Upcoming August Training Sessions – Master Business Objects and Other Advanced Reporting Skills

This August you can enhance and build new reporting and data analysis skills by attending one or more of our upcoming Association Anywhere training sessions. To provide you with the best possible experience, we keep class sizes small. Each one-day course will be led by an ACGI BI/reporting expert.

If you’re wondering whether training is a good investment for your organization, I encourage you to read an article in the July 3, 2014 CIO magazine on the benefits of training.

Space is limited to 10 people per session – register ASAP to reserve your place.

AA Business Intelligence Using Business Objects R4 for Beginners introduces you to the basics of using Business Objects R4 within Association Anywhere. This course is great for associations that have experienced staff turnover or for anyone who needs refresher training for using Business Objects within Association Anywhere. During this hands-on course, you will learn:

• To view, create and edit reports
• How to analyze queries designed to retrieve and present organizational data
• How to organize reports through the creation of folders and categories
• Advanced features including charting and formula editor
• Differences from Business Objects R2 to R4

Course is offered Monday, August 4, 9:30am-4:30pm EDT. Register now»

AA Business Intelligence Using Business Objects R4 Advanced goes well beyond our R4 for Beginners course, introducing you to more advanced BI features of Association Anywhere. In this hands-on course, you will learn:

• Enhanced business intelligence reporting skills, including working with multiple, concurrent sets of data
• Table joins and ranking tool to expand your knowledge and understanding of various marketing techniques
• Charting features including naming, relative positioning and mixed chart formats
• Advanced functions, subqueries and merged queries, and how to generate emails

Course is offered Tuesday, August 5, 9:30am-4:30pm EDT. Register now»

Using SQL to Extend Association Anywhere – this new course is designed for IT staff and association professionals experienced with the Association Anywhere’s data model and how it may be queried for segmenting your members/customers/constituents. Topics covered will include:

• Basics of the structured query language (SQL), you’ll learn how SQL can be used to select member records with unique attributes
• Various tables, fields and views which make up the AA data model
• Common SQL data manipulation commands
• ECM Distribution lists, SSA User Roles, Dynamic Overview and Event Registration Type Methods
• Third-party tools and proper use

Course is offered Wednesday, August 6, 9:30am-4:30pm EDT. Register now»

Association Anywhere Business Intelligence with Crystal Reports – this course will help you produce customized business intelligence reports with an emphasis on presentation and format. It is intended for developers and other personnel already familiar with using Business Objects – ideally you will have completed ACGI’s Business Objects courses. Topics covered will include:

• Using Crystal Reports to develop business intelligence reports
• Report filtering, grouping and formatting using formulas, using the “pixel perfect” capabilities of Crystal
• Learning about different types of report prompts
• Producing mailing labels in an Avery label format
• Evolving your business performance management

Course is offered Thursday, August 7, 9:30am-4:30pm EDT. Register now»

These hands-on training courses are held at ACGI’s Columbia office. Space is limited to 10 registrants per course. Register today!

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