Training videos on specific topics
Here we have gathered video recordings from past eazyBI Community Days, prepared by eazyBI support consultants and developers.
Use them for shaping your eazyBI skills. Most of the training sessions are based on data from Jira; however, the concepts remain the same for other data sources.
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Jira Admin’s Journey to eazyBI
Time required: 20 minutes
When Jira admin becomes an eazyBI team member, it is so obvious to look at everything through the Jira admin “eyes”. Find out how did it go and what happened next on the journey. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Jira Admin’s journey to eazyBI.pdf
DEMO: How to Create Smart Reports without MDX
Time required: 30 minutes
When you are a master of MDX, no report is impossible. Now, using eazyBI new features, smart reports with trends, averages, and other seemingly hard calculations are just a few clicks away! Get familiar with eazyBI hidden gems - standard calculations, drilling into measures and others. SMARTEN UP
Slides: How to create smart reports without MDX.pdf
DEMO: eazyBI + Confluence: The First Date
Time required: 20 minutes
Get to know the new member of the eazyBI family. Did you know that collaboration could be measured? You will have a date with eazyBI for Confluence and a few use-cases for dinner. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eazyBI for Confluence the first date.pdf
Create Reports and Charts
Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel! Discover Sample Reports
Time required: 20 minutes
Have a quick start with eazyBI by re-using sample reports. Import reports from eazyBI demo accounts and save time. Learn more about key features for easy reporting. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Dont-re-invent-the-wheel.pdf
Paint With Your Data in eazyBI
Time required: 20 minutes
Create nice-looking and insightful reports in eazyBI using improved features–cell formatting, sparklines, and others. Use them wisely and your reports may become pieces of art with different layers of information. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Paint-With-Your-Data-in-eazyBI.pdf
Help, My Reports Are Too Slow
Time required: 30 minutes
There are different ways to build eazyBI reports. While it gives you flexibility, some of the methods tend to be better optimized for performance than others. We’ll share the ways how to reduce report performance problems. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Help-My-Reports-Are-Slow.pdf
It’s About Time
Time required: 30 minutes
Without time, everything would happen at once. Witness how you may integrate the Time dimension in your everyday reporting. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eazybi-about-time.pdf
Filter Data: How to Translate JQL to eazyBI
Time required: 30 minutes
Do you speak JQL? We speak eazyBI. There is a way to translate JQL to eazyBI report, and during this session, Zane will show how to find the subject, use a dictionary and deal with past tense. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Translate JQL to eazyBI.pdf
Data visualization: How to pick the right chart type
Time required: 30 minutes
How to turn your numbers into knowledge? Your job is not only to separate noise from the data but also to present it the right way. How do you choose the right chart type and how to use different charts effectively? The do’s and don’ts or data visualization. SMARTEN UP
See also a blog post on this topic: How to Pick the Right Chart Type?
Slides: 21-data-visualization.pdf
How to Lie With Reports: Tips to Improve Your Data Literacy
Time required: 30 minutes
Information can be easily manipulated. How to read, understand, create, and communicate data correctly, to avoid misinterpretation and bad decisions. SMARTEN UP
Slides: How to Lie With Charts.pdf
Things to Know about the Burn-Down Chart
Time required: 30 minutes
The burn-down looks like the trend in progress tracking. A lot of different variations of this chart appear. Let us have a look at how those can be covered with eazyBI and dig deeper into how to make your burn-down charts even more flexible. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Things_to_know_about_burn-down_charts.pdf
Statistical Insights: From One-Click Solutions to Advanced Calculations
Time required: 30 minutes
Your company or project has grown over time, and trends become more important than separate facts. Then average, deviation, median, and other statistical measures come in help. Learn with Janis about different options eazyBI has on its sleeve to create statistical reports. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Statistical Insights.pdf
Where Did the Time Go: Discover Issue Cycles
Time required: 20 minutes
Time is a valuable asset, and the answer to the question “where did the time go?” helps to understand flaws in a business process. If you can measure it - you can improve it! In this presentation, you will learn about measuring issues traveling through time, defining and using Issue cycles, and building reports that allow you to take back ownership of your time. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eCD2023_Issue Cycles.pdf
