01Use
SAC for Business Users
Participants learn to read and understand stories, create their own analyses, and use drilldown functions. They make planning entries. No SAP background required as you work directly with your own reports.
Enablement for IT and business teams
Training on SAP Analytics Cloud and Power BI
The best tools are useless if no one can work with them. We train your IT departments in modeling, administration, and governance, and your business teams in day-to-day usage. We offer separate courses because IT and Controlling have different requirements.
SAP
SAP Analytics Cloud
Four courses following the same logic: use, build, run, integrate.
02Build
SAC Modeling and Planning
Participants create planning models, manage versions and scenarios, configure allocations, and write data action scripts. This training is designed for teams that operate and develop SAC, not just use it.
03Run
SAC Administration and Governance
We cover authorization concepts, tenant configuration, connection management, monitoring, and content lifecycle. Participants learn to run SAC cleanly and prevent uncontrolled growth.
04Integrate
SAC and BW/Datasphere Integration
Participants learn the difference between live connections and import, design BW queries for SAC, set up Datasphere integration, and understand blending and data models. The focus is on properly connecting backend data to frontend analysis.
Microsoft
Microsoft Power BI
The same logic for the Microsoft stack: use, build, run, integrate.
01Use
Power BI for Business Users
Participants learn to read and interpret reports, use slicers and filters, create personal bookmarks, and export data. This ensures that reporting is actually used.
02Build
Power BI Desktop and DAX
Participants create data models, define relationships, write DAX measures, and optimize performance. DAX is powerful and complex, so we use concrete exercises on real models to accelerate learning.
03Run
Power BI Service and Governance
We show how to structure workspaces, set up deployment pipelines, configure row-level security, and manage gateways. Participants understand licensing models and can run Power BI stably and securely for hundreds of users.
04Integrate
Power BI and Fabric Lakehouse
Participants learn DirectLake mode, semantic models in Fabric, Dataflows Gen2, and notebooks for data preparation. This training is for companies migrating to Fabric architecture or planning to.
To see how sales cockpits in Power BI or SAP Analytics Cloud trigger decisions instead of just documenting them, explore our focus topic Sales Performance Management.
BI meets AI
BI and AI Together: The Next Level for Your Analytics
Business intelligence and artificial intelligence are converging. SAC offers predictive scenarios and Joule, Power BI has Copilot and Azure OpenAI integrated. Training that ignores AI leaves significant potential on the table. We show where AI complements classical reporting and where limits exist.
Copilot in Power BI
Natural language queries allow you to query your data, with auto-generated summaries and narrative visuals. We show what Copilot can do today, where it has limitations, and how to optimize your data model for Copilot.
Power BI
Joule & SAC Predictive
Predictive forecasting in SAC planning models, smart insights, and Joule for natural language queries are still in early stages but already work productively in specific planning scenarios.
SAP Analytics Cloud
AI-Powered Data Preparation
Dataflows with AI enrichment, anomaly detection in time series, and automatic categorization enable transformation of raw data into clean analyses without manual scripting.
Dataflows
Why Barling
Why BI Training with Barling Consulting
- Both worlds: Our trainers know SAP and Microsoft equally well and understand their differences. Companies using both systems benefit from this integrated perspective.
- IT and business separated: Controllers need knowledge about planning, while IT administrators must understand security and governance. This requires separate, specialized training.
- Your data, your models: Generic examples have limited value. We work with your actual reports and models so participants are productive immediately after training.
- AI integrated: AI topics are integrated into every BI training. We show which features like Copilot, Joule, and Predictive are productive today and where further development is needed. This ensures your teams leverage the full platform from the start.
Illustrative diagram: a path from your own models through the training to productive use.
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