MTG’s BI Fast Lane Workshops: Private – Customized – Highly Productive

MTG has re-engineered Essbase implementation. Our revolutionary Fast Lane Workshop approach combines customized classroom training with rapid application development prototyping sessions where you learn by doing.

BI Fast Lane Workshops are now available at your site or via the web in a live instructor-led format.

Fast Lane Workshops are

customized to your specific requirments

extremely hands-on

result in a working prototype or proof-of-concept of your specific projects or deliverables

All MTG BI Fast Lane Workshops are customized so you can choose the content that is most useful to you. Here are examples of some of the most popular subject matter. Contact us to design the workshop that fits your specific requirements.

Workshops for Business Users and Reporting

Acheiving the Information Advantage: Driving ROI with Essbase

Essbase Spreadsheet Reporting and Analysis: Spreadsheet Add-in

Essbase Spreadsheet Reporting and Analysis: Smart View

Hyperion Financial Reporting

Hyperion Web Analysis

Workshops for Designers, Developers and Administrators

Accelerated Essbase Development

Maximizing Essbase 11: New Features

Automation, Administration and Optimization

Implementing Aggregate Storage

Getting Started with MDX

Visual Approach to Calculations

Advanced Calculations for Forecasting and Driver Based Budgeting

Essbase Black Belt Workshop

Designed for Performance: How BI Fastlane Workshops Deliver Superior Results

Traditional approaches to BI implementation and training can get the job done, but they can also be slow, expensive and high risk. You do not have to accept that. There is a better way.

MTG’s BI Fastlane Workshops were specifically designed to address the biggest source of wasted time and money in the development cycle – the gap between classroom training and experienced competence.

Increase Retention and Understanding

Retention of course material diminishes very rapidly in the days immediately following the course. The most effective way to increase retention is for the participant to immediately apply the new skills in the context of familiar subject matter.

MTG’s BI Fastlane Workshops use four levels of retention and understanding building techniques:

Exercises during the training session reinforce basic skills.

Case studies provide “repetition and recall” and promote synthesis of basic concepts required to complete complex tasks.

Rapid Application Development Labs require participants to apply their new skills to an unstructured, poorly behaved environment – the real world.

Webcast Refresher Miniclasses – Participants can attend short online classes to review the material in the months following the workshop.

Get Projects Up & Running Faster

Get started on your applications immediately with the right support when you need it. During MTG’s BI Fastlane Workshops, you will:

Identify the project’s business objectives.

Design the project specifically to meet the business objectives.

Learn the core Essbase skills required to deliver the project yourself

Build the prototype (or test enhancements to existing applications).

Determine the next steps toward implementation.

All MTG instructors are field consultants with years of experience building real world applications. Your Instructor will guide you through the rough spots so you don’t get road-blocked.

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Building your internal BI skills allows you not only to reduce expenditures but to get more out of your BI investment because you understand it and you control it. Because you are in control of the systems you can:

Reduce outside consulting costs during implementation.

Reduce on-going maintenance and enhancement costs.

Lower project risk.

Extend systems’ useful life.