Next Steps 2011 Product Workshop Schedule (London)

Thursday, September 15, 2011

TIME TRACK 1 (Administrator) TRACK 2 (Business) TRACK 3 (1-on-1)
9:00 – 10:30

PTK – Portal set-up (incl. Extended Enterprise, eCommerce and 3rd Party vendors)

Hands on session
This session is designed to show how to set up a portal using the Portal Toolkit. This session is intended to be "hands-on" – so bring your laptops and our instructors will walk you through creating a portal. A further discussion about using the Portal in an extended enterprise environment with the use of WordPress.

EKP – Career Development Centre & using the new features of Performance Appraisals

Hands on session
The focus of this session will be on setting up and using Performance Appraisals within EKP as well as setting up and using Job Profiles, Competencies and Skills in the Career Development Centre. This session is also intended to be hands on by walking through setting up appraisals.

One-on-one meetings between clients and Ray Ruff, NetDimensions CIO
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15

mEKP Administration

This session is designed to show how to set up and administer mEKP. It will include setup, loading content, distribution and general administrative tasks including licensing and security

Social Learning in EKP

Hands on session
This session is all about how Social Learning can be used in EKP. Using the Wiki, the Forums, Chats, the Knowledge Centre and integration with any third party social collaboration tools that will show how all of these "tools" can be used within EKP.

12:15 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00

EKP Upgrades

This session is a technical discussion about upgrading from previous versions to the more recent versions – it's a practical discussion on why and how and avoiding any pitfalls as you move from one version to the next

Compliance – e-signature, auditing, reporting

This session is about compliance including using eSignatures (21 CFR), compliance analytics, reporting and setting the system up to use this functionality. As much as possible this session will also be a hands on session where clients will be able to set up and run reports

3:00 – 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:30

UI / Mobile UI

This session is about the new UI, how to easily customize skins, using the new Homepage Manager, Navigation and the capabilities of the Mobile UI. This session will cover configuring skins, explaining CSS classes, frames vs frameless screens and configuring homepage Widgets. It will cover new aspects of Navigation and finally how to set up the mobile UI functionality for the mobile browser, iOS and Android systems that are used in Tablets and Smartphones

Mobile Content Development

This session is about Custom Content Development and Mobile Content Development explaining the capabilities of BP Tech's development and custom services offerings

4:30 – 5:00 Roundtable Discussion
Ray Ruff