What should end-users initially do in BPC system?

Hi: I am seeking some guidance here. My client wants to provide a small set of end-users access to the BPC sandbox system. These users are absolutely new to BPC, haven't had any training but use Excel regularly for their analytical & planning needs. The idea is to have them gain some familiarity with the look-and-feel of BPC for financial reporting purposes and assess how well it could serve as the financial report writing tool. It is a tall order for folks who have no experience with BPC but that's the approach. Can you please advice on what activities these users should and can realistically carry out that will not only give them a good overview but also help provide meaningful feedback on the product? (Data will be loaded in the sandbox and formal training will be provided soon but this question relates to the period prior to training).
Full points will be awarded to all the helpful answers.
Thank you very much,
Jon

Hello,
I have exactly same situation. One of my prospective customers is going to start small project to evaltuate BPC for their planning tool, and requires small sandbox machine.
All replies above are useful information, also I think it is also important to consider your customer's requirement and expectation for better consulting service.
I would like to add 2 things about this topic.
1: current Excel spreadsheets
If your customer uses tons of Excel sheets for planning process, it might be great to show the customer utilizing current Excel spread sheet by importing those to BPC and put some BPC functions like EvSND. Then the cusomter would understand BPC is great application that enable to utilize existing Excel sheets easily. I had some presales activities, and that seems to impress sereral prospective customers.
2: how to build sandbox machine
We're planning to build sandbox with virtual environment called "VMware". The customer prepares just one stand alone note PC. Then consultants make VMware files with VMware Workstation. With VM, it is possible to make one set of files that includes OS, SQL Server, MS-Office, and BPC. Everything is put into one file, and do not set up client server system. I think you have to purchase VMware Workstation, but VMware Server might be free and has same functions. The bad thing is that VM file is super heavy, I say 15GB in my teams' machine as average. Also the note PC should be high-spec one.
I do not have much information to answer your question. I hope that comment would help you. If you have further question, please feel free to ask me.
Atsushi

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