Content

Latest News

• Soft Launch
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• Production plans
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  • The increase in the number of business users
  • New data sources
  • Plans for new business use cases
• What is coming …

Events

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Training

Learning Hub

The Pyramid Learning Hub is the eLearning platform for Pyramid and includes training courses covering all application modules and user types. The Learning Hub is designed to teach use the fundamentals of the Pyramid platform through to advanced topics.

Each user has been assigned a user license (Professional, Analyst and Viewer) based on your requirements. In order to simplify your learning experience we have designed a series of user profiles  that control which Pyramid applications modules you can access and use. As you develop more Pyramid skills and knowledge we plan to unlock features and functionality to support your analytics and reporting requirements.

 Learning Paths

The following learning paths have been designed to support your Pyramid journey:

A full list of available Pyramid Training courses is available here.

Certifications

The Pyramid Learning Hub enables you to gain recognized Pyramid accreditation as you learn new skills through the training content. The certification programme has been designed to help shape your skills to suit a variety of specialist areas; depending on your role and areas of interest.

For more information on the Pyramid certification program click here.

Pyramid Clinics

In addition to the standard Pyramid training available through the Pyramid Learning Hub we plan to run a series of regular virtual Pyramid Clinics. The clinics, run by the BI team, will give you an opportunity to ask questions and get support on how to develop specific reports, dashboards or use cases. This forum will build on the Pyramid fundamentals learnt through the Learning Hub and develop your skills and experience on practical uses cases using YME data.

Check the Event section for the latest Pyramid Clinic schedule

Pyramid User Community

The Pyramid User Community contains discussions groups, product news and Q&A forum. Register on the user community to receive latest product news and updates. The User Community also provides free access to Pyramid Explore where you can try new features, complete training courses from the Learning Hub and take part in monthly data competitions,

Guides

• FAQs
• Best Practices and Standards
• Pyramid Basics 

Best Practices

Content Management

All analytics content developed and used in Pyramid is stored in the content store, this includes reports, dashboards and shared business logic. Access (read and write) to the content store is controlled by your user access details – you will only see content you have permission to see. There are 3 main locations (folders) where content is stored:

• My Content
  • Your personal work area
• Workgroup
  • This a department or team folder where members of the team (defined by a Pyramid role) can develop new content and share with colleagues.
• Public
  • The public folders are used to share content across teams and business functions. The content in the Public folders is managed by the BI Team and group cross departmental champions.
  • Access (read and write) to the content in the Public folders is controlled by permissions.

Shared Business Logic

Pyramid provides the ability to create shareable business logic which can be used across multiple reports and dashboards. This is a different approach and concept to many legacy Business Intelligence tool where previously calculations were stored in a specific report. If you needed the same calculation in a different report you would copy the calculation leading to duplication and support / maintenance issues.

In Pyramid a calculation or member grouping (list) can be created, stored in the content library, and re-used in a new report using the same data model. If the shared business logic is updated any report or dashboard using the logic will be automatically updated.

In order to benefit from this new approach you need to think about a different approach to developing new reports and dashboards. In order to support this new process we will provide guides, training and clinic to help you adopt a new way of working.

When you create new Pyramid content in a Workgroup we recommend you organize your content using the following folder structure:

\Workgroup Folder\

• Present, Publish and Tabulate content objects

\Workgroup Folder \ <data source name> \ Reports

• Discover objects

\Workgroup Folder \ <data source name> \ Model

• Model objects

\Workgroup Folder \ <data source name> \ Illustrate

• Illustrate objects

\Workgroup Folder \ <data source name> \ Business Logic

• Formulate objects

Note

• All Pyramid content objects should use a meaningful name so it is easy to identify the usage
• For Formulate / Formula (calculations) objects the name of the object will be the display name used in a report.
• For Discover objects the name of the objects will be the default name displayed when used in a dashboard or publication. The display name can be changed in the dashboard or publication.

The \Public folder is used to share content across multiple users and teams. The content objects will be organized based on business function or application name, as follows:

\Application Name\

• Present, Publish and Tabulate content objects

\Application Name \ <data source name> \ Reports

• Discover objects

\Application Name \ <data source name> \ Model

• Model objects

\Application Name \ <data source name> \ Illustrate

• Illustrate objects

\Application Name \ <data source name> \ Business Logic

• Formulate objects

Getting Started

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Useful Links

• Pyramid Website
• Pyramid Online Help
  • Online help includes client and admin help, technical documentation and guides
• Pyramid User Community
  • Contains discussions groups, product news and Q&A forum. Register on the user community to receive latest product news and updates.
• YME Pyramid Support
  • Link to support desk
• Request support to build new business use case

People

If you have any questions related to Pyramid please raise a support ticket. This will be passed to the BI Team who will contact you directly to answer your questions and provide support.

The following Yamaha Europe Group business functions are currently using Pyramid to deliver analytics and reporting across their respective teams.

• F&A
• IS
  • BI team
  • D&I team
• Marine
  • Sales and Logistics
  • Service
• P&A
  • P&I
  • Accessories & Apparel
  • Parts
• PTW
  • BI
  • Business Planning
  • PSI
• RVPP / PSI
• SPV E-Bikes
• YMF
• YMFI
• YMIT
• YMNL