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Training
Our range of product and analysis related courses allow you to develop your competence in i2’s products so that you can do your job more easily and efficiently, and maximise the benefits of your investment in i2 software. i2 training is designed to give you the practical skills that can be immediately implemented in your work. The i2 Training department is made up of a team of highly skilled trainers from a variety of backgrounds including Law Enforcement and Military intelligence analysis. With a wealth of experience gained over a number of years, the team is well-equipped to aid and instruct our diverse customer base. To ensure i2 training is of the highest standard, every i2 trainer is TAP Certified and a member of the Institute of IT Training. i2’s training department is also an IITT Accredited Training Provider. Benefits of i2 Training Courses:
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To receive the latest schedule or to book a course, please contact the training department directly:
Email: training@i2.co.uk |
Overview
Gain a firm grip on how to use Analyst’s Notebook effectively. Learn to develop charts from intelligence reports, statements, telephone billing and other records. Discover how to manage and keep track of information as your charts grow, including how to produce summary and briefing charts.
An interactive course using a combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises.
Duration
5 days
Cost
£1,125 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
New users of i2 Analyst’s Notebook.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create association and commodity flow charts>
- Create sequence of events charts
- Create attributes to aid analysis
- Interrogate charts with the analytical tools including searches and layouts
- Import external structured data to produce charts
- Change the emphasis of a chart – change a sequence of events chart into an association chart
- Generate reports from data held on cards
- You must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows
- An understanding of the concepts and use of visual investigative techniques and how they will help you in your current job are advantageous
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2 Analysis in Action Workshop Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Further advance your existing knowledge of Analyst’s Notebook. The course looks at all aspects of the software and explores some of its more advanced features.
A combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises will be used to explore areas in greater depth. The final part of the course is run as a workshop session, which will be used to address your individual queries. You are encouraged to contact the training department with regard to specific problems you may have encountered either before the course runs, or at the start of the course.
Duration
5 days
Cost
£1,250 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Existing users of i2 Analyst’s Notebook who wish to extend their knowledge
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create and manage templates
- Import more complex information including advanced import options
- Combine several searches to ask real world questions
- Perform searches that include attributes, analysis attributes and dates and times including:
- Visual Search
- Find Linked
- Find Path
- Create Snapshots of a chart for briefings
- Manage OLE objects and background items
- Ideally you will have attended Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1
- Ideally you will have a minimum of six months experience of using Analyst’s Notebook on a regular basis
- An understanding of the concepts and use of visual investigative techniques is advantageous
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Continue to use Analyst’s Notebook as an effective analytical tool. Identify the new facilities in Version 7 and understand how to apply them in creating analytical charts. Learn how to generate a single chart containing a combination of both linked and temporal information. Automatically change a timeline view of data to a network view and vice versa.
Duration
1 day
Cost
£250 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Analysts using i2 Analyst’s Notebook who wish to update their skills to enable them to fully exploit the new features of Version 7.
Objectives
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Overview of new functionality
- Screen and tool bars
- Adding and viewing hyperlinks
- Changing and searching Icon Shading
- Importing information to create association and temporal charts
- Using the Linked Items Bar
- Filtering in List Items
- Using List Cards and List Data Records
- Populating a chart Coversheet
- Creating chart Headers and Footers
You must be familiar with Analyst’s Notebook 6.
Further Training
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Make the connection between the analytical process and Analyst’s Notebook and/or iBase. Enhance your skills with regard to both the analytical and visual aspects of Analyst’s Notebook and/or iBase. Use your analytical and charting skills to request, manage and understand information. The course comprises of a series of workshops to develop your understanding of the fundamental aspects of analysis and how these relate to the software. These issues will be complemented by a case study. The software functionality taught on this course is tailored to the needs of each individual.
Duration
3 days
Cost
£ 995 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Analysts using either i2 Analyst’s Notebook by itself or in conjunction with i2 iBase on a regular basis, who wish to test and extend their knowledge in a workshop environment,.
