The End User module gives a general overview of our products and consulting services. It introduces the use of the BeauTec Business Pilot and teaches users how to retrieve information and get reports in an efficient way.

Prerequisites

• none

Length

2 days

The Application User module introduces the use of application components that are part of a BeauTec Business Pilot installation, e.g. bt:Indicator.

Prerequisites

• none

Length

3 days

The Basic Schematic and Report Developer module introduces the use of BeauTec's client-side technologies. It presents the BeauTec Business Pilot and teaches users how to use it to build and modify basic user interface screens (schematics).

It also introduces the Microsoft Excel Add-In, and how it is used to build professional reports.

Prerequisites

• none

Length

2 - 3 days

The Advanced Report Developer module focuses on building reports using our Microsoft Excel Add-In, web reports built using ASP, and the use of the Object Warehouse to build dynamic reports on top of it.

Prerequisites

• Basic Schematic and Report Developer

Length

2 - 3 days

The System Administrator module teaches the administration of the BeauTec Business Pilot. This module covers the following topics:

• Overview/Architecture
• Client structure
• Server side
• System shut down and restart
• BeauTec Administration tool (bt:owh)
• Database sizing
• Data modeling
• Trouble-shooting

Prerequisites

• Basic programming or scripting skills
• Basic knowledge of relational databases
• Administration knowledge of MS Windows
• Minimum one PC for two students
• Access to a central m:odm installation from all training computers
• Oracle client installation on all training computers
• Access to a central NT file server (100 MB free space) from all training computers

Length

4 days

Course Agenda

The goal of the first day is to get an overview of the m:odm from the administrator's point of view. The focus of this lesson is understanding the m:pro Object Data Model (m:odm) and it's API concept. Class and object concepts are introduced using the m:odm Admin Tool (m:mat1) and related online documentation.

09:30 - 10:00	Welcome and agenda Discuss skills/experience Review agenda
10:00 - 11:00	Introduction of the m:pro Object Data Model I Overview Object Orientation m:pro Object Data Model BeauTec Object Warehouse
11:00 - 11:15	Break
11:15 - 12:00	Introduction of the m:pro Object Data Model II m:odm installation and sizing Hands-on installation Sample Object Warehouse
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	bt:owh Object Warehouse Concepts Security Concepts How to use m:odm security Hands-on defining user rights
14:30 - 14:45	Break
14:45- 16:30	bt:owh Object Warehouse Administration I Backup & Recovery Hands-on Import & Export
16:30 - 16:45	Break
16:45 - 17:15	bt:owh Object Warehouse Administration II Purging & Archival
17:15 - 17:30	Summary

The goal of the second day is to understand the interface technologies. The installation, configuration and maintenance of the BeauTec and m:pro interfaces is the focus of this lesson.

9:30 - 9:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
9:45 - 10:30	bt:owh Object Warehouse Administration III bt:owh admin tool Hands-on admin tool
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:00	bt:owh Object Warehouse Administration IV bt:owh admin tool continued Hands-on admin tool
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	Interfaces I Database links m:pipe Hands-on Installation
14:30- 14:45	Break
14:45- 16:45	Interfaces II bt:Interface Hands-on Installation Relational tables Web Services Heterogeneous Services Pipe Interface
16:45- 17:00	Break
17:00- 17:30	Summary and Wrap-Up Questions and Answers Wrap-Up Feed back

The goal of the third day is to get an overview of the BeauTec Business Pilot from the administrators point of view. The focus of this lesson is the installation and configuration of the BeauTec Business Pilot and the Excel add-in.

