TRAINING OVERVIEW

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

BI DEVELOPER ESSENTIALS

3 Days

This course is intended for IS professionals who are looking for an introduction to the "back-end" tools of The Diver Solution™: Builder, DiveMaster, Visual Integrator, and Diver. 

This course is comprised of two separate classes:
Model Design Essentials and
Visual Integrator

Each class in this course runs for 1 and 1/2 days. To insure a consistent experience, students are encouraged to sign up for the entire 3-day course. Since the new Visual Integrator will be taught in this course, we will try to accommodate those who wish to attend only the second half.

Please contact training@dimins.com to make arrangements.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

ENTERPRISE WEB DEVELOPER ESSENTIALS

3 Days

This course is designed for IS professionals who are tasked with designing, configuring, and maintaining their organization's DivePort installation. This course will explore the components and interfaces required.

Individual classes are:
DivePort Design and Administration and
DiveLine Administration.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

REPORT WRITING AND PUBLICATION ESSENTIALS

3 Days

This course is designed for the power user or business analyst who requires an in-depth understanding of how to access and navigate data, generate reports, perform ad hoc analysis, and publish created views to DivePort for access by other users.

This course includes:
Diver Fundamentals,
Diver Intermediate,
and Report Preparation & Delivery.

This course is intended to be the first introduction to "Diving" and the full capabilities of the reporting and analysis tools of The Diver Solution™.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

DIVELINE ADMINISTRATION, 1 Day

DiveLine Administration is an essential class for the IS person or individuals responsible for the installation and maintenance of The Diver Solution™. This class teaches the student the considerations that must be taken into account prior to installing The Diver Solution™ in a Microsoft Windows® environment.

Topics Covered:

• DI-Config GUI
• Available Clients & Licensing
• Security Considerations (controlling access, user authentication, users and groups)
• Installation (platforms, files/Models, client/server prerequisites, verification)
• Configuration (Tabs: General, Users, Groups, Aliases, ACLs)
• Performance Considerations

Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be able to perform system administration tasks on their production environment(s) and be familiar with Microsoft Windows®.

Who Should Attend:
This lecture/lab class is designed specifically for the IS professional who will be involved in the design and maintenance of the server, as well as those individuals that are responsible for the creation, deployment, and maintenance of user profiles and data security.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

DIVEPORT DESIGN AND ADMINISTRATION, 2 Days

DivePort provides users with a portal interface to The Diver Solution™ via a web browser. This class presents best practices in portal design and administration, and explains the advanced features of DivePort used to deploy dashboards, scorecards, ad hoc analytics, and web-based report views. Class examples are limited to the Microsoft Windows® environment.

Topics Covered:

• Basics of portal technology
• Dashboard Design Essentials and Mockup
• How to configure DivePort (including Environments)
• Functionality of the various Portlet types
• Using the Report Wizard in ProReporter
• Quickview Portlets and Click Actions
• How to implement optional portal security
• Customized pages for user's needs

Prerequisites:
Students are required to have experience creating and maintaining Diver Markers. It is recommended that students take DiveLine Administration prior to this class and be able to perform system administration tasks within their production environment.

Who Should Attend:
This lecture/lab class is designed for the IS professional who will be involved in the design and maintenance of DivePort installations. Individuals responsible for creating and distributing Diver Markers will also find this class valuable.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

DIVER FUNDAMENTALS, 1 Day

Diver Fundamentals is a core class in the DI Training Series. This class teaches important skills and terminology required to successfully understand and navigate DI's flagship client interface, Diver, as well as DI's web-based analytics client, NetDiver. Student learning is reinforced with hands-on labs. Users will learn to access data, navigate, explore display options, and generate simple reports and graphs.

Topics Covered:

• How to Dive, select data display options, export data, and save work
• Diver terminology (Dive Window, Console, DI Model, display types) and navigation
• Diving, Cascading, Filtering, Sorting, Finding and Focusing
• Data presentation (Tabulars, Basic Reports, Basic Charts)
• NetDiver functionality

Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be familiar with the Microsoft Windows® platform and a browser.

