Cognos 8 BI Introduction and Installation
• Cognos introduction
• Various componenets of cognos 8 BI suite
• Installation and configuration
• Data Source Creation
• Basic requirement to create a report

Metadat Modelling Requirement in Cognos 8BI
• Project
• Model
• Namespace
• Objects in FM
• Relationships and parametersmaps
• Significance of Various Layers/Views

Cognos Interface
• Navigating the Cognos Connection portal
• GUI walk through
• Content and functionality
• Creating folders
• Scheduling reports and jobs

Over View of Query Studio

Report Studio Overview and Navigation
• Prerequisite for Creating reports Reportstudio
• Report Studion Interface
• Report Studio capabilities and basics
• Report types and templates
• Running reports
• Defining the toolbars
• Viewing a report
• Explorer bars
• Report structure
• Adding report objects
• Displaying data
• Creating queries

Advanced Reporting using Report Studio

Organizing and Summarizing
• Using lists, crosstabs and charts
• Sorting
• Grouping
• Report sections
• Summarizing, Aggregation
• Displaying Summaries in headers and footers
• Displaying prompt values in report layouts

Filters and Prompts
• Report functions
• Stand alone, embedded
• Detail and summary filters
• Prompt objects
• Prompt pages

Calculations and Conditional Formatting
• Query calculations
• Layout calculations
• Creating and applying variables

Layout Formatting
• Styling
• Free standing objects
• Tables
• Alignment, spacing, object size
• Headers and Footers
• Page Sets

Extra!
• Advanced formatting
• Working with Queries (Unions, Joins, Intersect, Minus etc)
• Beyond the Report
• Encountering Problems and Issues