Distributive Management offers full training services for all user-levels
of DataDrill Integrated and DataDrill EXPRESS. Select a product below
to learn more about its DataDrill Training offerings:
DataDrill
EXPRESS Training
To give you a head start on making the most of your investment
in DataDrill EXPRESS, Distributive Management offers instructor-led
courses that speed your familiarization with DataDrill EXPRESS,
get you started collecting raw measurement data, and give you hands-on
experience using the built-in DataDrill EXPRESS measurement best
practices library. Plus, you'll spend time practicing how to adjust
and customize to fit any unique needs your company might have.
For more information about DataDrill EXPRESS training courses, contact
your Distributive Sales representative at sales@distributive.com.
DataDrill
Integrated Training
We offer a full range of training programs to ensure your personnel
are proficient in using DataDrill Integrated. The Web-based course
structure allows self-directed, self-paced instruction. The format
is highly effective in delivering interactive training to meet individual
needs so that you extract maximum value from your investment in
implementing and using DataDrill Integrated.
| Course |
Description |
| Overview of
DataDrill Integrated |
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| Overview of
ReportCenter |
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| Using the
My Measures Module |
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| Formatting
DataDrill Graphs |
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| Using DataDrill
Equations |
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| Using DataDrill
Projects |
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| DataDrill
DashboardCenter |
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| DataDrill StrategyCenter |
|
| DataDrill
Administrative Functions |
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| DataDrill Integration
Training (instructor-led) |
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| DataDrill Integration
Studio (instructor-led) |
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Overview
of DataDrill Integrated
An introductory overview of Distributive DataDrill, the web-based
performance management tool developed by Distributive Management.
Learn about:
-- DataDrill's mission statement
-- What DataDrill is and what it does
-- What benefits DataDrill brings to your organization
-- How DataDrill fits into your organization and who will use it
-- The different components that make up DataDrill and how they
work together
-- DataDrill's Web Portal and User Interface
Estimated time required: 30 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All DataDrill Users
Pre-requisites: None
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Overview of ReportCenter
An introduction to ReportCenter, the DataDrill component where users
create, format and view performance measurement information products
including measures, graphs, reports, analysis and alarms.
Learn about:
-- ReportCenter's My Measures module - what it does and how it works
-- The components of the My Measures tree
-- The reports, graphs and analysis you'll see and use in DataDrill
-- Subscribing to organizational measurement information
-- Copying and pasting measurement items within your My Measures
-- Viewing, printing and exporting measurement reports
Estimated time required: 45 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All DataDrill Users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill
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Using
the My Measures Module
An introduction to setting up and using ReportCenter's My Measures
module to create, monitor and share DataDrill measurement information.
Learn how to:
-- Organize measurement information using folders and reports.
-- Create measurement reports, snapshot grids and graphs.
-- Add data series, text series, alarms and regions to measurement
graphs.
-- Set reporting periods for schedule-based measurement data.
-- Report event-based measurement data using measurement grids.
-- Allow other users to subscribe to measurement information you
own.
Estimated time required: 1 hour 15 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All ReportCenter Users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter
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Formatting
DataDrill Graphs
An introduction to formatting the different graph types in DataDrill
to support organizational information needs.
Learn how to:
-- Plan and access individual and organizational DataDrill graph
formats.
-- Format background, x-axis, y-axis, legend and series of DataDrill
graphs.
-- Customize the graph format settings for single-state-type graphs.
-- Customize the graph format settings for alternative-type graphs.
-- Establish and modify organizational default graph format settings
for each DataDrill graph type.
Estimated time required: 45 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All ReportCenter Users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter,
Using the My Measures Module
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Using DataDrill Equations
An introduction to using ReportCenter's Equation Editor and Equation
Wizard to create equations in support of planning, tracking, monitoring,
and analyzing data.
Learn how to:
-- Identify opportunities to use DataDrill equations to present
useful indicators and analyses.
-- Use the Equation Editor to define equations to be used as series
sources.
-- Use the Equation Wizard to assist in building equations within
the Equation Editor.
-- Create equation-based indicators, alarms, forecasting and analysis.
-- Create equation-based aggregation of data and equation-based
status regions on graphs.
