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IBM Cognos is an established product with a large user base. It is a full-featured platform comprising Query Studio, Reporting Studio, Analysis Studio and Event Studio, and Cognos Administration along with some newer tools for Microsoft Office integration, full-text search and dashboards.

  • Query Studio: Designed for non-technical users to rapidly create simple reports
  • Report Studio: Report Studio is the main report design, creation and distribution tool
  • Analysis Studio: Analysis Studio is for exploring and comparing dimensional data
  • Event Studio: Event Studio is for setting up data monitoring and exception alerts
  • Metric Studio: Metric Studio is for creating KPI dashboards and scorecards
  • Cognos Administration: Central management interface for performing all administrative tasks

This technology is very mature and reliable, and is designed primarily for larger deployments. However, it does requires significant resources to deploy and maintain.

IBM launched a limited release of its Watson Analytics platform in 2014 as a foray into the data discovery space. This product combines the power of Watson’s cognitive computing technology with existing predictive analytics capabilities to produce a natural language query engine. The result is a very powerful analytics engine for ordinary business users

The BI life cycle spans a continuum that begins with large amounts of disparate data and stretches to encompass people, technology, information, analysis, and decision making. The benefits of BI are substantial: new business capabilities for insight, forecasting, planning, agility, and strategy execution.
Realizing benefits is challenging. With many moving parts—infrastructure, technology, data, integration, analytics, applications, metrics, reports, dashboards, scorecards—putting the pieces together in the most effective way is difficult. Learn the basics of BI from end to end, with special attention to two of the most important factors for BI success: planning and collaboration. You are most able to chart a course for BI success when teams and stakeholders share common concepts, use consistent terminology, and contribute collectively to the BI vision.

You Will Learn

  • Meaningful and actionable definitions of BI
  • Effective ways to deliver BI: Web, mobile, desktop, etc.
  • Common kinds of BI reporting: ad hoc, published, enterprise, and operational
  • Performance management principles, including dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs
  • Business analyst principles, including OLAP, analytic modeling, and data visualization
  • Advanced analytics concepts for data mining, predictive analytics, and text analytics
  • Data management practices, including profiling, cleansing, and quality management
  • Data integration practices, including consolidation, virtualization, and data warehousing

Geared To

  • Anyone with a role in BI/DW programs who needs to understand the concepts and the full life cycle of BI
  • BI/DW managers and leaders seeking to increase the value and business impact of a BI program
  • Business andtechnical people who need to work together to implement BI
  • Teams that need to develop a common base of concepts and terminology for BI

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