Continuous integration

Goals


- Implement and operate a continuous integration server

- Manage interconnections with a build and test system

Program

Understanding continuous integration

Development process, unit / integration tests
Continuous integration: presentation, positioning in an agile approach
Management of environments: development, acceptance, production
Application container tools (Docker)
System and application configurations and centralization tools (Puppet, Ansible)
Industrialization deployments.
Overview of management tools: versioning, build, tests, quality
Presentation of continuous integration tools: Jenkins, GitLab-CI, Bamboo, …
Types of installation

Workshop: Implementation of a continuous integration tool, overview of the interface

Manage builds

Structure of a project build: steps or pipeline
Installation of builds: automatic / manual
Plugins for managing source repositories: Git, TFS, SVN, …
Build tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle, .. .
Organization of branches and tags
dependencies and deposits Management
Integration deposits with the tools to build
Managing notifications

Workshop: Interfacing with dependency repositories – Configuration and launching of builds

Check the quality of the code

Presentation, code quality management
Overview of tools: Checkstyle, FindBugs, …
Quality report: configuration, plugins (Violations)
Other reports: complexity, tasks, …

Workshop: Integration of code quality management tools (SonarQube) in a continuous integration process

Automate testing

Types of tests
Automation, coverage
Unit and integration
tests Acceptance tests, performance
tests Test optimization

Workshop: Multiple scenarios for unit test automation, integration, performance

Set up a deployment strategy

Global automation strategy Rollbacks
update and deployment scripts

Workshop: Building deployment scripts

Administer the tools

Continuous integration server security
User management: databases, roles, authorizations
Log management
Memory space / CPU load, disk space
Monitoring

Workshop: Multiple server administration tasks

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1765

Audience

Operational, Developers, Project Managers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the life cycle of an application

Reference

GES100555-F

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Subversion (SVN) – Version Management

Goals


- Set up a software configuration solution based on SVN

- Manage the versions of the projects of the data warehouse

Program

Introduction

Software configuration management (SCM): presentation, positioning, tools
GCL terminology: Branch, Tag, Checkout, Commit, Merge, …
Subversion (SVN): functionalities, components
Global architecture and implementation of a data repository ( repository)
SVN clients, plugins for IDE

Workshop: Installation and configuration of SVN on Linux / Windows – creation of a data warehouse

Use of the repository

Import of project sources
Retrieve a local copy
Creation of branches
Commit of modifications and management of conflicts
Creation of a branch
Metadata management
Creation of Tags in SVN

Workshop: Setting up projects on the repository – Retrieving a local copy and multiple operations for proposing changes with conflict management

SVN administration

Overview of existing SVN managers:
SVN-Apache coupling (mod_dav_svn)
SVNServe: implementation, configuration
User management
Import and export of repositories
Security of repository and exchanges (SSL)
Backup and restore
SSH tunneling

Workshop: SVN-Apache coupling, multiple administration tasks

Advanced tasks

Organization of
SVN version management in a continuous integration system
Log management, RSS feed
History management, repository statistics

Workshop: SVN in a continuous integration system, log management and statistics generation (tables, graphs)

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1383

Audience

Administrators, Developers, Project managers

Prerequisites

Linux system administration concepts, knowledge of Apache server

Reference

GES657-F

 

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LibreOffice Initiation + PCIE certification passage

Goals


- Know the main Writer tools

- Be able to produce a structured letter

- Know how to manage the layout of a document

- Know the main Calc tools

- Be able to perform calculations and use formulas

- Know how to handle diagrams and data tool

- Create complete presentations

- Make transitions and animations

- Know how to synthesize ideas

Program

Presentation of Word and the other tools of the Office suite
Examples of realization with Writer

Description of the interface (Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, etc.)
Structure of a file (pages, sections, paragraphs …)
Display the ruler, paragraph marks and gridlines

Create a document
Open, save and close
Use recent documents
Create a document based on a template
Save a document in Word 97-2003 format

Enter text
Move around the document
Select text to edit
Move and duplicate text
Change text formatting
Manage paragraph alignment
Use automatic spell checking

Search for a character string
Launch an in-depth search
Replace one string with another
Replace formatting

Define a hierarchy at the style level
Apply a predefined style to a text
Create a new text style

Workshop: Apply a style to all of its text content

Choose the theme of your document
Apply a variant of the active theme
Customize the colors, fonts and effects of a theme

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the PC environment

Reference

BUR100017-F

Apply a watermark
Set a page color
Apply a border to the page

Define the type of document (classic, book, booklet)
Choose and customize the margins
Specify the size of the sheets and the orientation
Include predefined headers and footers
Insert the company logo
Add page numbering
Modify the format page numbers
Customize headers and footers
Insert page breaks
Split your document into several sections

Define the pages to print
Configure the printer options
Print your document

Workshop: Create a layout for printing a book

Insert a table (define a number of rows and columns)
Manage the table layout (add / remove cells)
Apply a style to its table
Merge or split cells

Insert and customize a picture
Embed an inline picture
Add shapes to your document
Using WordArt
Add a SmartArt
Create and customize a graphic

Workshop: Enrich your document with several illustrations

Split paragraphs into columns
Configure spaces between these columns
Display a separator line

Prepare Word to manage your templates
Use existing templates
Get a template from Office.com
Create a custom template

Insert and configure a table of contents
Update its table of contents
Insert a footnote
Add citations
Insert captions to illustrations
Add a table of illustrations
Define entries in the index
Insert the index table and put it up to date

Workshop: Integrate several reference tables into your document

Define the type of mail merge (label, envelope, letter, etc.)
Select the source of recipients
Prepare your mail merge template
Customize the document
Finish and merge

Workshop: Prepare a standard letter for several recipients

Manage comments
Enable track changes
Compare two Writer documents

Customize a toolbar
Create a new toolbar

Revisions on Writer
Questions / Answers
Passing the PCIE certification

Presentation of Calc and the other tools of the LibreOffice / OpenOffice suite
Examples of implementation with Calc

Description of the interface (Menu, Toolbars)
Structure of a file (workbooks, sheets and cells)
Create a workbook

Adding a sheet to the workbook
Rename a sheet
Move a sheet (on the same workbook or in another)
Identify a sheet using a tab color

The different ways to select cells
Insert rows and columns
Change the height and width of rows / columns

Format the content of a cell (font, colors …)
Apply borders
Manage alignment in a cell
Merge several cells

Use the predefined styles
Create and manage a custom style

Workshop: Making a simple painting

The formula bar
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
The value of parentheses
Applying a calculation to an entire column

Manage the page layout (margins, header and footer, etc.)
Scale your table
Manually manage page breaks
Define a print area
Define print options then print

The available display modes
Show / hide cells
Zoom
Fix cells

Use of a referent cell ($)
Reminder on the basic formulas (SUM, AVERAGE, MAX …)
Formulas with condition (IF, NB.SI, SUM.SI …)
Date and time formulas ( TODAY, WEEKDAY …)
Text formulas (SMALL, LEFT, CONCATENATE …)
Search formulas ( VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP )

Workshop: Production of a summary document with the main formulas

Create named areas and integrate them into formulas
Find antecedents and dependents to formulas
Check formulas for errors

Apply a sort on one or more columns
Modify the sort options
Apply filters on a table
Use special filters

Select the data to integrate into the diagram
Choose a type of diagram according to needs (histogram, curve, sector in 2D or 3D)
Add additional information to the diagram (title of axes, data labels, etc.) Apply updates from a table to associated diagrams
Change the type of diagram
Customize the visual of its diagram

Workshop: Generate a diagram according to your needs

Apply conditional formatting
Integrate subtotals into a table
Ungroup or consolidate a spreadsheet
Manage data validity
Find a target value
Use the solver

The principle of a pilot table
Define which calculation and label fields will be
Select the source and destination of its pilot table
Place the fields to be analyzed
Configure the options

Workshop: Highlight the desired statistics from your table

Adding and modifying comments
Enable tracking of changes
Protect your workbook and sheets

Reviews on Calc
Questions / Answers
Passing the PCIE certification

Presentation of Impress and the other tools of the LibreOffice / OpenOffice suite
Examples of implementation with Impress

Description of the interface (Menu, Toolbars)
Structure of a file (slide shows, sections, slides)
Create a new slide show
Use of slide show templates

Add / remove slides Slide
layouts
Move a slide

Placeholders
Insert and format text
Insert and customize shapes
Insert and customize images
Create a photo album
Insert tables
Use the FontWork gallery
Embed a diagram
Insert audio and video
Organize inserted content

Animating content
Personalizing your animation
Timing of animations (start, duration, delay)
Transitions between slides
Timing of transitions

Launching the slide show mode
The other display modes
Inserting header and footer
Adding comments
Managing the slide master

Revisions on Impress
Questions / Answers
Passing the PCIE certification

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

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Jenkins (Hudson) – Continuous Integration for Java

Goals


- Implement and operate a Jenkins continuous integration server

- Manage interconnections with a build and test system

Program

Introduction

Introduction to agility
Continuous integration: presentation, positioning in an agile approach
Development process, unit / integration tests
Presentation of APIs / management tools: SVN (versioning), Maven (build), jUnit (tests), CheckStyle (quality), …
Jenkins (Hudson): presentation, history
Types of installation

Workshop: Setting up Jenkins, overview of the interface

Build management

Implementation of builds: automatic / manual
Jenkins configuration: Maven, SVN / CVS,
Maven mail : reminders, deployments
Management of notifications

Workshop: Jenkins configuration, Maven scripts

Code quality

Presentation, code quality management
Overview of tools: Checkstyle, FindBugs, …
Quality report: configuration, plugins (Violations)
Other reports: complexity, tasks, …

