Conference varese::basestar_open

602.0. "Time for a course?" by VARESE::MUGGIA () Mon May 19 1997 13:15

Dear BASEstar Open Community,

we have not been giving BASEstar courses for a while, and I think it is
time to try to organize a new training session.
In the recent past we had some troubles in bringing people to Milano for the
course: this time, before organizing the training, I would like to know
whether there are interested people.
The course agenda is attached below; the date is tbd, but tentatively it could
be in the second or third week of July.
If you are interested, please post a reply here and tell us which date you 
prefer and which stream (BASEstar or PDAS) you would like to attend for
day 4.

Thanks.

Claudio Muggia
BASEstar Open product manager




 BASESTAR OPEN TRAINING  and  PDAS Training

        
                     


Course Product Title:	BASESTAR OPEN & PDAS TRAINING COURSE 
Location:		Milan @MLN
Course Duration:	05 days   - Last from day 9.30 to 12:30
Course Type:		Lec/Lab
Language:		English
Target:			MCS, OMS, SI, ENG + Customer (via SALES)



			BASESTAR OPEN & PDAS TRAINING COURSE

    1. OBJECTIVES       The course is open to both Digital Internal software
                        consultants plus approved 3rd parties and customers.
                        The course covers both PDAS & BASEstar products. 

                        For those students who have a special interest in PDAS,
                        the course provides a full day of PDAS specific
                        training which can be taken as an alternative stream to
                        the standard BASEstar training which will cover in
                        parallel the BASEstar Application Interface (API).
                        Students should specify at enrollment if they wish to
                        attend this special PDAS training day.

                        Course objectives  are :  
    
       			* Provide students with an architectural and functional
                          overview of the whole BASEstar Open product set
                        * Outline product directions
                        * Introduction to creating BASEstar Open Applications 
                          in a client/server environment 
       			* Integration of PC Based External Applications
       		        * Configuring BASEstar Open Systems
                        * Device connection in a BASEstar environment
                        * Provide examples of real life applications
                        * PDAS architecture and functionality  
                        * PDAS interface to PP-PI module of SAP's R3
                        * Installation & Set up of BASEstar & PDAS     
    
                        At the end of the course students should be able to 
                        provide presales technical support for BASEstar Open 
                        and PDAS based opportunities and, depending on
                        programming skills, be in a position to start
                        implementing BASEstar Open Applications.     	

                        PDAS students will in addition be able to configure,
                        set up, install and demo PDAS. They will understand the
                        role and specific functionality of PDAS and how it
                        relates to the PP-PI module of the R/3 product from
                        SAP.
                                 
                        Attendees should have the following skills and 
                        knowledge:
    
                        Familiarity with Digital's Product HW and Software. 
                        Basic Knowledge of C language programming is imprtant
                        for those students expecting to use the BASEstar API.
                        Familiarity with I.T. requirements for shop floor and 
                        Plant Systems. 

                        PDAS students should have an overall knowledge of the
                        functionality of the R3 module from SAP.
    
    3. CONTENTS

		DAY 1 

		Course Overview
		BASEstar Introduction
		BASEstar Services
		Base Lab

		DAY 2

		BASEstar Setup
		AMS Lab
		V3 News
		Client Server Architecture
		PC integration
		BASEstar Internals
		PC lab

		DAY 3

		BASEstar demo
		BGE
		CIMfast
		CIMfast Lab
		Device Connection
		Device LAB

		DAY 4	(BASEstar stream)

		BASEstar API
		API Lab
		
                        
       		or in alternative

                DAY 4 (PDAS Stream)
    
		PP-PI Overview
                PDAS functional overview
                PDAS installation & set up - demo
                Links to other systems (LIMS) and devices.

                DAY 5 - (1/2 Day)
    
		BASEstar Case Studies
		BASEstar Packaging and Pricing
    
    

    Claudio,
    
    	why don't you, as Product Manager, mail the BASEstar Open Customers
    with this information.  This would be the best form of targetting, you
    can't rely on the local Digital resources to do this, because:
    
    a)	Typically there are no linkage between NSIS and Sales
    
    b)	BASEStar is often sold by distributers/partner so there is
    	no involvement of NSIS and/or sales.
    
    c)	We don't know who the customers are.
    
    Chris