BPM Training in Cedar Rapids

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level participants who wish to integrate Drools 8 with jBPM to design, execute, and optimize business workflows and processes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Drools 8 and jBPM environments for development.
• Define and manage complex business rules in Drools 8.
• Design and execute workflows using jBPM.
• Integrate Drools rules into jBPM processes for dynamic decision-making.
• Optimize and troubleshoot rule-driven workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level business analysts who wish to use DSLs in Drools 8 to define, manage, and optimize business rules without relying heavily on technical programming skills.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts of Drools 8 and its architecture.
• Create DSLs to simplify business rule definitions for non-technical users.
• Manage, test, and maintain rules effectively using Drools Workbench.
• Collaborate with technical teams to implement and refine business rules.
• Apply best practices for rule optimization and lifecycle management.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at advanced-level participants who wish to optimize rule execution, integrate Drools with enterprise systems, and leverage advanced features like decision tables and domain-specific languages (DSLs).

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Optimize the performance of complex rule execution.
• Utilize advanced Drools features such as decision tables, DSLs, and rule templates.
• Integrate Drools seamlessly with enterprise applications and external systems.
• Implement robust version control and collaboration mechanisms for rule development.
• Design and deploy scalable Drools-based solutions for enterprise needs.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level participants who wish to build and manage complex business rules, optimize rule execution, and handle rule dependencies effectively using Drools 8.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create advanced business rules and manage their dependencies.
• Implement decision-making logic using Drools rule groups and agendas.
• Optimize the performance of rule execution in Drools.
• Use advanced Drools Workbench features for rule management.
• Integrate Drools with external data sources and systems.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business analysts who wish to gain practical knowledge of Celonis for process mining, optimization, and automation, empowering them to unlock efficiencies and enhance business performance.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of process mining and how to use Celonis effectively.
• Integrate data sources, discover, and visualize processes.
• Gain expertise in analyzing processes using KPIs and benchmarks.
• Automate workflows and leverage Celonis Action Engine for task automation.
• Build and customize dashboards and reports for real-time monitoring.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level participants who wish to learn the basics of Drools 8, set it up, and create simple business rules for better decision-making and automation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of using Drools 8.
• Set up the Drools environment and integrate it with applications.
• Create, test, and deploy simple business rules.
• Use Drools Workbench for rule management and decision tables.
• Implement Drools in real-world scenarios to automate decisions.

This course has been created for business analysts who want to use BPMN 2.0 extensively in their projects.

It focuses on practical aspects of all BPMN 2.0 specification as well as implementations of common patterns.

It is a series of short lectures followed by exercises: the delegates will have a problem described in English, and will have to create a proper diagram for each problem. After that, the diagrams will be discussed and assessed by the group and the trainer.

This course doesn't cover execution part of BPMN, it focuses on analysis and process design aspects of BPMN 2.0.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level participants who wish to learn essential concepts in probability, statistics, programming, and machine learning, and apply these to AI development.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand basic concepts in probability and statistics, and apply them to real-world scenarios.
• Write and understand procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming code.
• Implement machine learning techniques such as classification, clustering, and neural networks.
• Develop AI solutions using rules engines and expert systems for problem-solving.

This course will give you a broad overview of all the major BPEL initiatives in the current market.

You will have an insight into the possibilities of this exciting technology.

By the end of the course you should be able to:

• Understand the key concepts of the BPEL 1.1 specification
• Be able to Learn the syntax and semantics of BPEL
• Understanding the relationship between BPEL and WSDL
• Gaining experience using BPEL by building a complex application
• Understanding which BPEL constructs are most appropriate
• Learn the best practices for developing using BizTalk or Oracle JDeveloper

It is a course that positions itself in the midst of administration and Information Technology, incorporating tools and techniques for designing, implementing, controlling and analyzing Operational Business Processes - This usually involves individuals, organizations and software applications.
This course contains practical assignments, participants will be introduced to topics during theory classes and these will be accompanied by practical exercises.

What will you learn?
1. The Basics of BPM
2. BPM Implementation Strategies
3. Process modeling, analysis and design
4. Governance and business strategies
5. Modeling a process with BPMN
6. Business rules
 

Audience:

Managers who want to make decisions related to BPM, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Anyone who is involved in analysing and planning Business Processes.

