Try it yourself exercises

If you have some experience with IBM® Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel and want to improve your skills in creating workbooks, this chapter is for you. Each topic gives you some guidelines on how to create each sample worksheet. If you need help, links to more detailed instructions are available. Answers can be found in the sample workbooks.

Before you can try these exercises, the sample packages must be set up on the IBM Cognos® Analytics and IBM TM1® systems. You access the sample workbooks from installation location of the IBM Cognos Analytics samples. Sample workbooks are available from [samples_installation_location]\webcontent\samples\datasources\ workbooks\performance_management\business_intelligence.

Contact your administrator for the location of the samples installation.