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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Scorecarding Application Design with
– Examine a Metric Designer Project and understand the purpose
of Object and Metric Extracts
– Execute Object Extracts
– Schedule a Job to automate Extracts and other Metric
Maintenance Tasks
• Q&A and Wrap-up
pane in the GoToWebinar control panel
• We will address questions LIVE at the conclusion of the
presentation, so if you do not get an immediate response,
please HOLD ON!
• We will try to answer EVERY question via email if we do not
get a chance to respond while you are attending the Webinar
Welcome and Introduction
• Who we are: – Jim Frazier, V.P. Sales
– Albert Valdez, Director of Education Services • 11 years as a Technical Trainer, focused on Business Intelligence and
Performance Management
• 5 years as a Senior Education Specialist at Cognos, Inc.
• Lifetime CTT+ Certification from CompTIA
• IBM Cognos Certified
• Last 5+ Years as a Senior Consultant, Solutions Architect, Education Director
Who is Senturus ?
– Business Intelligence and Enterprise Planning
– Platform-independent
– Cognos Platinum Partner 2002-2008
• Led by professional trainers and seasoned consultants
A few of our 400+ Clients
SCORECARDING DEFINITION
From The Balanced Scorecard
* Note the difference between Leading and Lagging indicators
Linking Performance Measures
Business Planning
• Align Execution with Strategy
• Provide incentive for a balanced approach
• Monitor leading indicators to “look out the front
windshield, not the rear view mirror”
Scorecard Challenges
*Key Performance Indicators
Reference BI Architecture
ETL Layer (optional) Cognos Data Manager (or 3rd party tools)
Data Warehouse
OLAP Cubes (optional) Hyperion
Demonstration
Purpose:
1. Understand what Object Extracts are, and why we define them in Metric Designer
2. Execute Object Extracts to populate a new Metrics Application
3. Transfer data from staging tables to metric store tables
IBM Cognos Scorecarding
Demonstration
Purpose:
1. Understand what Metrics Extracts are, and why we define them in Metric Designer
2. Execute Metrics Extracts to populate a new Metrics Application
3. Transfer data from staging tables to metric store tables
IBM Cognos Scorecarding
2. Create a Job to schedule Extracts and Data Transfers
Cognos Training Options
• Custom On-site Training
About Senturus Training
• Why not just go to the IBM Cognos public classes?
– On-site is more cost-effective when there are more than 4
people to train
– Attendance is limited to your group, minimizing distractions,
and allowing our instructors to focus on your group’s
pertinent concerns
your audience
• As an IBM Partner, we can offer discounts on IBM
Public training starting at 10%
• We are your Training Partner!
What does Senturus Training offer: • Standard On-site Classroom delivery
– Based on Great Outdoors sample data
– Can be delivered anywhere, anytime
– Compressed format (fewer days)
– $3,495 per day list price (up to 12 students)
• Customized On-site Classroom delivery – Based on client’s data
– Requires longer lead times so we can prepare materials
– Higher impact, more relevant, closes learning gap much faster
– $3,495 per day of delivery and per day of course prep.
• Small Group Mentoring – We work on your data, in your environment
– Our experts facilitate the learning process while resolving actual issues and working toward a concrete deliverable
– Small group size allows for personalized knowledge transfer at the appropriate pace
– Rates start at $225 per hour
Want more???
• Senturus is offering unique opportunities to attend complete, live, hands-on training sessions remotely
• Formal classroom setting with virtual workstations for each student
• Remote attendance available – attend from anywhere, all you need is an Internet-connected PC (dual displays and PC headset recommended)
• Valuable hard-copy course handouts with step by step instructions
• $595 per day, per student
Cognos Training Options
by Yours Truly. $595 per student, per day. *New
classes in BOLD: • Next Thursday and Friday, June 23-24: Metadata Modeling
Best Practices
• July 14-15: OLAP Modeling with Transformer
• August 18: Report Studio Advanced Author Training
• August 23: Cognos 10 Authoring Active Reports
• August 25: Introduction to Cognos 10 Business Insight
• August 26: Cognos 10 Business Insight Advanced
– Registration information will be sent along with the
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