Training

AppVine's training offerings are part of the path to enabling your team. Our training covers both the technical and business aspects of the solutions we offer, from end user training through to system administration and custom training development.

To schedule training for any of the following courses, please contact us at info@appvine.com or (866)-931-9292.


XBRL Level (iv) Fundamentals

Course Duration: 2 Days, Instructor-led

Target Audience: This course is intended primarily for users in the finance function of an organization, who are responsible for the creation and submission of regulatory documents to the SEC, or other regulatory authority receiving data using XBRL.

It is assumed that students attending this course have a working knowledge of Cognos FSR and Microsoft Office. Also, students should have an understanding of their financial disclosures (10K and 10Q), and access to sample reports in FSR for use in training.

Course Topics:

  • XBRL Fundamentals
  • Instance Documents
  • Level (i) - Block Tagging
  • Level (iv) - Detail Tagging
  • Steps to Deploy XBRL
  • Tagging
  • Validation
  • Submitting the Instance Document

IBM Cognos FSR Fundamentals

Course Duration: 2 Days, Instructor led

Target Audience: This course is intended primarily for users in the finance function of an organization, who are responsible for the creation of regulatory reports (10K, 10Q), management reports, briefing books or other internal reporting.

It is assumed that students attending this course have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Also, students should have an understanding of their financial disclosures (10K and 10Q) or reports being created.

Topics Covered:

  • FSR Overview
  • Sections and Objects
  • Report Design & Development
  • Getting Data from External Systems
  • Automating Roll-forward with Variables
  • Workflow Design
  • Creating Validation Rules

IBM Cognos TM1 Fundamentals

Course Duration: 3-5 Days, Instructor-led

Target Audience: This course is aimed at individuals who will be responsible for the designing, building and maintaining of TM1 applications within an organization. Both IT and Finance users can benefit from the topics covered in this training course.

It is assumed that students attending this course have a working knowledge of database concepts, source systems and some experience with programming and/or database scripting such as SQL.

Topics Covered:

  • TM1 Overview
  • Building Models in TM1
  • Loading Data
  • Creating Business Rules
  • TM1 Perspectives
  • TM1 Web

IBM Cognos TM1 Advanced Topics

Course Duration: 3 Days, Instructor-led

Target Audience: This course is intended for TM1 architects and system administrators, who are responsible for the on-going maintenance and monitoring of the TM1 environment. Advanced topics such as optimization, calculations (rules), cube replication, advanced TI processes and server monitoring are covered in depth.

Topics Covered:

  • Advanced Business Rules (calculations)
  • Data Feeder Concepts
  • Server Monitoring
  • Integration with other components
  • Cube replication

IBM Cognos TM1 End User Training

Course Duration: 1 Day, Instructor-led or Web Based

Target Audience: This course is aimed primarily at the individuals in an organization that are responsible for the creation of reports within the Finance group.

Topics Covered:

  • TM1 Overview
  • Perspectives Overview
  • Ad Hoc Reporting
  • Creating Active Forms
  • Creating Input Forms
  • Advanced Perspectives Topics