Users

Below, we have listed the types of users typically involved with TARGIT in an organization where the TARGIT Decision Suite has been installed.

The Consumer user

The Consumer user would probably know TARGIT only from one of TARGIT's front-end clients: The Windows client, the browser-based Anywhere client or the Smartphone app.

In general, a Consumer user would open existing dashboards and reports, and potentially filter and export these data.

The data that can be viewed in the dashboards, before or after it has been filtered, will often provide the necessary overview and details for the decision maker to make a data-driven decision.

In some organizations, the Consumer user doesn't even have to open one of the clients to receive data from TARGIT. TARGIT reports can be send out automatically from the TARGIT Server, to arrive as e.g., PDFs in a Consumer user's inbox.

Example, the browser based Anywhere client for a Consumer user:

The Designer user

While the Consumer user rely on already existing dashboards and reports, someone has to design these documents first - and that is the Designer user's job.

The Designer user will work with the TARGIT Windows client. This is the only client that is capable of designing new dashboards and reports.

A dashboard or a report may contain multiple crosstab, chart and KPI objects. The Designer user can add and format these objects from the available source data until the dashboard or report fulfills the decision makers' requirements.

Typically, the source data comes from an existing data warehouse that the TARGIT server is connected to. However, the Designer user, as the only user, furthermore has the ability to add ad-hoc data such as Excel data or CSV data to become workable source data as well.

Example, the Designer client Windows application in Designer mode:

The Administrator user

At least one person should have administrative rights to the TARGIT solution. Typically, the person with administrative rights is either a resource from the IT department or the leading Designer user that has also been granted administrative rights.

The interface for the Administrator user is the TARGIT Management client which is used for configuration and administration of the TARGIT Server.

During installation of the TARGIT Decision Suite there are usually a number of settings that needs to be configured e.g., with regard to server names and licenses. These are typically configurations that need to be done once and rarely need to be modified.

On a more regular basis, the Administrator user will manage users, their license access level, their access to existing and new data sources, their access to the folder structure of saved documents, their rights to various features of the TARGIT Decision Suite.

Example, the Administrator user's interface to the Server via the TARGIT Management client:

The Data Warehouse developer

The Data Warehouse developer is a role that is only required if you intend on developing or maintaining your own data warehouses. Often, the data warehouse is developed by a third party and you only need to connect the TARGIT Server to the data warehouse to start working on these data.

Developing a data warehouse is the task of bringing together data from one or more CRM, ERP or similar business systems, building a data model by matching up relations between data from these systems and defining dimensions and measures.

The platform of the data warehouse can be one among many: Microsoft SQL Server (relational, multidimensional or tabular), Oracle, PostgreSQL etc. TARGIT also offers its own native data warehouse platform - the TARGIT InMemory Database - which is a high performing column-stored database that resides in memory.

Example, the Data Model Editor for a TARGIT InMemory database:

Further reading

Together with this article, you can find other articles that are relevant when you are new to TARGIT:

• The overview. What is TARGIT? And how is it used? Article with a short intro to TARGIT
• Descriptions of the TARGIT Decision Suite components that you may encounter while working with TARGIT. Article with components descriptions
• Collection of useful links for anyone new to TARGIT. Article with useful links