Get a analytic cloud white belt,green belt and brown belt

Remember that its simple to learn and understand the tool if you come from Business Intelligence world since you are already familiar with lot of concepts and theory needed for building charts and graphs .If you are not familiar there are lot of fundamental level trainings from Salesforce on this.Remember you can access this training if you are partner organization to salesforce through your organization partner portal

1)Analytics Cloud Whitebelt Training

This training is delivered in form of webinar of very short duration that covers product offerings and release plans and an overview of technology under the hood .This is good to go through before we go ahead and take green belt .

2)Analytics Cloud Green-Belt Training

This is comprehensive training and covers lot of theoretical concepts of BI world.Some of the topics you will get familiar with this is listed below
How analytics cloud differ from Salesforce 1 native reporting
Traditional BI products Pros and Cons
Who will use this analytics cloud (Concept of Explorer and Builder)
Role of ETL in Traditional BI
OLTP and OLAP concepts
Analytics cloud architecture
Facts and Dimensions
Datasets
Concept of Cardinality
It has examples around creating reports and dashboards from Datasets 3)Brown Belt Training
This is in person classroom training from the salesforce Product Team and Instructors who walk through the product offerings and provides opportunity for hands on exercises around the tool.
Please note all this are offered if you are a Partner Organization to salesforce.