Workshop: Integration of code quality management tools (SonarQube) in Jenkins

Tests with Jenkins

Types of tests
Automation, coverage
Unit and integration
tests Acceptance tests, performance
tests Test optimization

Workshop: Multiple scenarios for unit test automation, integration, performance

Deployments with Jenkins

Global automation strategy Rollbacks update and deployment scripts

Workshop: Building deployment scripts

Jenkins administration

Server
security User management: databases, roles, authorizations
Log management
Memory space / CPU load, disk space
Monitoring

Workshop: Multiple administration tasks for the Jenkins server

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1383

Audience

CIO, Project managers, Developers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Java, development cycle / Maven, version management (SVN / CVS)

Reference

GES534-F

 

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OpenProj

Goals


- Know the main features of OpenProj

- Know how to create and monitor a project with OpenProj

Program

Introduction

About
OpenProj project management : presentation, versions,
OpenProj features vs other tools

First steps with OpenProj

Panels and tools
The different views
Multi-project characteristics
Creation of a first simple project Project
specification Project
configuration
Participants

Planning a project

Definition of tasks
Assignment of resources
Entering costs
Project manager and options (sequencing, organizing, assigning, etc.)
GANTT
Reporting diagram : creation, printing

Running a project

Progress monitoring
Entering tasks performed
Percentage of completion
Replanning during the project

Project control

Resource
control Cost control, optimization
Report generation and formatting

Project closure

Final
import / export documents

Workshops: multiple modeling of projects in OpenProj

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1272

Audience

CIO, Project managers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of project management

Reference

GES534-F

 

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Qlikview Administration

Goals


- Know how to install, maintain and administer QlikView Server

- Know how to install, maintain and administer QlikView Publisher

Program

The web user portal: QlikView AccessPoint

Manage user licenses

Workshop: View user accounts

Architecture and installation of QliikView Server & QlikView Publisher
Communication protocols: Clients / Server, Web clients,
User tunneling : Authentication, Security & Access authorizations

Workshop: Architecture validation

Collaboration: Sharing tables & graphs
Exploitation of the solution
Personalization of the portal

Users: User directories & Single Sign On
Presentation and activation of QlikView Publisher
Wizard for creating a task, Delegation of tasks
Reloading, Distribution, Data reduction

Centralization of access rights management
Visualization of tasks Generation of PDF reports and distribution by email
Related tasks (External programs, Database)
Performance: Load balancing & clustering
Advanced collaboration: Conference sessions, Annotations

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1415

Audience

System administrators

Prerequisites

Knowledge of MS Windows environments, coupled with experience in Windows server administration and access rights management

Knowledge of QlikView application development is a plus

Reference

BUS1238-F

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Qlikview Developer

Goals


- Create data models and an application

- Manage the data structure, and scripts

Program

The different QlikView clients
QlikView Server
QlikView Publisher

Connection to relational databases
SQL queries
Integration of Excel files
Integration of other data sources: Flat files, Remote data, XML feeds, etc.

Workshop: Data loading

Introduction
Optimization of data models
Focus on temporal functions
Use of variables
Dealing with integration errors
Integration of text files
Integration of static data

Workshop: Language

Overview
Using the Table Viewer
Simplify Synthetic Keys
Resolve Circular References
Rules for Associative Relationships
Join and Concatenate Tables
Document the Model (Comments and Tags)

Lab: Using data models

Manage evolutionary values ​​(interval match)
Calculations with entered data (budget example)
Set operators (set analysis)

Workshop: Advanced functions

Verification and optimization of relationships
Performance tuning
Scenarios of data integration in incremental mode

Workshop: Performance validation

Managing access rights to applications
Finalizing a first Qlikview application

Workshop: Security

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1415

Audience

Designers, developers and end users

Prerequisites

Know basic computer concepts, and have notions of indicators

Reference

BUS1237-F

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Qlikview Designer

Goals


- Understand the basic concepts of Qlikview

- Adapt graphics according to data

Program

General principle
Vocabulary associated with the tool Tool
components

The interface: principles and description
Methodology: step by step
Handling the interface
Create your first sheet
Set up a drop-down list
Set up a table

Workshop: Integration of the first elements

Creating personalized objects
Using objects
Implementing sorting
Importing and exporting data
Creating and using tabs

Workshop: Setting up objects

Implement pivot tables
Implement simple tables with multiple expressions

Workshop: Creation of multidimensional objects

The gauges
The buttons
The containers
The slider / calendar
objects The linked objects

Workshop: Setting up different types of objects

Implement calculations
Use set analysis
Implement variables
Advanced use of lists
Implement associative research

Workshop: Report management

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1415

Audience

Designers, developers and end users

Prerequisites

Knowledge of business indicators

Reference

BUS1236-F

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Software Factory

Goals


- Understand DevOps principles

- Set up a software configuration solution based on Git

- Manage versions of data repository projects

- Implement and operate a continuous integration server

- Manage interconnections with a system? me of build and tests

Program

DevOps Principles DevOps
Values: Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing
DevOps Culture: presentation, characteristics, implementation
Continuous integration and
deployment Panorama of DevOps tools.

Software configuration management (SCM): presentation, positioning, tools
GCL terminology: Branch, Tag, Checkout, Commit, Merge, …
Git: features, components
Git vs SubVersioN
Git configuration: preferences, authentication
Code editor and tool ‘analysis

Workshop: Installing a Git client – Creating a data warehouse

Import of project sources
 Retrieve a local copy Creation of branches
Commit of modifications and management of conflicts
Creation of a branch
Management of metadata, history
Creation of Tags in Git

Workshop: Setting up projects on the repository – Retrieving a local copy and multiple operations for proposing changes with conflict management

Git manager available: gitweb, git-gui, …
Distributed Git
The GitHub web service
User management
Import and export of repositories
Repository and exchange security (SSL)
Backup and restore

Workshop: Multiple administration tasks

Organization of
Git version management in a continuous integration system
Log management
Repository statistics

Workshop: Git in a continuous integration system (Hudson), log management and statistics generation (tables, graphs)

Development process, unit / integration tests
Continuous integration: presentation, positioning in an agile approach Management of environments: development, acceptance, production
Application container tools (Docker)
System and application configurations and centralization tools (Puppet, Ansible) Industrialization deployments.
Overview of management tools: versioning, build, tests, quality Presentation of continuous integration tools: Jenkins, GitLab-CI, Bamboo, … Types of installation

Workshop: Setting up a continuous integration tool, overview of the Manage builds interface

Structure of a project build: steps or pipeline
Installation of builds: automatic / manual
Plugins for managing source repositories: Git, TFS, SVN, … Build tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle, .. .
Organization of branches and tags
dependencies and deposits Management
Integration deposits with the tools to build
Managing notifications

Workshop: Interfacing with dependency repositories – Configuration and launching of builds

Presentation, code quality management
Overview of tools: Checkstyle, FindBugs, …
Quality report: configuration, plugins (Violations)
Other reports: complexity, tasks, …
Workshop: Integration of quality management tools code (SonarQube) in a continuous integration process

Types of tests
Automation, coverage
Unit and integration
tests Acceptance tests, performance tests Test optimization

Workshop: Multiple scenarios for unit test automation, integration, performance

Global automation strategy Rollbacks update and deployment scripts

Workshop: Building deployment scripts Administering tools

Continuous integration server security
User management: databases, roles, authorizations Log management
Memory space / CPU load, disk space Monitoring

Workshop: Multiple server administration tasks

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2532

Audience

System Administrators, DevOps, Senior Developers

Prerequisites

Systems administration concepts

Reference

GES100730-F

 

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MS Project Server – Administration

Goals


- Efficiently administer and pilot MS Project Server

- Optimize the management of complex projects with MS Project Server

Program

Introduction

Presentation of the EPM suite (MS Project Professional, Project Web Access …)
Positioning of the suite in the Microsoft architecture
Organization and application roles
MS Project Server architecture: typologies, deployment

Installation and configuration

System requirements
Definition of service accounts
Installation: run, backup
SharePoint central administration
Create the SSP and configure web access (PWA)

Practical workshop: configuration of IIS servers, SQL Server, … – installation of the EPM solution

Global administration

Configuration of services
Management of customer accounts: creation, access rights
Log management and event observer
General administration of components (IIS, SQL Server, SharePoint)
Security management
Creation and configuration of the OLAP cube
Organization of tasks and calendars
Creating and Modifying Analysis
Views Managing the Queue

Practical workshop: configuration of user accounts – various administration tasks (system / functional)

Interaction with SharePoint Services and Outlook

Risk management with SharePoint Services
Document organization
Communication and sending e-mail
Task management with Outlook

Practical workshop: MS Project Server / Outlook coupling

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1698

Audience

System administrators, Project managers

Prerequisites

Systems administration concepts

Reference

GES312-F

 

Sessions

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MOS Certification

Goals


- Prepare for MOS certification

- Microsoft Office Specialist

Program

Create a document
Save your document
Change the view 
Protect your document 
Manage the different versions of a document
Share a document
Use the templates

Modify formatting
Navigate and search in your document
Manage indentations and paragraph spaces 
Create and manipulate tables 
Create bulleted lists

Modify page options
Apply a theme
Use styles
Manage a page background
Modify headers and footers

Insert and edit a picture
Insert and edit a shape, WordArt and SmartArt
Insert and edit a Clip Art
Manage text boxes

Validate a document using the spell checker
Configure automatic correction
Insert comments