Course Goals:

• How to increase productivity and effectiveness
• How to increase business process compliance and governance
• How to make a business process more agile and enable it for a change
• How to increase ability to scale best practices across a changing organization
• How to improve communication, cooperation, coordination between teams
• How to improve visibility of process pipeline
• How to make operational forecasts more accurate
• How to increase process throughput
• How to minimize cost of inputs by leading the process actors through the process, and reduce high quality, expensive staff
• How to make new hire ramp-up faster, by making new hires following the business process documentation

Audience:

Managers who want to make decisions related to BPM, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts, Anyone who is involved in analysing and planning Business Processes.

This BPM training will teach you how to automate and manage a broad range of business workflows. We will examine the automation steps within a typical process in which work items are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of business rules. You will obtain firsthand guidance on automated monitoring best practices as well as tips and tricks for efficient governance practices.

At course completion, you will be able to:

• Understand the key terms and concepts in BPM
• Use major methodologies and techniques for implementing BPM
• Define the various technologies that support BPM
• Learn to discriminate between process and rules requirements
• Map written business cases into process areas and rule sets
• Understand variations in strategies between rules-centric and process centric approaches
• Develop business intelligence from process description & rule sets

This course has been created for anyone responsible for modelling processes in BPMN 2.0.

It focuses on practical aspects of all BPMN 2.0 specification as well as implementations of common patterns.

It is a series of short lectures followed by exercises: the delegates will have a problem described in English, and will have to create a proper diagram for each problem. After that, the diagrams will be discussed and assessed by the group and the trainer.

This course focuses on understand the BPMN diagrams but also covers basic part of the execution part of BPMN.

Audience:

Delegates who have an interest in Process Modelling will benefit from attending this business process modeling notation training course including:

• Business and Process Analysts
• Process Designers and Implementers
• Project and Programme Managers
• Anyone involved with business change and transformation.

This course has been created for people who want to use BPMN 2.0 extensively in their projects.It focuses on practical aspects of all BPMN 2.0 specification as well as implementations of common patterns.

This course doesn't cover execution part of BPMN, it focuses on analysis and process design aspects of BPMN 2.0.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice using Camunda Modeler.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Decision Model and Notation (DMN) and Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) are three Object Management Group (OMG) standards for processes, decisions, and case modelling. This course provides an introduction to all of them and informs when should we use which.

Objective:

This training course aims at helping business analysts to learn to model efficiently their business processes using BPMN as well as resources that are handled by their activities. Being conducted by an agile enterprise framework, business analysts learn during this course how to use appropriate BPMN notations and business extensions of UML in order to deal with their "business requirements" and coherently drive underlying design level activities.

The course will cover how to:

• Select, organise and implement a business re-engineering project
• Achieve competitive advantage by capitalising on technology and the use of UML tools
• Maximise customer satisfaction by matching process design to customer needs
• Identify typical symptoms of business process dysfunction
• Redesign workflow and structure successfully within the business
• Ensure the best practice through the application of business patterns

This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts and managers who want to apply business rules to their solution. With Drools, you can write your business rules using almost natural language, therefore reducing the gap between business and IT.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to get a solid introduction to Drools 6 and use it to implement business rules within their applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the core concepts and benefits of rule engines like Drools.
• Use the Drools Workbench and Eclipse for rule authoring and testing.
• Create, organize, and execute business rules with the Drools rule engine.
• Apply advanced features like decision tables, ruleflows, and DSLs.

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules.

This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further integrated by developers with business applications.

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 7 to developers.This course doesn't cover drools integration, performance or any other complex topics.

This 3 days course is aimed to introduce Drools 6 to Business Analysts responsible for writing tests and rules.

This course focuses on creating pure logic. Analysts after this course can writing tests and logic which then can be further integrated by developers with business applications.

