Course Description

IBM Cognos TM1: Interact with Data (V10.2) is designed to show Contributors how to navigate and interact with TM1, and how to use the front end tools and Microsoft spreadsheets with Multidimensional cubes. You will learn how to connect and access TM1, build views, browse data and navigate through the user interface.

Objectives

Please refer to Course Overview for description information.

Audience

This basic course is for contributors.

Prerequisites

You should have:Experience using the Windows operating system and a Web browserExperience using Microsoft ExcelKnowledge of your business requirements 

Topics 

  1. Review performance management
  2. Understand how TM1 enables performance management
  3. Identify the TM1 user community
  4. Describe the components and objects of TM1
  1. Examine the structure of a cube
  2. Examine Cube Viewer to understand how to browse data in a cube
  3. Create subsets to focus data in a cube
  1. Analyze cube data with Excel using snapshot and slice methods
  2. Examine the process from the cube viewer, to Excel, and then to the web
  3. Contribute data to a cube using spread methods
  4. Sandboxes
  5. Filter data in a cube
  6. Create dynamic reports using Active Forms
  1. Use TM1 application folders to organize reports
  2. Publish Excel reports to the Web
  3. Access Websheets
  1. Connect to TM1 from within Microsoft Excel
  2. Explore and analyze a TM1 cube
  3. Build complex reports showing multiple cubes and views
  4. Change data and commit it back to TM1
  1. Explore TM1 Web
  2. Work with TM1 websheets
  3. Use TM1 Web Cube Browser
  1. Explore the TM1 Applications environment
  2. Navigate the data in the grid
  3. Enter data into the grid
  4. Submit and Review data
  1. Open an application in IBM Cognos Insight
  2. Work offline and commit changed data when online
  3. Import data into a nod