User Types
Users whose job functions rely heavily on clearly structured reports expect different things from their software than, say, business analysts conducting complex analyses. Similarly data modelers have different requirements from application programmers or system administrators.
To meet the needs of a range of employees – from end users to IT professionals – Cognos has designed role-based training products that target different groups’ specific job tasks and learning requirements.
Cognos offers training for:
- Report consumers – users who work with predefined reports and run basic queries
- Report authors – users who develop more advanced reports for their own and others’ use
- Analysts – users (frequently, power users) who create multidimensional analyses and create OLAP reports
- Application programmers – users who work with Cognos software to create decision support and performance management applications
- Data modelers – users who create data models
- Data warehouse administrators – users who are responsible for data warehouse planning and management
- System administrators – users who manage and optimize the technical infrastructure for Cognos applications
By providing training designed for various user roles, we ensure that students receive specific course content that is relevant to their individual job tasks.