This course has been prepared for people who are involved in administering corporate knowledge assets (rules, process) like system administrators, system integrators, application server administrators, etc... We are using the newest stable community version of Drools to run this course, but older versions are also possible if agreed before booking.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators and developers who wish to configure, manage, and deploy Java applications on the JBoss platform.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure JBoss Application Server and its core components.
• Customize JBoss AS services for monitoring, database connections, and transaction management.
• Develop and deploy EJB 3 session beans and web applications.
• Utilize the JBoss Messaging Service to deploy and manage JMS applications.
• Manage JBoss AS through the Java Management Extension and Administration Console.
• Implement JBoss Drools for business rules management and utilize the Guvnor tool for rule development and testing.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and business analysts who wish to build a management suite using jBPM.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Follow business goals in detail, using flow charts.
• Standarize a process to bridge the gap between design and the process implementation.
• Standardize a business process model and notation.
• Exchange BPMN definitions with other team members.

This course teaches how to design and execute decisions with OMG DMN (Decision Model and Notation) standard.

OCEB2 Content Developer

NobleProg has official OMG OCEB 2 Content Developer status, which means that our course outlines and training materials were developed by the same experts who prepared questions for OCEB 2 exams.

This course prepares you for the OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB v2) Fundamental Examination.

After this course you can practise using our testing engine on over 200 sample questions.

IBM ODM (a.k.a. WebSphere Operational Decision Manager) is a Business Rule Management System (BRMS). It consists of a central repository and automation engine that allow for the creation, management, testing and governance of business rules and events. Rules and events are stored in the central repository where they can be accessed and modified by individuals and software without the need to rebuild any software.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to create, manage and execute business rules as well as how to deploy and manage an instance of IBM ODM Decision Management in a live environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Manage ODM components, including IBM Decision Center and IBM Decision Server
• Manage and execute business rules and events
• Reduce the testing cycle by enabling other software applications to detect and pick up changes to rules
• Combine decision making and change detection tools to facilitate adaptation, auditing, tracing and testing
• Separate business rules from business applications for greater flexibility
• Build easy-to-maintain business rule client applications
• Use Event Designer to build business event projects
• Deploy and test business event applications
• Build a customized dashboard for monitoring business events
• Enable collaboration among architects, developers and administrators for developing and maintaining decision services
• Enable business analysts, policy managers and rule authors develop and maintain an application's decision logic

Audience

• Developers
• Project managers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course uses a practical approach to teaching OptaPlanner. It provides participants with the tools needed to perform the basic functions of this tool.

This course introduces the student to the Python language. Upon completion of this class, the student will be able to write non trivial Python programs dealing with a wide variety of subject matter domains. Topics include language components, working with a professional IDE, control flow constructs, strings, I/O, collections, classes, modules, and regular expressions. The course is supplemented with many hands-on labs, solutions, and code examples.

After Completing the course students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of Python Security Principles.         
 

In this instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite), participants will learn how to identify the key process variables and connect them as they step through the creation of a business flow using RPA Express.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure RPA Express.
• Identify the steps and actions to be recorded by RPA Express.
• Use RPA Express to map out a business flow.
• Create bots to capture and repeat events on a website, desktop or terminal.
• Plan a process automation strategy.

In this instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to use Python skope-rules to automatically generate rules based on existing data sets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use skope-rules to extract rules from available data.
• Apply skope-rules to carry out classification, particularly useful in supervised anomaly detection, or imbalanced classification. 
• Generate rules for classifying new incoming data.
• Fit rules to address real-world problems in fraud detection, predictive maintenance, intrusion detection, insurance application approvals, etc.

This instructor-led, live training in Cedar Rapids (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to learn how to manage and optimize business processes using Signavio.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use drag-and-drop to create consistent, readable models that map an organization’s operations.
• Collaboratively document, optimize, and simulate business processes.
• Use Signavio to help ensure process compliance.
• Use Signavio to optimize business performance.

This course prepares you for the OMG Certified Expert in BPM 2 (OCEB v2) Intermediate Exam

Bonita BPM is an open-source business process management and workflow suite made up of three major components: Bonita Studio, Bonita BPM Engine and Bonita Portal. Bonita is often used in projects that require complex workflows such as Supply Chain Management, e-Government, Human Resources, and Contract management.

Format of the Course

• Emphasis is on hands-on practice.
• Concepts will be taught through samples, exercises and hands-on development.

This course is aimed at enterprise architects, business and system analysts, technical managers and developers who want to apply business rules to their solutions.