Insert hyperlink
Add footnotes
Create table of contents

Configure your mail merge
Send mail merge

Navigate between worksheets
Print a workbook or sheet
Customize its sheets

Add values ​​in a cell
Use automatic filling
Manipulate hypertext links

Apply a cell format
Merge cells
Insert row and column headers
Hide and show rows and columns
Apply styles to cells

Create sheets
Manage display
windows Manage workbook windows

Insert a basic calculation
Insert a formula
Add references to cells
Insert conditional formulas
Use named areas

Create a chart
Insert and edit illustrations
Use Sparklines charts

Share a sheet
Insert comments

Sort a table
Filter a table
Use conditional formatting

Adjust view
Manipulate windows and panes
Configure Quick Access Toolbar
Configure PowerPoint files

Generate photo album
Apply size and orientation to slides
Add and remove slides
Apply format to slide
Add and format text

Manipulate graphics
Manipulate images
Manage shapes and WordArt
Manipulate SmartArt graphics
Add audio and video content

Create and edit a table
Insert and customize a chart
Manage chart views

Add animations to an element
Create animation
Manipulate animations
Apply a transition between slides

Insert comments
Activate track changes

Save your document
Share your document
Print your document
Protect your document

Use the tools of a presentation
Configure your slide show
Define the time required for each slide
Record your presentation

Modify Outlook options
Manage the display of panes
Handle the e-mail management tools
Search the
e- mails Print an e-mail

Create and send an email
Add graphic content
Add hypertext links
Customize the content
Add an attachment

Clean your inbox
Create rules
Manage spam
Manage automatic sending of messages

Create and handle contacts
Create and handle groups of contacts

Create and manage appointments
Create and manage meetings
Manipulate calendar panes

Create and manage tasks
Create and manage notes

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Computer basics

Reference

BUR750-F

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TOSA

Goals


- Validate and certify the skills acquired in Excel, Word and Powerpoint in comparison with the expectations of a profession.

Program

Word

Create, open
Save in different formats
Use recent documents

Insert and select text
Insert and edit a table

Prepare printing: margins, orientation, header and footer …
Print
Send by email

Set up a table of contents
Set up an index
table Create a table of illustrations

Choice of mail merge type
Data source management
Insertion of information
Merge

Create and manage comments
Activate change tracking
Make a document available to several users

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
Customize the Ribbon

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All audiences with basic notions of office automation

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of Excel, Word and Powerpoint software

Reference

BUR592-F

Power point

Create, open
Save in different formats
Use recent documents
Use templates

Insert text
Set up tables
Insert and edit pictures
Add graphics
Use flowcharts

Managing the theme
Adding a background
Setting up animations
Managing the transitions between slides

Managing the slide master
Comparing two presentations
Protecting a slide show

Prepare for printing: layout, header and footer, etc.
Print
Broadcast your slideshow
Send by email

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
Customize the Ribbon

Excel

Create, open
Save in different formats
Use recent documents

Manage a spreadsheet: insert, delete, move, etc.
Insert data into cells
Apply correct cell format

Standard formatting: choice of font, size, colors, etc.
Add borders
Use cell styles
Format as table
Merge cells

Basic Operations
Using Reference Cells
Excel Formulas

Use sort and filter
Conditional formatting
Inserting a chart
Using the pivot table

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
Customize the Ribbon

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Business Objects BI 4.2 : Server Administration

Goals


- Master the Central Management Console environment

- Know the platform architecture

- Discover the processes implemented when using the platform

- Know the different servers that make up the platform and manage them

- Check the integrity of the platform and make corrections

- Monitor the platform and use the audit

Program

Presentation of the BO BI4 platform
Simplified presentation of the architecture
Fundamental concepts
Server Service

SIA node : Server Intelligent Agent

Example of physical architecture

Status of BO servers

Interactive server
Installation Interactive client
Installation Silent installation
Preparing for silent installation
Starting silent installation

Presentation and use of administration tools: CCM (Central Configuration Manager), CMC (Central Management Console)

Description of the BI platform web architecture 4
Configure a Java application server
Deploy Business Objects Enterprise on a Java application server

Role of the « Central Management Server »
Setting up the audit

Role and configuration of « Input File Repository Servers »
Role and configuration of « Output File Repository Servers »
Management of associated disk locations
Verification of platform integrity

Role of « Adaptive Job Servers »
Role and configuration of « Publication Job Server »
Role and configuration of « MDASServer » (Multi-Dimensional Analysis Server)

Role and configuration of « Crystal Reports Job Server »
Role and configuration of « Crystal Reports Cache Server »
Role and configuration of « Crystal Reports Processing Server »
Role and configuration of « Report Application Server »
Role and configuration of « LOV Job Server »

Role and configuration of the « Adaptive Job Server »
Role and configuration of the « Web Intelligence Processing Server »

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 943

Audience

Administrators, consultants, decision-making project managers

Prerequisites

Windows Server Administration

Reference

BUS993-F

Administration of "DASHBOARD SERVERS"

Administration of "CONNECTION SERVERS"

Role and configuration of the « Program Job Server »

Role and configuration of the « Event Server »

Troubleshooting
Backup and restore

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Sessions

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Business Objects BI 4.2 : Administration and Security

Goals


- Set up security from the Central Management Console application

- Publish and schedule objects in a secure environment

Program

Presentation of the platform
Simplified presentation of the architecture

Overview of the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform 4.0
Overview of BI Launch Pad
Overview of the Central Management Console
Overview of SAP BusinessObjects client applications

Security in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4
Creating Groups, Users, and Folders
Managing Security

Implement application
security Security with Infoview

Publication of SAP Crystal reports, Web Intelligence objects

Schedule objects from the Central Management Console and the BI Launch Pad
Instance Manager

Profiles and publication

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 943

Audience

Administrators, consultants, decision-making project managers

Prerequisites

Windows Server Administration

Reference

BUS992-F

Sessions

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Office 2010

Goals


- Discover what’s new in Office

- Know the main features of Word, Excel and Outlook

Program

WORD

Presentation of new features for 2010
Presentation of the ribbon
The ruler
The windows
Display mode
Show / hide formatting marks

Create
Open, save, close
Use recent documents
Create a document based on a template
Save a document in Word 97-2003 format

Select text
Move around in the document
Move and duplicate text
Find a character string
Perform a deep search
Replace one string with another
Use automatic spell checking
Replace formatting

The styles for a layout
Add, modify, delete a Style

How to use themes?
Mix themes

Design Resize
Insert, move or delete a row
Insert, move or delete a column
Define formatting and wrapping

margins
orientation
page numbering
borders
Create / delete personalized header or footer
Modify page number format
Use « print preview »
Print

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the PC environment

Reference

BUR414-F

EXCEL

Introducing Excel
Description of the Ribbon
Workbooks and Worksheets
Save a worksheet
Rename, insert, move, delete a worksheet
Move around in the workbook (using the keyboard, menus, mouse)

Choice of font
Color of text and background
Borders, patterns
Alignment in the cell
Merge cells Cell
properties

Create tables
Auto-format
Formatting a worksheet
Insert and delete rows and columns
Change the height and width of rows and columns
Select cells

The formula bar
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponent
The use of parentheses
The percentage
format The fraction format
Copy calculations

page layout Page
breaks
The print area Print
preview
Print

OUTLOOK

Discover the Office 2010 interface
Overview of Outlook
General operating principles of mail
POP, IMAP, SMTP Simple email
message Email with attachment Email and manage follow-up Receive an email Spam mails in folders

Add an appointment
Modify an appointment
Delete an appointment
Change the display mode
Find an appointment

Create
Modify
Add a field
Delete a contact
Change the display mode
Find a contact

Sessions

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Business Objects BI 4.2 : Administration Update

Goals


- Discover the new features and advanced functions of the BI4 version

Program

About Business Objects
Some reminders

Learn about administration
Changes in the platform version of BI 4.0

Create users
Manage permissions

Workshop: various exercises for manipulating users and authorizations

Discover the applications
Overview the functions

Audit management

Manage APS

Workshop: various handling exercises

Questions answers

Duration

1 day

Price

£ 472

Audience

Business Objects BI 4.1 users

Prerequisites

Common use of BO XI R3

Reference

BUS966-F

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Migration to Office 2013

Goals


- Keep up to date on new features offered by Office 2013

Program

Appropriate the new interface (ribbon and Quick Access toolbar)
Customize the Quick Access toolbar
Create a custom tab

Create and format a table
New chart options
SmartArt charts
New PivotTable options

New document models
Insert and format text
Use text and shape styles
Create your paragraph style
Find content in your document

Manage slides
Add content (text or multimedia)
Insert a screenshot
Add online
content Organize your content
Animations and transitions
Presenter mode
Broadcast your slide show
Personalize your working environment

Create an account
Create or import Office documents
Save your work in OneDrive
Consult your documents on multiple media
Share a file or folder

Duration

1 day

Price

£ 2495

Audience

Office users

Prerequisites

Be familiar with the Office suite in an old version

Reference

BUR1017-F

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Business Objects BI 4.2 : Designer IDT

Goals


- Discover the new features and advanced functions of the BI4 version

Program

About Business Objects and IDT
Some reminders

What is the Information Design Tool?
Accelerated interface overview

Create a local project
Share a project
Retrieve a published universe

View raw data
Export raw data

Apply dynamic filters

Best practices for creating a universe
Create a universe in 3 steps: connection to the database, the data foundation, the business layer
Define families, foundation views and business views

