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| Report
building with PowerPlay 6.6 / Series 7 Report Building with PowerPlay 6.6 is a two-day course designed for report authors, IT professionals and business analysts. The focus is on the creation of professional reports using PowerPlay. Participants will be instructed on how to use and understand PowerCube data in their reports, thereby enabling them to access critical corporate data to make important business decisions. In order to become effective report authors, students will receive training in critical areas such as standard reports, performing and adding calculations, advanced use of nesting and formatting techniques. The course is split into two days, the first looking at Explorer and analysis of the data, the second investigating the building of customised reports and working with calculations in Reporter.
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| PowerPlay
6.6 / Series 7 Data Exploration for the Web The introduction to PowerPlay Web is a one day course which will allow students to identify and apply the skills needed to use PowerPlay Web and effectively find, interpret and report on business data. Fundamental PowerPlay tools - drill down, replace categories and change display - are combined with sorting, filtering, formatting, nested crosstabs and charts so participants learn to discover trends and analyse data. A combination of lectures, class discussions, class demonstrations and workshops ensure that students gain the knowledge and skills needed to use PowerPlay Web to improve decision making and effectively monitor business performance.
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building with Impromptu 6.0 / Series 7 Report Building with Impromptu 6.0 is a two-day course designed to teach report builders, analysts and administrators how to create, organise, customise and format reports. The course will provide users with the skills to build reports that effectively present the critical corporate data driving their business decisions. Users will learn to filter out irrelevant data, highlight exceptional data, do calculations and summaries, create crosstab reports and organise the results. Students will be able to apply formatting techniques to present a professional end result.
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| Impromptu
6.0 / Series 7 Administration Impromptu 6.0 Administration is a two-day course designed to teach administrators how to properly prepare the Impromptu environment to support the query and reporting needs of their users. Delegates will focus on how to create and maintain a secure, controlled and efficient environment that optimises resources and balances the need for flexibility, simplicity and task automation. They will learn how to meet the ever-changing needs of their user community and accommodate potential changes to the source database(s) and organisational structure.
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Web Reports 6.0 / Series 7 - Report Administration This one day course is designed to teach new report administrators how to publish, customise, organise and execute reports as well as apply security. Delegates will follow the entire process from publishing a report set to the Web to managing the reports so that report consumers have easy access to the most up-to-date information. Through exercises that stress practical application, students will be able to apply what they have learned within their own business environment.
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| Impromptu
Web Reports 6.0 / Series 7 - Server Administration This course provides a complete understanding of how to configure the Impromptu Web Reports server software and administer the run request processing environments. Delegates will examine the architecture and installation of IWR components, directory servers, LDAP concepts, authentication and performance issues. Using exercises that stress practical application, graduates will apply what they have learned to their own business environment. Students will learn how to configure the IWR components and monitor server activity to successfully examine report and resource usage as well as troubleshoot system performance issues.
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6.6 / Series 7 OLAP Modeling PowerPlay 6.6 OLAP modelling is a three-day course designed to provide new administrators with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental skills involved in designing PowerPlay applications and using Transformer to build and maintain a variety of PowerCubes. Participants will focus on how to create, maintain and update effective PowerPlay applications that deliver relevant and timely data to the user. They will learn how to meet the needs of their user community and accommodate potential changes to reporting requirements and source data. Key learning outcomes of this course are: planning, designing and working with a model plan, understanding and organising multiple data sources, working with measures and the time dimension and customising the model for specific business requirements.
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6.6 / Series 7 Enterprise Server Administration for the Web A technical course designed to teach administrators how to install, configure, administer and manage activity on PowerPlay servers. Participants will focus on the practical application and gain the ability to apply their new found knowledge in their own business environment.
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| Access
Manager 6.1 / Series 7 Administration This course sets out a straightforward approach for applying user security to Cognos applications and data sources. The course emphasizes the integration of security within your network environment. You will learn how to use the Access Manager Administration, Configuration and Batch Maintenance tools and to customise your user class structure for your organisation.
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