Customizable Training
We have been offering training and mentoring on software technology since our inception in 2001. Our course materials can be easily be customized to meet your needs including the addition of background materials for non-technical staff and advanced exercises for special interests. Our experience has shown that to be effective, courses should be customized to your business strategy and support the technology strategy decisions that you have made. We have a library of over 150 lessons from many areas that can be mixed and matched to your audience needs. Please contact us for any questions on pricing and and availability. Resellers welcome.
These classes are offered on-site at your location or we can arrange for off-site classrooms that are fully equipped with computers and software at additional cost. See our Training Policies for further details.
XRX: XForms, REST and XQuery
Length: Four days
Course Description: This class covers the XRX architecture from the perspective of a BA that has has some exposere to HTML, XML and SQL.
Target Audience: Project managers, business analysts, database administrtors, testing and quality assurance, software developers and report designers.
Cost: $10,000 + expenses including presentation handouts for 10 students. Sample Course Materials
OLAP and Business Intelligence
Length: 8 classroom hours
Course Description: This class covers the fundamentals of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Target Audience: Project managers, business analysts, ETL developers, database administrtors, testing and quality assurance, software developers, report designers and security analysts.
Cost: $2,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Fundamentals of XML
Length: 8 classroom hours
Course Description: XML is the lingua franca for data exchange. XML use used universally by both Open Source Java and Microsoft infrastructure. Understanding XML and related technologies allows all participants on a team the ability to communicate effectively using common terminology.
Target Audience: Project managers, business analysts, testing and quality assurance, software developers, web site designers and web content managers. This class is also appropriate for programmers that have not had exposure to XML or would like a refresher in XML technologies.
Cost: $2,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Introduction to XML Transforms (XQuery)
Length: 16 classroom hours
Course Description: This two-day course introduces the concepts behind the XQuery language. After this course students will be able to create their own XQuery programs to execute reports and transformations on XML data set.
Target Audience: This class is appropriate for data architects, project managers, business analysts and software developers that require XQuery skills and already have a basic understanding of basic XML data structures (See Introduction to XML).
Cost: $5,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Introduction to XML Transforms (XSLT)
Length: 16 classroom hours
Course Description: This two-day course introduces the concepts behind creating XML transforms including the creation of basic XML transforms, the use of XML transforms to create a variety of outputs, the use of the XSL templates and the XPath language. After this course students will be able to create their own XML transforms using a variety of outputs including HTML, SVG and PostScript. This course also covers both Open-Source and Microsoft execution environments.
Target Audience: This class is appropriate for data architects, project managers, business analysts and software developers that require XML transformation skills and already have a basic understanding of basic XML data structures (See Introduction to XML).
Cost: $5,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Introduction to the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM)
Course Description: GJXDM is a XML metadata registry created by the US Department of Justice for the exchange of data between Criminal Justice agencies across the US. GJXDM is a complex yet powerful system. GJXDM includes almost 2,700 data elements and comes with some of the most advanced sub-schema generation tools available for creating semantically precise exchange documents. This class covers an background, of GJXDM, description of the structure of the GJXDM, as well as hands-on experience using the GJXDM subschema generation tools.
Target Audience: This class is appropriate for data architects, project managers, business analysts, and software developers exchanging criminal justice documents. This base section of this class uses visual representations of XML Schema provided by tools such as Altova's XML Spy. This allows people without knowledge of XML Schema file structure to understand the structure of GJXDM. Advanced labs will require a background of reading and modifying XML Schemas.
Length: 16 classroom hours
Cost: Two day course is $5,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Business Benefits of Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM)
Course Description: This course is an overview of the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) standard for non-programmers with data integration responsibilities within the criminal justice and law enforcement environment. This class covers the history of GJXDM, the use of GJXDM to lower integration costs, GJXDM training and mentoring, best practices for creating RFP, GJXDM training and mentoring and holding vendors responsible for GJXDM standards.
Audience: This course is designed for high-level decision makers within the criminal justice system. It is appropriate for managers, project managers, business analysis that are responsible for sharing criminal justice information. The course is designed for a police chief or IT director at a county-level prosecution, court or probation systems staff. This is not a programming course although samples of XML data will be shown to help understand GJXDM structures.
Cost: One day course is $2,000 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Metadata Registries for Integration and Business Intelligence (BI)
Length: Approximately 8 classroom hours.
Course Description: Having consistent metadata definitions is perhaps the most important strategy in the precise exchange of computer information. XML use used universally by both Open Source Java and Microsoft infrastructure. Understand XML and related technologies allows all participants on a team the ability to communicate effectively using common terminology.
Target Audience: Data architects, project managers, business analysts, testing and quality assurance, software developers, web site designers and web authoring. This class is also appropriate for programmers that have not had exposure to XML or would like a refresher in XML technologies.
Cost: $2,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. Course Details
Creating an Enterprise Service Bus with Mule
Length: Approximately 8 classroom hours.
Course Description: Mule is a very popular OpenSource Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) that is being used by many organizations to reliably move data between points in an organization. Although Mule does not contain a metadata registry, it can be used a low-cost reliable plumbing to make data move between transactional systems.
Target Audience: Data architects, project managers, business analysts, testing and quality assurance, software developers, web site designers and web authoring. This class is also appropriate for programmers that have not had exposure to XML or would like a refresher in XML technologies.
Cost: $2,995 including presentation handouts for 10 students. ESB Course Details
Creating a Metadata Registry with (mostly) Open Source Tools
Length: Approximately 16-40 classroom hours depending on the background of students.
Course Description: This class describes how to build a metadata registry that complies with ISO/IEC 11179 standards using mostly freely available Open Source tools. These technologies include XML, XML Schemas, ISO/IEC 11179 standards, XML transforms (XSLT 2.0), Apache Ant 1.6, Eclipse 3.1 and Saxon 8. Although most of these tools are open source we do recommend purchase of Altova's XMLSpy(TM).
Target Audience: Metadata architects and software developers.
Cost: Approximately $2,500 per day with a two-day minimum. Course Details
The Java Messaging Services
Length: Approximately 4 classroom hours depending on the background of students.
Course Description: This class is an anrchitectural overview of JMS.
Target Audience: Data architects and software developers.
Cost: Approximately $2,500 per day. Sample Materials
The Enterprise Service Bus
Length: Approximately 4 classroom hours depending on the background of students.
Course Description: This class is an anrchitectural overview of the Enterprise Service Bus.
Target Audience: Data architects and software developers.
Cost: Approximately $2,500 per day. Sample Materials