New features on object properties
Create smart indicators
Loop resolution methodology with aliases, contexts and join shortcuts
New in custom LOVs: hierarchical, static, à la carte SQL-based
Use the new universe parameters to limit data
Optimize a universe with aggregates and primary key management (Index)
Advanced use of the @aggregate_aware function
Use the @: @select, @where, @variable, @execute functions
Create a time hierarchy and navigation (calculated columns)

Create a universe from an OLAP source
Create a universe from several SAP or non-SAP relational sources

Security Editor
Conversion of existing universes to unx
Synchronization of shared projects
Translation management tool

Data federation
Custom formatting
Improved interface and query on SAP BW

Workshop: various exercises in data manipulation

Questions answers

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1351

Audience

BO Designer XI R3 and BI4 users

Prerequisites

User of BO Designer old version, knowing the structure of universes

Reference

BUS965-F

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Business Objects BI 4.2 : WebIntelligence Update

Goals


- Discover the new features and advanced functions of the BI4 version

Program

About Business Objects and Webi
Some reminders

The reading tabs of a document
Improved search

Create a new document
The query editor

Formatting documents

View raw data
Export raw data Apply
dynamic filters

Create sections

Create simple
graphs Graph properties
New graphs  

Workshop: various data manipulation exercises

Questions answers

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 943

Audience

Webi XI R3 users

Prerequisites

Common use of Webi XI R3

Reference

BUS964-F

Sessions

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Python : Penetration tests

Goals


- Mastering application penetration testing using Python

Program

Discover Pentesting, application and network vulnerabilities
Basis of attacks: network, web, SQL
Common security breaches

Workshop: installation of the development environment – presentation of the types of common attacks

Network management, attack principles
Network packet interception (Scapy library)
Handling
of Fuzzing sockets Frameworks (Sulley library)

Workshop: Packet interception – service fuzzing

Web attacks
Presentation of the Request
Proxy2 library and BurpSuite application interception
: model, development
Captcha bypass
Firewall detection
SQL injection
Slowloris attack, HTTP alteration
MITMProxy
SSL Striping
Forensics Workshop: carrying out penetration

tests on a web application

Symmetric, asymmetric cryptography
Iterators on strings (itertools library)
Cryptographic attacks in Python 

Workshop: cryptographic attack in Python

Principle of
Cython backdoors : antivirus module and backdoors
Shellcodes

Workshop: Creation of an advanced backdoor

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1536

Audience

Application Testers, Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have taken the Python Initiation course or equivalent knowledge

Reference

PYT100596-F

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Python : Data analysis

Goals


- Knowing how to analyze data with Python

Program

Data manipulation by using the Pandas library
Data structures for analysis: Dataframe vs others
Index
management Management of missing data
Merging of dataframes
Manipulation of date formats
Various statistical measurements on DataFrames
Analysis metrics
Data visualization
Generation of graphs (Matplotlib)

Workshop: Integration of tabular data, statistical analyzes and visualization of graphs

Reading and writing of various files
Management of structured formats: CSV, XML, JSON
Use of Python structures / classes and parsing libraries
Download of remote data
Query of REST web services

Workshop: Retrieval and parsing of external data, mapping with objects

Financial analysis: basic concepts
Panorama of Python libraries: NumPy, SciPy, IPython (Jupyter)
Matrix calculation (Numpy)
Descriptive statistics (SciPy)
Comparison of populations, measures of association (SciPy)

Workshop: Collection and analysis of financial data, representation results

Multi-threading and parallelism
Profiling with Timeit, cProfile
Distributed computation (Celery)

Workshop: Implementation of a distributed computation

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2564

Audience

Analysts, Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have taken the Python Initiation course or equivalent knowledge

Reference

PYT100595-F

Sessions

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Django CMS : Web application content management

Goals


- Build and administer a website with Django CMS

Program

Major features of Django CMS
Comparison with other CMS
Installation prerequisites Installation
procedure
Django CMS tree structure
Managing updates

Workshop: installing django CMS and managing updates

Presentation of the administration interface
Management of pages: creation, edition, modification
Learning to use the text editor
Comments
Management of different media (Media Asset Manager): Images, Audio, Video …
Import content from  » other platforms
Management of the publication workflow
Management of static pages
Management of multiple users and authors
Protection of articles
Menu management
Web services
Install and use additional plugins

Workshop: publication and formatting of content

The default theme
Using other themes
Learn to modify a default theme
Create your own theme

Practical workshop: creation of a personalized template

Management of the rights and permissions of different users
Management of page types
Versioning of pages and restoration
Construction of flexible pages
Optimizations for referencing
Multisites: administer several sites
Multilingual: management of several languages
Applications specific to each CMS page
Creation of sitemap
Cache management

Workshop: multiple administration tasks and internationalization of the site

Creation of plugins Creation of
apphooks Complex
configurations
Extension of the toolbar
Customization of menus
Creation of wizard for content creation
Extensions of pages and title templates
Testing of extensions

Workshop: implementation of a plugin and extension of pages

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2564

Audience

Integrators, Python developers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of HTML5 / CSS3 and notions of Python development

Reference

PYT100591-F

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Business Objects XI R3 : Crystal Reports

Goals


- Explore Crystal Reports 2011

- Create reports

- Create formulas and charts

Program

What is business intelligence  ?
What is SAP Business Objects  ? Products for users
Products for design and administration
General vocabulary

Operating principles
Define content
Presentation of the interface
Selecting data or fields
Joins
Selecting data to display
Presentation of the report window
Formatting objects
Selecting records
Saving and sharing a report

Sorting concepts

Concepts of value
groups

Specific groups
Data summary
Adding summaries
Graphic elements and formatting
Special fields
Formatting of sections
Formatting of sections – The Common tab
Formatting of sections – The Pagination and Color tabs
Synthesis exercise

What is a formula?
Crystal syntax
The « formulas workshop » interface
Simple
formulas Boolean and conditional
formulas Formulas on character strings
Conditional formatting

Types of charts
The chart expert
Creating charts with the chart expert
Formatting chart Chart
options
Practice – Synthesis exercise Level 1

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 943

Audience

Consultants, developers, business intelligence project managers

Prerequisites

SQL language

Reference

BUS882-F

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Business Objects XI R3 : Administration and Security

Goals


- Administer Business Object XI 3

- Create folders, groups and users

- Manage security

Program

Presentation of the platform
Simplified presentation of the architecture

Access levels and rights
Rules in advanced mode
Folder
structure Group structure
Rules for transmitting rights for objects
Security levels Group
membership rules
Good practices
Notion of scope
Create / manage content
Actions on CMC objects
Reading rights
Folders
Categories
Users and groups

Implement application
security Security with Infoview

Authentication and Authorization
Authentication BO Enterprise
Authentication LDAP
authentication Windows AD
Special case: Authentication Windows NT

Universes
Export a universe
Publish objects with the publication wizard
Business view manager
Query as Web Service
Wizards

Classic planning
Calendar
Planning report and document objects
Dynamic planning
File
event Event based on schedules
Custom event
Schedule objects on a file event

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 943

Audience

Administrators, consultants, decision-making project managers

Prerequisites

Windows Server Administration

Reference

BUS878-F

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Business Objects XIR3 and BI4 : Designer

Goals


- Allow developers to create business universes and acquire a methodology for implementing the Business Objects solution

Program

Presentation of Business Object
Operating principles

Role of the Universe Designer
Creating a universe step by step (parameters, tables, joins, classes, objects and
hierarchies)
Validation of the universe as a user via Desktop Intelligence XI 3 or via Web
Intelligence XI 3
Commissioning cascading value lists artwork

Evolution of the universe: resolution of loops (aliases, contexts)
Creation of dynamic objects (the @ functions of the Designer module)
Deployment of universes

Definition and exploitation of aggregate tables
Special cases on contexts
Definition and exploitation of derived tables
Universe Multi-languages: translation of universes


Case study: creation and testing of a universe on a production base then on a Data Warehouse

Appendix: Creation of a universe with the wizard, methodology for implementing a Business Object project

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1415

Audience

Consultant, developer, project manager, decision-making project manager

Prerequisites

Knowledge of SQL and Business Object Desktop

Reference

BUS428-F

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Python : Preparation for the PCAP-31-02 certification

Goals


- Prepare to pass the PCAP-31-02 certification

Program

Python Institute
PCAP Certified Associate in Python Programming certification course : exam type, number of questions / duration, minimum% pass

Certification platform

Considerations during the examination 

Workshop: presentation of the exam and the subjects covered by the questionnaire

1. Programming fundamentals: compilation, interpretation, execution
Versions of Python

2. Basics of the language: inputs / outputs, variables and naming conventions, operators, expression construction and input data

3. Structure of controls (conditions and loops), management of lists and arrays

4. Use of functions and passing of parameters, management of the results in return

5. Python modules: importation, use. Management of exceptions. Handling of character strings.

6. Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming. Concepts.

Taking and correcting a mock test

Corrected workshops

Questions / answers, time management when taking the exam

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1536

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have taken Python training or equivalent knowledge

Reference

PYT100593-F

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Advanced Python : ORM

Goals


- Implement a data access layer with an ORM

Program

– Pattern DAO (Data Access Object)
– ORM Frameworks: functionalities, interest
– Python ORMs: SQLAlchemy, Django ORM, PonyORM, SQLObject, Peewee, …
– Mapping of tables and management of primary keys (simple, compound)
– Mapping of database types, column properties
– Concurrency management: optimistic (versioning), pessimistic
– Relationship management: OneToMany / ManyToOne, OneToOne, ManyToMany
– Cascades configuration –
Collection management
– Inheritance mapping
– Loading strategies: Lazy or Eager

Workshop: Realization of a global mapping diagram of a database

– Object request language
– Basic selections, filters
– Complex joins
– Aggregation, chain functions, …
– Lazy / Eager load management

Workshop: Performing CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations – complex requests

– Entity life cycle and validation
– Interceptors, Event-listeners
– Advanced configuration: performance and functionalities
– Use of the cache
– Websockets servers in Python

Workshop: Implementation of interceptors and cache management.

