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Impromptu Administration

Duration: 2 Days

Audience: Experienced Impromptu Users, Users Needing to Create and Maintain Catalogs and support an Impromptu environment

Brief:
This course focuses on the skills needed to set up, manage, and maintain Impromptu applications for information consumers. It also discusses the responsibilities of an administrator in an enterprise environment. Workshops will provide hands-on examples of how to setup the user environment to ensure that user data is accessible and meaningful. Security implementation, user and user class setup, catalog conditions, filters and prompts will also be explored. Finally, deployment and maintenance issues that can impact the Impromptu environment will be addressed in detail.

Course Notes:
This course can be delivered using an Impromptu demo database, or upon request, your instructor will utilize your own database and catalogs as the basis for the workshops, examples, and class discussion. There is an additional fee for customization of the course materials.

Recommended Prerequisites:
Introduction to Impromptu or Equivalent Experience. Database knowledge, and specifically knowledge of your company’s business data is a plus.

Glasses
Topics:

bullet The Impromptu Administrator
• Roles and responsibilities

bullet Catalogs
• Default catalogs
• Catalog types and characteristics
• Data source connections

bullet Joins
• Join types
• Modifying default joins
• Defining new joins
• Perils of loop joins

bullet Folders
• Manipulating folders
• Folder strategies
• Adding meaning to catalogs
• Conditions, calculations and prompts

bullet Security
• User classes
• The user community
• Setting up classes of users
• User/class security and control
• Implementing security within a database

bullet Performance
• Analyzing queries
• Tuning strategies
• Alternate data sources

bullet Deployment
• Installation options
• Installation issues
• Impact of ongoing maintenance
• Support
• Content overview

bullet Empowering Users
• Standardized reports and templates
• Customizing the user environment
• Automating reporting

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