Cognos 8 BI Professional Workshop

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The Cognos 8 BI Professional Workshop is a 5-day, instructor-led, workshop intensive course that is a follow-up to basic BI product training and certification. A voucher is required to register for this workshop. You can request the voucher through the Certification Mailbox.

In addition to instructor-led presentations, students will participate in several team/role based (e.g. modeler, administrator, author) workshops designed to give experience in addressing scenarios typically encountered by BI developers and consultants in the field. The workshops are open ended in that there is no right answer. Instead, the teams will present their solutions to the rest of the class for discussion.

Lectures and in-class workshops will cover the following areas:

• using a practical and effective development method and approach
• determining/ confirming user requirements including key metrics required
• producing a logical design to address the business requirements
• recommending or correct matching of components to different groups of users
• recommending initial multi-server installation and configuration for development, test, and production environments
• validating developed solutions against user requirements

In addition to the in-class workshops, each team will be required to complete a final comprehensive workshop. The teams will be given approximately one day to prepare a prototype solution from new business requirements interview notes, using a previously unseen (non-trivial) database. Each team will present their solution to the instructor (acting as the client) and to the rest of the class for questions and critiques.