On Demand Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021
Table of Contents Business............................................................................................................................................ 6 Adobe Xd – UI / UX Design, Prototype And Getting A Job............................................ 6 Adobe Xd Animation – Complete Guide From Icons To UI ........................................... 6 Agile Project Management in Healthcare ........................................................................ 6 Analytics in Healthcare Core | 1 hour .............................................................................. 7 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare................................................................................. 7 Business and Technical Writing Immersion ...................................................................8 Customer Service Fundamentals .....................................................................................8 Data and Database in Healthcare ....................................................................................8 Data Security in Healthcare Records ............................................................................... 9 Data Value Governance.................................................................................................... 9 Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare ............................................................................. 10 Excel Charts and Visualization ...................................................................................... 10 Excel Data Analysis .........................................................................................................11 Excel Financial Analysis..................................................................................................11 Excel Functions ...............................................................................................................11 Excel Pivot Tables ...........................................................................................................11 Excel Visual Basic Applications – Intermediate Level ...................................................11 Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners .............................................................. 12 Foundations of Data and Technology in Healthcare Today .......................................... 12 Foundations of Windows Server 2019 ........................................................................... 12 Healthcare Clinical Decision Support Systems Core | 1 hour ....................................... 13 Implementing Best Practices in Marketing Automation............................................... 13 Intro to Interoperability in Healthcare Systems ........................................................... 13 Introduction to Excel ..................................................................................................... 14 Introduction to PowerShell............................................................................................ 14 Mobile App Design From Scratch In Adobe Xd ............................................................ 15 Network Technology in Healthcare ............................................................................... 15 Procurement and Supply Planning ................................................................................ 16 Python Excel................................................................................................................... 16 Ransomware and Hacking in Healthcare ...................................................................... 16 Responsive Website Design In Adobe Xd.......................................................................17 Sales and Relationship Management in Financial Services ...........................................17 TCP/IP Basics................................................................................................................. 18 Understanding Electronic Medical Records.................................................................. 18 Understanding Hyper-V Windows 10............................................................................ 19 Understanding Pharmaceutical Industry ...................................................................... 19 Website Design From Scratch In Adobe Xd .................................................................. 19 What are Healthcare Information Systems ...................................................................20 Wireframing For UI / UX Designers .............................................................................20 Wireless Technologies in Healthcare Today..................................................................20 Cloud............................................................................................................................................... 21 A Guide to Kubernetes and Docker................................................................................ 21 AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Course................................................... 21 AWS Immersion Primer................................................................................................. 22
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator – Certification Program ................................ 22 AZ-300 Architect Technologies Practice Tests.............................................................. 22 AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Certification Program............................ 23 AZ-500 Azure Architect Technologies Practice Tests ................................................... 23 AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – Certification Program ............................... 24 AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Practice Tests ............................................... 24 Azure Cloud Architect Immersion Certification ............................................................ 24 Azure Serverless API Management................................................................................ 25 Cloud Computing Fundamentals ................................................................................... 25 Deep Dive into AWS Fundamentals .............................................................................. 26 Getting Started with Heroku.......................................................................................... 26 Infrastructure Automation on Azure with Terraform ................................................... 27 SC-900: Microsoft Security Compliance and Identity Fundamentals – Certification . 27 Understanding Cloud Security: AWS ............................................................................28 Cybersecurity.............................................................................................................................. 29 Analyzing and Defending Networks with Wireshark .................................................... 29 Becoming a Cyber Warrior Certification Program ........................................................ 29 Essential Guide to Cybersecurity ................................................................................... 29 Introduction to Cybersecurity........................................................................................30 Introduction to DevSecOps............................................................................................30 Penetration Testing Unveiled: From Beginner to Advanced Technician ..................... 31 The Dark Web ~ Understanding and Probing Its Depths ............................................. 31 Data Science................................................................................................................................ 33 AI, Deep Learning and Neural Nets............................................................................... 33 Big Data Hadoop and Spark Developer in Amazon Elastic MapReduce ...................... 33 Big Data Services on Microsoft Azure............................................................................ 