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Introduction to IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor Administration
•    Review IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management (PM) Solution
•    Identify IBM Cognos 8 Planning and its components
•    Identify IBM Cognos 8 BI and its components
•    Examine the IBM Cognos 8 Planning architecture
•    Examine IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor and its components
•    Examine the development process for the Contributor solution
Build a Contributor Application
•    Examine best practices for building the underlying IBM Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst model
•    Configure the Contributor Administration Console
•    Create a Contributor application using the Application wizard
•    Specify navigation, orientation, and application settings
•    Import the e.List and rights
•    Run Go to Production and preview a Contributor application
Manage Workflow and Web Application Activities
•    Access the application in Cognos Connection
•    Examine the user roles and workflow states
•    Create annotations
•    Attach documents to Contributor application items
•    View and delete commentary
•    Bounce users from the application
•    Work offline
Apply Security
•    Examine Cognos 8 Planning security: authentication and authorization
•    Examine Cognos 8 Planning roles
•    Assign access rights to end users
•    Examine levels of user rights
•    Create saved selections
•    Examine and create access tables
•    Identify network considerations
Administer Applications
•    Review what happens during Go to Production
•    Back up the datastore
•    Display Invalid Owners and Editors
•    Create a planning package
•    Reset workflow states
•    Set advanced options for subsequent Go to Production processes
•    Examine job management and the types of jobs that can be performed
•    Create help text for end users
•    Verify that data entered is valid
Administer Applications
•    Review what happens during Go to Production
•    Back up the datastore
•    Display Invalid Owners and Editors
•    Create a planning package
•    Reset workflow states
•    Set advanced options for subsequent Go to Production processes
•    Examine job management and the types of jobs that can be performed
•    Create help text for end users
•    Verify that data entered is valid
Manage Data
•    Synchronize the Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor application with the Cognos 8 Planning - Analyst model
•    Import data into the Contributor application as a planner, reviewer and administrator
•    Publish Contributor data
Use Extensions
•    Examine Cognos 8 Planning - Contributor extensions
•    Report from Contributor data using extensions
•    Configure Contributor extensions
•    Use administration extensions
Automate Applications
•    Examine automation of common administration tasks using macros
•    Create and publish a macro
•    Group related tasks into one macro
•    Examine how to run macros
Consume Planning Data in Cognos 8 BI
•    Examine Cognos Connection
•    Create a portal page to group different types of content into a single view
•    Examine how to access live data in Cognos 8 Studios
•    Create and run agents based on planning data in Events Studio