1. Cognos BI Training A 3S Global Presentation Our goal is to build IT talent pool locally and help them find jobs.

2. About 3S Global 3S Global is California based Minority Owned Enterprise (MBE). Our certificates include: Federal SBE SBA SDBE California State Certified Small Business Enterprise City of Los Angeles Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) and Small And Local Business Enterprise (SLBE) County of Los Angeles certified SBE and Women and Minority Owned Business Enterprise (W/MBE) SCMBDC (NMSDC) MBE 3S GBS is an IT Service Provider that offers value-based business solutions enabling our clients to gain operational efficiency and measurable improvement of ROI. Our mission is to offer high quality IT Services to our valued clients. We offer IT consulting services including Project Management, Technical Architecture and implementation of software on Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, HP and other platforms. 3. Minority Technology Firm of The Year AwardWith Mayor Villaraigosa 4. Our Select Client & Projects Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles, CA - Technical Documentation Specialist project Bank of America/ Merrill Lynch, Hopewell, NJ - SharePoint Development work Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield, NJ ETL development using Informatica tool Capgemini, IL Manual Quality Assurance ADP, Camarillo, CA - SharePoint Development NY Stock Exchange - Quality Assurance Los Angeles County Internal Services Division, Downey, CA - Senior .NET Web Application Development 5. Agenda Our training format What is Business Intelligence ? Major BI Products Cognos Business Intelligence How to become a Cognos BI Consultant Cognos BI Training Hands on Experience Certification What Value will get with this training. 6. Our Training Format We provide instructor led hands-on raining environment We offer weekend training classes Our effort will to get you Certified as a Cognos Consultant and we will work with you find project opportunities. The course content is designed in such a way emphasis is more on understanding the concepts and how to apply them in a real life projects 7. Training Format 8. WHAT IS BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE? 9. What is Business Intelligence (BI)? Business Intelligence (BI) BI refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information .Purpose of BI To support better, improved and more efficient Decision MakingBI Systems Provide BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations.BI Systems Information Uses data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or data mart. 10. Definition of BI BusinessIntelligence is the process of transforming data into information, information into knowledge and through iterative discoveries turning knowledge into Business Intelligence - Gartner group 11. Why BI? What happened?Past What is happening?Why did it happen?What will happen?What do I want happen?PresentFuture 12. Reach More User Communities Users receive information how, when and where it is needed EXECUTIVE At-a-glance view of operational and financial performance BUSINESS MANAGER Fast access to relevant information to make better operational decisions CUSTOMER & PARTNERS Secure access to information over the web with no trainingFINANCIAL & BUSINESS ANALYST Free to explore and analyze data from multiple sourcesEMPLOYEES Receive scheduled, personalized content and subscribe to most relevant to their role 13. Some Benefits of BI Customer behavior analysis Targeted marketing and sales strategies Business scenarios and forecasting Business service management Business planning and operation optimization Better decisions with greater speed and confidence Shorten marketing efforts Improve customer relationships Improve revenue and profit 14. MAJOR BI PRODUCTS 15. The Major BI Vendors BI Tools Business Objects ( Owned by SAP ) Cognos ( Owned by IBM ) Information Builders -Focus & WebFocus. Microsoft SSIS/SSAS/SSRS Microstrategy OBIEE ( Oracle ) QlikTech QlikView SAS 16. Unprecedented Technology Trends Four disruptive technology forces, or "mega-trends," are changing the way people behave: The explosion of Big Data The Mobile Wave The migration of information to the Cloud The emergence of Application Networks 17. Gartner releases 2013 BI Magic Quadrant 18. Top 10 CIO Business and Tech Priorities of 2013 Top 10 Business Priorities Top 10 Technology Priorities Increasing enterprise growthMobile TechnologiesReducing enterprise costAnalytics and BICreating new products and servicesCloud Computing ( Saas, LaaS, PaaS )Delivering operational resultsVirtualizationImproving efficiencyCollaboration TechnologiesImproving profitabilityLegacy ModernizationAttracting and retaining the workforceIT ManagementImproving marketing and sales effectivenessSecurityExpanding into new markets and geographies.ERP ApplicationCRM 19. WHAT IS COGNOS BI? 20. History of Cognos Cognos was founded in 1969 by Alan Rushforth and Peter Glenister. It began as a consulting company for the Canadian Government and offered its first software product, QUIZ, in 1979Originally Quasar Systems Limited, it adopted the Cognos name in 1982. Cognos is a fragment scissor off the Latin word "cognosco," which means "knowledge from personal experience. In 1995, Ron Zambonini was named CEO and Cognos grew successful with its business intelligence products. In 2007, following SAPs acquisition of Business Objects and Oracles acquisition of Hyperion Solutions. IBM announced its acquisition of Cognos in November 2007 for $4.9 billion. Since January 1, 2009, the software is called "Cognos BI and Financial Performance Management" or Cognos BI and FPM. 21. What is Cognos? Cognos provides a unified workspace for BI and analytics that company's can use to answer key business questions and outperform the competition. This is what Users can do: Easily view - assemble and personalize information. Explore all types of information from all angles to assess the current business situation.Analyze facts and anticipate tactical and strategic implications by simply shifting from viewing to more advanced, predictive or what-if analysis. 22. What is Cognos? . Collaborate to establish decision networks to share insights and drive toward a collective intelligence. Provide transparency and accountability to drive alignment and consensus. Communicate and coordinate tasks to engage the right people at the right time. Access information and take action anywhere, taking advantage of mobile devices and real-time analytics. Integrate and link analytics in everyday work to business workflow and process. 