Objectives
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Apply Analyst’s Notebook or iBase software to a scenario
- Convert your analytical questions into Analyst’s Notebook or iBase software commands
- Create analytical products from Analyst’s Notebook or iBase
For Analyst’s Notebook users, you must be familiar with the advanced use of Analyst’s Notebook. Ideally this will be achieved by attending Analyst’s Notebook Courses – parts 1 and 2. Alternatively, you must have at least 12 months experience using Analyst’s Notebook on a regular basis and be familiar with the following functionality :
- Copy charts
- Use the search and selection options including Select Linked, Visual Search and Find Text options.
- Create and use different types of attributes.
- Use the importer to create link charts with attributes.
- Import text files to create flow charts.
Further Training
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to use i2 iBase in conjunction with the i2 Analyst’s Notebook.
A combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises will be used in this interactive course. Duration 5 days
Cost
£1,125 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wishes to use i2 iBase databases which have already been developed within your organisation.
Attendance of this course is a pre-requisite for the i2 iBase Designer course.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Add, Amend or Delete records
- Create links between records
- Find records
- Create queries to locate data
- Create sets
- Pass geo coded data to a mapping product
- Manage queries, reports and sets
- Find Path’s between two entities in the database
- Output data to create charts in the i2 Analyst’s Notebook
- Interrogate the database from the i2 Analyst’s Notebook chart
- Generate printed reports from the database
- Import data from various sources
- Data entry using i2 TextChart
- It is essential you have a good knowledge of Windows
- An awareness of your organisation’s i2 iBase databases and an appreciation of their use would be an advantage
- Basic knowledge of the i2 Analyst’s Notebook would also be advantageous
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1 Analysis in Action Workshop
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2 i2 iBase Designer
Overview
During the course you will learn how to design and create a variety of databases for storing and analysing information
Duration
5 days
Cost
£1250 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wishes to create i2 iBase databases.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Design and create an i2 iBase database relevant to given requirements
- Create and administer Users and Passwords and have a good appreciation of database security mechanisms
- Create Database Templates
- Create Datasheets to aid data entry
- Create hierarchal code lists
- Advise users on the use of Labelling Schemes
- Test your database
- Publish databases to a network
- Create and restore back ups
- Create and maintain Word Search indexes
- Maintain a database by using the following tools/processes
- Repair and Compact
- Data weeding
- Schema integrity check
- Have attended the i2 iBase User course, or demonstrate your ability to
- Import Data
- Write Queries
- Generate Reports
- Chart Data
- An operational knowledge of Windows and file storage is assumed
- Basic knowledge of i2 Analyst’s Notebook would also be advantageous
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1
Analysis in Action Workshop
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
Train the Trainers Course
i2 TextChart User and Designer
Overview
Receive a comprehensive insight into Analyst’s Workstation. Learn how to use its various components – i2 iBase, i2 Analyst’s Notebook, i2 Data Miner and the connections between them. Analyst’s Workstation also includes a connection to mapping software and you will learn how to get data to and from maps. Please note the course does not cover how to use the mapping software itself.
The course is split into two parts, each one a week long.
Duration
2 parts, each of 5 days
Costs
£2500 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
New users of the i2 Analyst’s Workstation
Course Pre-requisites
- You must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows
- An understanding of the concepts and use of visual investigative techniques and how they will help you in your current job is advantageous
- If you are using a mapping system with the Analyst’s Workstation, then it is helpful to know the capability of the mapping software
- You do not have to attend the Analyst’s Notebook and iBase User courses prior to attending Analyst’s Workstation course
Further Training
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Use the Telephone Task Manager to perform common tasks such as data entry, queries and reports. Additionally use the other parts of i2 Analyst’s Workstation TCA to present findings in different formats.
A combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises will be used in this interactive course.
Duration
3 days
Cost
£675 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wishes to use i2 Analyst’s Workstation TCA as a tool to help store and analyse telephone related information.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Add subscriber details and call records
- Import call records
- Run some standard queries
- Map cell sites
- Create Association and Timeline charts
- Create Bar charts and Tables of call information
- Find patterns in call information
- Work with cases and across cases
- It is essential you have a good knowledge of Windows
- Knowledge of the i2 Analyst’s Notebook, iBase or i2 Analyst’s Workstation would also be advantageous
Overview
Learn how to modify a database to hold the information required, to manage users and cases and to customise the data entry tasks.
A combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises will be used in this interactive course.
Duration
2 days
Cost
£450 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anyone who will be responsible for the administration of i2 Analyst’s Workstation TCA databases.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create TCA databases
- Create and manage usernames and access rights
- Create and manage cases
- Modify the Telephone Task Manager
- Customise the database
- Protect Telephone Codes information
- It is essential you have a good knowledge of Windows
- Knowledge of iBase Designer or i2 Analyst’s Workstation would also be advantageous. Knowledge of i2 Analyst’s Workstation TCA is essential.
Overview
This course is aimed at users new to i2 TextChart and assumes no prior knowledge of other i2 products.
Extract text from documents and create a chart to show a visual interpretation of the data. Learn basic charting concepts, rules and conventions. Create both association and time-based charts and learn how to store additional information and characteristics on your chart. Analyse the output of an i2 TextChart Workspace using i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.
An interactive course using a combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises
Duration
1 day
Cost
£225 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anybody who wishes to use i2 TextChart
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand the basic charting concepts, rules and conventions.
- Create a Workspace
- Manage a Workspace
- Create both association and time based charts.
- Visualise the output of i2 TextChart in i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6
- You must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows
i2 TextChart Designer
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
i2 iBase User
i2 iBase Designer
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
This course is aimed at users new to i2 TextChart Designer and assumes no prior knowledge of other i2 products.
During the course you will you will design and create a template based on a training scenario which will be tested using i2 TextChart.
An interactive course using a combination of instructor led tuition, hands-on work and exercises
Duration
1 day
Cost
£225 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anybody who wishes to create or amend i2 TextChart templates.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Plan a template design
- Create a new template to include entities, links, attributes and semantic types.
- Manage the template workspace properties
- Create a template report
- Test the template using i2 TextChart
- Overlay an amended template to an existing workspace
- Create a template based on an existing Analyst’s Notebook Chart
- You must have attended the i2 TextChart User course
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
i2 iBase User
i2 iBase Designer
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
This course is aimed at existing i2 Analyst’s Notebook delegates who are new to i2 TextChart.
Extract text from documents and create a chart to show a visual interpretation of the data. Create both association and time-based charts and learn how to store additional information and characteristics on your chart. Analyse the output of an i2 TextChart Workspace using i2 Analyst’s Notebook.
An interactive course using a combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises.
Duration
0.5 day
Cost
£169 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
This module will immediately follow i2 Analyst’s Notebook Part One Course
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create a Workspace
- Manage a Workspace
- Create both association and time based charts.
- Visualise the output of i2 TextChart in i2 Analyst’s Notebook
- You must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows
i2 TextChart Designer
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
i2 IBase User
i2 iBase Designer
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Gain an effective understanding of how to locate information and how to control and understand the results.
A combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises will be used in this interactive course.
Duration
1 days
Cost
£225 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anyone who wishes to use i2 ChartExplorer as a tool to help locate charts and documents of interest based on their content and other factors such as who authored them.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Add folders to be searched
- Explore information such as author and keywords
- Search and control the Search Preferences
- Understand the results returned
- Preview charts and interpret summary screens
- Save and reuse searches
- Schedule searches to run regularly
- Monitor for changes to folders of interest
- It is essential you have a good knowledge of Windows
- Basic knowledge of the i2 Analyst’s Notebook would also be advantageous
Overview
Understand how PatternTracer finds patterns in telephone call data. Learn how to use different settings to interrogate all your data. Interpret the results of your interrogation. Manage creation and loading of data into a Telephone Call Analysis (TCA) database. Use PatternTracer in conjunction with i2 iTel.
An interactive course using a combination of lecture, hands-on work and exercises.
