Sharpening Your Skills with AB Suite Education Services

Whether you’re a former EAE user that’s new to the Agile Business Suite (AB Suite®) environment, or a long-time AB Suite expert, one thing is certain: it’s never too early – or too late – to sharpen your skills.

With this in mind, Unisys provides a number of training courses as part of our AB Suite Education Services offering. Though we’ve created a robust, standardized curriculum, you’re free – and encouraged – to adapt this set of course material to your organization’s specific needs and skill mix.

Please note that because the AB Suite development environment operates as a plug-in to the Microsoft® Visual Studio® IDE, some experience with Visual Studio is highly recommended. There are numerous online resources to help build your team’s Visual Studio knowledge, as well as training from a number of sources.

When it comes to learning the basics of AB Suite development, the following courses represent the core
AB Suite training curriculum.

Agile Business Suite Developer for EAE Users (CEL8022)

This course is for technical staff who will be developing applications within AB Suite. While we developed course material specifically for clients moving from EAE to AB Suite, the title “for EAE users” should not discourage those without EAE experience from attending.

We’ve increasingly been training users who have minimal familiarity with model-driven development right alongside those with considerable EAE experience in this course. In fact, a mixed class often makes for a more productive, powerful training experience. This is a perfect opportunity to infuse additional application development skills into your team, while increasing synergy across your development staff.

This class is typically four days in duration.

Maintaining and Enhancing AB Suite Applications (CEL8031)

This course is intended for technical staff who already have some experience using AB Suite in their own real-world development processes.

This instructor-led course provides additional guidance and best-practice recommendations around creating models in System Modeler and generating AB Suite applications. You’ll spend time learning the various concepts and tasks involved in application development using AB Suite and its associated environments and modelling constructs, as well.

This course also focuses heavily on student-instructor interaction, specifically around students’ experiences with AB Suite to date. We also conduct mentoring sessions with participants, so they can clarify any points of confusion or concern and gain more information on various topics.

This class typically runs between eight and ten days, depending on the experience level of the attendees and any specific needs you might wish to address.

Using Team Foundation Server (TFS) Source Control with AB Suite (CEL8034)

This instructor-led course targets technical staff involved in development and release management, who already have some AB Suite experience. While the course primarily focuses on using TFS for source control, we’ll also explore leveraging TFS for build and test activities.

In addition, we’ll offer instruction around installing, configuring, and implementing TFS in the AB Suite development environment through a combination of classroom instruction, exercises, and pre-recorded demonstrations.

This class is typically three-and-a-half days in duration.

These core courses are just a small sampling of the rich AB Suite training content we offer. Please contact your Unisys representative or email us at ABSuite@unisys.com to explore how you can tailor an AB Suite training plan to your organization’s needs.