Do you like the sound of the benefits offered by open source software but don’t know where to start? Are you baffled by the jargon but would like to be able to navigate the open source landscape to find a solution that works for your organisation?

Join us for this full day session where we explore the current open source landscape and will attempt to de-mystify the buzzwords and acronyms surrounding them. The morning session will take a look at the leading open source alternatives that organisations can use to deliver the enterprise applications that their business demands whilst keeping development costs low and software quality high. The session will also provide some ‘live’ demonstrations of developing with the Java open source technology stack. The afternoon session will focus on business intelligence (BI) software and will take a look at an Ingres and Jaspersoft integrated stack that makes installation and integration easier and less expensive to manage. This session will demonstrate how to create, publish and distribute reports as well as the techniques available to perform analysis on business data.

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Google Android is the first complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile applications using Android. This course is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google Android to explore the potential of developing applications on the Android SDK.

This extends the “Google Android Programming Essentials” training course and is focused on designing, building and delivering a mobile application through example exercises. It will introduce some core API features that will allow developers to utilise phone features including databases and  media players.

The day will involve the use of Android enabled phones supplied by the NTI.

December 8th 2009 - December 8th 2009

Understand what Android is, without the hype

Create Android user interface (activities)

Design and build a simple mobile application

Google Android is the first complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile applications using Android. This course is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google Android to explore the potential of developing applications on the Android SDK.

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A closer look at Google and the lesser known free tools they offer to help run your business. The course covers topics from day to day spreadsheet and word-processing  software, to sophisticated market research tools that you can start to benefit from instantly. The hands-on teaching from nti’s trainer will ensure that you leave the course with a much fuller understanding of the tools Google offer to help small businesses but also how to utilise these tools within your business.

These tools are a route to improving communications within your business and with your clients. Using these tools can help to reduce costs and impact on productivity and effectiveness. In addition you can more effectively track and analyse the sales process, and increase marketing activity.

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Creatively manipulate, edit and retouch images using the open source image editor, Gimp.

It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

It is commonly used to create graphics and logos, resise and crop photos, alter colors, stitch multiple images together, remove unwanted image elements, and to convert between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. Gimp often used as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop.

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This is a one day introductory course to the Magento Ecommerce system. Magento is an awesomely powerful cutting edge open source ecommerce package that is quickly gaining a large following due to its impressive array of powerful enterprise level features.

This course will give you the background understanding and practical skills needed to get the best out of your Magento store. You will leave with a clearer understanding of some of the more complex principles in Magento and will learn how to leverage some of the core features of Magento to get the most out of your store.

Joseph Edmonds, ecommerce specialist and trainer, recently asked some questions surrounding the Magento software and training course. Find out more by clicking here…

January 8th 2010 - January 8th 2010

The global development project Moodle, is the exciting new elearning internet-based social framework for educational purpose. Site administrators perform an important function of managing the Moodle site on a day-to-day basis. Exclusive access to settings and options that impact dramatically on the experience of participants, impact the wider objectives of the organisational courses and the Moodle sites alignment.

Get excited by Moodle administration and the overview of the administrative functionality that non-technical users need to be familiar with to manage a Moodle site effectively. Make informed strategic decisions about site setup and see what potential there is for furthering your business prospects.

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Course creators need to plan and develop effective, engaging courses and activities and often with in a short lead-time. Moodle is an extensive, flexible and feature rich application that can take weeks or months to fully understand if you try an unstructured, as hoc approach.

Participation in our course fast tracks the process of building confidence and competance with the essential course based functionality of Moodle.

The range of activity modules we cover enables participants to make informed decisions about course design and implementation for their learners or the wider organisation.

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Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration. More than 1000 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of products and services to optimise the costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more than seven million lifetime downloads and 1.5 million core product downloads, Talend™s solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

Talend’s flagship product, Talend Open Studio, is the first open source data integration tool on the market. It is primarily used for integration between operational systems, as well as or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and for migration.

Wordpress is the ideal platform for creating simple content managed websites and blogs due to it’s intuitive and easy to use nature and open source standards. Wordpress is by far the most popular website management software on the web with 6 years of development, countless plugins and themes; it can be tailored to suit almost any website need. The hands-on teaching from nti’s trainer will ensure that you leave the Wordpress course with a full understanding of how to fully integrate a html design into Wordpress and finely tune your website for Search Engine Optimisation, performance and best practices.

You will also be provided with a Wordpress Pack, which includes example and tutorials from the day, recommend web hosts, plugins, SEO tips and further reading and resources. The pack will  ensure that you always have reference material when you come to developing Wordpress site in the future.

February 18th 2010 - February 18th 2010

The Zend PHP 5 Certification training course prepares experienced PHP programmers for the challenge of passing the PHP 5 certification exam and achieving the status of Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE). This is a test preparation and PHP review course - it does not teach PHP. The content discusses important information about the exam itself and strategies for answering the exam questions, in addition to providing an in-depth review of the twelve certification topic areas. Participants are continually challenged to test their knowledge with focused quizzes. The course moves at a fast pace, and assumes at least an intermediate skill level in programming within PHP.

February 15th 2010 - February 17h 2010

The Zend PHP I: Foundations course is designed to provide non-programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language. This course guides you through the basics of PHP with an experiential approach, filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises. By the end of the course, you will have completed a functioning Blackjack program while you learn the essentials you need to program in PHP. You will also have the opportunity to use the Zend Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to start your coding adventures the easy and correct way! The Zend Training Center will allow you to code exercises live during the course with your instructor able to both see and coach your progress.

March 17th 2010 - March 19th 2010

The Zend PHP II: Higher Structures advanced training course is designed to expand a beginning programmer’s understanding of the PHP language. This intermediate-level course builds upon knowledge gained in PHP I: Foundations. It utilizes a hands-on approach with numerous examples and practical exercises, as well as a key development project, to enhance learning. You will also have the opportunity to use the Zend Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to continue honing your coding skills utilizing best practices and effective tools.

December 9th 2010 - December 11th 2010

January 20th 2010 - January 22nd 2010