MEGA Advisor

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