Professional Development Offerings

Leadership Development:
Leadership programs are designed to hearten goal setting and enhance visions while providing techniques to be used to concisely articulate them. Demanding adherence is an effective government technique, but to be an effective leader, one must inspire others to follow with sound decision making, sound strategies, and an effective message.
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Management Development:
Management programs are designed to coalesce the academics, experiences, and talents that candidates already posses and add the underdeveloped aspects of their current responsibilities or anticipated roles they will soon tackle.
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Communication Skill Development:
Communication Skill programs are designed to provide the essentials needed to discuss, negotiate, and persuade for success at all levels within an Enterprise. When people communicate, there is a team. When team members effectively communicate, goals are met. When goals are met, clients are serviced. And when clients are serviced, companies succeed.
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Professional Development:
Professional Development programs include many aspects of day to day corporate life. A productivity increase of 15 minutes a day by employees may mean millions a year in earned income.
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Selected IT Education Offerings

Enterprise SQL:
The Enterprise SQL Courseware Series is targeted to people that desire an in-depth understanding of how to effectively and efficiently use the richness of the SQL language which is the mainstay of relational engines and data access tools like SQL Server, Business Objects, AQT, QMF and DB2 UDB.

The content in this series is designed to reach unique experience levels. The brand new SQL user, the SQL power user, as well as all in between can access content relevant to their skill levels and responsibilities. Topics include "What is SQL and why is it important" to "SQL Design and Performance" to "Implementing Recursive SQL". Business Analysts, Programmers, and DBA's will benefit by honing their skills via attending the sessions designed for their responsibilities.

Additionally, the sessions are targeted to your organizations infrastructure. The content specific to the SQL vendor used in your environment, (TeraData, SQL Server, ORACLE, MySQL, DB2 UDB, etc.), is presented. If your environment involves multiple SQL vendors, the sessions will be targeted to those vendor versions of SQL accordingly.
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DB2 UDB Programming; Beyond the SQL:
The knowledge to effectively utilize the flexible, built-in, programmable facilities within DB2 UDB will improve performance, reduce costs, and may improve the security of data stored and processed by the Enterprise. Data Design, Triggers, Constraints, User Defined Functions, and Stored Procedures are the highlights of this seminar.

This content is designed for experienced SQL professionals with responsibilities to design and implement more complex data access and security components.
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Java for COBOL Subject Matter Experts:
Java is a web-enabled language of choice on many platforms today. Legacy COBOL programmers already understand business applications from years of experience with masses of legacy data. Therefore, it makes project, budget, and personnel sense to add Java to their set of skills; this courseware is designed to do just that.
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Enterprise COBOL (eCOBOL) with *Program Objects*:
Get the most from your COBOL programmers by showing them eCOBOL *Best Practices* and Security considerations. Write eCOBOL Classes, invoke Java with eCOBOL, and see the interoperation between eCOBOL CICS and Java. Use the richness of eCOBOL built in Functions including array handling, UTF-8, XML, and dozens more for runt time efficiency and maintenance.
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Miscellaneous Offerings:

• Unix/Linux - Usage and Understanding
• Unix/Linux - Shell Scripting
• Tivoli(TWS) Operations and Scheduling
• Tivoli(TWS) Administration and Maintenance
• Web (Cloud) Development (AJAX, jQuery, PHP, javaScript, ServerSideShells, etc.)
• SDLC - Functional Analysis and Effective Design.
• SQL Basics, Intermediate SQL, and Advanced SQL.
• Query Management Facility for DB2 UDB RDBMS
• Mainframe Archetecture - CICS, TSO, JCL, Debugging, etc.
• Telon, Xpediter, AbendAid, FileAid, etc.
• DB2 UDB Command & Control Center and dynamic SQL API.
• 'Soft Skills' for Technicians.
• Full Service Education;
  • Train-the-Trainer
  • I.T. Boot Camps
  • Career Assessment & Development

Custom Education Programs:
MBA will join with your management team and technical staff to design an employee enrichment program specific to the technical skill needs of your Enterprise.

Contact MBA for additional offerings, or to discuss your Enterprise's unique needs.