Calculations with MDX
MDX ABC: Let’s start at the very beginning
Time required: 30 minutes
How to wrap a head around MDX calculations if you are not born as a developer? Start by recognizing MDX building blocks — sets, expressions, aggregations, and take time to understand eazyBI default measures. SMARTEN UP
Slides: 14-mdx-abcs.pdf
MDX debugging: How to see through calculated measure
Time required: 30 minutes
Do you ever wonder how calculated measure works and gets to the result? You will learn principles on how to disassemble the calculation to see the results of each step and how to find a faulty part in a formula to fix it. SMARTEN UP
Slides: 26-how-to-debug-mdx.pdf
MDX: Going Beyond 3D Reporting in Multi-Dimensional Data Cube
Time required: 20 minutes
Before diving into the creation of complex reports and calculations, it's essential to understand the concept of a multi-dimensional data cube and its building blocks. Start by warming up with the basics of retrieving data from a multi-dimensional data cube. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eCD2023_MDX.pdf
MDX: Understanding tuples
Time required: 30 minutes
A tuple is one of the calculated measure cornerstones. What exactly is Tuple in a multidimensional cube? How and when to use tuples in MDX formulas? Come to see some real-life examples in eazyBI. DIG DEEPER
Slides: 25-understanding-tuples.pdf
MDX: Handling sets in calculated measures
Time required: 30 minutes
Writing custom MDX calculations that work requires knowledge of basic concepts. A "SET" is one of them. Have you ever wondered what is inside the curly brackets, what means Members and Descendants? The presentation will explain how to construct and use sets in MDX formulas. DIG DEEPER
Slides: 23-handling-sets.pdf
Journeying with an MDX
Time required: 30 minutes
Do you ever get that feeling of confusion - seeing your measure returning one result while expecting a different one? Getting lost in the multi-dimensional cube is as easy as in real life! Let’s learn principles on how to disassemble the calculation to see the results of each step, so you know where you are and can get to the desired destination. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Journeying_with_MDX.pdf
MDX the Easy Way: Build Your MDX Calculations Gradually
Time required: 30 minutes
When you learn a new language you start by putting together two simple words, then adding an adjective as a third, and soon you have said a meaningful first sentence. Follow Ilze on how to create a new calculation from a scratch putting together elements gradually and adding more and more sense to the sentence in MDX. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Build Your MDX Calculations Gradually.pdf
Hidden Gems of MDX
Time required: 20 minutes
When it comes to writing MDX calculations, knowing your data and understanding measures and dimensions is crucial. However, some of those measures and dimensions are nowhere to be seen. Let me show you the hidden side of the data cube. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Hidden-gems-of-MDX.pdf
Flexible MDX formulas: How to Use VisibleRows and VisibleColumns
Time required: 30 minutes
Let’s continue mastering your calculation toolbox! eazyBI has introduced new functions to cover additional use cases when designing your custom formulas. Let us have a closer look on how VisibleRows and VisibleColumns functions work and what new horizon those functions unleash. Discover how to take your custom formulas to the next level and optimize your reporting with eazyBI. DIG DEEP
Slides: eCD2023_Visible_Rows.pdf
MDX vs JavaScript: Behind Complex Filters
Time required: 30 minutes
There might be different ways how you set up each project in Jira. And yet you still would like to see those projects side by side and analyze their performance. In Jira, you reach out to some complex JQL queries. In this session, I will talk about how eazyBI can help you analyze those cases. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Behind complex filters.pdf
Advanced MDX: Recipe to Change Report Context
Time required: 20 minutes
In this training session we’ll learn about relationships in eazyBI. Measures are at the center of it all, with unique relations to all dimensions. Sometimes, to answer your question, you need to redefine those relationships. Let me show you how to create new relations and connect measures with dimensions differently when defining new custom measures. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eCD2023_Context_change.pdf
Advanced Training Video on Calculated Members and Measures
Time required: 1 hour
This video demonstrates different examples of calculated measures and explains how to create and use them in custom reports. DIG DEEPER
Data Mapping from Other Data Sources
Power-Up Reports With Additional Data Import
Time required: 30 minutes