23. Versions of Cognos Series 7 - 7.0 , 7.1 , 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5Series 8 - 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4,Series 10 - 10.1, 10.2, 10.2.1 24. Reporting and Query These capabilities are for authoring reports, viewing reports and modifying reports and queries that meet all the needs of users, no matter where or how they work: Professional report authors can design, build and securely distribute multilingual reports to the enterprise. Business users can easily create their own reports on the fly or modify existing reports using trusted data without having to ask IT. IT administrators can deploy, manage and expand the reporting application from a central console that streamlines administrative tasks. The mobile workforce can access and interact with reports on mobile devices, in Microsoft Office applications, in embedded and in-process business intelligence and while disconnected. 25. Reporting and Query 26. Analysis Analysis capabilities meet the needs of all users in your organization with a single, intuitive workspace. With this workspace, everyone can: Access all the informationat all angles and perspectivesthey need to drive informed decisions. Seamlessly transition to deeper analysis capabilities and perform complex analysis tasks quickly and easily to get to the why behind an event or action. Validate key information and drive business decisions by incorporating statistical evidence in reports. Drill-down into and filter real-time data and incorporate analysis of a broader range of alternative scenarios to build what-if projections. Deliver the power of predictive analytics into the hands of business users. 27. Analysis 28. Scorecard With scorecards, you can track performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs) to link corporate strategy to operational tactics. Scorecards enable you to set quantifiable goals for any time period and monitor progress on specific projects and activities. You can create strategy maps, impact diagrams and other elements and maintain metrics in a centralized data store to ensure consistent definitions. Scorecards from IBM business intelligence software help you: Align strategy with operations. Communicate strategy and track your progress. Ensure accountability for performance. Share with more user communities. Enjoy simple deployment and administration. 29. Scorecard 30. Dashboard Users can easily view, assemble and analyze the information required to make better decision, Provides at-a-glance, high impact views of complex information Combines information across disparate sources . Analyze information and share the results to follow a train of thought or generate a unique perspective. Assemble and format all kinds of content by dragging-and-dropping, filtering, modifying and arranging layout, adding colors and text and personalizing widgets. Access and interact with dashboards regardless of language or location with mobile applications. Schedule, burst and distribute professionally authored dashboards to a broad audience of consumers including those who need disconnected access to their dashboards. 31. Dashboard 32. Dashboard 33. IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring Cognos Real-time Monitoring is a continuous business monitoring solution which supports performance goals of a customer service center and supports the center in effectively optimizing. Key Features In-memory streaming analytics. Real-time events, alerts, and notifications. Integration with IBM Cognos Real-time Monitoring content is viewable within Business Insight .Benefits Reduced time to decision and action by accessing data with no latency. Increased productivity among front-line workers with access to data for intraday decisions.Improved productivity through proactive real-time notifications and workflow. 34. Real Time Monitoring 35. Rich BI in Mobile Applications Mobile apps for BI make information available when and where its needed. Using IBM BI mobile apps for Apple, BlackBerry and Android, you can interact with reports, analysis, dashboards and more on smart phones, tablets and notebook computers. You Can: Experience insight wherever you are through quick and simple access to business intelligence.Interact with information like never before in a rich, visual and interactive experience. Confidently and easily deploy relevant and reusable business intelligence to any device. 36. Mobile BI 37. Cognos on Ipad 38. Active Reports / Disconnected BI IBM Cognos Active Report provides an interactive analytics experience in a self-contained BI application for browsing and exploring data offline. Mobile workers can take their data with them to discover opportunities and analyze trends even when they are nowhere near a network.Explore information without having to rely on online connectivity. Access the BI you need while offline for uninterrupted productivity. Provide business intelligence to individuals regardless of their location, situation or connectivity 39. Disconnected BI Adhoc Reports 40. RoamBI- A Bonus Training Roambi is a business application that changes raw business data into interactive graphics designed for mobile devices on the iOS platform such asApple Inc.s iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini. The applications connect to popular information systems including Excel or Salesforce.com and business intelligence systems such as Cognos and corporate databases such as Microsoft SQL. Users then select from pre-designed templates to deliver the data in different forms (pie chart, graphs etc.) The app is currently used by over 20% of the Fortune 50 and has been downloaded more than 600,000 times Roambi leverages your existing Web Intelligence https://support.roambi.com/entries/21345413-Roambi-Overview 41. Cognos Certification Specifics There are a variety of career paths associated with Cognos certification. Each varying module provides supplementary skills for the various business development needs.Time Frame Completing Cognos certification often depends on the individual. Courses can be completed very quickly, pending the availability of resources and testing sites. Completing the courses within a reasonable time period is beneficial, as the information is fresh through completion of the modules.Benefits Obtaining a professional certification offers many benefits. Enhanced salaries, a heightened knowledge of industry tips and career advancement opportunities are among the benefits of obtaining Cognos certification training. 42. What does Our Training Offer Standard Classroom Delivery Based on great Outdoors sample data. Can be delivered anywhere, anytime. Compressed format Price : Call for more Details. Small Group Mentoring We work on your data. Requires longer lead time so we can prepare materials. Higher impact, more relevant, closes learning gap much faster. Small Group size allows for personalized knowledge transfer at the appropriate pace. 43. How much $$$$ can you make? Cognos Developer average salary is $74,630, median salary is $74,000 with a salary range from $50,000 to $115,170. Cognos Developer salaries are collected from government agencies and companies. 44. Our Objective Help you become an IBM Certified professionalSupport you to find suitable job placement 45. THANK YOU Contact : Sujit Ghosh Sujit.ghosh@3sgbs.com Cell : 818-878-0834