Workshop: Implementation of a chat room using websockets.

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1477

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100615-F

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Advanced Python : Web Services

Goals


- Building an API in Python

Program

– Presentation of Web Services (WS): operation, interest, interoperability
– Service oriented architecture (SOA): components, technologies
– Technologies: REST architecture, Websockets
– Web service platforms
– Choice of implementation
– Design and documentation: Swagger
– Web services test tools

Workshop: Installation of the development and execution environment, choice of a WebService implementation, description of a service

– REST architecture: components, call methods
– Flask or Django: presentation of tools for REST services
– Sending of parameters, validations
– Type of response, format
– Error
handling – Deployment of a RESTful service
– Query of web services REST (Python / Javascript)

Workshop: Creation and query of a REST API

– Security levels
– Authentication management in a web service
– Rights management
– Message level cryptography
– Message signatures
– Available security standards

Workshop: global API security

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1708

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100614-F

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Advanced Python : Web Services + ORM

Goals


- Build an API in Python and implement a data access layer with an ORM

Program

– Presentation of Web Services (WS): operation, interest, interoperability
– Service oriented architecture (SOA): components, technologies
– Technologies: REST architecture, Websockets
– Web service platforms
– Choice of implementation
– Design and documentation: Swagger
– Web services test tools

Workshop: Installation of the development and execution environment, choice of a WebService implementation, description of a service

– REST architecture: components, call methods
– Flask or Django: presentation of tools for REST services
– Sending of parameters, validations
– Type of response, format
– Error
handling – Deployment of a RESTful service
– Query of web services REST (Python / Javascript)

Workshop: Creation and query of a REST API

– Security levels
– Authentication management in a web service
– Rights management
– Message level cryptography
– Message signatures
– Available security standards

Workshop: global API security

– Pattern DAO (Data Access Object)
– ORM Frameworks: functionalities, interest
– Python ORMs: SQLAlchemy, Django ORM, PonyORM, SQLObject, Peewee, …
– Mapping of tables and management of primary keys (simple, compound)
– Mapping of database types, column properties
– Concurrency management: optimistic (versioning), pessimistic
– Relationship management: OneToMany / ManyToOne, OneToOne, ManyToMany
– Cascades configuration –
Collection management
– Inheritance mapping
– Loading strategies: Lazy or Eager

Workshop: Realization of a global mapping diagram of a database

– Object request language
– Basic selections, filters
– Complex joins
– Aggregation, chain functions, …
– Lazy / Eager load management

Workshop: Performing CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations – complex requests

– Entity life cycle and validation
– Interceptors, Event-listeners
– Advanced configuration: performance and functionalities
– Use of the cache
– Websockets servers in Python

Workshop: Implementation of interceptors and cache management.

Workshop: Implementation of a chat room using websockets.

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2564

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100613-F

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Intermediate Python : Multithreading and Testing

Goals


- Master multi-threading and test implementation

Program

Multithreading processes and threads : an introduction to multitasking programming
Presentation of the Threading module
Instantiation and launching of threads
Lifecycle GIL
priorities
: Global Interpreter Lock
Inter-process communication, synchronization
Notion of future
Asynchronous processing

Workshop: Implementation of multi-threading treatments

Software quality
metrics Testing process in the life cycle of a project, types, contributions
XP practices (eXtreme Programming), Test Driven Development (TDD) and styles
Testing in an agile project management
Code refactoring
Fixtures, Qualities a test code Test
coverage
Gherkin language, script generation with Cucumber

Workshop: writing tests in a project

Test case, test suite
Principle of assertions
Function feedback test
Bypass side effects with unittest.mock

Workshop: implementation of unit tests with unittest

Functional test frameworks: Selenium vs others
Sending HTTP requests
Extracting information from the data received
Parsing HTML, JSON

 

Workshop: Test automation with Selenium

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1536

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100617-F

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Intermediate Python : Best Practices + Multithreading and Tests

Goals


- Master the advanced elements of the language, multi-threading and test implementation

Program

Lambda expressions
Contexts
Iterables
Generators
Decorators
Metaclasses

Workshop: Multiple creations: iterable, generator, iterator

Management of third-party
Pypi modules (Python package index)
Installation, uninstallation of an
advanced deployment package (virtualenv, buildout)

Workshop: creation and installation of modules from the central repository

Origin, catalog
Structure of a design
pattern Application of a pattern

Factory and Abstract Factory for creation under
Singleton and derivative conditions : control of available resources

Workshop: implementation of a singleton and a factory in Python

The Composite, how to simplify the
Proxy and Adapter lists , the interfaces for accessing the methods
The Facade: clarifying a component

Workshop: use of a composite in the application

Strategy: the method factory
The iterator and its existing implementations
Observe: events without events
Chain of responsibility and trees of responsibility
Visitor and access: mastery of collaboration

Workshop: implementation of an observer for monitoring variation on an object

Multithreading processes and threads : an introduction to multitasking programming
Presentation of the Threading module
Instantiation and launching of threads
Lifecycle GIL
priorities
: Global Interpreter Lock
Inter-process communication, synchronization
Notion of future
Asynchronous processing

Workshop: Implementation of multi-threading treatments

Software quality
metrics Testing process in the life cycle of a project, types, contributions
XP practices (eXtreme Programming), Test Driven Development (TDD) and styles
Testing in an agile project management
Code refactoring
Fixtures, Qualities a test code Test
coverage
Gherkin language, script generation with Cucumber

Workshop: writing tests in a project

Test case, test suite
Principle of assertions
Function feedback test
Bypass side effects with unittest.mock

Workshop: implementation of unit tests with unittest

Functional test frameworks: Selenium vs others
Sending HTTP requests
Extracting information from the data received
Parsing HTML, JSON

Workshop: Test automation with Selenium

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2564

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100589-F

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Office 2013

Goals


- Know how to use a table in Excel

- Generate a standard document in Word

- Create simple presentations with PowerPoint

- Manage your mail with Outlook

Program

- EXCEL -

Presentation of Excel 2013
Description of the ribbon
Workbook / worksheet operation
Move around in the workbook (using the keyboard, menus, mouse)

Choice of font
Color of text and background
Borders, patterns
Alignment in the cell
Merge cells
Format of numbers and dates
Cell properties

AutoFormat
Insert and delete rows and columns
Change the height and width of rows and columns
Select cells

The formula bar
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponent
Use of parentheses
Percentage format
Automatic formulas
Copy calculations

Layout of a table
Management of page breaks
Define a print area Print
preview
Print

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

Office users

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the PC environment

Reference

BUR1016-F

- WORD -

Introducing Word 2013
Description of the ribbon
The ruler
Windows
Display mode
Show / hide formatting marks

Create
Open, save, close
Use recent documents
Create a document based on a template
Save a document in Word 97-2003 format

Select text
Move around in the document
Move and duplicate text
Find a character string
Perform a deep search
Replace one string with another
Use automatic spell checking
Replace formatting

The styles for a layout
Add, modify, delete a Style

How to use themes?
Mix themes

Design Resize
Insert, move or delete a row
Insert, move or delete a column
Define formatting and wrapping
Retrieve a table from Excel

Margins
Orientation Page
numbering
Borders
Custom header or footer
Modify the format of page numbers
Use « print preview »
Printing

-- POWER POINT --

PowerPoint 2013 presentation
Description of the ribbon
Create a new slide show
Using slide show templates
Set a theme for your presentation

Add / remove slides Slide
layouts
Move a slide

Placeholders
Inserting and formatting text
Inserting and customizing shapes
Inserting and modifying images
Inserting tables
Using WordArt
Organizing inserted content

Animate a content
The timing of the animations (start, duration, delay)
Transitions between slides

- OUTLOOK -

Overview of Outlook 2013
Description of the ribbon
General principles of e-mail operation
Differences between POP, IMAP and SMTP

Inbox management
Sending an email
Integrating an attachment
Activating the follow-up of an email
Spam management Organize
and classify your emails

Creation of a calendar
Event management (addition, modification, deletion)
Change the display mode
Find an appointment

Manually add a contact
Fill in essential information
Modify / delete a contact
Import a contact list
Change the display mode
Find a contact

Sessions

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Publisher

Goals


- Understand and master the UX methodology

Program

Knowing the different compositions
Using a composition
Learning to customize a composition
Creating a template

Use and create text frames
Format text, font, paragraphs
Use styles
Define color scheme

Foreground and background management
Margins and other layout guides
Use headers and footers Page
numbering
Move / modify / delete your pages

Presentation of the different objects: images, drawings …
Import images into your presentations
Use graphics: rectangle, circle …
Use the image library
Alignment and distribution of objects

Master page creation
Use double pages
Text chaining

Publish your document on the web
Print management
Direct mail

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the PC environment

Reference

BUR285-F

Sessions

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Intermediate Python : Best Practices

Goals


- Master the advanced elements of the language and design patterns

Program

Lambda expressions
Contexts
Iterables
Generators
Decorators
Metaclasses

Workshop: Multiple creations: iterable, generator, iterator

Management of third-party
Pypi modules (Python package index)
Installation, uninstallation of an
advanced deployment package (virtualenv, buildout)

