TARGIT University

Unlock Your Full Potential

Grow your TARGIT knowledge and advance your usage of BI and analytics with online courses designed for every skill level, from TARGIT beginner to technical expert. 

 

Welcome to TARGIT University

 

We offer a variety of courses to help you take full advantage of your TARGIT solution, whether you're brand new to the Decision Suite platform or looking for a deep dive on a certain feature or use case.

Browse all of our course descriptions below, and visit the overview of Upcoming Courses to register for an upcoming session. 

It has been very important for us to have all our super users through education at TARGIT University. This makes the quality of our solutions higher and our work much more efficient.
- Torben Castenskiold, CEO, Plantorama

Course Library

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.

Duration
1 day

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

TARGIT Next Level

The TARGIT Next Level course is intended as a natural successor to TARGIT Fundamentals, and highlights the most important tools and features that are not covered during the Fundamentals course. It’s a great way to get familiar with the parts of TARGIT you’ll likely use the most, and get tips from our experts on how to use them efficiently and accurately.

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.

Duration
1 day

You'll Learn
✔ Object Styling
✔ KPIs and Maps
✔ Triggers and Menus
✔ Layouts
✔ Basic Calculation Syntax
✔ Data Discovery

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.
 
Duration
1 day
 
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

TARGIT Calculations Expert

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 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.
 
Duration
1 day
 
You'll Learn
 ✔ The basic syntax for referring to 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

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.
 
Duration
1 day
 
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

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.
 
Duration
1 day
 
You'll Learn
✔ How to increase consistency in templates
✔ How to create text boxes 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

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.
 
Duration
1 day
 
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

TARGIT Certified Specialist Exam

You are already a TARGIT superuser or a TARGIT consultant, and you need the certification proving your excellent skills with 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.
 
Duration
2½ hours
 
Exam Subjects
 ✔ 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 TARGIT Community

TARGIT 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.

Duration
2 hours

Exam Subjects
✔ Installation and configuration of TARGIT components
✔ Backup, restore, and update of TARGIT Decision Suite
✔ Daily administration tasks such as managing licenses, new users, error handling, etc.
✔ TARGIT Calculations Expert

Knowledge Sources
✔ The TARGIT Back-end Administrator course on TARGIT’s eLearning portal
✔ The ‘Administrator documents’ section in TARGIT Community

TARGIT Certified Data Warehouse Developer Exam

You are a TARGIT Professional or a TARGIT consultant in charge of developing or maintaining Data Warehouses based on TARGIT’s InMemory technology. Having earned the TARGIT Certified Data Warehouse Developer badge, you have proof of skills of excellence within this unique discipline.

TARGIT Certified Data Warehouse Developer exams are offered online.

Requirements
To become certified, you must prove your Developer skills with the TARGIT InMemory tools. You can achieve this by having completed the course mentioned below. To pass the exam, you’ll need to be thoroughly versed in aspects of the TARGIT InMemory ETL, the TARGIT InMemory Query, the TARGIT InMemory Scheduler and the Data Model Editor tools. You’ll be required to implement all necessary steps, from source data to usable dashboards, within 3 hours. To pass the exam, you must have completed a minimum of 70 percent of the total assignment correctly.

Duration
3 hours

Exam Subjects
The exam exercise will cover content from the TARGIT InMemory Data Warehouse Developer course

Knowledge Sources
TARGIT’s eLearning portal includes the above-mentioned courses
✔ Further useful sources are available at TARGIT Community