Estimated time required: 45 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: Measurement Analysts, Process Owners
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter,
Using the My Measures Module
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Using DataDrill Projects
An introduction to DataDrill Projects and how to use them to effectively
manage DataDrill DashboardCenter and StrategyCenter, and to tie
together the synergy between projects, measurement reports, dashboards
and scorecards.
Learn how to:
-- Effectively manage projects to display relevant measurement information
to users, including graphs, dashboards and scorecards.
-- Navigate the DataDrill Projects module.
-- Create, edit and delete DataDrill projects.
-- Display project phases and milestones in ReportCenter graphs.
-- Set up security and edit permissions for DataDrill projects.
Estimated time required: 40 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: ReportCenter users, DashboardCenter users, StrategyCenter
users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter
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DataDrill
DashboardCenter
An introduction to DataDrill's DashboardCenter, including creating,
managing, editing and using DataDrill Dashboards.
Learn how to:
-- Access DataDrill dashboards and apply their usefulness in managing
decisions based on measurement information.
-- Define project dashboard indicators to communicate worst status
for key management categories.
-- Use dashboards' relationship to a Project and to ReportCenter
to implement the benefits of phases, milestones and alarms.
-- Create, edit and manage dashboard content, including indicators,
alarms, graphs, text and html.
-- Establish and navigate a dashboard drill path from summary information
to supporting graphs, actionable source data.
Estimated time required: 55 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All DashboardCenter users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter,
Using DataDrill Projects
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DataDrill
StrategyCenter
An introduction to DataDrill's StrategyCenter, and the features
it provides for managing organizational performance with scorecards.
Learn how to:
-- Create and edit scorecards and strategy maps
-- Define scorecard perspectives, objectives, intitiatives, tasks
and measures
-- Enter scorecard data, and copy and paste scorecard information
-- Monitor scorecard status and progress, tasks and information
owners
Estimated
time required: 75 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All StrategyCenter users
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter,
Using DataDrill Projects
Recommended related courses: Using the My Measures Module, Formatting
DataDrill Graphs, Using DataDrill Equations, DataDrill Administrative
Functions
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DataDrill
Administrative Functions
An introduction to DataDrill's Admin role and the administrative
functions performed by the DataDrill Administrator on the Admin
tab.
Learn how to:
-- Navigate the DataDrill Admin tab and list the functions available
on the Admin tab.
-- Determine effective account and role structure using DataDrill's
user security features.
-- Set up DataDrill users, including login accounts, shared accounts
and roles.
-- Create and organize DataDrill tabs and modules to define the
organizational DataDrill site.
-- Control user access and edit capability of DataDrill tabs and
modules.
-- Define the list of organizational folder attributes for use in
DataDrill filtering and aggregation.
Estimated time required: 50 minutes plus practice session
Suggested audience: All DataDrill Administrators
Pre-requisites: Overview of DataDrill
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DataDrill
Integration Training
Intended
for advanced DataDrill users, the DataDrill Integration Training
course is a comprehensive overview of DataDrill's information flow,
covering the data integration on the back end, data processing in
the middle, and the various forms of visualizing and displaying
information on the front end. This
course is a 2-day instructor-led course.
Learn about:
--
the general approach used in DataDrill to help users understand
how to initiate a measurement process
-- the primary facilities (pages and tools) in DataDrill for configuring
a measurement process
-- the steps involved in creating a complete data path through DataDrill
for different types of data
-- how to perform the most common DataDrill integration methods
-- Extractors, data loading and Integration Studio
The course is designed for users who are comfortable learning new
technology, have a basic understanding of SQL, are familiar with
using DataDrill and who will work with DataDrill on a regular basis
to configure and maintain the measurement/management processes.
Estimated
time required: 2 days
Suggested audience: All DataDrill Administrators/Integrators
Pre-requisites: Overview
of DataDrill, Overview of ReportCenter, Using the My Measures Module
Note: http://www.w3schools.com
provides free tutorials for beginning SQL users.
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DataDrill
Integration Studio
A thorough introduction to using Embarcadero's DT/Studio as a platform
for integrating data. The course spends time specifically addressing
integration with DataDrill. This course is a 2-day instructor-led
course.
Learn about:
-- The DT/Studio Components: Designer,
Console and Engine
-- Architecture, modeling and transformations using DT/Designer
-- Administration of ETL tasks using DT/Console
-- DT/Engine management
Estimated time required: 2 days
Suggested audience: All DataDrill Administrators/Integrators
Pre-requisites: None
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