ExistBI Case Study of IBM Cognos Training for the University of Southern California. At the end of the 3-day Cognos training, the delegates had gained in-depth knowledge of best practices using this advanced Business Intelligence tool.

1. California – Ohio – New Jersey – London - Zagreb 2018
IBM Cognos Training Case Study For The
University Of Southern California
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2. Table of Contents
About Us 3
Clients 4
Case Study Overview 5
Results 6
Feedback 7
Recent Projects 9
Contact Us 10

3. About Us
ExistBI provides Business Intelligence and Big Data training, consulting and
implementation services that enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage in
today’s global information economy.
We empower our customers by:
• Assessing their current landscape, identifying value generating opportunities
and developing a plan to address those opportunities quickly and economically;
• Helping clients select the appropriate intelligent software / tools;
• Architecting an efficient and innovative solution;
• Project implementation – project management, business analysis, development,
testing and support; and
• Onsite and virtual classroom training includes; Informatica, IBM InfoSphere & Cognos,
SAP BusinessObjects, Microsoft BI, Tableau and MicroStrategy.
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5. Case Study Overview
University of Southern California (USC) is the oldest research university in California,
dating back to 1880. The campus is based in Los Angeles and currently has around 45,000
students and 16,000 staff. This is an establishment that generates a vast amount of data.
The USC team approached ExistBI regarding Busniess Intelligence reporting and analytics
training.
In our initial engagement, USC were unsure on exactly how many days training was
required. We took it upon ourselves to gather the requirements on multiple calls, e-mails
and agenda amendments to establish the most powerful curriculum for success.
Our Certified IBM Cognos training team decided they would benefit from these classes;
2-Day IBM Cognos Introduction To Report Studio. This training provided delegates
with an overview of the Report Studio interface and Cognos connection portal. It gave
them authoring skills within Report Studio to allow users to create reports.
And
1-Day IBM Cognos Report Studio Advanced. This training enabled delegates to utilise
several advanced topic areas within Report Studio. To build reports in order to consolidate
their understanding of the advanced features.
The delegates were trained onsite at the USC campus in Los Angeles, CA. ExistBI set-up
this training on USC’s Development environment, this enabled the team to continue
practicing their labs and exercises after the training was completed.
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6. Results
At the end of the 3-day IBM Cognos training, the delegates had gained in-depth
knowledge of best practices using this advanced Business Intelligence tool.
The USC team were able to create crosstab and chart reports, utilise insertable objects in
reports and usage of various tools from within the toolbox, troubleshooting formatting
and alignment issues linked with crosstab reports and creating and using conditional
blocks together with associated logic, just to name a few acquired skills.
After the initial training delivery, our client was extremely satisfied by our level of
knowledge, professionalism and delivery.
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7. Customer Feedback
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‘The training went well. We were happy with the content and
speed at which it was delivered. The trainer was
knowledgeable and able to answer all our quires about
applying what we have learnt to practice.’
Susan, Executive Director - USC

8. What Our Customers Say:
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‘Training the last three days has been
fantastic! Very glad we came upon
ExistBI. I’d really like to acknowledge the
great job Harvey did providing the
training. His knowledge and experience
of TABLEAU was much appreciated by
the team. His flexibility and willingness
to go beyond was great to see.’
Tim, Product Development Manager
‘Great MICROSTRATEGY training,
Davide was fantastic and the content
was very relevant to our current
needs. Thanks again!’
Ash, Financial Analyst –
Toshiba Global
‘Thanks for including us in the
INFORMATICA training, great job!’
Patrick, Senior Manager –
Centene Corporation

9. Recent Projects
• IBM Cognos Training, Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• IBM InfoSphere DataStage, QualityStage, MDM Training, Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• IBM Netezza Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• Big Data & Business Intelligence Assessment, Strategy, Planning & Implementation
• Big Data Training (Basic and Advanced Concepts, Apache’s Hadoop, Pig, Sqoop, Cassandra, Impala,
HBase, Hive, YARN, HDFS just to name a few)
• Salesforce CRM & Informatica Data Migration, Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• ERP Data Warehouse Normalization using Informatica Cloud
• Informatica Training & Consulting (Big Data, PowerCenter, IDQ, MDM, B2B, BDE, ILM, Cloud)
• Informatica & Enterprise Data Warehouse Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• Informatica Software POC’s & Data Integration Services
• Informatica Data Migration Services, Upgrades, Performance Tuning & Optimization Consulting
• Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehouse Design, Development and Support
• Microsoft Power BI Training & Microsoft Power BI Consulting
• Microsoft Azure Consulting & Training
• SAP Business Objects Training (Web Intelligence, Information Design, Dashboards, Lumira, Data Services)
• SAP Business Objects Consulting & Migration
• Tableau Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• Tableau Desktop & Tableau Server Training
• Tableau Advanced Dashboard / Workbook Consulting
• MicroStrategy Training, Consulting & Staff Augmentation
• MicroStrategy Migration from Oracle Discoverer
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10. Contact Us
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United States
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Hamilton House, sales@existbi.com
Mabledon Place,
London, WC1H 9BB,
United Kingdom
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Zagreb
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10000 Zagreb,
Croatia
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