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Pricefx provides different training options to Pricefx customers and partners in their learning journey. Our training offers key knowledge about our product, business application, and technical application, and we are trying to align the content with recent product updates.

NB! From March 2024, Pricefx will change its training approach. Please take a look below.

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Pricefx Education Concept & Training Offering

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We want to make our learning accessible and serve all our target groups as best as possible.

Your first stop for all Pricefx Knowledge

Knowledge Base is a the first step for in all learning activities around related to Pricefx topics. It has a separate portal for general Pricefx information, an independent portal for Business Users with extended documentation, video, and navigation help content information, and a separate portal for Technical Users that covers roles like Configuration Engineering, Integration Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Project Managers. We are constantly working on expanding and improving our documentation.

We are also testing AI capabilities for better to improve knowledge mining and will add self-navigation training with a free demo request option for business users.

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We offer a variety of courses for three groups of users: business, admin, and technical.

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Business User Path includes starting materials about Pricefx, pricing, pricing journey, Pricefx solution, and key functional areas presented through business scenarios. Business User instructor-led public training is scheduled monthly in CET (EMEA) and CST (Chicago) time zones.

To check the schedule and all courses registration from March 2024course registrations, please visit this page.

Admin User Path is for the system administrators who will provide 1st and 2nd level support after the Pricefx implementation. The training provides knowledge about UI configuration, data flows, troubleshooting, and other advanced UI configuration topics. The instructor-led training is scheduled monthly at 3 pm CET/8 am CST.

To check the schedule and all courses registration from March 2024course registrations, please visit this page.

Technical User Path is for developers who would like to build the skills for maintaining Pricefx solutions and includes two four types of training:

  • Configuration Engineering

  • Integration Engineering

  • OptimisationOptimization

  • Solution Architecture

The Configuration Engineering path includes self-paced learning, five days of instructor-led training scheduled monthly in CET (EMEA) and CST (Chicago) time zones, a study project, and a an interview to check the necessary skills and knowledge for the course, 8 weeks of 10 hours a week mixed self-study and live Q&A sessions and certification exam.

To check the schedule and all courses registration from March 2024course registrations, please visit this page.

The Integration Engineering path includes self-paced learning, two days of instructor-led training, additional advanced foundations self-paced learning, a study project, and a certification exam. You don’t need a configuration engineering path to attend the integration engineering path.

To check the schedule and all courses registration from March 2024course registrations, please visit this page.

The Optimization path includes a set of business user and technical user classes in a self-paced and instructor-led learning session. The class is scheduled 3 times a year and can be scheduled also upon request. We will add an Optimization class schedule when planned on this page.

The Solution Architecture path includes the interview to check the necessary skills and knowledge for the course, 6 weeks of self-study and refinement sessions with the instructor and certification exam.

Pricing for training for your target group can be found on the respective customer and partner pages.

Do you have some questions and need help finding answers in Knowledge Base?

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To fill the knowledge gap, we introduced ask.pricefx.com. The ASK tool is modelled on the StackOverflow technology (stackoverflow.com ). It is designed to be a cooperative tool where users can answer a question or provide additional information regarding the subject of the question.

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Feel free to use ask.pricefx.com at any time. Go to the website, register (your account will be automatically approved if your company domain is whitelisted), and gain access. If you need any help with Ask access, contact Pricefx technical trainers.

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Pricefx Courses Structure

In 2024, we We introduce a course structure for all our stakeholders to make learning and developing their skills and knowledge about Pricefx easier.

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Foundational Optimization Learning Path

Solution Architecture Learning Path

Pricefx Internal & Partner only series:

Foundational Project Management Learning PathFoundational Quality Assurance Learning Path

Planned Foundation courses in 20242025:

Solution Enterprise Architect Learning Path

Performance Engineering Learning PathBusiness Analyst

Prescriptive Delivery Course

Revamped Optimization Learning PathSales Enablement Learning

Path (partners-only)Revamped Integration Engineering Learning Path

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Advanced series

On-demand and just-in-time training (can be requested when relevant for our partners and customers) about more advanced topics for different roles and skill areas. The live Q&A sessions can be asked with trainers to help them understand. Currently, we offer:

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Planned Advanced courses in 20242025:

Industry-specific business user training

Advanced Admin trainingAdvanced BUT (DAY 4, deep dive into analytics, strategy designer and co-pilot)

Advanced Integration Engineering (SAP-focused)

Advanced Optimization

Upskilling series

A part of Pricefx’s effort to provide continuous education for all stakeholders. These series will include a mix of new articles and just-in-time training content in Knowledge Base as well as webinars that will help users (business and technical) to get trained on recent product updates, understand different product use cases and best practices and deepen their expertise in different Pricefx areas. The schedule for such sessions will be added in this space.as a part of the revamped IE Learning Path

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Pricefx Certifications

To ensure the learning process provides high-quality knowledge acquisition, we introduced a certification process for the critical roles in Pricefx implementation teams. We focus most of our certifications on technical users and are part of the Technical User Learning Path.

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This type of Technical Learning Path consists of numerous self-study materials, instructor-led sessions, hands-on practice, and certification exams over 8 weeks.

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Prerequisites: at least one year of Java or similar experience, finished prerequisite Pricefx courses, and technical setup specified in the learning path.

More details for customers and for partners.

Certified Integration Engineer

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Prerequisites: PlatformManager, Pricefx Master Data, Data Integration basics.

Certification Exam: A comprehensive exam description may be found on the Pricefx ASK system at the following link. Note that to follow this link, you must be signed in to ASK ( ask.pricefx.com )

More details for customers and for partners.

Certified Project Manager

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Most of the customers want to be independent of the implementation vendor long-term and are looking for ways to maintain and further develop the tool in-house. It is more efficient and practical when the customer has internal resources that know the tool, do tasks around user management and tool configuration (level 1 and level 2 support), perform code corrections and tool maintenance, and step into further development. In addition, we want customers to take on their employees' training activities, including onboarding and supporting Learning Center development.

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End-User Onboarding & Training – custom user scenario reference guides, documentation, and learning paths. It is relevant for big organisations organizations with multiple BUs, many users, and user turnover.

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