8:45 – 9:15
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Registration
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Stream 1 - Aimed @ BI and IT
professionals. This session demonstrates the
implementation of the IBM Cognos 8 solution from start to finish. Covering
the IBM Cognos 8 single product approach on a proven single Web
services-based, services oriented architecture.
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Stream 2 - Aimed @ Business Analysts
and Finance professionals. This session demonstrates how you
can get an at-a-glance view of performance with dashboards and scorecards.
Use IBM Cognos 8 to analyse financial and non-financial information and see
how IBM Cognos Planning is used to engage the business in the planning
process.
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09:15
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Welcome and Introduction
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09:15
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Welcome and Introduction
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09:35
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Configuration,
Architecture and Security
This provides an overview of the IBM Cognos 8 Architecture and Security
capabilities and shows how to configure IBM Cognos 8 to run in your
environment for the first time. |
09:20
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Introduction to
IBM Cognos 8 and Performance Management |
09:55
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Metadata and Data
Modeling
This looks at how to build the Metadata foundation for IBM Cognos 8 to enable
reporting and analysis from a variety of data sources including Transactional
and Multidimensional. |
09:40
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Know how you are
doing – Dashboards & Scorecards
Discover how you can get an at-a-glance view of performance in a number of
ways including interactive charts, reports and metrics to enable better
understanding of business performance. |
10:35
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Break |
10:20
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Understand why –
Reporting and Analysis
See how IBM Cognos 8 BI enables the guided exploration and analysis of both
financial and non-financial information, helping users to get a better
understanding of why the business is doing well or badly in different
areas.Discover how IBM Cognos 8 BI provides financial and business users with
a self-service capability to quickly build, edit and share formatted reports. |
10:45
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Ad Hoc Query
Users have different requirements when it comes to accessing and using
information. This session looks at how a Business User can produce ad-hoc
reports easily.
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11:00
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Break
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11:00
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Analysis
IBM Cognos 8 enables the guided exploration and analysis of information that
pertains to all dimensions of your business - regardless of where the data is
stored. This session shows how analytical users can interrogate dimensional
data sources.
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11:15
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Determine what
you should be doing next – Planning & Budgeting
Find out how IBM Cognos 8 Planning is used to set targets across an
organisation and how bottom up plans are aligned against those targets. Learn
how to improve budget ownership through high participation planning. This
session also covers how to reduce cycle times with submission management. |
11:25
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Express Authoring
This session demonstrates how IBM Cognos 8 Express Authoring offers a
streamlined interface providing financial/business analysts with a quick and
easy mechanism to create formatted reports to support financial and business
processes. These reports can then be made available through the IBM Cognos 8
Portal for scheduling and alerting |
11:55
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Break
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11:45
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Break
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12:10
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Building a Planning Model
Understand how planning models can be built without the need for coding or
programming skills – in other words by business users.
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11:55
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Sophisticated Report Authoring
This session explores how to create complex, multi-page layouts and
dashboards using a variety of different data sources, highlighting how IBM
Cognos 8 uses drag-and-drop authoring to incorporate data, text, charts,
graphs, and images whilst maintaining flexibility. It will also demonstrate
how to create interactive prompted reports for end user consumption through
interactive portal pages.
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12:50
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Wrap-up with Q&A
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12:45
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Wrap-up
with Q&A
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13:00 – 13:45
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Lunch and Networking
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13.45 – 14.30
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Extended Access Modes (Optional)
This session demonstrates the IBM Cognos 8 Go! family of consumer
modes which have been designed to help you increase business intelligence
user adoption rates within your organisation. A variety of modes will be
shown highlighting mobile, Microsoft office and search capabilities all
reusing IBM Cognos 8 content.
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Administration Facilities (Optional)
This optional session is aimed at those responsible for the
deployment and management of an IBM Cognos 8 system. In it you will see how
BI content can be deployed from development to a production system and
validated to ensure there are no differences. The session will also cover
the administration of the IBM Cognos 8 system, showing the types of metrics
and capabilities that are available for monitoring to ensure system
availability and performance.
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Financial Consolidation (Optional)
Aimed at Finance Professionals, IBM Cognos 8 Controller provides
your finance team with unmatched capabilities for managing the close,
consolidation, and reporting process. This session demonstrates how IBM
Cognos 8 Controller can reduce close cycle times and give you the
transparency that is essential for sustained compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
and IFRS while supporting local, regional, or global requirements and
enabling you to adapt to business and regulatory changes in real time.
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14.40 – 15.30
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Scorecarding
(Optional)
Scorecarding is a key capability within IBM Cognos 8, this optional
session practically demonstrates how to build a scorecard within IBM Cognos
8 and illustrates how you can align your teams and tactics with strategy;
communicate goals consistently, and monitor performance against targets
through it. The relative merits of scorecarding vs. dashboarding will also
be discussed.
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Business ViewPoint (Optional)
This session introduces Business Viewpoint, a new IBM Cognos
offering. Business Viewpoint is a controlled, collaborative,
workflow-oriented business process to enable the business users to create,
manage, govern and share the changes to all dimensions related to how
enterprises analyse and manage their business. The session will cover how
business users are given the responsibility to manage dimensions in their
areas of domain responsibility. Learn how, by using workflows, proposed
changes and additions to dimensions are approved and validated before being
distributed throughout the enterprise.
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Upgrading Powerplay 7 to Powerplay 8 (Optional)
Aimed purely at existing IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay users, this
session explores the new features in IBM Cognos 8 v4 designed to build on
your PowerPlay investment while exploiting new IBM Cognos 8 capabilities.
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15.30
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