This course will be delivered by our instructor online and via Ironside's online training lab interface.

Course Overview

Ironside’s four-day Cognos Report Authoring course will teach Fundamentals and Advanced concepts within IBM Cognos Analytics, the latest version of IBM's flagship business analytics software. The training course will be followed by optional mentoring day(s) to provide hands on, real world practice of the concepts learned.

Arkansas Public Schools, Charter Schools and Cooperatives use Cognos to pull reports from the Arkansas Public School Computer Network (APSCN) Student and Financial Applications.

The main course will be delivered in version 11.1.4, which is the version that school employees who access APSCN for reporting (through eFinance and/or eSchool) will begin using following an upgrade scheduled to be completed soon in late 2020/early 2021.

The curriculum will give you the solid BI reporting foundation necessary for unlocking your data’s potential and then equip you with the refined skills essential to becoming a true champion of business analytics.

While this class is specifically for employees of Arkansas school districts, the class will be delivered using manuals containing standard IBM Cognos 11.1.4 sample data.

Mentoring

To facilitate the transfer to real world application and use of Cognos, Ironside will offer students an optional mentoring session(s) after the core curriculum is delivered. On Wednesday 1/20 /21 from 9-4 pm CT we'll explore the eSchool data model and on Thursday 1/21/20 from 9-4 pm CT we'll access the eFinance data model. We'll answer questions and conduct classroom workshops.

These sessions are optional and you may attend one or both. You must attend the 1/11/-1/14 training in order to attend the mentoring.

Please note that for the main classroom session 1/11-14 students must use  their own laptop and have the ability connect to Ironside's online training lab environment.   

In order to attend the mentoring students must have access to the eSchool and/or eFinance data models.

The following topics will be covered in the training:

• Introduction to Cognos Analytics
• Cognos Analytics Navigation
• List Reports
• Crosstab Reports
• Report Formatting Techniques
• Filters
• Prompts 
• Calculations
• Charts 
• Repeater Tables and Repeaters
• Report Formatting Techniques
• Singletons
• Additional Report Building Techniques
• Conditional Formatting
• Creating Query Models
• Advanced Querying
• Drill Through Reports
• Advanced Reporting Techniques
• Customizing Prompts
• Advanced Prompting
• Report Bursting
• Additional Techniques 

Ironside's Commitment to Excellence

At Ironside, we firmly believe that a solid understanding of the technology is only part of the puzzle. Listening, and partnering with you, our customer is the most critical part of any project. Because our educators have a varied background, they can look at problems with a different perspective, and often provide specific examples and exercises on the fly. Our goal is to make students independent by allowing them to provide concepts and methods to improve business decisions on a daily basis.