First Guide to Dashboards using IBM Cognos Analytics

Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 is the latest version of IBM Cognos Analytics. Its cloud version is now within the reach of individuals and small enterprises. Cognos Analytics is popular with big organizations, such as banks and pharmaceutical companies, as their enterprise tool for reporting and analytics.

Since the launch of Cognos Analytics v11, IBM has added several important new features, this course aims to covers all the latest features added to v11.1 R5. It focuses on the Dashboard Tool, and is suitable for end-users (who are simply consumers of data and need to analyze it and create dashboards for consumption) to IT developers who deliver high-quality reporting solutions.

Cognos Analytics v11.1 R5 is a next-generation, sleek, unified tool that provides end-users, power-users, and IT professional with a fast, intent-driven dashboard and a report-authoring interface on top of the strong foundation that IBM Cognos has supplied over decades.

About the Author

Abhishek Sanghani has been working in the Reporting and Analytics area for 16 years, delivering countless reporting solutions, using Cognos Business Intelligence and Cognos Analytics tools. He has authored books on Cognos Report Studio, and video courses for Dashboards and ‘Beyond Dashboard’.

He strongly believes that Cognos v11.1 R5 has a great future in the space of Analytics because of its strong foundation on the Calculation Engine and ability to connect to a wide variety of data sources, robust Data Modelling capabilities and Stunning Visualizations along with the flexibilities offered in Report tool.

Abhishek is currently leading a team of software developers in a global financial services company, to deliver analytical applications with dashboards and self-service capabilities. He works with other products like QlikView, Tableau and Microstrategy, and possesses advanced skills in TM1, Oracle, Microstrategy, SQL Server, SSAS.