Cognos PowerPlay User Training Course Outline

Duration: 1 day

Audience: New Users

Brief:
This course provides attendees with the skills necessary to be an effective user of PowerPlay. The basics of multi-dimensional reporting will be covered, and participants will learn how to use PowerPlay to get key performance information from their data. All of the basic functionality of PowerPlay Explorer and Reporter will be covered. This course contains numerous hands on exercises and workshops which will reinforce the key concepts taught.

Course Notes:
This course is delivered using a general PowerPlay demo application as the basis for the workshops, examples, and class discussion. It may be customized to include your environment. There is an additional fee for customization.

Recommended Prerequisites:
None, although familiarity with Microsoft Windows is beneficial for this course.

Topics:

Concepts
• Dimensions and measures
• Levels and categories
• The PowerPlay user interface

Exploring Techniques
• Increasing data detail by drilling down
• The dimension viewer
• Changing rows, columns and layers
• Ranking and sorting
• Using multiple measures
• Adding nested categories
• Alternate drill downs
• Modifying the display type
• Changing the views

Reporting
• Ranking and highlighting the data
• Calculations
• Intersecting categories
• Nested crosstabs
• Formatting techniques
• Exception highlighting
• Working with subsets
• Currency conversion
• Hiding and unhiding the data
• Customizing views, reports, styles and the
environment