IBM Cognos 10 roadshow agenda
| Time | Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics Track |
|---|---|
| This session is aimed at Technical creators | |
| 09:15 - 09:35 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 09:35 - 10:25 | Metadata and Data Modelling: This session looks at how to build the Metadata foundation for Cognos 10 to enable reporting and analysis from a variety of data sources including transactional and multidimensional. |
| 10:25 - 11:10 | Enterprise Content Creation - This session explores how to create, manage and distribute complex, multi-page reports using a variety of different data sources, highlighting how Cognos 10 uses drag-and-drop authoring to incorporate data, text, charts and graphs whilst maintaining flexibility. It will also demonstrate how to create Active Reports - highly visual, interactive dashboards for offline user consumption. |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Coffee Break |
| 11:25 - 12:00 | Personal Data Exploration: See how the new Cognos Insight personal analytics solution empowers business users to analyze, visualize, perform “what-if” analysis and share insights without compromising IT values. |
| 12:00 - 12:50 | End User Delivery: Explore how end users can create collaborative workspaces and dashboards and seamlessly launch into the advanced mode to perform "Train of Thought" analysis. |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Wrap up and Q&A |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Networking Lunch & Solution Showcase |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | IBM SPSS - Predictive analytics helps your organization anticipate change so that you can plan and carry out strategies that improve outcomes. This session shows how SPSS can be used to perform statistical analysis of data, find patterns and trends in your data more easily and deploy these solutions within your organisation to achieve measurable ROI including integration with your Cognos BI solution. |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | BI Administration - An overview of the fundamental tasks of administering servers and content in IBM Cognos BI. This includes a demonstration of how Lifecycle Manager can assist in managing the upgrade process, enabling you to test, compare and record report results between different versions of Cognos to ensure compatible results. |
| 15:30 | CLOSE |
| Time | Performance Management Track |
|---|---|
| This session aimed at Business users | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Welcolme & Introduction |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | How Are we doing? See how IBM Cognos Active Reports deliver Business Intelligence to a broad set of users quickly, enabling access to interactive information offline. Understand how to align tactics with strategy and monitor performance with scorecards. |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Why are we doing it? Allow business users to grow their understanding of key issues by assembling their own unified view of key business drivers, explore the data in more depth as needed and expand understanding by importing external data to give further insights to a wider business community. |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 - 12:50 | What should we be doing? Discover how Cognos Insight enables users to explore, analyze, visualize and share insights from their desktops. See how you can use your company's data to predict effective ways to increase sales and enhance customer relationships with predictive analytics. Review how plans and forecasts are revised and aligned for changing business conditions using IBM Cognos TM1. |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Wrap up and Q&A |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Networking Lunch & Solution Showcase |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Creating and Deploying Planning Models - Understand how easily planning models can be built by the business user with Cognos TM1 10.1. This session provides an overview of the solution's intuitive modelling interface (importing data, defining business logic, etc) and publishing models to a wider audience to achieve structured planning processes. |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Controller and Financial Reporting - See how to automate and accelerate your financial close process while reducing compliance and audit costs. Our application driven financial consolidation software enables full vision and control over the consolidation process. The resulting reports are passed directly to our Financial Statement Reporting solution. Reducing delivery time frames, while increasing visibility, audibility and information quality. |
| 15:30 | CLOSE |