Duration
2 days
Cost
£450 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Anybody who wishes to use i2 PatternTracer
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand PatternTracer terminology
- Create Telephone Call Analysis (TCA) databases
- Add telephone data to TCA databases
- Understand the effects of using different settings on the Find Pattern dialog
- Visualise the results as Association and Temporal charts
- Interpret the resulting chart
- Export iTel data into PatternTracer
- You must be familiar with using Microsoft Windows
- You must be a user of i2 Analyst’s Notebook
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
Discover how to use iBridge to query your data. Using example databases you will learn to locate information then examine it using i2 Analyst’s Notebook features.
The course is based upon a mixture of lectures, hands on work and exercises, giving the opportunity to practice as you learn.
Please note that the exercises used on day one and the beginning of day two of the course is taken from iBridge User Guide.
Duration
2 days
Cost
£450 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
New users of i2 iBridge
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Query your database to find information
- Control how information is added to charts
- Work with different information sources
- Analyse charts with the Analyst’s Notebook
- A familiarity with Microsoft Windows
- An understanding of the concepts and use of visual investigative techniques and how they will help you in your current job is advantageous
- Experience of using Analyst’s Notebook, or an awareness of its use would also be an advantage
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 1
Analyst’s Notebook Course – Part 2
Analysis in Action Workshop
Train the Trainers Course
Overview
The course covers the best training methods to teach software in general. You will learn ways to provide motivation to learn and retain information and see how you can adapt these methods to suit your personality and your audience. Particular emphasis is placed on a structured approach to course development and delivery, ensuring that the resulting courses meet the needs of your target audiences.
We will provide guidance on adapting and writing materials for your own training environment and you will learn how to prepare for delivering courses. During the course you will be expected to prepare and present several mini presentations so that your training skills are developed as the course progresses. Please note that there is no specific software instruction on this course.
Duration
5 days
Cost
£1250 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Individuals who wish to develop and deliver training courses for their own organisation. Designed primarily for those with little or no knowledge of modern teaching techniques.
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Communicate confidently with small to medium class sizes
- Understand the structure and anatomy of a Lesson
- Develop presentations for just about any topic
- Apply different training techniques
- Understand the structure of a whole course
- You must have a good working knowledge of the i2 software package (or packages) you plan to teach in your own organisation
- Ideally you will have attended the relevant i2 courses yourself.
- It is an advantage to be familiar with other Windows applications such as a word processor or a presentation package.
i2’s course materials are available for purchase – please call for details
Done the course but need your memory jogging? Can’t quite remember how to customise your Analyst’s Notebook? Want to revise Data Miner? Come on a refresher day and remind yourself how it’s done :
- Analyst’s Notebook Importing - a day concentrating on importing data into i2 Analyst's Notebook.
- Searching and Analysis using Analyst’s Notebook - a day looking at different search and analysis techniques in i2 Analyst’s Notebook.
- Customisation of Analyst’s Notebook - a day concentrating on how to customise i2 Analyst's Notebook by producing your own templates.
- Data Miner and NIM – how to re-use workspaces to set-up regular routines
Specific pre-requisites are included for each individual course on the relevant course overview. However there are a few points to note which apply to all our courses :
- All our scheduled courses are conducted in English. It is therefore important that course delegates have a good working knowledge of both written and spoken English in order to gain maximum benefit from the course.
- As our products all use the MS Windows Operating System, a working knowledge of the use of the MS Windows environment is assumed.
Overview
Learn about i2 Data Miner and the mapping interface. Build on your knowledge of Analyst’s Notebook and iBase to learn how these applications integrate in i2 Analyst’s Workstation environment. Use Analyst’s Workstation to analyse data from many different perspectives.
Duration
3 days
Costs
£895 excluding VAT
Who Should Attend
Users of i2 Analyst’s Notebook and i2 iBase who wish to update their skills to enable them to fully exploit the features of i2 Analyst’s Workstation .
Objectives
Course Pre-requisites
- You must be familiar with the use of i2 Analyst’s Notebook and i2 iBase User.
- If you are using a mapping system with Analyst’s Workstation, then it is helpful to know the capability of the mapping software











