Using the New Cognos KPI Capability & Relative Time Structures
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Demos showing how to create KPI visualizations and use relative time structures to quickly calculate typical YTD and YoY measures relative to a specific date. These features were introduced in Cognos 11.1.4. Senturus offers a full spectrum of services in business intelligence and training on Tableau, Power BI and Cognos. Our resource library has hundreds of free live and recorded webinars, blog posts, demos and unbiased product reviews available on our website at: http://www.senturus.com/senturus-resources/.
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Using the New Cognos KPI Capability & Relative Time Structures
- 1. Using New Cognos KPI Capability & Relative Time Structures Live demo and how to of the best new features in Cognos 1
- 2. Agenda • Introductions • Cognos 11.1 R4 new KPI widget and relative time modeling • Senturus overview • Additional resources 2
- 3. 3 Introductions Pedro Ining Senior BI Architect Senturus, Inc. Michael Weinhauer Practice Area Director / Solutions Architect Senturus, Inc. 3
- 4. 4 Hundreds of resources Visit the Resource Library on the Senturus website to download this presentation and explore other assets: senturus.com/resources 4
- 5. Like what you see? This slide deck is from the webinar Using New Cognos KPI Capability & Relative Time Structures To view the FREE video recording and download this deck, go to https://senturus.com/resources/using-the-new-cognos- kpi-capability-relative-time-structures/ 5
- 6. Today’s presentation 6 Review new KPI visualization Cognos 11.1 relative time feature implementation
- 7. Cognos Analytics KPI 7 • KPI visualization now available in Cognos Analytics 11.1 R4 • Allows quick visual of a measure as compared to a target or other measure • Combined with the 11.1 relative time feature, allows quick building of KPI comparison visuals
- 8. KPI visualization demo 8 This demo was great, but it can’t be seen in SlideShare. See this demo and the entire webinar at: https://senturus.com/resources/using-the- new-cognos-kpi-capability-relative-time- structures/
- 9. Cognos relative time • Available in since Cognos 11.1 • Allows easy building of relative time measures e.g. current month vs. current month last year, MTD, YTD, QTD, YoY • Only available in data modules NOT Framework Manager • For relational data sources • Out of the box, date always relative to current date (we will show how you can change this behavior) 9
- 10. Relative time demo 10 This demo was great, but it can’t be seen in SlideShare. See this demo and the entire webinar at: https://senturus.com/resources/using-the- new-cognos-kpi-capability-relative-time- structures/
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- 20. © 2020 by Senturus, Inc. This presentation may not be reused or distributed without the written consent of Senturus, Inc. www.senturus.com 888 601 6010 [email protected] Thank You Pedro Ining [email protected]
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