise
Data (V10.1) is a five-day, instructor-led course that
teaches participants how to move, merge, consolidate, and
transform data from a range of data sources to build and
maintain subject-area data marts. In the process, students
will create a catalog and add connections to data sources
and targets. They will also deliver fact and dimension data
to a data mart through the use of builds and the dimensional
framework. In addition, students will learn how to automate
common functionality and handle complex data issues, such as
unbalanced hierarchical structures.
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IBM Cognos Planning Contributor: Develop Applications
(V10.1) is a four-day, instructor-led course in which
participants will learn to build, administer, and deploy
Planning Contributor applications through IBM Cognos
Planning Administrator. In particular, participants will
learn how to develop the Planning Contributor application
(based on a Cognos 10 Planning - Analyst model), manage
security using the Cognos security model, perform
administrative tasks, such as importing and publishing data,
and deploy the application to the Cognos portal. They will
also learn how to create events using Cognos Event Studio,
which will monitor changes in published Planning data. This
course also contains a case study that helps participants
further develop their skills as they create and administer a
Contributor application.
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IBM Cognos Planning Analyst: Build Models (V10.1) is a
five-day, instructor led course that teaches modelers how to
design and build models for business planning. Participants
will learn the data modeling process and participate in
hands-on demos and workshops that illustrate good model
design and best practice techniques while learning how to
use the product.
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IBM Cognos TM1: Interact with Data (V9.5) is a one-day,
instructor-led course designed to show Contributors how to
navigate and interact with TM1, and how to use the front end
tools and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with Multidimensional
cubes. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises,
you will learn how to connect and access TM1, build views,
browse data and navigate through the user interface.
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Overview of IBM Cognos TM1: Analyze Data (V9.5) is a
three-day, instructor-led course designed to teach modelers
how to use TM1 to analyze data, and create reports and
templates. Through a series of lectures and hands-on
exercises, participants will learn how to enter data into
cubes, create custom views of the data, build reports and
forms in Excel that communicate with TM1, and create
applications for Web access.
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IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V9.5) is a
five-day, instructor-led course designed to teach modelers
how to build a complete model in TM1. Through a series of
lectures and hands-on exercises, students will learn how to
set up and verify structures, manually enter data into these
structures, and define the data users can see.
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