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# Try it in your browser
**You get a full Pentaho Data Integration client running in a browser tab, loaded with a prepared dataset and a workshop to follow. It takes about two minutes to start.**
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#### Check this is the right route
The browser lab is the fastest way to see PDI working. It is deliberately narrow.
**What you get**
* The Pentaho Data Integration design client (Spoon), fully working
* A prepared data source, already connected
* Workshop files loaded and ready to open
**What you don't get**
* A 2-hour session — when it ends, the environment is torn down and anything unsaved is gone
* The Pentaho Server, Pipeline Designer, or Enterprise Edition features
* Any way to connect to your own data
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Export anything you want to keep before your session ends. Nothing survives the teardown.
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If you need longer than two hours, or you want to build against your own data, take the [Developer Edition route](https://academy.pentaho.com/getting-started/start-here/developer-edition) instead.
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#### Launch the lab
The lab opens in a new tab. Give it a minute to provision.
Your two hours start when the environment finishes loading, not when you click. There is a countdown in the lab window.
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#### Run your first workshop
The lab opens with the workshop already loaded. Work through it in the lab window — you don't need to download anything.
Allow about 30 minutes for the first workshop, which leaves you time to explore afterwards.
Browse all Data Integration workshops
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#### Decide what's next
Your session ends after two hours. Pick where to go before it does.
**Want to keep building?**
Install Developer Edition on your own machine and keep it for 15 days.
Developer Edition
**Evaluating for your organisation?**
Request an Enterprise Edition trial and get a Pentaho AE alongside you.
Enterprise trial
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## If something goes wrong
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The lab won't load, or the tab is blank
Provisioning usually takes under a minute. If the tab is still blank after three minutes, close it and launch again — you'll get a fresh environment. Corporate networks that block WebSocket traffic can prevent the lab from connecting; if you're on a VPN, try without it.
My session ended and I lost my work
The environment is torn down at the end of the session and can't be recovered. Launch a new session to start again. If you're going to be doing more than a couple of hours of work, use the [Developer Edition route](https://academy.pentaho.com/getting-started/start-here/developer-edition) instead, where everything stays on your own machine.
I can't find the Pentaho Server or Pipeline Designer
They aren't in this lab — it runs the PDI design client only. Both are available in the [Enterprise Edition trial](https://academy.pentaho.com/getting-started/start-here/enterprise-trial).
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**Need help?**
Press Ctrl + K and click **Ask** to search every page on this site, or email .
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