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

Dashboard Essentials

The Dashboard Essentials course is designed for beginner users looking to get hands-on experience building dashboards inside TARGIT Decision Suite. During this two-hour online course, attendees will learn how to create dashboards from scratch and hear best practices for designing coherent on-screen analyses. This instructor-led course includes hands-on exercises to help you get comfortable in TARGIT. 

Requirements
This course is suitable for TARGIT Designer users with little or no experience with TARGIT.

Skill Level
Beginner

Duration
2 hours

You'll Learn About
✔ Source data  
✔ Crosstabs  
✔ Chart formatting  
✔ Filters and criteria 

Fundamentals for Heavy Equipment

TARGIT Fundamentals Heavy Equipment is a course exclusively for Heavy Equipment dealers with little to no experience with TARGIT Decision Suite. It is 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 
No special requirements for this course, except basic knowledge of how to operate standard Windows applications. 

  

Duration 
3½ hours 

 

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 

Calculations

In this advanced online course, you’ll learn how to refer to individual columns, rows, and cells in your calculations. Plus, discover best practices for range references and if-then-else statements, so you can create efficient, accurate calculations. This online, instructor-led course includes hands-on exercises to help you get comfortable in TARGIT. 
 
Requirements
This course requires basic knowledge of operating TARGIT as a Designer user.
 
Skill Level
Advanced
 
Duration
2 hours
 
You'll Learn About
✔ Range references 
✔ If-then-else statements
✔ Calculations in Color and Visibility statements 

Report Essentials

The Report Essentials course helps beginner users start creating reports inside TARGIT Decision Suite. Spend two hours learning how to design multi-page PDF reports for scheduled and automated distribution across your organization. This online, instructor-led course includes hands-on exercises to help you get comfortable in TARGIT.  

Requirements
This course is suitable for TARGIT Designer users with little or no experience with TARGIT. 

Skill Level
Beginner

Duration
2 hours

You'll Learn About
✔ Repeater pages  
✔ Iterations  
✔ Dynamic content 
✔ Scheduled jobs  

User Dimensions and Dynamic Criteria

With TARGIT’s User Dimensions feature, you can group your data in new ways – otherwise unavailable from the original data warehouse. The dynamic criteria feature offers criteria options such as “Year to date,” “Previous week,” “Previous 12 months,” etc. In this course, you’ll learn the value of each of these features, and how combining the two unlocks unique analytical insights. This online, instructor-led course includes hands-on exercises to help you get comfortable in TARGIT. 

Requirements
This course requires basic knowledge of operating TARGIT as a Designer user.
 
Skill Level
Intermediate
 
Duration
2 hours
 
You'll Learn About
✔ Creating and administering user dimensions 
✔ Creating dynamic comparison analyses 
✔ Creating benchmark analyses 

Portal Solutions

Join this course to learn how to build your own TARGIT portal solution. Discover how to bring all essential dashboards and reports into one place to boost user adoption. We'll guide you in creating a consistent, easy-to-manage solution with TARGIT Templates, so everyone in your organization can access the latest insights. This online, instructor-led course includes hands-on exercises to help you get comfortable in TARGIT. 
 
Requirements
This course requires basic knowledge of operating TARGIT as a Designer user.
 
Skill Level
Intermediate
 
Duration
2 hours
 
You'll Learn About
 ✔ Triggers 
 ✔ Menus  
 ✔ Named colors  
 ✔ Text box and menu item templates  
 ✔ Crosstab templates 
 ✔ User dimension templates  

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