Workshop: creation and installation of modules from the central repository

Origin, catalog
Structure of a design
pattern Application of a pattern

Factory and Abstract Factory for creation under
Singleton and derivative conditions : control of available resources

Workshop: implementation of a singleton and a factory in Python

The Composite, how to simplify the
Proxy and Adapter lists , the interfaces for accessing the methods
The Facade: clarifying a component

Workshop: use of a composite in the application

Strategy: the method factory
The iterator and its existing implementations
Observe: events without events
Chain of responsibility and trees of responsibility
Visitor and access: mastery of collaboration

Workshop: implementation of an observer for monitoring variation on an object

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1708

Audience

Python Developers

Prerequisites

Have followed the course "Python: Initiation + Deepening" or equivalent concepts

Reference

PYT100616-F

Sessions

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Apache Kafka : Data exchange

Goals


- Understand the architecture of Kafka and its use cases

- Use the Kafka APIs

- Administer a cluster

- Build a high-availability architecture

- Secure a cluster

Program

Context of use: Big Data and Stream Data
Kafka: presentation, available components (brokers, topics, consumers, producers)
APIs offered
Related tools

Installation procedure
Sizing
Setting up message queues
Command line interface for sending messages

Workshop: installation, configuration and commands via the CLI

Overview of the different APIs:
– Producers API
– Consumers API
– Streams API
– Connect API
– AdminClient API
– KafkaStreams

Workshop: use of several APIs offered by Kafka

Data distribution and replication
Choice of a replication strategy
Message validation Offset
management
Administration and monitoring tasks

Workshop: multiple administration tasks of a cluster

Available nodes and distribution
Brokers
Confluent platform: Schema Registry and REST Proxy
Security management

Workshop: Implementation of an HA architecture

What about security
Transport security (SSL)
Authentication
management ACLs management
Zookeeper authentication

Workshop: setting up security in a Kafka cluster

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 2123

Audience

Developers, architects and administrators

Prerequisites

Minimum knowledge of system administration

Notions of object programming

Reference

BUS100903-F

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Outlook

Goals


- Know how to use your email

- Manage your contact lists

- Schedule meetings in your calendar

Program

Presentation of Outlook and the other tools of the Office suite
Description of the interface (Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar, etc.)
Organization of functionalities (Messaging, Contact, Calendar, Task)
Configure an email account (POP or IMAP) )

Consult your inbox
Send an email (text, image, attachment …)
Difference between the To, CC and CCI fields
Reply / Forward an email Add
a signature to your email
Request an acknowledgment of receipt or reading

Classify your emails in folders
Create rules for your emails
Search your inbox
Create search folders
Use quick actions
Manage unwanted emails

Add new contacts
Create groups of contacts
Send an email to a contact
Import / Export a list of contacts

Schedule an appointment (name, location, time …)
Set a reminder
Invite contacts to a meeting
Check their availability
Share your calendar by email
Manage multiple calendars

Create a new task (subject, dates, reminder …)
Indicate the progress or end of a task
Define a periodicity

The main keyboard shortcuts
Configure the display of your emails (columns, grouping, sorting, etc.)
Create a tab with your favorite tools

Questions / Answers
Passing the TOSA certification

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

1 day

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

No

Reference

BUR100121-F

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Apache Solr : implementing a search engine

Goals


- Master the use of Solr to index and search data and documents

Program

Introduction to Information Retrieval
Indexing data: concepts, forms
Boolean Information Retrieval Model
Sorted search
vector information search Model
Presentation of the library Apache Lucene
Apache Solr search engine Discover
Comparison with other engines ( ElasticSearch)
Installation of Solr
Solr Core, configuration
Document schema and text analysis
Communication modes
Data Import Handler (DIH)
Solr Cell for file
indexing Indexing of rich documents (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) with Tika
Indexer a site with Nutch


Workshop: Architecture and installation of Solr – data and file indexing

Search parameters
Queries: basic syntax, parser
Dismax query parser Geolocation
management: points, precision, shapes
Influence the relevance of results Highlight and MoreLikeThis
faceted
search
Dismax and eDismax
Collapsing
Boost
Query functions
Geographic search Cache
management

Workshop: Writing queries – Analyzing queries and improving relevance

Solr in a high availability (HA) environment
Setting up a Solr cluster: Replication, Cloud
Performance evaluation: SolrMeter
Management of hardware and network resources
Tuning and monitoring
Backup and restore

Workshop: implementation of an HA architecture with Solr

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1865

Audience

Operational, Developers, Project Managers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of development and administration of the Windows or Linux operating system

Reference

BUS100574-F

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ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)

Goals


- Master the use of Elasticsearch, logstash and Kibana to index, search and visualize data and documents

Program

Introduction to information retrieval
Data indexing: concepts, forms
Presentation of the Elastic suite: products, contexts of use
Discovery of the ElasticSearch search engine
Connectors and transformation tools of Logstash
Kibana for analysis and visualization
Suite distributions

Workshop: Architecture and installation of the ELK stack

ElasticSearch: origin, detail of the search engine, technologies / functionalities
Fundamental concepts: Index, Document, Cluster, Node, Replica
Presentation of available APIs (REST): Indexing, search
Indexing: management of indexes, documents and mapping, metadata
Types of fields
Analyzers
Use of filters
Search with the engine: types, filters, relevance score, faceted search
Aggregation, Bucket, Measure
Geo-location management: points, precision, shapes
Performance measurement
Data modeling

Workshop: index creation and modifications – manipulation of the API’s searches – use of analyzers

Input data management: plugins, supported formats
Output data management
filters
DSL Logstash

Workshop: Logstash configuration and data management

Kibana: features, architecture, available plugins
Searches
Visualization Templates
Custom Visualisations

Workshop: use of predefined visualisations – creation of personalized visualisations and formatting

The ELK suite in a high availability (HA) environment
Setting up an Elasticsearch cluster
Management of several Logstash instances: architecture, message queue,
Kibana filebeat for the   Elasticsearch distribution
Tuning and monitoring requests

Workshop: implementation of an HA architecture with the Elastic suite

Optimization of the deployment of the suite
Management of hardware and network resources
Monitoring tools (technical metrics)
Backup and restore

Workshop: use of a monitoring and load testing tool – implementation of a backup and restore strategy

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1694

Audience

Operational, Developers, Project Managers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of development and administration of the Windows or Linux operating system

Reference

BUS100545-F

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Apache Spark

Goals


- Develop applications with Spark

- Use libraries for SQL, data flow and machine learning

- Transcribe difficulties encountered in the field in parallel algorithms

- Develop business applications that integrate with Spark

Program

Defining Big Data and Calculations
What is Spark for
What are the benefits of Spark

Identify the performance limits of modern CPUs
Develop traditional parallel processing models

Use functional programming for the execution of programs in parallel
Transcribe difficulties encountered in the field in parallel algorithms

Distribute the data in the cluster with RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets) and DataFrames
Distribute the execution of the tasks between several nodes
Launch the applications with the Spark execution model

Build resilient and fault-resistant clusters
Set up a scalable distributed storage system

Monitoring and Administering Spark Applications
View Execution Plans and Results

Perform exploratory analysis with the Spark shell
Create stand-alone Spark applications

Programming with Scala and other compatible languages
Create applications with basic APIs
Enrich applications with integrated libraries

Duration

4 days

Price

£ 2367

Audience

Developers, system architects and technical managers who want to deploy Spark solutions in their company

Prerequisites

Proficiency in object-oriented programming in Java or C #

Reference

BUS100299-F

Process queries with DataFrames and embedded SQL code
Develop SQL with user-defined functions (UDF)
Use data sets in JSON and Parquet formats

Connect to databases with JDBC
Run Hive queries on external applications

Use sliding windows
Determine the state of a continuous data stream
Process simultaneous data streams
Improve performance and reliability

Process streams from integrated sources (log files, Twitter, Kinesis, Kafka sockets)
Develop custom receivers
Process data with the Streaming API and Spark SQL

Predict outcomes with supervised learning
Create a classification element for the decision tree

Group data with unsupervised learning
Create a cluster with k-means method

Provision of Spark through a RESTful web service
Generate dashboards with Spark

Cloud service vs. on-premises
Choose a service provider (AWS, Azure, Databricks, etc.)

