Advanced Technical Sessions

Consona’s talented product experts will be available during and after the conference to lead advanced technical sessions that will help you get to the heart of your Consona application. Take advantage of these hands-on workshops to delve deep into the software and build innovative solutions to your unique business challenges. Make sure to bring your laptop so that you can practice while you learn.

Choose from our series of 1-hour sessions during the conference or the more in-depth post-conference sessions, a 4-hour block on Thursday (May 17) afternoon, that cover the same information! These workshops are being offered for a nominal, one-time fee of $200 to attend any andall advanced technical sessions.

You can become a system guru and still have time for networking, one-on-one consulting sessions and educational breakout sessions. Learn how these advanced technical sessions fit into your conference schedule on the breakout session pages.

Extending the Intuitive Product - .Net Workshop
This workshop, held in a three consecutive breakout sessions, will focus on advanced customization topics, as submitted by customers. If time permits, we will also review the following advanced programming techniques: interaction with application objects, user interfaces and building grid-based reports. These sessions are perfect for software developers, system analysts and programmers who are interested in:

• Modify existing .NET forms.
• Create application objects and a user interfaces.
• Instantiate application objects (AO) without the use of user interfaces, and automate the creation and update of information.
• Build reports that use application objects (AX) for criteria selection and the grid control for results.

Access Customization Workshop Sessions (Part 1 and 2)
This two-session workshop will focus on answering the following questions: "What is under the hood in Access?” and “How can I make changes to it?" We will dive into the product to see how to make minor changes that produce extraordinary results, specifically, attendees will learn how to:

• Make cosmetic changes to reports such as sales orders, invoices and purchase orders.
• Add some additional fields and logic to a report.

Advanced Reporting Technical Series

• ADVT 306: Advanced Reporting - Business Intelligence Cells will provide an overview of the business intelligence cell, specifically:
  
  
• Why and how to use the business intelligence cell.
• How to use the link to manage the relationship.
• How to include/exclude data in the filter.


• ADVT 307: Advanced Reporting – Consolidations will focus on how Advanced Reporting can assist you in producing consolidations. This session is best suited to senior financial managers and will focus on:
  
  
• Soft vs. hard consolidations.
• Considerations.
• Account setup.
• Consolidations account field.
• Using the filter to include/exclude inter-company customers and vendors.


• ADVT 308: Advanced Reporting – Getting the Most Out of Dashboardswill focus on the kinds of reporting that users are doing with dashboards, the rationale behind them and the means of creating them in your system. The focus will be on:
  
  
• Identifying the kinds of things that lend themselves to dashboard reporting.
• Understanding how the dashboard works.
• Taking home a sample dashboard as an example.
  
  **Prerequisite is a basic understanding of the Advanced Reporting tool.


• ADVT 309: Advanced Reporting – Best Practices will be an interactive discussion highlighting the best practices of the experts—you. Consona will facilitate the discussion after providing an overview of common best practices related to Advanced Reporting, such as:
  
  
• How to manage users and permissions.
• How to take advantage of interactive reporting.
• When to use each cell type when writing reports.
• How to make the most out of drill-downs.
• How to create and manage custom spheres.