Arbutus workshops

Hands-on Arbutus workshops

Arbutus workshops provide a hands-on, tailored environment where organisations can work directly on their own data analytics challenges using Arbutus Analytics. Unlike standard training courses, workshops focus on the specific needs, datasets, and objectives of the organisation.

During a workshop, participants work together with Sepia Solutions to analyse data, develop analytics procedures, and explore practical solutions within their own data environment.

When organisations benefit from Arbutus workshops

Arbutus workshops are particularly useful when organisations want to:

• Address specific data analytics challenges in their audit or assurance work
• Learn how to access and combine data from internal systems
• Develop repeatable analytics procedures for audit testing
• Automate existing analytical tasks
• Explore practical use cases for continuous monitoring or data-driven assurance

Because workshops are tailored to the organisation’s own environment, teams can focus on real issues and datasets, rather than generic examples.

How Sepia Solutions can help

Sepia Solutions prepares each workshop in consultation with the client to ensure that the sessions focus on the most relevant challenges. This preparation may include discussing the available datasets, identifying priority topics, and defining the objectives of the workshop.

During the workshop, participants work step by step through the analytics process together with an experienced Arbutus practitioner. Topics may include data access, combining and preparing datasets, developing analytics scripts, automating procedures, or preparing output for reporting purposes.

In many cases the analytics developed during the workshop can be used directly within the organisation immediately after the session. Rather than starting from scratch after a training course, teams often leave the workshop with working analytics procedures that can be applied straight away, delivering immediate practical value to the organisation.

Workshops often complement certified Arbutus training, allowing teams to apply newly acquired skills to real organisational data.

Workshops compared to training

Training courses focus primarily on knowledge transfer, helping participants learn the capabilities of the Arbutus platform.

Workshops, by contrast, focus on practical implementation. Participants work directly on real datasets and develop analytics procedures that are relevant to their organisation.

As a result, workshops frequently produce usable analytics and practical outcomes during the session itself, helping teams accelerate the adoption of data analytics within their audit and assurance activities.