Ref : ADV / 1 day

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Context

MEGA Advisor permits dynamic Web-based intelligent reporting on strategic business process analysis (BPA) and enterprise architecture (EA) to provide information to an entire corporate organization, beyond modeling users. This Web-based reporting application adapts to the viewer's perspective, and filters through the vast amount of information in the repository to present a Web portal that is accessible and user-friendly.

Who should attend?

• MEGA Administrators
• MEGA Documentation Managers
• MEGA Web Site Webmasters

Prerequisites

MEGA Publisher Level 2, MEGA Supervisor, knowledge of Visual Basic and PHP (or equivalent).

Expected Benefits

• Understand the MEGA Advisor application and its functionalities.
• Customize MEGA Advisor installation to suit individual customer IT architecture needs.
• Configure MEGA Advisor architecture through the use of roles, descriptors and confidentiality levels.
• Be able to integrate MEGA Advisor with run-time tools.
• Create an analysis report template

Course Content

Installing MEGA Advisor

• Installing and configuring the Web server
• Installing MEGA Advisor PHP files
• Creating the Advisor web sites from standard templates

Discovering the Application

• Getting started
• Navigating in the main menus
• Using the search tool to retrieve MEGA objects
• Web users’ personalization (i.e. favorites)

Understand the MEGA Advisor Architecture

• External Architecture (Web server, PHP application, etc.)
• Internal Architecture (Web site templates, HTML descriptors)
• Advisor users versus MEGA Users
• Data confidentiality

Customizing MEGA Advisor Presentation

• Personalizing a page for a given object
• Creating descriptors to retrieve MEGA objects’ information
• Integrating dynamically generated information from MEGA into an existing portal
• Integrating a run-time tool with MEGA Advisor

Understanding and Customizing Analysis Reports

• Analysis report templates and the metamodel
• Analysis engine
• Using standard APIs to retrieve and format data
• Running analysis reports in MEGA Advisor