QuickLaunch training

Power BI training that gets every role using trusted data.

Live, instructor-led courses for everyone on your team, from business users opening their first report to the administrators who manage your lakehouse and semantic models. Every course is taught in your own QuickLaunch environment, with your data, so your team sees the value of QuickLaunch right away.

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Training for every role on your team

QuickLaunch Analytics offers role-based, instructor-led training across the whole QuickLaunch solution, in three tracks: people who read reports, people who build them, and the team that keeps the data foundation running. Every course combines live instruction, hands-on exercises and workshop time.

Business users

People who use reports to run the business.

Report designers

People who build reports, dashboards and spreadsheets for others.

Administrators

People who run the lakehouse and maintain the semantic models.

Courses

The QuickLaunch course catalog

Business users

1 course
Power BI · Financial KPIs
Power BI · Financial KPIs report in Power BISlicersTrends over time

Consumer User Training

A practical introduction to finding answers in the Power BI reports your team uses today.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: Everyone who reads QuickLaunch reports in Power BI: finance, operations, sales and project teams.

What you'll learn:

  • Finding your way around Power BI: apps, filters, slicers, drill down and drill through.
  • Your own reports: what the data in each one means and how to get answers from it.
  • A chance to tell us what works and what would make your reports more useful.

Report designers

3 courses
Power BI · Expense analysis
Power BI · Expense analysis report in Power BIMeasuresSlicersVisuals

QuickLaunch for Power BI Designers

The core course for report builders: how QuickLaunch is put together, an in-depth look at the semantic model, and Power BI report design from first visual to shared app.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: Designer users who build Power BI reports and dashboards on the QuickLaunch semantic model.

What you'll learn:

  • How QuickLaunch is put together, and a close look at the semantic model your reports run on.
  • Report design in Power BI Desktop: tables, fields, measures and visuals on governed data.
  • Advanced features: analytics, conditional formatting and mobile layouts.
  • Sharing your work: workspaces, apps and dashboards for the rest of the business.

Can include Community of Practice working sessions, where attendees bring the reports they're building and work through questions together.

QuickLaunch for Excel

Connect Excel to the QuickLaunch semantic model and build live, refreshable analysis in the tool your finance team knows best.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: Designer users who prefer to analyze and report in Excel.

What you'll learn:

  • The QuickLaunch semantic model, and why live analysis in Excel beats exports that go stale.
  • PivotTables, slicers and cube functions that stay connected to the semantic model.

QuickLaunch for Paginated Report Developers

Build fixed-layout, print-ready reports such as balance sheets and income statements on the QuickLaunch semantic model.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: Advanced designers with a technical background who build and maintain financial statements.

What you'll learn:

  • When paginated reports are the right tool, and how they connect to the QuickLaunch semantic model.
  • Building and changing financial statements, starting from the balance sheet and income statement set up in your implementation.

Administrators

2 courses

Data Model Administration

How the QuickLaunch semantic model is built, updated and promoted, and how to extend it with new measures your users ask for.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: The people who maintain and extend your QuickLaunch semantic models and support business users.

What you'll learn:

  • How the QuickLaunch semantic model is designed and updated, and who owns what.
  • Adding the measures your users ask for, with the tools QuickLaunch administrators use.
  • Moving changes safely from development to production.

Tools you'll use: QuickLaunch Lakehouse Studio, SQL, Tabular Editor 3, DAX Studio, ALM Toolkit and GitHub.

Lakehouse Administration

How QuickLaunch brings data from your business systems into one governed lakehouse, and how to run and troubleshoot it day to day.

Live, instructor-ledVirtual or in person

Who it's for: The people who support and grow data integration in your QuickLaunch lakehouse, on Databricks or Microsoft Fabric.

What you'll learn:

  • How QuickLaunch brings ERP, CRM and finance data into one governed lakehouse.
  • Running data integration day to day on Databricks or Microsoft Fabric.
  • Troubleshooting common issues, and where to keep learning.
How training works

Built around your environment and your people

Plan by role

A short planning call matches each person to the right course, sizes it to your team's experience and goals, and sets the dates.

Live and hands-on

Instructor-led sessions with exercises and workshop time, virtual or in person, plus working sessions and coaching when your team needs them.

Your environment

Exercises use your QuickLaunch semantic model and reports, so the examples are your business.

Training credits

Your subscription includes training credits for any course, and you can add more at any time.

Keep learning

Between courses

QuickLaunch Community

Knowledge articles, release notes and documentation for each product, plus your support tickets, for customers.

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Webinars

Live and on-demand sessions on Power BI, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric and AI for ERP data.

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Learning Center

Plain-English definitions of data, analytics and AI terms.

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Questions

QuickLaunch training: FAQ

What training does QuickLaunch Analytics offer?

Six live, instructor-led courses in three tracks: Consumer User Training for business users; QuickLaunch for Power BI Designers, QuickLaunch for Excel and QuickLaunch for Paginated Report Developers for the people who build reports; and Data Model Administration and Lakehouse Administration for the team that runs your data foundation.

How long is QuickLaunch training?

It depends on who is attending and where they are starting. We size each course to your team's experience and goals, and agree the format and schedule in a short planning call before the first session. Courses run as live sessions, working sessions or a mix, virtual or in person.

Is the training live or self-paced?

Live and instructor-led, with hands-on exercises and workshop time so people apply what they learn during the session. Courses are usually delivered virtually, and in-person training is available on request. Between courses, the QuickLaunch Community has knowledge articles, release notes and documentation.

Do courses use our own data?

Yes. Exercises run in your QuickLaunch environment, on your semantic model and your reports, so the examples look like your business.

Which course should we start with?

Business users start with Consumer User Training. People who build reports take QuickLaunch for Power BI Designers, then Excel or Paginated Reports if they need them. The people who run your environment take Data Model Administration and Lakehouse Administration.

Do attendees get a certificate?

Certificates of completion are available on request.

Is there training for Databricks or Microsoft Fabric?

Yes. Lakehouse Administration and Data Model Administration are taught on Databricks or Microsoft Fabric, to match your environment. They also cover the QuickLaunch Foundation Pack, so there is no separate Foundation Pack course.

How do training credits work?

Your QuickLaunch subscription includes training credits you can use for any course, and you can buy more at any time. Your Customer Success manager can tell you how many you have.

How do we schedule training?

Talk to your Customer Success manager. Before your first course we hold a short planning call to pick the right track for each role and set dates. Not a customer yet? Contact us.

Plan training for your team

Tell us who needs what, and we'll match each role to the right course and schedule it around your team.

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