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Title: Cognos Training http:registrar'georgetown'edureportingtraining


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Cognos Traininghttp//registrar.georgetown.edu/re
porting/training
  • Date December 6 7, 2007
  • Location Healy 106
  • Time 0930am 1130am
  • Sponsors The Office of the University Registrar
    University Information Services

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Cognos Training
  • Cognos - Reporting tool used to view data from
    the Data Warehouse
  • Data Warehouse data is supplied from SIS and is
    updated nightly
  • There are several views of data (data marts)
  • - Student
  • - Student Accounts
  • - Financial Aid
  • - Human Resources
  • - Financial Affairs

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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-Click on Main link under Registrar -Next page
display
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-Click on Web Reports -The next page displays
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-Click on Registrars Web Reports -Next page
displays
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-Input NETID And password click OK -Next page
displays
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-User ID equals NETID -Password equals Cognos
password that is supplied -The Cognos ID/NETID
and Password process is requested thru The Main
Campus Registrars office -Click on Logon and
next page displays
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
-From this page click on Student Data Mart -Then
on Impromptu Web Reports (IWR) -Then on SIS
Reports to the following list of reports Class
Roster by Term Course Class Roster by Term
Primary Iinstructor Expected Graduation Main
Campus Majors Student Schedule Class Roster by
Term Department Enrollment GU
Colleges MainCampusCclleges Study Abroad -These
are canned reports that the user may need to
decide the Term, College, etd in order To have
the report run.
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Accessing Cognos Web Reports
  • At this point a couple Cognos Web Reports will be
    created and discussed
  • Generate/Create - Class Roster by Term Course
    Report
  • -Note that that term and course have to be
    selected
  • Generate/Create Expected Graduation Report
  • -No data selections are done to generate this
    report

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Benefits of Cognos Web Reports
  • Easy to access
  • Easy to create
  • Report templates already determined
  • For some web reports user determines - term,
    college, majors, etc.
  • A variety of reports are available
  • Student Course Meta-data is available
  • No calculation exist on these reports

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Accessing Cognos Client Reports
  • Click on Cognos icon on desktop
  • The following screen will display
  • User ID NETID
  • Password Cognos Password that is supplied
  • Click on LogOn button

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Accessing Cognos Client Reports contt
  • Once the following screen displays the user
    decides how report will be created
  • Select File and then New from the menu bar

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Accessing Cognos Client Reports contt
  • If the user decides to - Select File and then
    New from the menu bar the following screens
    display
  • User clicks on the Simple List icon which
    will cause the following screen to display

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Data Warehouse SIS naming conventions
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F2 for Data Element Help in SIS
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For comparison with the Student Metadata
Repository
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Accessing Cognos Client Reports contt
  • From the list that displays
  • the user should select
  • -Student Term Star, or
  • -Student Course Star, or
  • -Student Cumulative
  • Statistics Star, or
  • -Course Term Star, or
  • -Cross References Tables
  • Filters Prompts from
  • the list are not
  • to be used
  • The values that display on this
  • page depend on data mart
  • you have access too!

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Joins in Cognos
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Accessing Cognos Client Reports contt
  • At this point a couple Cognos Client reports will
    be created and discussed

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Benefits of Cognos Client
  • Access is easy
  • User determines report topic
  • User determines columns that will display on
    report
  • Student Course Meta-data is available
  • Cognos Client reports can be created with
    mathematical calculations
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