As an accredited ProClarity training centre for the European, Middle East and African (EMEA) region, Harvey Jones Systems has introduced two new courses to its offering, bringing the total number of courses available on ProClarity and Microsoft BI platform to seven.
ProClarity Advanced MDX (Multi-dimensional Expressions) training is a four-day, hands-on course that provides a comprehensive understanding of the MDX Query Language and its use in ProClarity products and solutions, while the five-day ProClarity SDK (Software Development Kit) course introduces students to the ProClarity software development kit.
"In our role as the official distributor of ProClarity solutions and products in Africa, we are considered the best centre for business intelligence on the ProClarity and Microsoft platforms in the region," says Erwin Bisschops, training manager at Harvey Jones Systems.
"Introducing these two courses makes us one of only a few companies with permission to give this training in our region. We are strongly committed to providing training, and have already trained over 1 000 people, more than half of whom have come from the ProClarity user community in the region."
The ProClarity Advanced MDX training covers a range of topics, including solving business problems in MDX, using Excel functions, MDX optimisation and debugging, and creating user-defined functions for MDX. It provides students with instructions on how to use ProClarity for advanced analytic needs and complex calculations, and solving common challenges in company-specific applications.
The ProClarity SDK course takes place in a laboratory where students learn how to use the SDK documentation and environment to create custom applications and integrate ProClarity into existing applications or information portals. It also provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement customised solutions using the ProClarity Desktop and ProClarity Enterprise Server Object Models.
"Students enrolling for the SDK course are required to have a development licence with ProClarity, to ensure they gain maximum benefit from the training, and learn how to confidently and completely customise their ProClarity BI integration," Bisschops says. "They must also have an understanding of database and OLAP concepts, Visual Basic and Web programming, including ASP, VBScript and Jscript. Solution and deployment options covered in the course include VBA, VB6, VI6, Rich Component, Web Deployment and Plug-In coding."
The other courses on offer from Harvey Jones include:
* ProClarity End-User Training (standard): A half-day, hands-on class providing preparatory end-user knowledge of basic ProClarity navigation an collaboration, including an introduction to and basic understanding of OLAP technology.
* ProClarity End-User Training (professional): A one-day course in which users learn how to create and modify queries, change view types and publish views.
* ProClarity Analyst Training: A two-day, hands-on class delivering a comprehensive understanding of the full ProClarity application, including advanced analytic features such as creating customer sets and members, performing drill through and modelling.
* ProClarity Administrator Training: A five-day course that provides a comprehensive look at ProClarity and Microsoft Analysis Services, giving students the knowledge and skills to design and deploy enterprise analytic applications using ProClarity. It includes basic instruction on Microsoft`s Data Transformation Services; cube design and construction; configuring and deploying ProClarity Analytics Server and client tools; managing users; security administration; and managing and storing critical analytic data.
* ProClarity Live Server Training: A two-day course on ProClarity Live Server, a data analysis application that works in Microsoft Excel to integrate disparate sources of live data from multiple physical locations. Users can leverage the capabilities and familiar environment of Excel as they create sophisticated real-time reports and applications.
Harvey Jones also offers a generic, non-technical data warehouse course that provides an overview of the added value of data warehousing. It offers insight into the problems encountered when implementing a data warehouse and ways to avoid these problems.
"We are also planning the introduction of a performance management course, and training for the newest products to the Harvey Jones solutions set, Crystal Ball and Corda," Bisschops says. "All our consultants can conduct the training as it is our philosophy that the greatest value added to training comes from extensive experience in business intelligence projects."
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Harvey Jones Systems (HJS) was established in SA in 1997 as a specialist information delivery company focusing on financial, business intelligence and business performance management solutions on the Microsoft platform, using SQL 2000 Analysis Services as the deployment mechanism. HJS distributes a number of best-of-breed software packages, the flagship being ProClarity.
Its solutions are all based exclusively on the Microsoft platform and it has become the dominant player in this sector in the region with over 100 customers, scaling from small to the largest deployments. HJS is an award-winning company, and its team has a solid understanding of the products it supports and the business issues faced by users deploying these types of solutions.
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