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IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By : James D. Miller
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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
Free Chapter
1
The Components of TM1

TM1 Web


TM1 Web allows access to the cube data, provides the ability to view and edit via Excel reports, drill, pivot, select, and filter the TM1 data, cube data sourced charts, and even some TM1 Server Administrator tasks.

TM1 Web consists of the Navigation pane on the left and the Content pane on the right. The Navigation pane contains a list of available TM1 applications, views, and a list of server object properties. TM1 Web's Content pane displays the cube views and websheets to which you have access.

TM1 Web allows access to TM1 data and the ability to present TM1 data using TM1 Websheets, TM1 Web Cube Viewer, and TM1 Charts.

TM1 Websheets

By publishing an Excel worksheet from TM1 to an application folder, other users can view the worksheet by using a Web browser. It should be understood that the websheet version of the Excel sheet will have various visual differences but it does support the following Excel features:

  • Hiding columns

  • Conditional formatting

  • Hyperlinking

  • Freeze panes

  • Cell protection...