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1 Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future IBM Cognos 10.2 Cognos Workspace and Cognos Workspace Advanced Webinar June 4, 2013 www.Senturus.com
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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future
IBM Cognos 10.2 Cognos Workspace and
Cognos Workspace Advanced
Webinar June 4, 2013
www.Senturus.com
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• Welcome and Introduction
• IBM Cognos 10.2 Business Authoring Overview • Who are Business Authors?
• What tools are available?
• Cognos Workspace Demonstration
• Cognos Workspace Advanced Demonstration
• Upcoming Senturus Training
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda
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Introduction
John Peterson,
Co-Founder, COO
Senturus
Albert Valdez
Director of Education Services
Senturus
• 12+ years as a technical trainer, focused on business intelligence and performance management
• Lifetime CTT+ certification from CompTIA, IBM Cognos 10 Certified
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Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance Management
– Business Intelligence
• Predictive Analytics
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 13-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,200 projects for 650+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise. Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
www.Senturus.com 888.601.6010 [email protected]
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A few of our 650+ Clients
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IBM Cognos 10.2 Business Authoring
Overview
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Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2 Release October, 2012
• Workspace User Experience
• For BOTH Cognos Insight and Cognos Workspace (formerly Business Insight):
• More interactive visualizations (drilling, filtering on Charts)
• Top/Bottom Filtering, Expand/Collapse, Freeze Headers
• Tabbed Workspaces
• Business Insight Advanced is now Cognos Workspace Advanced
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Who Are Business Authors?
• Typically the Business Author is an analyst or subject matter expert that regularly needs access to enterprise data
• Business Authors are generally technically capable, but not necessarily technicians
• Their focus is to derive insight from data in order to support critical business analysis • Understand what happened, why it happened, and how to do
things better the next time
• Often times the skills required to extract the data are limited to IT team members, but…
• The demand for that data continues to grow
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What Tools Are Available?
• Query Studio • Ideal for simple, ad-hoc authoring
• Easy to learn and use, but limited capabilities
• Analysis Studio • Provides a dedicated data exploration interface for slice-and-dice
analytics
• NOT intended to produce reports
• Report Studio • Highly sophisticated professional authoring studio
• Not designed for ad-hoc analysis
• Full-featured and complex – steep learning curve
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What Tools Are Available?
• Cognos Workspace • Assemble existing content and personalize, collaborate, explore
• Not an end-to-end authoring solution
• Enhances the business consumer’s experience
• Amplifies the value of standard reports
• Cognos Workspace Advanced • Nearly complete authoring
• Unrestricted data exploration
• Compatible with Report Studio
• Gives you flexibility similar to PowerPlay client Reporter Mode
• Can be seen as a hybrid of Query, Analysis, and Report Studio
• Supports complex expressions (calculations)
• No access to Query model
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IBM Cognos 10.2 Cognos Workspace
Demonstrations
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Demonstrations:
– What is Cognos Workspace?
• Create a workspace from existing report content
• Enhance the workspace
• Extend our analysis with Cognos Workspace Advanced
– What is Cognos Workspace Advanced?
• Create a multi-display report layout
• Conditionally format data
• Filter and prompt for criteria
• Create an asynchronous crosstab and perform deep data exploration
IBM Cognos 10.2 Cognos Workspace
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Cognos Training Options
*Custom, tailored training also available*
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• Welcome and Introduction
• IBM Cognos 10.2 Business Authoring Overview • Who are Business Authors?
• What tools are available?
• Cognos Workspace Demonstration
• Cognos Workspace Advanced Demonstration
• Upcoming Senturus Training
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda
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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the Present and Shape the Future
www.senturus.com
888-601-6010
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