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IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By : James D. Miller
Book Image

IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By: James D. Miller

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets. It is a real time, in memory tool that helps any sized business perform planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as other financial exercises. This book prepares you to master COG-310 certification using an example-driven method that is easy to understand. The IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide provides key technical details and background to clear the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (test COG-310) certification exam. This certification book covers all the modules of the certification clearly and in depth. The initial chapters cover in detail the components that make up Cognos TM1 and designing and creating dimensions and cubes. The book then dives deep into basic and advanced scripting using TurboIntegrator and then we learn to understand and write basic Rules. We then learn about the drill-through functionality of TM1, virtual and lookup cubes and lastly Time, and presenting and reporting data
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
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1
The Components of TM1

Consolidating using dimension hierarchies


The data you import into a cube provides a snapshot of your business at a specific level of detail. For example, you might import your weekly or monthly sales for your surfboards in dollars for a specific city in which they were sold. The dimension elements that identify these data points are simple or leaf-level elements in each dimension. These data points can be surfboards sold in one week and in a particular city.

By using dimension hierarchies, you can easily aggregate numeric data into categories that are meaningful in your analyses. Each category corresponds to an aggregation of detail for two or more elements in a dimension. For example, you could create quarterly elements that sum monthly sales amounts. In TM1, elements that represent aggregations are called consolidated elements or consolidations.

We'll speak more about hierarchies later in this chapter.

Element attributes

In addition, to define an element's type (numeric, consolidation...