Business users have long needed a dashboard that allows them to easily interact and explore their data. IBM Cognos Workspace is a desktop dashboard that allows business users to do report authoring without assistance from IT. In this webinar deck, we explore Cognos Workspace and Workspace Advanced. We demonstrate techniques and evaluate its features. Senturus, a business analytics consulting firm, has a resource library with hundreds of free recorded webinars, trainings, demos and unbiased product reviews. Take a look and share them with your colleagues and friends: http://www.senturus.com/resources/.

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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the
Present and Shape the Future
IBM Cognos 10.2
Cognos Workspace and
Cognos Workspace Advanced
Webinar
June 4, 2013
www.Senturus.com

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• Welcome and Introduction
• IBM Cognos 10.2 Business Authoring Overview
• Who are Business Authors?
• What tools are available?
• Cognos Workspace Demonstration
• Cognos Workspace Advanced Demonstration
• Upcoming Senturus Training
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda

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Introduction
John Peterson,
Co-Founder, COO
Senturus
Albert Valdez
Director of Education Services
Senturus
• 12+ years as a technical trainer,
focused on business intelligence
and performance management
• Lifetime CTT+ certification from
CompTIA, IBM Cognos 10 Certified

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Who is Senturus ?
• Consulting firm specializing in Corporate Performance
Management
– Business Intelligence
• Predictive Analytics
– Tools of the Office of Finance
• Enterprise planning & budgeting
– San Francisco Business Times Hall of Fame -- Four
consecutive years in Fast 100 list of fastest-growing
private companies in the Bay Area
• Experience
– 13-year focus on performance management
– More than 1,200 projects for 650+ clients
• People
– Business depth combined with technical expertise.
Former CFOs, CIOs, Controllers, Directors...
– DBAs with MBAs
www.Senturus.com 888.601.6010 info@senturus.com

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A few of our 650+ Clients

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IBM Cognos 10.2
Business Authoring
Overview

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Highlights for IBM Cognos 10.2 Release
October, 2012
• Workspace User Experience
• For BOTH Cognos Insight and Cognos Workspace (formerly
Business Insight):
• More interactive visualizations (drilling, filtering on Charts)
• Top/Bottom Filtering, Expand/Collapse, Freeze Headers
• Tabbed Workspaces
• Business Insight Advanced is now Cognos Workspace Advanced

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Who Are Business Authors?
• Typically the Business Author is an analyst or subject
matter expert that regularly needs access to enterprise
data
• Business Authors are generally technically capable, but not
necessarily technicians
• Their focus is to derive insight from data in order to
support critical business analysis
• Understand what happened, why it happened, and how to do
things better the next time
• Often times the skills required to extract the data are limited to IT
team members, but…
• The demand for that data continues to grow for every area of the
business

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What Tools Are Available?
• Query Studio
• Ideal for simple, ad-hoc authoring
• Easy to learn and use, but limited capabilities
• Analysis Studio
• Provides a dedicated data exploration interface for slice-and-dice
analytics
• NOT intended to produce reports
• Report Studio
• Highly sophisticated professional authoring studio
• Not designed for ad-hoc analysis
• Full-featured and complex – steep learning curve

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What Tools Are Available?
• Cognos Workspace
• Assemble existing content and personalize, collaborate, explore
• Not an end-to-end authoring solution
• Enhances the business consumer’s experience
• Amplifies the value of standard reports
• Cognos Workspace Advanced
• Nearly complete authoring
• Unrestricted data exploration
• Compatible with Report Studio
• Gives you flexibility similar to PowerPlay client Reporter Mode
• Can be seen as a hybrid of Query, Analysis, and Report Studio
• Supports complex expressions (calculations)
• No access to Query model

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IBM Cognos 10.2
Cognos Workspace and
Cognos Workspace Advanced
Demonstrations

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Demonstrations:
– What is Cognos Workspace?
• Create a workspace from existing report content
• Enhance the workspace
• Extend our analysis with Cognos Workspace Advanced
– What is Cognos Workspace Advanced?
• Create a multi-display report layout
• Conditionally format data
• Filter and prompt for criteria
• Create an asynchronous crosstab and perform deep data exploration
IBM Cognos 10.2 Cognos Workspace

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Cognos Training Options
*Custom, tailored training also available*

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Cognos Training Options
• Looking to migrate users from PowerPlay Client? Talk to
the experts!
• We have added several dates for nearly every course to
allow more flexibility and fit your schedule
• Interested in a private training engagement?
– Give Senturus a chance to deliver a tailored training solution – you
wont’ be sorry!

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• Welcome and Introduction
• IBM Cognos 10.2 Business Authoring Overview
• Who are Business Authors?
• What tools are available?
• Cognos Workspace Demonstration
• Cognos Workspace Advanced Demonstration
• Upcoming Senturus Training
• Q & A
Today’s Agenda

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This slide deck is part of a recorded webinar.
To view the FREE recording of this entire
presentation and download the slide deck, go to
www.senturus.com
The Senturus library has over 90 other recorded webinars,
whitepapers, and demonstrations on assorted business intelligence
topics which may interest you.
Go to the recorded resources

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Helping Companies Learn From the Past, Manage the
Present and Shape the Future
www.senturus.com
888-601-6010
info@senturus.com
Copyright 2013 by Senturus, Inc. This entire presentation is
copyrighted and may not be reused or distributed without the written consent of
Senturus, Inc.

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