May 2007 Newsletter
Data Analysis & Report Design with MS Excel
Even experienced Excel users often fail to fully utilise its more sophisticated analysis tools. Making presentations using Excel data can still be a chore and not an easily automated task to really drive home your message. More...  
TOAD for Oracle Training

TOAD fans say that the market for their chosen product is very simple: everyone who uses Oracle! This tool makes database and application development faster and easier and simplifies day-to-day administration tasks for database or application developers, DBA's or business analysts. More...  
Crystal Reports - getting the most from Business Intelligence (BI)
Even experienced Excel users often fail to fully utilize its more sophisticated analysis tools. Making presentations using Excel data can still be a chore and not an easily automated task to really drive home your message. More...  
Leading and Managing - The Bottom Line

The need for high quality managers is intensifying as 'flatter' organisation structures and self-directed teams mean that the actual number of managers needed is decreasing. However, the need for quality managers, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment, is increasing. More...  
Public schedule for Business and IT Training Courses
In addition to customised courses for our clients, we offer an extensive range of Public Courses. More..


Data Analysis & Report Design with MS Excel
Even experienced Excel users often fail to fully utilise its more sophisticated analysis tools. Making presentations using Excel data can still be a chore and not an easily automated task to really drive home your message. If you have to analyse and/or present data from Excel, this course using interactive and participative examples will show you how to make best use of the software and produce more relevant and succinct reports

Click here or contact us for more details on in-house courses.









TOAD for Oracle Training
TOAD fans say that the market for their chosen product is very simple: everyone who uses Oracle! This tool makes database and application development faster and easier and simplifies day-to-day administration tasks for database or application developers, DBA's or business analysts.

TOAD is an industry-standard tool for application development in both freeware and commercial versions. Using TOAD, developers can build, test, and debug PL/SQL packages, procedures, triggers and functions. Trained TOAD users can create and edit database objects such as tables, views, indexes, constraints, and users. TOAD's SQL Editor provides and easy and efficient way to write and test scripts and queries, and its powerful data grinds provide an easy way to view and edit Oracle data.

Professional Training's one day Introduction to TOAD for Oracle is a great starting point for any TOAD user. Click here or contact us for more details on this and our Oracle Courses.














Crystal Reports - getting the most from Business Intelligence (BI)
The key to unlocking information is to give users the tools to quickly and easily find answers to their questions. Standard reports that are updated on a regular basis provide some answers but the information that a user finds will often trigger more questions, and these questions will not be answered in a prepackaged report.

Crystal Reports is the world leader for flexible, ad-hoc reporting for all sizes of organisation. While users may spend 80% of their time accessing standard or personalized reports, you will find that for 20% of their tasks, they need to go elsewhere to obtain additional information not available in the original report. To address this need and avoid end user frustration ( and related report backlog for the IT team), a BI system like Crystal Reports is required that lets users autonomously make ad hoc requests for information from corporate data sources.

Using Crystal Reports to its full potential requires expert training whether for new users or those seeking more advanced skills. Contact us for details of how Professional Training can assist you.




















Leading and Managing - The Bottom Line
The need for high quality managers is intensifying as 'flatter' organisation structures and self-directed teams mean that the actual number of managers needed is decreasing. However, the need for quality managers, people who can manage themselves and others in a high stress environment, is increasing.

Successful management requires specific skills, in addition to knowledge of key business practices.   However you define your role - manager, leader, communicator, motivator - no matter what managerial 'hat' you are wearing, the focus must always be on improving the bottom line while achieving the best results.  Front-line managers in any corporate or government organisation in Ireland today face a difficult, ever-changing environment.  Standard textbook approaches simply will not achieve what's required and multi-disciplinary skills are vital.  

This new course acknowledges the difficulties facing managers in Ireland and assists participants in improving their skills for the realities faced daily. We do not offer abstract academic concepts and lecture experienced managers on how to apply them. The content is based on real-world experience and is guaranteed to engage participan
ts and provide them with the tools to bring them to the next level in management.

On average, we use less than 4% of the capacity of our minds. What can we do about that missing 96%?  If we use only 1% more of our brainpower, we'll be 25% more effective.

Click here for further details










Public schedule for Business and IT training courses

In addition to customised courses for our clients, we offer an extensive range of Public Courses.

IT training includes: SQL 2005, Oracle, Unix, Linux, VB.NET, Crystal Reports, Dreamweaver, Flash, InDesign, Photoshop, MS Office, etc.

Business Skills training includes: Sales, Finance, HR, Customer Service, Leadership & Management, etc.

For details on all of our public scheduled courses, click here

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