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# Business Analytics
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**🧪 SANDBOX — draft learning path page**
For review only. **Level 1 — Practitioner** and **Level 2 — Associate** are generated from the released courses in Pentaho Content Manager — BA Practitioner, then Schema Workbench, Metadata Editor, Report Designer and CTools — with module and lesson names, kinds and times taken from the lab manifests. **Level 3** is a structural placeholder waiting on its course outline.
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Pentaho Business Analytics
Turn data into decisions — browse, report, analyse and present it with the Pentaho Business Analytics tooling, from your first ad-hoc report to a full interactive dashboard.
:list-check: 99 lessons across 37 modules at Levels 1 and 2
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:cloud: Hosted labs nothing to install
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**The labs come with the course.**
Every workshop runs on Pentaho's hosting platform. When you purchase, you're sent a URL and a voucher code — that's your access. Each lab has its Lab Guide embedded, and it starts automatically when you open the lab. Nothing to download, install or configure.
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Choose your level
Everything about a level — outline, lesson count and skills — in one place. Level 1 shown by default.
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New to Pentaho Business Analytics. Six modules take you from first orientation in the User Console, through Interactive Reports, Analyzer and Dashboard Designer on the Steel Wheels sample data, to a capstone — the APAC Sales Pack — whose checks earn your course accreditation.
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An Interactive Report with prompts and totals · an Analyzer report with a calculated measure · a dashboard that links them, for the APAC regional director
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Builds on Level 1 with the BI Developer toolset — what the User Console tools run on, and what they can't do on their own. Four courses, taken in order: Schema Workbench (Mondrian cubes for Analyzer), Metadata Editor (metadata domains for Interactive Reports), Report Designer (print-quality, parameterised reports) and CTools (fully custom dashboards). Every course ends in its own embedded exam; Metadata Editor and Report Designer also end in a capstone project.
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Cubes, dimensions, hierarchies and measures · calculated members · MDX and named sets · Mondrian security · French localisation · aggregate tables
:sitemap:Metadata domains — Metadata Editor
Physical layer, business models and views · the OrdersME star schema · inherited properties and reusable concepts · row-level security · the Trailhead Outfitters capstone
JDBC data sources and queries · elements and groups · totals and conditional formatting · parameters · charts, drill-down and sub-reports · publishing with hyperlinks
:chart-pie:Custom dashboards — CTools
CDA data sources · CDF and CDE dashboards with CCC charts · CGG graphics · the Carrier and Retail Sales dashboards
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**🚧 Coming soon**
Level 3 — Certified is in development, including certification details — in the meantime, can let you know when it's ready.
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Is this path for you?
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**Yes — if you**
* Build reports, analyses and dashboards for business users
* Spend your time in the Pentaho User Console
* Turn questions from the business into something people can self-serve
* Want to go further into the toolset behind those reports — cubes, metadata domains and custom dashboards
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**Try another path if you**
* Build and run the pipelines that feed the reports — **PDI Developer**
* Install, secure and run Pentaho Server — **Administrator**
* Design the wider architecture rather than build on it — **Solution Architect**
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How to get access
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**Read the course outlines**
Open the level you're considering and check the modules cover the work you actually do.
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**Talk to your Pentaho Account Executive**
Courses and subscriptions are purchased through your Pentaho Account Executive — a single seat or the whole team. They'll size it with you and get the order placed. No Account Executive yet? Email and we'll connect you.
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**Receive your voucher code**
You'll be sent a voucher code giving access to the course or courses you bought.
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**Redeem your code and start your lab**
Redeem the code on the Pentaho training portal and your hosted lab deploys with the Lab Guide built in. Every screen is shown step by step in the voucher walkthrough.
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## At a glance
:layer-group:Levels
3 — Practitioner, Associate and Certified
:chalkboard-user:Format
A mix of hands-on workshops and short reading pages, self-paced
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On Pentaho's hosting platform — Lab Guide embedded in every lab
:door-open:Entry requirements
No prior Pentaho experience for Level 1. Level 2 builds on Level 1 or equivalent experience.
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REPLACE-ME — confirm the Pentaho Enterprise Edition build these labs run
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## Common questions
Do I need my own Pentaho environment?
No. The labs are hosted for you — your voucher gives you access to a ready-made environment on our hosting platform, with the Lab Guide embedded in each lab. There's nothing to download, install or configure.
Do I need to start at Level 1?
Level 1 assumes no prior Pentaho experience, so it's the right entry point for most people. If you already build reports and dashboards in the User Console daily, talk to your Account Executive about starting at Level 2.
What's the difference between Level 1 and Level 2?
Level 1 is the User Console tooling business users work in — Interactive Reports, Analyzer and Dashboard Designer. Level 2 is the BI Developer toolset underneath them: the Mondrian cubes Analyzer queries, the metadata domains Interactive Reports are built on, print-quality reports in Report Designer, and fully custom dashboards with CTools.
Can my whole team take this path?
Yes. Your Account Executive can size the order for the team and have vouchers issued for each learner.
How long do I have access to the labs?
REPLACE-ME — confirm the access period a voucher grants, and what happens when it ends.
Do I buy the whole path, or one course at a time?
REPLACE-ME — confirm whether levels are sold individually, as a bundle, or under a subscription. Level 2 is four separate courses, so this matters more here than on other paths.
Can I see a lab before I buy?
REPLACE-ME — confirm whether a sample lab is available as a preview.
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Still have questions?
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**Quick answers about the content**
Which tools a module covers, whether a system is included, how the levels differ. Press Ctrl + K and click **Ask** for an instant answer from these pages.
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**Talk to the Academy team**
For anything the assistant can't answer — pricing, licensing, access periods, or sizing a programme for your team — email us at .
We read every message and reply as soon as we can. If it's easier to talk it through, we'll set up a call from there.
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