Training Course Descriptions

PowerOLAP Technical Training

Materials Covered: PowerOLAP installation | Multidimensional models (cubes) | Standard and custom reports for analysis, budgeting and forecasting applications | Configuration and administration of the PowerOLAP MDB Server, including security | Synchronization Server and Relational databases, OLAP Exchange

PowerOLAP Advanced Training

The following classes are scheduled regularly at our Doylestown, PA, facility.

"Introductory Technical Training" is a prerequisite for these courses.

Advanced Training

Materials Covered: An intensive course that will instruct attendees how to develop PowerOLAP applications using appropriate multi-cube design and architecture, as well as advanced PowerOLAP formulas and PowerOLAP functions within the Excel interface. This course requires strong knowledge of Excel and some practical experience using PowerOLAP.

API Training

Materials Covered: This course teaches the functionality and uses of the PowerOLAP Application Programming Interface (API), specifically the Visual Basic API. Attendees will use each of the API functions to build a turnkey application. Attendees will leave the course with the right to use the API interface to develop their own applications to access licensed PowerOLAP databases.

Budgeting Training

Materials Covered: This course focuses specifically on the features and benefits of PowerOLAP as a budgeting application. Topics include advanced formulas; approaches to budgeting modeling; budget reporting; and using Dependencies to ensure performance. The methodology to set up an example budgeting process includes such modules as HR, Expense, Capital Lease, and Revenue.

PowerOLAP Portal: Leonardo and Xcelsius Training

Materials Covered: The PowerOLAP Portal, which enables the PowerOLAP Server to “speak via XML,” is an exciting development in version 7 of PowerOLAP. This capability optimizes the Web deployment of the product, encompassing two means of connectivity: 1) via the Leonardo client, which is a self-deploying, dynamically connected “Active X” control that can be sent to users that do not have PowerOLAP installed; and 2) via Xcelsius, an outstanding graphics presentation package that can also be reached by any users—for example, as a dashboard front end to data—and that is completely Web deployable in addition to allowing dynamic graphics files to be sent via email and incorporated into PowerPoint presentations. The PowerOLAP Portal class provides instruction into all aspects of the connectivity and front end scenarios available with PowerOLAP.