Cognos 简明教程
Cognos Tutorial
IBM Cognos Business 是一款基于 Web 的报告和分析工具。用于执行数据聚合并创建用户友好的详细报告。IBM Cognos 提供一系列功能，并且可以被视为提供灵活报告环境的企业软件，可用于大型和中型企业。Cognos 还为您提供选择将报告导出为 XML 或 PDF 格式，或者您可以用 XML 格式查看报告。
IBM Cognos Business intelligence is a web based reporting and analytic tool. It is used to perform data aggregation and create user friendly detailed reports. IBM Cognos provides a wide range of features and can be considered as an enterprise software to provide flexible reporting environment and can be used for large and medium enterprise. Cognos also provides you an option to export the report in XML or PDF format or you can view the reports in XML format.
Audience
IBM Cognos 提供一系列功能，并且可以被视为提供灵活报告环境的企业软件，并且 can be used for large and medium enterprises 。它满足了高级用户、分析师、业务经理和公司高管的需求。
IBM Cognos provides a wide range of features and can be considered as an enterprise software to provide flexible reporting environment and can be used for large and medium enterprises. It meets the needs of Power Users, Analysts, Business Managers and Company Executives.
高级用户和分析师希望创建即时报告，并且能针对相同数据创建多个视图。业务经理希望在仪表盘样式、交叉标签和可视化中查看汇总数据。对于所有用户集合，Cognos 均允许两种选择。
Power users and analysts want to create ad-hoc reports and can create multiple views of the same data. Business Executives want to see summarize data in dashboard styles, cross tabs and visualizations. Cognos allows both the options for all set of users.
Prerequisites
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 是一个高级主题。尽管在准备内容时已考虑初学者的需求，但在开始本教程之前，读者应熟悉运行和查看报告或管理计划、门户布局以及其他用户权限的基础知识。
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is an advanced topic. Even though the content has been prepared keeping in mind the requirements of a beginner, the reader should be familiar with the fundamentals of running and viewing reports or manage schedules, portal layouts, and other users' permissions before starting with this tutorial.