Training offering

IBM Cognos TM1 Design and Develop Models (V10.1) - SPVC

Overview

Course materials for this course are available in:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish (Spain)
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Portuguese (Brazil)

The course image is available in English only.

This is the self paced training version of ''IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V10.1)'' classroom course. IBM Cognos TM1: Design and Develop Models (V10.1) is an intermediate 5-day self-paced training course. This offering will teach modelers how to build a complete model in TM1. Students will learn how to model, link and deploy TM1 applications.

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Public

This course is intended for Modelers.

Prerequisits

You should have:

• Experience using the Windows operating system and a Web browser
• Experience using Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of your business requirements

Objective

Please refer to course overview.

Topics

Overview of IBM Cognos TM1

• explore IBM Cognos TM1 applications
• explore the IBM Cognos TM1 environment
• manage and organize a model

Identify Common Data Structures

• discuss Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
• examine core model design principles
• identify the basic tasks required to create a TM1 model and deploy it

Import Data to Create Objects

• discuss guided import
• import data to create a dimension
• import data to create and populate a cube

Create and Customize Dimensions

• create dimensions manually
• import and edit dimensions
• create dimension calculations

Create and Customize Cubes

• construct a new cube
• discuss cube properties
• edit a cube structure

Import Data

• create processes to load data
• create a process to delete data in a cube
• create processes to update and maintain the model

Share Data Across Cubes with Links

• discuss and list types of links
• create and modify links
• review rule and process based links

Customize Business Rules

• discuss a rule
• review automatically generated rules
• discuss and re-order rule blocks

Optimize Rule Performance

• discuss consolidations and sparsity
• enhance consolidation performance
• modify automatically generated statements

Complete the Income Statement Model

• discuss the model development process
• complete objects for the model
• review tools to aid in model development

Create Applications

• explain the application types
• access an IBM Cognos TM1 application
• create a new application

Use Advanced Modeling Techniques

• Use dimension functions
• Implement moving balances in a cube

Model Data with IBM Cognos TM1 Architect

• Define drill-thru
• Use Rules Tracer

Convert Currencies

• Discuss currency challenges
• Model data for currency conversion

Contribute Data to Planning Applications (Optional)

Integrate with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (Optional)

Optimize and Tune Models (Optional)

Define Workflow (Optional)