This course contains a lot of simple hands-on exercises during which the participants will create working rules. Please refer to our other courses if you just need an overview of Drools.

This course is usually delivered on the newest stable version of Drools and jBPM, but in case of a bespoke course, can be tailored to a specific version.

This course is created for people who will be responsible for executing process with Activity.

Activiti is an open-source workflow engine and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform for business people, developers and system admins.

ProcessMaker is an Open Source BPM software application. It is a light weight, fully web based tool written in PHP, which can compete with expensive enterprise solutions.

This course presents you with how to implement process management using ProcessMaker, focusing on how to create a process definition, define roles, groups and users, and start a process from an external application.

Audience

This course prepares participants to execute business processes with BPMN. It covers graphical representation as well as commonly used attributes of the BPMN 2 elements.

Technology

This course is not platform specific, only elements and attributes covered by OMG specification are covered. By default, it uses jBPM, but any other tool can be used as long as the tool supports BPMN 2.0.

Class format

Participants will follow an example use cases followed by hands-on exercises, so they can execute their process.

Process mining, or Automated Business Process Discovery (ABPD), is a technique that applies algorithms to event logs for the purpose of analyzing business processes. Process mining goes beyond data storage and data analysis; it bridges data with processes and provides insights into the trends and patterns that affect process efficiency. 

Format of the Course

• The course starts with an overview of the most commonly used techniques for process mining. We discuss the various process discovery algorithms and tools used for discovering and modeling processes based on raw event data. Real-life case studies are examined and data sets are analyzed using the ProM open-source framework.

This training course aims at helping business analysts to learn to model efficiently their business processes using BPMN as well as resources that are handled by their activities. Being conducted by an agile enterprise framework, business analysts learn during this course how to use appropriate BPMN notations and business extensions of UML in order to deal with their "business requirements" and coherently drive underlying design level activities.

Course Audience:

Managers who want to understand BPMN diagrams, Business Consultants, Business Analysts, Business Process Engineers, System Analysts and anyone who is involved in analyzing and planning Business Processes using standardized, unified modelling notation.

Course Goals:

• Produce high-quality process diagrams
• Model in the BPMN process notation
• Capture as-is process information
• Implement optimized process flows for people-intensive processes
• Simplify complex process definitions and break them into more manageable pieces

The course aims at teaching the practical knowledge and learning BPMN modeling skills at the Intermediate and Advanced levels.

The ideal participant is a business analyst training, meaning the person discovering, identifying, gathering and analyzing user requirements to the system. - The advanced computer application developers and system architects interested in the prospect of creating business processes, system and custom drivers.

The course does not address issues Executable BPMN level.

Training is conducted in much the dominant technique in the form of a computer (~ 90%), during which the one hand, we translate real business situations for BPD, on the other hand ready to interpret diagrams assessing their practical utility.

The course is very intensive practical course in the strict sense, the training did not deal with in any way, theoretical considerations of BPMN.

The course aims at teaching the practical knowledge of BPMN modeling and learning basic skills.

The ideal student is a person who analyzes and documents the processes as a model, which is a business user IT system or business analyst collaborating with business people within a certain organizational function.

The training is conducted by a moderated discussion (40%) and computer workshop (60%). Part of the laboratory is to translate business situations described BPMN diagram

The course is a very intensive practical course in the strict sense, the training does not deal with in any way, the theoretical considerations of BPMN.

This course has been created for a process developers and software developers who want to know how to manage, manipulate and develope processes with jBPM. It covers components of jBPM and elements of BPMN 2 implemented in JBPM including managing signals and events, programming gateways, injecting processes data and running parallel activities. NobleProg tries to run this course on the newest version of the Open Source version of jBPM, but older version or beta version may be requested.

This course has been created for managers, business analysts, process designers, developers and subject matter experts who want to be able to design, validate and simulate a process with jBPM. It also includes writing unit tests for the processes.

The course usually uses the newest stable version of community jBPM project. Previous versions of jBPM also may be used (approval before booking required)

This course prepares you for the OCEB 2 Advanced exam

Although SOA is not specific to BPM software, there are a number of natural synergies between BPM and SOA. Perhaps most obvious of these is the separation of business process management as an independent function, allowing processes to be designed independently of any single application and leveraged as shared business logic.