09:30 - 10:00	Welcome and agenda Review agenda
10:00 - 11:00	Introduction of the BeauTec Business Pilot I Overview BeauTec Business Pilot file server installation BeauTec Business Pilot file server configuration BeauTec Business Pilot user rights
11:00 - 11:10	Break
11:10 - 12:00	Introduction of the BeauTec Business Pilot II BeauTec Business Pilot client installation BeauTec Business Pilot client configuration
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:15	Introduction of the Excel add-in I Overview Installation and configuration
14:15 - 14:45	Break
14:45- 16:15	Introduction of the Excel add-in II MRA Wizard and Tag Search dialog Installation and configuration
16:15- 16:30	Break
16:30- 17:00	m:pro Applications Concept Install and uninstall Applications
17:00- 17:30	Summary

The goal of the fourth day is the administration of the BeauTec Business Pilot. The installation, configuration and maintenance of the BeauTec Business Pilot libraries are the focus of this lesson. The Admin Dialog, backup strategies and style guide are explained.

9:30 - 9:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
9:45 - 10:30	BeauTec Business Pilot Libraries I Concept Hands-on creation of a new library
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:00	BeauTec Business Pilot Libraries II Maintenance of libraries Hands-on creation of a new business object
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:30	BeauTec Business Pilot Admin Dialog Overview Hands-on Update function
14:30- 14:45	Break
14:45 - 16:15	Backup Strategies MS Visual Source Safe or SVN Style guide m:pro Finesse
16:15 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Summary and Wrap-Up Questions and Answers Wrap-Up Feed back

The Application Administration module teaches the administration of specific applications within the BeauTec Business Pilot environment, e.g. bt:Indicator.

Prerequisites

• System Administrator

Length

3 days

The Client Application Developer module teaches the client side development and enhancement of applications based on the BeauTec Business Pilot frame work (m:exp). This module covers the following topics:

• Overview/Architecture
• Genesis and Finesse introduction
• BeauTec BusinessPilot API
• Application component development

Prerequisites

For on-site training appropriate facilities must be available. These facilities must include:

• A projection system that will accept a standard laptop computer VGA video output.
• A central computer with
  • NT server
  • Oracle 8.1 or greater
  • at least 100 MB free disk space.
• At least one client computer for every two participants with network access to the central machine.

Participants should have:

• Basic programming or scripting skills
• Basic knowledge of relational databases (helpful but not required)

Length

5 days

Course Agenda

Day 1 - The goal of the first day is to get an overview of the components BeauTec uses for application development. The focus of this lesson is learning the Finesse script language and the Genesis object addressing concept. By means of simple examples, first object and variable types are introduced.

10:00 - 10:30	Introduction Welcome greeting Review of the agenda
10:30 - 12:30	Business Pilot concept Overview / introduction Elements of the BeauTec BusinessPilot Sample applications
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Introduction of Genesis / Finesse Installation / file system Finesse script language Online help Genesis APPLICATION Object Starting an application Event handlers Command syntax / object addressing
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 16:45	Hands-on session: Genesis Drawing Object Creation Tools Loading and saving Handler calls in Genesis Distributed Finesse scripts
16:45 - 17:00	Summary

Day 2 - The goal of the second day is to get an overview of the BeauTec Business Pilot and its elements as an application framework. The creation of an SQL Tool is the focus of this lesson.

8:30 - 8:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
8:45 - 10:00	BeauTec Business Pilot architecture Overview Elements and programming interfaces Application component concept
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 12:30	Hands-on session: Application component APPLICATION Object File structure Ini File Main script Event handlers Sample application "SQL Tool", Part I
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:00	BeauTec Business Pilot architecture Navigation between schematics
14:00 - 15:30	Hands-on session: "SQL Tool", Part II Schematic / view How to perform database queries with the Middle Layer Query Optimizer (m:mlo) Result Table concept Visualization
15:30 - 15:45	Break
16:00 - 17:00	Hands-on session "SQL Tool", Part III Testing Enhancements

Day 3 - The goal of the third day is to get an overview of the BeauTec Business Pilot presentation objects. The focus of this lesson is modelling an Object Warehouse within the m:pro Object Data Model and developing presentation objects.