Develop Spark for large clusters
Improve the security of multi-vendor clusters
Monitoring the continuous development of Spark products in the market
Tungsten project: pushing performance to the limit of modern equipment
Use projects developed with Spark
Review the architecture of Spark for mobile platforms

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Programming Hadoop in Java

Goals


- Develop efficient parallel algorithms

- Analyze unstructured files and develop MapReduce Java tasks

- Load and retrieve data from HBase and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

- User Defined Functions from Hive and Pig

Program

Evaluate the value that Hadoop can bring to the business
Examine the Hadoop ecosystem
Choose a suitable distribution model

Examine the difficulties associated with running parallel programs: algorithms, data exchange
Evaluate the storage mode and complexity of Big Data

Fragment and solve large-scale problems
Discover tasks compatible with MapReduce
Solve common business problems

Configure the development environment
Examine the Hadoop distribution
Study the Hadoop daemons
Create the different components of MapReduce tasks
Analyze the different stages of MapReduce processing: split, map, shuffle and shrink

Choose and use multiple mapping and reduction tools, leverage partitioners and built-in map and reduce functions, analyze time series data with a second sort, streamline tasks in different programming languages

Run algorithms: parallel sorts, joins and searches, analyze log files, social media data and emails

Identify parallel algorithms related to network, processor, and disk I / O
Distribute workload with partitioners
Control grouping and sort order with comparators
Measure performance with counters

Optimize data throughput performance
Use redundancy to recover data

Duration

4 days

Price

£ 2821

Audience

Anyone who will use, administer, or deploy SharePoint in an organization

Anyone who wants to develop or administer SharePoint applications

Prerequisites

Have experience of training level 471, Java Programming: Fundamentals, or more than 6 months of experience in Java programming

Reference

BUS100298-F

Analyze the structure and organization of HDFS
Load raw data and retrieve the result
Read and write data with a program
Manipulate Hadoop’s SequenceFile types
Share reference data with DistributedCache

Switch from structured storage to unstructured storage
Apply NoSQL principles with a template application to read, connect to HBase from MapReduce tasks, compare HBase with other types of NoSQL datastores

Structure databases, tables, views and partitions
Integrate MapReduce jobs with Hive queries
Launch queries with HiveQL
Access Hive servers via IDBC, add functionality to HiveQL with user-defined functions

Develop Pig Latin scripts to consolidate workflows, integrate Pig queries with Java
Interact with data through the Grunt console
Extend Pig with user-defined functions

Record important events to audit and debug
Validate specifications with MRUnit
Debug in local mode

Deploy the solution on a production cluster, use administration tools to optimize performance, monitor task execution via web user interfaces

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Cassandra

Goals


- Structure and design Cassandra databases to stay ahead of your competitors

- Apply query models to model the data of your Cassandra databases

- Access Cassandra databases with CQL and Java

- Find the right balance between read / write speed and data consistency

- Integrate Cassandra with Hadoop, Pig and Hive

- Implement the most common Cassandra design patterns

Program

Why Use Non-Relational Data Warehouses
The Different Categories of NoSQL Data Warehouses

Define data warehouses with families of columns
Query Cassandra
Examine the main components of Cassandra’s architecture

Define CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
List the different types of CQL data
Manipulate data from the cqlsh interface

Draw a parallel with the relational model
Organize data with keyspaces, tables and columns
Create collections and counters

Create tables based on access patterns
Create clusters with composite primary keys
Improve data distribution with composite partition keys

Identify the different levels of consistency
Choose the read / write consistency levels of the data Differentiate the features for adjusting the consistency levels

Understand the link between consistency and replication factors
Sacrifice consistency in favor of availability
Develop linear consistency with Compare-And-Set

Group items into sets
Classify items into lists
Map relationships
Nest collections

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1775

Audience

Database managers, technicians, data scientists, analysts, salespeople looking to integrate Cassandra into their current environment

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the fundamentals of databases, SQL and Java programming language is strongly recommended

Reference

BUS100296-F

Map data with tuples and user-defined types Understand the frozen keyword
Apply the Valueless Columns pattern Strategic
implementation of cluster columns

Time data expiration with time-to-live
Use tombstones for distributed deletions
Execute DELETE and UPDATE statements later

Model time series
Improve queries with materialized views
Maintain materialized views in the application
Analyze data from materialized views

Create triggers with ITrigger
Associate triggers with tables
Manage materialized views with triggers

Connect to a Cassandra cluster
Execute CQL statements through the Java driver
Process prepared statements in batches
Paginate large queries

Define the JPA (Java Persistence Architecture)
Configure Kundera for Cassandra
Generate schemas automatically
Manage JPA transactions in Kundera

Load data into Hadoop MapReduce with Cassandra InputFormat function
Use Cassandra load tool to create relationships with Pig Convert Cassandra table to Hive table with Cassandra serialization / deserialization

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Pig, Hive and Impala

Goals


- Handle complex data sets stored in Hadoop without having to write complex code with Java

- Automate the transfer of data into Hadoop storage with Flume and Sqoop

- Filter data with Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) operations with Pig

- Query multiple datasets for analysis with Pig and Hive

Program

Hadoop Overview
Analyze Hadoop Components
Define Hadoop Architecture

Achieve reliable and secure
storage
Monitor storage metrics Control HDFS from the command line

Detail the MapReduce approach
Transfer the algorithms and not the data
Break down the key steps of a MapReduce task

Facilitate data entry and exit
Aggregate data with Flume
Configure data fan in and fan out
Move relational data with Sqoop

Explain the differences between Pig and MapReduce
Identify Pig use cases
Identify key Pig configurations

Represent the data in the Pig data model
Execute the Pig Latin commands in the Grunt Shell
Express the transformations in the Pig Latin syntax
Call the load and store functions

Create new relationships with joins
Reduce data size by sampling
Exploit Pig and user-defined functions

Consolidate datasets with unions
Partition datasets with splits
Add parameters in Pig scripts

Duration

4 days

Price

£ 2367

Audience

Database technicians and specialists, managers, business analysts and BI professionals who want to use Big Data technologies in their business

Prerequisites

Fundamental knowledge of databases and SQL is a major asset

Reference

BUS100295-F

Factorize Hive into components
Impose structure on data with Hive

Create Hive databases and tables
Expose the differences between data types in Hive
Load and store data efficiently with SerDes

Fill tables from queries
Partition Hive tables for optimal queries
Compose HiveQL queries

Distinguish the joins available in Hive
Optimize join structure for performance

Sort, distribute and group data
Reduce query complexity with views
Improve query performance with indexes

Design Hive schemas
Establish data compression
Debug Hive scripts

Unify the data view with HCatalog
Use HCatalog to access the Hive metastore
Communicate via the HCatalog interfaces
Fill in a Hive table from Pig

Break down the fundamental components of Impala
Submit queries to Impala
Access Hive data from Impala

Reduce data access time with Spark-SQL
Query Hive data with Spark-SQL

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Data Science (R and Hadoop)

Goals


- Apply data mining techniques to improve business decision making from internal and external data sources

- Get a head start on your competition with structured and unstructured data analysis

- Predict an outcome by using supervised machine learning techniques

Program

Load, query and manipulate data with R
Clean up raw data before modeling
Reduce dimensions with principal component analysis (PCA)
Develop functionality of R with user-defined packages

Explore the characteristics of a dataset through visualization
Graph the distribution of data with boxplots, histograms and density plots
Identify outliers

Preliminary processing and preparation of unstructured data for further analysis
Describe a set of documents with a term-document matrix

Examine MapReduce and Hadoop architectures
Integrate R and Hadoop with RHadoop

Model the relationship between an output variable and several input variables
Correctly interpret the coefficients of continuous and qualitative data

Process large datasets with RHadoop
Create regression modules for RHadoop

Use decision trees to predict target values
Apply probability rules to predict outcomes with the Naive Bayes model
Combine predictor variables of trees and random forests in RHadoop

Visualize model performance with an ROC curve
Evaluate classification models with confusion matrices

Segment the customer market with the K-Means algorithm
Find similarities with distance measures
Create tree-shaped clusters and hierarchical clusterings
Cluster tweets and text files to better understand them

Identify important connections with social media analytics
Understand the use of social media analytics results for marketing purposes

Identify real customer preferences from a set of transactional data to improve user experience
Calculate support and trust indices and lift to differentiate good rules from bad ones

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2956

Audience

Database professionals, managers, data analysts, data scientists and project management assistants

Professionals responsible for managing forecasts and trends

Prerequisites

Knowledge of programming and statistics is useful but not compulsory

Reference

BUS100294-F

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Hadoop : Install and administer a cluster of nodes

Goals


- Install the services of a Hadoop node

- Assemble several Hadoop nodes

- Deploy a new application on an existing cluster

- Perform a data restoration following disaster recovery

Program

What is Big Data?
The size issue
Hadoop’s position in the landscape

Presentation of an existing node
Organization of services and study of sequencing with YARN

Workshop: modifying the size of HDFS blocks to reduce the number of Map / Reduce

Relationship between the installed platform and the development
frameworks Propose independent frameworks to ensure compatibility: Spring Data

Workshop: deploy an application for accessing HBase through an O / R Spring Data mapping

Deploy a Map / Reduce program on a cluster of Hadoop nodes
Search for logs
Report anomalies to developers
Suggest the use of Kafka file

Workshop: use of input output queue for a Map / Reduce program

Definition of software routes with Apache Flume
Set up a calculation case where the data triggers the programs

Workshop: routing data from an HDFS directory to a Kafka file which is the entry of a Map / Reduce program

Using Ambari views
Viewing the status of nodes in a cluster
Import / export configuration files

Workshop: relaunching a cluster of services, using the YARN and Tez views

Managing user accounts
Managing file rights on a distributed file system
Using certificates

Lab: Configure Knox and Ranger Services

Duration

3 days

Price

£ 1994

Audience

System administrators

Prerequisites

Knowledge of system administration, preferably Java

Reference

BUS100612-F

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Office 365 Use

Goals


- Get started with MS Office 365

Program

Office 365: presentation, available offers
Price list
Creation and configuration of an Office 365 account

Lab: Configuring an Office 365 user account

Emails with Outlook Web App:
– presentation, access to emails
– Contact
management – Task management
Instant messaging with Lync Online:
– Audio.video dialogue, presence indicators
– Multi-user conference
– Document sharing
– Scheduling

Workshops: Consulting messaging – Creating tasks – Using instant messaging

Handling Office documents online: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, …
Importing local files
Co-editing
Office + Office 365 documents

Workshops: Creation and modification of several Office documents

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

1 day

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the web, office automation

Reference

BUR618-F

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PMP (Project Management Professional) – Preparation for PMI certification

Goals


- Acquire the necessary techniques to lead corporate projets and to be prepared for the PMP certification

Program

PMI reminder: terminology, project phases Project management
processes and disciplines specified by PMI
Documents associated with the project
PMBOK reference

Actors of a project, roles
Communication process: planning, dissemination
Taking charge of the socio-cultural context
Monitoring points and meetings

