Course offerings include comprehensive training for all personnel. Training is typically conducted at iBASEt's training facility in Foothill Ranch, California. The minimum class size is 6; the maximum size is 12. If the number of students exceeds 12, another instructor will be required at an additional fee. We request that students have a similar knowledge base. All course materials are provided in electronic/online form.
 

Technical Training

Reporting Tool - Basics – T0410

This hands-on lab course presents and overview of the Solumina Report Designer including a discussion of the toolbars, buttons, editing windows and layout. Students create a simple banded report using the report wizard, make minor changes to the wizard layout and presentation. The course includes configuring a report to be invoked from a menu command within Solumina.

Pre-requisite:  PL/SQL knowledge, Solumina End User class, Solumina Basic Configuration (T0610)
Duration:  1 full day
Who should attend:  System Administrators, Business Analysts, Database Engineers (DBE), Database Administrators (DBA), Department Administrators, Report Writers
Materials:  Solumina Basic Report Designer Training Guide,  Solumina Report Designer Manual
 

Reporting Tool - Advanced & Graphical Reports – T0420

This hands-on lab builds on the Reporintg - Basics course. Students will create a traveler report with barcodes without using the report wizard. The course includes: setting up and passing test parameters; adding and linking the bands; creating global pages, locking pages, adding images and graphs such as pie/bar charts to reports, chaining and embedding reports. Students will create several reports and be expected to write simple SQL statements.

Pre-requisite:  PL/SQL knowledge, Solumina Basic Reporting Tool course  (T0410)
Duration:  2 full days
Who should attend:  System Administrators, Database Engineers (DBE), Database Administrators (DBA), Department Administrators, Report Writers
Materials:  Solumina Advanced/Graphical Report Designer Training Guide, Solumina Report Designer Manual
 

Application Installation and Upgrades – T0520

This course is a combination workshop and lecture. In a hands-on lab and you will walk through the installation of the client, database and middle tier and discuss hardware server requirements. The lecture section covers applying upgrade programs and scripts, including tips and traps of upgrading based on the level of your site configuration; determining permission requirements, and establishing security options. The instructor will define overall technical strategy for configuration management; discuss potential pitfalls and considerations as you develop an implementation strategy; cover ownership of different levels of configuration and types of configurations acceptable to the project, and prepare the student to produce a configuration implementation plan to describe the agreed upon approach for implementation.

Pre-requisite: Thorough understanding of site software installation practices;  experience with Perl scripts and database backup, import and export functions; experience maintaining UNIX and/or Windows Application Servers and Database Servers; Solumina End User class.
Duration:  2 days
Who Should Attend: Staff responsible for installation and upgrades.
Materials:  Provided by instructor if required
 

Basic Configuration – T0610

This hands-on lab course begins with an overview of the System Manager tool. Students will then configure the client, linking the database to the application and creating a start up “INI” (Initialization) file. The course focus is an introduction to application components; common interface elements; managing and editing configuration and administrative tasks; defining roles and privileges; setting up dispatch lists to customize data sorting, and setting up authoring and approval workflows; adding a tabular report to a dispatch; configuring dispatch tabs; introduction to User Defined Views (UDVs); SQL and UDV libraries; building, testing and installing a UDV in the application. Throughout the course, diagnostic tools are discussed and tips and techniques given.

Prerequisite:  SQL knowledge, Solumina End User class
Duration:  3 days
Who Should Attend:  System Administrators, Department Administrators, Integrators, Business Analysts
Materials:  Solumina Basic Configuration Training Guide,  Solumina Installation Guide, Configuration Manuals 

Intermediate Configuration – T0620

This hands-on lab expands on the Basic Configuration class, and specifically covers, in-depth, INI Lib and UDV functionality. This includes: modifying and application and instruction presentation, plan and order header information; adding shortcut command buttons to instructions; configuring a touch screen interface; changing global parameters through the Common section; creating a new dispatch list group and configuring a bar code. Students will be given a sample business requirement and then step through the design and implementation of that requirement. Additional projects include: modifying UDV attributes, creating a data entry wizard. Throughout the course tips and techniques are given.

Prerequisite:  SQL knowledge, Solumina End User class, Basic Configuration class (T0610)
Duration:  3 days
Who Should Attend:  System Administrators, Department Administrators, Integrators
Materials:  Solumina Intermediate Configuration Training Guide,  Solumina Installation Guide,  Configuration Manuals
 

Advanced Configuration – T0630

This hands-on lab course expands on the Basic and Intermediate Configuration classes. Students will use a client API to invoke an external application; configure an email alert; configure a speedbar; implement extensions and use extension tables. Discussion includes: Solumina architecture and deployment, internals and the schema. An overview of Eclipse tools and source version control approaches is provided. Throughout the course tips and techniques are given.

Pre-requisite:  Thorough knowledge of JAVA JDC and SQL experience. Experience in JEE development and configuration, Solumina End
 User class, Basic and Intermediate Configuration classes (T0610 and T0620)
Duration:  3 full days
Who should attend:  System Administrators, Department Administrators, Integrators
Materials:  Solumina Advanced Configuration Training Guide,  Solumina Installation Guide, Configuration Manuals
 

Integration Methodology – T0640

This course gives an overview of decoupled message based integration principles. The role of standards, canonical message vocabularies, and transport independence is covered. Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus concepts and capabilities are discussed. Other subjects include: Solumina Business Integration Services and supported scenarios; an introduction to OAGIS; data mapping Solumina to OAGIS and Solumina to other applications; use of SMAP tools, XML tools (Eclipse, XML SPY).

Pre-requisite:  Solumina Basic Configuration class (T0610). Knowledge of  manufacturing, customer business processes, customer business
 data. Conceptual knowledge of message-based integration. Basic XML experience (know XML tags, XML elements, XML attributes). An understanding of XML schema and specific experience with data mapping and middleware tools is  recommended.
Duration:  2 full days
Who should attend:  Business System Analysts, Integration Specialists, Integration
 Implementation Developers/Coders.
Materials:  TBD
 

Advanced Integration – T0660

This course covers the technical basis and extension of the out-of-the box Business Integration Services; interacting with JAVA Message Service (JMS); transport conversion; message transformation capabilities; hands-on development of outbound and inbound messages; extending integration services; XML Schema extensions; configuration and capability of an example ESB Mule; XML Beans library for XML message processing; how to develop and manage SMAP impacts and extension generation approach.

Pre-requisite:  Completion of Integration Methodology course (T0740). Solumina Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Configuration courses (T0610, T0620 and T0630). JAVA Development experience.  Understanding of Object Oriented Design and interfaces in JAVA.
 XML experience. J2EE development experience. JMS, JDBC and
 SQL experience. Eclipse IDE experience is recommended.
Duration:  3 full days
Who should attend:  Integration Specialists, Integration Implementation Developers/Coders.
Materials:  TBD
 

Solumina Configuration and Integration Certification

iBASEt has certification testing for Configuration Developers and Integration Developers. Information available upon request.