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Beginner

TARGIT Fundamentals

TARGIT Fundamentals is a course for you with little to no experience with TARGIT Decision Suite. It's designed to teach you how to work with TARGIT Decision Suite as an analytics tool, and how to design analyses and dashboards, for consumption by yourself and your colleagues.

Requirements

The course requires a basic knowledge of operating standard Windows applications.

You'll learn

basic analyzing techniques
how to design dashboards with crosstabs and graphs
how to format objects for the best visualization
how to work with dynamic criteria and user dimensions
how to add simple calculations and color agents
how to export data

Duration

1 day

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Intermediate

TARGIT Visualization Wizard

Be an expert on data visualization best practices. Use storytelling to guide end-users through your data and learn how to make TARGIT Decision Suite accessible via structured navigations, increasing the ultimate user adoption.

Requirements

The course requires a completed TARGIT Fundamentals course, and you should have a clear knowledge of TARGIT Decision Suite.

You'll learn

how to increase consistency in templates
how to create textboxes and KPI objects
how to build a portal with user-friendly navigation
how to create menus for easy navigation
how to disclose hidden information with advanced labels
how to publish data as slideshows

Duration

1 day

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Intermediate

TARGIT Report Designer

Become a TARGIT Report Designer and design multi-page reports and experience the power of well-crafted report design, sharing valuable information and insights across the organization.

Requirements

The course requires a fundamental knowledge of TARGIT Decision Suite through either daily use of TARGIT Decision Suite or by completing our TARGIT Fundamentals course.

You'll learn

about report templates
about flowing data into the next pages
about various report design examples and exercises
how to iterate your report through dimension members
how to use dynamic content in your reports
how to create multi-page and multi-design reports
how to mass-distribute your reports through scheduled jobs

Duration

1 day

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Intermediate

TARGIT Data Discoverer

TARGIT Discoverer is an ad-hoc exploration of data outside the traditional data warehouse. With this course, you'll experience that an unlimited number of data sets are available from external data sources, and the possibilities are endless for combining internal and external data.

Requirements

The course requires basic skills for creating TARGIT analyses. Basic knowledge about data relations is an advantage as well.

You'll learn

how to upload single files for immediate analysis
how to mash up data from multiple data sources
how to pull data from online data providers
how to un-pivot, cleanse, and modify data sources to match requirements

Duration

1 day

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Advanced

TARGIT Calculations Expert

Release the full potential of TARGIT Decision Suite. Become your company's number cruncher by offering everyone in the organization clear insight into complex data. Learn the syntax to make dynamic ad-hoc calculations. The calculation syntax can also be put to work with your intelligent agents, your user dimensions, and other active functions within the TARGIT Decision Suite.

Requirements

The course requires you to be thoroughly versed in TARGIT Decision Suite, minimally equivalent to the TARGIT Fundamentals course. You’ll get the most out of the course if you have worked with your data for some time.

You'll learn

the basic syntax for referring columns, rows, and measures
how to apply modifiers according to data visibility, hierarchies, etc.
about if-then-else-constructs
about endless opportunities for boosting your data with calculations

Duration

1 day

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Advanced

TARGIT Back-end Administrator

Implement and manage the daily administration of your TARGIT solutions. You'll be able to install the various TARGIT components, configure your solution for optimal performance, troubleshoot errors, govern end-user's rights and roles, etc.

Requirements

The course requires you to be familiar with the basic concepts of TARGIT along with a good level of IT technical knowledge.

You'll learn

about the architecture of a TARGIT implementation
about the relevance of each configuration option in the TARGIT Management client
best practices about adding end-users to Rights and Roles
how to look up end-user permissions
how to set up simple user activity logging
how to improve the TARGIT experience through Decorations

Duration

1 day

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Advanced

TARGIT InMemory Data Warehouse Developer

TARGIT InMemory is TARGIT’s own database platform for ultra-fast querying of analytical data. While the TARGIT InMemory database itself is the core of an InMemory solution, it comes with a number of necessary tools for creating ETL projects, scheduling tasks, designing data models, etc. Complete this course to master all TARGIT InMemory aspects.

Requirements

Some basic knowledge about databases and SQL scripts will be an advantage for this course. You do not need to know anything about TARGIT InMemory in advance.

You'll learn

how to create a project in TARGIT InMemory ETL Studio
how to connect to data sources of various types – SQL databases, Excel sheets
how to import and potentially transform these data into the InMemory database
how to create a Data Model on top of the imported data
how to define dimensions, measures, and cubes

Duration

1 day

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Advanced

Certified Specialist Exam

You are already a TARGIT Super User or a TARGIT Consultant, and you need the certification proving your excellent skills with the TARGIT Decision Suite. Become a TARGIT Certified Specialist by earning the seal of approval for your extensive knowledge of TARGIT.

TARGIT Certified Specialist is offered online and at select locations throughout the world.

Requirements

To become certified, you must prove your Designer skills in the TARGIT front-end. You can achieve this by having completed the courses mentioned below. To pass the exam, you’ll need to be thoroughly versed in all aspects as a Designer of the TARGIT front-end. You’ll be required to design a number of dashboards, analyses, and reports within a set time frame of 2½ hours. To pass the exam, you must have completed a minimum of 70 percent of the total assignment correctly.

Exam subjects

The exam exercise will cover content from the TARGIT end-user courses:

TARGIT Fundamentals
TARGIT Report Designer
TARGIT Visualization Wizard
TARGIT Calculations Expert

Knowledge sources

TARGIT’s eLearning portal includes the above-mentioned courses
Further useful sources are available at http://doc.targit.com

Duration

2½ hours

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Advanced

Certified Administrator Exam

You're already the TARGIT Administrator within your organization or your profession is a TARGIT Consultant. Still, you need proof of your skills in handling the back-end of a TARGIT solution. This exam will assess your skills within administrative tasks, daily as well as advanced, when installing or maintaining a TARGIT implementation.

TARGIT Certified Administrator is offered online and at select locations throughout the world.

Requirements
To become certified, it is recommended you prepare yourself by digesting the knowledge sources below. Within a set period of 1½ hours, you will be required to solve various practical administrative tasks together with answering a number of multiple-choice questions. To pass the exam, you must have completed the assignment with a total score of 70 (out of 100) or more.

Exam subjects

Installation and configuration of TARGIT components
Backup, restore, and updates of the TARGIT Decision Suite
Daily administration tasks such as managing licenses, new users, error handling, etc.

Knowledge sources

The TARGIT Back-end Administrator course on TARGIT’s eLearning portal
The ‘Administrator documents’ section in http://doc.targit.com

Duration

2 hours

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