Documentation: specifications, project charter, project plan Project
management, change management
Project life cycles
Quality
monitoring Phase / project closure: acceptance, stakeholder satisfaction

Collection of needs Breakdown of
the product in WBS / SDP
Establishment of processes
Allocation of resources

Definition of activities and milestones
Estimation of resources / activity
Programming and optimization of activities: Gantt chart
Compression, reorganization of planning

Cost estimate
Budgeting
Cost control: indicators, tools and techniques
S-curves Earned
value

Quality plan: planning, implementation
Quality control: implementation, costs
Monitoring tools and techniques! Control chart, Pareto chart, Ishikawa

Human resources plan
Project team: constitution, development, structuring
Team organization (RACI matrix, roles and responsibilities matrix, functional meetings, information flow)
Risks linked to individuals: motivation, conflict management

Risk management planning process
Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis

Start-up
Quality control
Global monitoring
Editing of methods
Project
closure Project delivery
Recipe
Stakeholder satisfaction

Certification: content,
PDU’s eligibility file , maintenance of certification
Preparation tools
Registration procedure Practice
tests

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2970

Audience

Project managers, developers

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the project work environment

Reference

GES539-F

 

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Microsoft OneNote

Goals


- Create, organize and share your notes

- Access your notes from devices (Computer, phone, tablet)

Program

Introduction to OneNote
Interface components
Access to the application version
Connect to Office 365

Install
Open OneNote
Reminders on the Ribbon, Quick Access
Panel Manage
Notes Organize Panels

Quick Notes
Open / Close / Delete a notepad
Rename / Change the color of a notepad
Organization of note storage (folders, sections, pages, sub-pages, etc.) Export a notepad

Create / Rename / Delete / Color of sections
Create groups of sections
Move / Export / Order sections
Discover the trash of the notepad
Protection of sections by password

Create / Rename / Delete / Color pages
Move / Export / Order pages
Prioritize and group pages
Formatting pages and page templates

Screen management and handwritten note input
Recording audio notes
Title styles
Quick text input and canvas management
Bullets and enumerations (creation and grouping + customization)
Comfortable movement in texts
Handwriting
Application and Removal of indicators
Management of indicators

Tables and Quick Tables SmartArt
Calculations Images Files URLs (hyperlinks) Equations Audio and video capture

Duration

1 day

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Office 365

Reference

BUR100909-F

Interactions with other Windows and Office tools

Use of text search (direct keyboard writing or OCR)
Search for indicators
Management of markers Note Flags
Audio and Video search

Publish / Unpublish a SharePoint / OneDrive notebook
Share a notebook
View page history and filter by authors
Simultaneous note taking
OneNote Web App (OneNote Services)
OneTastic and macros

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PRINCE2 Combined

Goals


- Understand the structure and terminology of the PRINCE2® method

- Know the characteristics, context of a project and the benefits of adopting the PRINCE2® method

- Be able to explain the PRINCE2® principles

- Describe the purpose of the themes, roles and management products PRINCE2®

- State the purpose, objectives and context of each process PRINCE2®

- Take the “PRINCE2® Foundation” exam To be able to conduct reasoning supporting the processes, themes and principles of PRINCE2®

- To master the relationships between the processes , themes, principles and management products PRINCE2®

- Have a detailed knowledge of the use of PRINCE2® and its adaptation in all circumstances

- Be able to apply their knowledge

- Take the “PRINCE2® Practitionner” exam

Program

Project management according to PRINCE2®

Overview and principles:

Continuous justification for the company
Lessons drawn from experience
Roles and responsibilities defined
Management by sequences
Management by exception
Product focus
Adaptation to the project environment

The themes :

Business case
Organization
Quality
Plans
Risk
Change
Progress.

The process :

Develop the project
Manage the project
Initiate the project
Control a sequence
Manage the delivery of products
Manage a sequence limit
Close the project

Preparation for the “PRINCE2® Foundation” exam then taking the actual exam

Presentation of the “PRINCE2® Practitioner” exam and the different question styles

Adaptation of PRINCE2®

Preparation for the “PRINCE2® Practitioner” exam by setting implemented within project scenarios:

Principles (Continuous justification for the company, lessons learned from experience, roles and responsibilities defined, management by sequences, management by exception, product focus and adaptation to the project environment)

Themes (Business case, Organization, Quality, Plans, Risk, Change and Progress)

And processes (Develop the project, Direct the project, Initialize the project, Control a sequence, Manage the delivery of products, Manage a sequence limit and Close the project) within project scenarios

Taking the "PRINCE2® Practitioner" exam

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2957

Audience

Project director, project manager, project actors, member of the Steering Committee, any person having to intervene in a project, as a contributor or hierarchical contributor, PMO manager, any professional wishing to understand the good practices of PRINCE2®

Prerequisites

Project management concepts

Reference

GES100626-F

 

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Microsoft 365: Collaborative tools + SharePoint

Goals


- Know Microsoft 365 applications

- Know how to organize as a team with Teams and OneDrive

- Create forms with Forms

- Follow a work schedule with To Do and Planner

- Configure a collaborative website with SharePoint

- Insert and share web content with Sharepoint

Program

The main principle of Microsoft 365: collaborative work
Best practices for working with several collaborators
Using Microsoft 365 to set up teamwork
Overview of the main Microsoft 365 applications

What is Delve used for?
Update your profile
Save documents as a favorite
See a collaborator’s profile

How does Teams work?
Get organized with Teams
Set up your Teams profile
Save your main contacts

Create or join a team
Define a discussion channel for a project
Configure the functions of a channel: the
Conversation tabs with the collaborators of a project

Workshop: Create a team and channels between participants

Schedule a meeting via the calendar
Invite participants
Check the availability of each employee
Start a meeting without having scheduled it
Know the tools to use during a meeting: screen sharing, whiteboard, etc.

Workshop: Prepare a videoconference between participants

Duration

5 days

Price

£ 2495

Audience

All

Prerequisites

Have knowledge of the Microsoft 365 environment

Reference

BUR100929-F

How does OneDrive work?
Personal space VS shared space
Install the local application on your workstation
Manage the synchronization of documents

Create sharing folders
Share a specific file
Define the rights of each collaborator
Create a sharing link
Use document sharing within Microsoft Teams

Workshop: Create a folder and share its content between participants

Open a file for reading or writing
See changes made by others
Chat with colleagues within the file
Comment on a change
Work online or in the desktop application

How does Forms work?
Differences between form and questionnaire
Working with others on a form / questionnaire
Defining form templates

Create and configure a form
Insert form fields (text, number, date, etc.)
Share the form (via a link, by email, etc.)
Consult and export the responses

Workshop: Create an event registration form and retrieve the answers

Create and configure a questionnaire
Insert questions and define the correct answers
Display questions following the previous answers

Workshop: Create a MCQ and process the answers

Create personal and shared notebooks
Define sections, pages and sub-pages
Take notes (text, indicators, link, etc.)
Insert a file and take notes over it

Define your tasks for the day
Create your to-do lists
Define a reminder on a task
Configure recurring tasks

Create a schedule and define its organization
Insert and configure the tasks
Define the collaborators carrying out the tasks
Monitor the development of the schedule

Workshop: Create a work schedule and share it between participants

Analyze your working time with MyAnalytics
Create a corporate video channel with Stream
Collaborate easily with Whiteboard
Set up a corporate social network with Yammer

How does SharePoint work?
Team site VS communication site
Understand the links with other applications

Create and configure a team site
Define the appearance of the site
Modify the information of the site
Configure the home page
Add sub-sites

Workshop: Create and share a team site between participants

Create document libraries
Insert additional information about shared files
Create lists
Share libraries and lists with certain collaborators

Workshop: Share content (files and texts) between participants

Choose a page template
Add sections and web part content
Understand the different types of web part content
Integrate a document library or list
Start a conversation with a collaborator

Workshop: Create several web pages and share them

Create news publications
Fill in the details of the publication
Add news links
Organize your news within a web page

Integrate a calendar and manage events
Add an exchange forum
Add support with ticket tracking
Create a survey and analyze responses

Summary of Microsoft 365 applications properly
configure these tools within a
Q& A team

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PRINCE2 Practitioner

Goals


- To be able to conduct reasoning supporting the processes, themes and principles of PRINCE2®

- To master the relationships between PRINCE2® management processes, themes, principles and products

- To have a detailed knowledge of the use of PRINCE2® and its adaptation in all circumstances

- Be able to apply their knowledge

- Pass the « PRINCE2® Practitioner » exam

Program

Presentation of the exam and the different question styles

Reminder of the PRINCE2® process model

Adaptation of PRINCE2®

Preparation for the “PRINCE2® Practitioner” exam by the implementation within project scenarios, of:

Principles (Continuous justification for the company, lessons learned from experience, defined roles and responsibilities, management by sequences, management by exception, product focus and adaptation to the project environment)

Themes (Business case, Organization, Quality, Plans, Risk, Change and Progress)

And processes (Develop the project, Direct the project, Initialize the project, Control a sequence, Manage the delivery of products, Manage a sequence limit and Close the project)

Taking the "PRINCE2® Practitioner" exam

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)

Passing of the certification (if foreseen in the financing).

Duration

2 days

Price

£ 1340

Audience

Project director, project manager, member of the Steering Committee, any person involved in a project, as a contributor or hierarchical contributor, PMO manager

Prerequisites

Be certified « PRINCE2® Foundation » or hold one of the following certifications: Project Management Institute (PMI) or International Project Management Association (IPMA)

Reference

GES100625-F

 

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