Calculated members can be used for grouping and reorganizing data, but it may be easily overused. There’s a way to power up your reports, improve performance and save a lot of time and effort by adding a bit of external data from Google Sheets, Excel files, Rest API or creating custom hierarchies. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Power-up-reports-with-additional-data-import.pdf
All Paws on Deck: Discover Data Mapping
Time required: 30 minutes
At eazyBI, we use our apps daily to analyze data from our Jira backlog and Confluence documentation. However, what do we do when the data we want to explore is stored somewhere else? How can we bring them into eazyBI? Let’s explore data mapping through eazyBI pets and see if we are more of a cat or a dog company and what other surprises are hidden in the eazyBI pet back office. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eCD2023_Discover_Data_Mapping.pdf
Building Reports on Different Data Sources
Time required: 20 minutes
The presentation covers an introduction to how to get three separate data sources working together to create a joint perspective for your reports. DIG DEEPER
Slides: Building_reports_on_different_data_sources.pdf
Data from Jira and apps
Sprint reports with eazyBI
Time required: 50 minutes
Learn how to use Jira data to build insightful sprint reports with eazyBI. Understand the differences between Jira and eazyBI sprint reports, analyze multi-team and cross-project sprints, use time tracking, and more. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eazyBI Sprint webinar 2021 sept.pdf
Tempo Planner reports using eazyBI
Time required: 60 minutes
Webinar recording on the integration between eazyBI and Tempo Planner as well as several useful use-cases. SMARTEN UP
Blog article: https://eazybi.com/blog/tempo-planner-reports-in-jira
Explore Insight Asset Management data with eazyBI
Time required: 60 minutes
Webinar recording covering the integration between eazyBI and Insight and several useful use-cases. SMARTEN UP
Blog article: https://eazybi.com/blog/explore-insight-asset-management-data-with-eazybi
I Want My Custom Fields, and I Want Them Now
Time required: 20 minutes
Creating reports based on Jira custom fields is a fundamental cornerstone of eazyBI reporting: custom fields often contain answers to your unique business questions. Getting custom fields to the final reports is not always a stroll in the park. Learn how to get your custom fields into eazyBI the easy way. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eCD2023_Custom_Fields.pdf
Making Sense of Unstructured Data: Using JavaScript in eazyBI
Time required: 20 minutes
You can import and analyze Jira data based on measures, dates, users, teams, and other identifiable attributes. However, how can we uncover and analyze the data that may be hidden in plain sight? Let’s explore various techniques for modifying data to make it suitable for analysis. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eCD2023_Making_Sense_of_Unstructured_Data.pdf
Administration
Planning and maintaining eazyBI accounts
Time required: 40 minutes
How many accounts do you have? Are there too many or not enough? Right account setup is a cornerstone to get smooth reports for the right users. And did you know that you can analyze eazyBI with eazyBI? SMARTEN UP
Slides: 24-eazybi-account-management.pdf
eazyBI at Scale: Manage eazyBI in Large-Scale Jira Instances
Time required: 30 minutes
Keeping things in order is helpful in all organizations, but critical for large ones. Structure your eazyBI household giving freedom to your teams and overview for management, and spend less time maintaining. Daina will show how to scale your eazyBI using account management, customized settings, options to organize data, and much more. DIG DEEPER
Slides: eazybi scalability.pdf
Usage Statistics: Analyze eazyBI Report Performance with eazyBI
Time required: 30 minutes
Have you ever wondered what you can do to keep a good track of your reporting health? Which reports and dashboards need some optimisation or which accounts are more active and reports - most frequently used? In this video, Jānis will show you how to analyze eazyBI performance using eazyBI Usage statistics and what valuable information you can get out of it. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eCD 2022 Usage Statistics.pdf
Administration of eazyBI for Jira Server
Time required: 30 minutes
Overview of eazyBI infrastructure and configuration options. Built-in monitoring features and good-to-know things for running eazyBI. Some advice for configuration. SMARTEN UP
Slides: Administration of eazyBI for Jira Server JBA.pdf
eazyBI for Jira Cloud, Server, or Data Center: Where’s The Difference
Time required: 20 minutes
eazyBI works on all platforms–Cloud, Server, and Data Center. What can you expect when migrating from one platform to another? While the core functionality is identical on all platforms, there are some differences. Let’s compare them side to side. SMARTEN UP
Slides: eazyBI-for-Cloud-Server-DC.pdf