This certification is designed to enhance your proficiency in Crystal Reports, a powerful tool for transforming data into meaningful reports. You'll learn to navigate the interface, connect to various data sources, and design professional reports based on your datasets. The course covers the core concepts of report creation, from basic data selection to advanced formula writing and custom variable creation. By the end of the certification, you will be adept at developing detailed, actionable reports tailored to your audience's needs.
Who Should Take This Certification?
Employees across diverse industries use Crystal Reports as a robust reporting tool to generate actionable business insights from data. Analysts, business intelligence professionals, and database administrators use Crystal Reports for creating reports based on complex datasets. As Crystal Reports has been in use since the 1980s, many companies have used this software for decades, and new employees may need upskilling in Crystal Reports to best use longitudinal data to make predictions based on long-term trends. This professional development certificate will enhance your competence in managing and presenting data and increase your confidence in the accuracy and validity of the data with which you work.
Workplace Skills
- Report Design and Execution: Master designing and executing detailed reports that can drive business decisions. This skill enables you to present complex data in an organized and accessible format.
- Data Manipulation for Reporting: Learn to manipulate data within Crystal Reports to highlight key insights and metrics, which inform your data-derived reporting and storytelling.
- Advanced Formulas and Functions: Develop proficiency in writing advanced formulas and using built-in functions to customize which data to emphasize in your reports in order to best communicate with your audience.
- Parameter Implementation: Implement parameters to create dynamic and interactive reports, allowing end-users to customize views and dive deeper into the data that best aligns with their interests.
- Data Connectivity and Integration: Learn to connect to various databases and data sources, allowing you to easily make connections and find relationships between data.
Requirements
This certificate includes a series of progressive courses: Introduction to Crystal Reports, Intermediate Applications of Crystal Reports, and Advanced Applications of Crystal Reports. Completing this three-course sequence will result in issuing this certificate and the accompanying badge, which may be displayed in your email signature and on LinkedIn.
Schedule
Courses are held monthly and may be taken online synchronously or in person at our training center in Des Peres, St. Louis County, Missouri. Employers and job centers may also request training held at an offsite location. Please contact info@cetc.umsl.edu for further information.
Pathways
Each course is worth 0.65 CEUs.
For More Information
For more information and registration details, please visit the dedicated course area on our website or contact our support team at info@cetc.umsl.edu.