Who Should Attend:
This class is designed for end users holding General or Advanced licenses.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

DIVER INTERMEDIATE, 1 Day

This class delivers more advanced features of the Diver interface including columns & calculations, Time Series, and QuickViews. This class is intended for the power user.

Topics Covered:

• Calculations, Functions, Dimcounts, Named Groups
• Time Series (DI Model structure, Dimension options,
  Date roll-up)
• Creation of QuickViews (Pulldowns and PickLists)
• Customizing (DiveBooks, toolbars, preferences)
• Dynamic and User Defined Dimensions

Prerequisites:
Students are expected to have taken Diver Fundamentals.

Who Should Attend:
This class is designed for students who have had extensive experience using Diver. Students are expected to be power users holding an Advanced license to the software and have a need for using more advanced features.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

MODEL DESIGN ESSENTIALS, 1.5 Days

DI Models are the foundation of Dimensional Insight's business intelligence and information delivery platform, The Diver Solution™. This course is intended for the IS person who will be responsible for preparing the data used for the creation and maintenance of the Models used by DI's various end-user interface clients (Diver, NetDiver and DivePort). This class presents the considerations that must be taken into account prior to designing and building DI Models. Students will be introduced to the Builder component to develop data Models. Advanced topics such as using DiveMaster to create DivePlans and merge Models will also be covered.

Topics Covered:

• Data Discovery (information gathering, assessing data attributes)
• Model Structures (comparison and functionality)
  
• Model Building (inside the Model file, factors influencing size)
• Builder Attributes (file types, block factor, working set, squash, build journal)
• DiveMaster (consolidated & multi-level DivePlans, lookups)
• Creating Columns using Calculations and Functions
• Production Issues (directories, security, parameters)
• Performance Factors (number of Dimensions, Summaries, Info Fields and Block Factor)

Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be familiar with Microsoft Windows®, as well as the operating system on which the production Builder and Integrator will run. Experience with databases is helpful.

Who Should Attend:
This lecture/lab class is designed specifically for the IS Professional who is responsible for the creation and maintenance of DI Models.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

REPORT PREPARATION AND DELIVERY, 1 Day

This class will cover report formatting features. Power users will learn how to go beyond the default report view by unlocking and formatting several different report types. Students will then have the opportunity to review how to publish Diver Markers (reports) in DivePort for viewing by other users. The class will also demonstrate best QuickView practices. QuickViews allow users to filter information on-the-fly within the DivePort interface.

Topics Covered:

• Report formatting methodology
• Creating, using, and editing report templates
• Formatting complex reports (styles, item types, text variables)
• Publishing reports in DivePort

Prerequisites:
Students are expected to be familiar with the Microsoft Windows® platform and a browser. Students are expected to be power users with at least six months experience using Diver. Students should be familiar with DivePlans, Diver Markers, and creating calculations

Who Should Attend:
This class is designed for end users holding Advanced Licenses only.

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

VISUAL INTEGRATOR, 1.5 Days

This is an entry-level class for the IS professional or individual responsible for the collection, transformation, and maintenance of data used in The Diver Solution™. This class uses the new Visual Integrator component to teach students the "object" building blocks used to extract and transform data from a source system, in preparation for use in a DI Model. The output created by the Visual Integrator program is used by the Builder component or other applications. Multiple exercise lead the students through the most common uses of the Visual Integrator.

Topics Covered:

• The Data Flow paradigm of the Data Integrator component
• The DI Object Language (objects and attributes)
• Task Lists and Tasks
• Input Objects
• Output Objects
• Process Objects
• Process Types (Lookup, Filter, Qual, Calc, Rotate, Squash, Split, Execute)

Prerequisites:
Completion of the Model Design Essentials class or experience building DI Models is required. General experience or knowledge of programming languages is helpful.

Who Should Attend:
This lecture/lab class is designed for the IS Professional as well as those individuals who are responsible for the manipulation of data for use within their organization.