8:30 - 8:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
8:45 - 10:00	Presentation objects concept Overview Examples of presentation objects How database queries are processed
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 12:30	Hands-on session: Presentation objects, Part I Structure and methods Creating examples
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Modelling an Object Warehouse Overview Modelling a sample unit containing equipment objects
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 17:00	Hands-on session: Presentation objects, Part II Presentations for equipment objects

Day 4 - The goal of the fourth day is the development of a "Unit Navigator" within the BeauTec Business Pilot. The main parts of this application are the Genesis TREE object and the presentation objects that were implemented on Day 3.

8:30 - 8:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
8:45 - 10:00	Hands-on session: "Unit Navigator", Part I Specification Goal Function blocks Milestones
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 12:30	Hands-on session: "Unit Navigator", Part II TREE Object How to retrieve an object tree from the Object Warehouse
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 15:00	Hands-on session: "Unit Navigator", Part III How to integrate presentation objects
15:00 - 15:15	Break
15:15 - 16:30	Hands-on session: "Unit Navigator", Part IV How to use the SHEET Object
16:30 - 17:00	Completion

Day 5 - The goal of the last day is to answer open questions of the preceding days. Additionally, the current development goals of BeauTec and m:pro will be explained and discussed.

8:30 - 8:45	Introduction Summary of yesterday Outlook of today
8:45 - 10:00	Summary Wrap up Collection of open questions
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 12:30	Questions and answers Training BeauTec products Current development and development goals
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	Finish Conclusions and feedback Departure

The Advanced Client Application Developer modules extend the participants knowledge of client side tools. Those modules focus on special themes that may be customer specific. Examples are:

Communication I

• Client-Server Objects (m:gen)
• FTP (m:fin)
• Registry (m:fin)
• MAPI (m:gen)

Communication II

• MAPI (m:gen)
• ActiveX (m:gen)
• Dialog Library (bt:Dlglib)
• Application Component Extended Settings, e.g. frequencies and times (m:exp)

Internet technologies I

• MIIS/Portal: HTML/ASP/Perl/ActiveX (m:web)

Internet technologies II

• OAS, OIS: HTML/Stored Procedures/Report attributes (m:odm)

Application Extensions I

• BeauTec Event Management System (bt:ems)

Application Extensions II

• BeauTec Business Process Library (bt:Bpl)

Prerequisites

• Client Application Developer

Length

2 - 3 days

The Server Application Developer module teaches the server side development and enhancement of applications based on the m:pro Object Data Model (m:odm) frame work. This module covers the following topics:

• Overview/Architecture
• m:odm introduction
  • Modeling
  • Storage
  • Sizing
  • Presentation, propagation
  • Advanced data retrieval (Query2007)
  • etc.
• BeauTec Object Warehouse (bt:owh)
• Classes, Packages, Interfaces, API

Prerequisites

• Basic programming or scripting skills
• Basic knowledge of relational databases
• Minimum one PC for two students.
• Access to a central m:odm installation (50MB free space) from all training computers (Oracle client installed)
• Access to a central NT file server (100 MB free space) from all training computers

Length

4 days

Course Agenda

The goal of the first day is to get an overview of the components BeauTec uses for integration. The focus of this lesson is understanding the m:pro Object Data Model and it's API concept. Class and object concepts are introduced using the m:odm Admin Tool and the related online documentation.

The goal of the second day is to understand the data storage inside the m:odm and its usage as an Integration Platform. The creation of a class structure including class methods is the focus of this lesson.

The goal of the third day is to discuss and understand the BeauTec concept and implementation of KPIs. It shows in great detail the flexibility and usage of the m:odm.

The goal of the last day is to answer open questions of the preceding days. Additionally, the current development goals of BeauTec will be explained and discussed.

The Advanced Server Application Developer modules extend the participants knowledge of server side tools. Those modules focus on special themes that may be customer specific. Examples are:

• Advanced interface development
• Indicators (KPIs)
• Activities
• Events
• Logging

Prerequisites

• Server Application Developer

Length

2 - 3 days