33 Data Science and Machine Learning – Developer Certification ...................................34 Deep Learning: From Basic Principles to Deploying Models in Production ................ 34 Essentials of Python for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence ........................ 35 Getting Started with Pandas .......................................................................................... 35 Hadoop for Executives and Managers ........................................................................... 35 Introduction to Data Analysis using R...........................................................................36 Introduction to Microservices........................................................................................ 36 Introduction to Python for Data Science ....................................................................... 37 Power BI Essentials........................................................................................................ 37 Python Foundations, Tools and Techniques .................................................................38 R and RStudio: Visualizing Business Problems with Powerful R Tools .......................38 Snowflake – Applications and Implementation ............................................................ 39 Spark and Elasticsearch for Big Data Analytics............................................................. 39 Supply Chain Applications with R and Shiny ................................................................40 Supply Chain Design and Planning (Using Excel and Python).....................................40 Understanding and Applying the Key Tools for Big Data Analytics ............................. 41 Using Python and Excel for Investing in Stock ............................................................. 41 Using Python for Data Science and Supply Chain Analytics......................................... 41 Using R for Data Science and Supply Chain Analytics .................................................. 42 DevOps / Agility........................................................................................................................ 43 Agile and Scrum in Action.............................................................................................. 43 Agile Release Planning ...................................................................................................43 © Starweaver Group, Inc. 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Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Best Practices in Business Analysis ............................................................................... 43 Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in Action ..................................44 Git – Complete Immersion Course ................................................................................44 How to Become a Great Product Manager .................................................................... 45 Introduction to Jenkins on Windows ............................................................................46 Jenkins Bootcamp – Automating Application Builds through Deployment ................46 Mastering Git for Windows............................................................................................ 47 Navigating GitHub ......................................................................................................... 47 The World According to DevOps: An Introduction....................................................... 47 Understanding ITIL in Principle and Practice ..............................................................48 Finance .......................................................................................................................................... 49 An Intelligent Course On Real Estate Development .....................................................49 Asset Securitization and the Asset-Backed Securities Markets ....................................49 Asset-Based Lending and Finance .................................................................................50 Bond Coupon Strips .......................................................................................................50 Bonds and Bonds with Options......................................................................................50 Capital Market Immersion............................................................................................. 51 Capital Market Road Map .............................................................................................. 51 Capital Structure and Financial Engineering ................................................................ 52 Caps, Floors and Swaptions ........................................................................................... 52 Commercial Credit Analysis........................................................................................... 53 Commercial Real Estate Development and Investment – Part A ................................. 53 Commercial Real Estate Development and Investment – Part B ................................. 54 Conflict Resolution in High Finance.............................................................................. 54 Conflict Resolution in Investor Relations...................................................................... 55 Corporate Performance Metrics & Analysis .................................................................. 56 Credit Derivative Instruments and Applications........................................................... 57 Credit Portfolio Management ........................................................................................ 57 Equity Products .............................................................................................................. 57 Equity Swaps .................................................................................................................. 58 Essentials of M&A, Buyouts, and Other Restructuring................................................. 58 c....................................................................................................................................... 58 Financial Options and Hedging ..................................................................................... 58 Financial Statement Analysis......................................................................................... 59 Financial Structure & Strategy....................................................................................... 59 Financing Commercial Real Estate................................................................................ 59 Fixed Income Securities .................................................................................................60 Fixed-Income Products and Applications .....................................................................60 Foundations of Finance.................................................................................................. 61 Fundamental Financial Math ........................................................................................ 61 Fundamental Financial Math ........................................................................................ 62 Fundamentals of Business Accounting and Finance..................................................... 62 Fundamentals of Corporate Finance .............................................................................63 Fundamentals of Private Equity .................................................................................... 63 How to Make IT Work Successfully in Capital Markets ................................................64 Interest Rate Forwards & Swaps....................................................................................64 Interest Rate Swaps........................................................................................................64 Interpreting Financial Markets...................................................................................... 65 © Starweaver Group, Inc. 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Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Introduction to Financial Fraud Prevention and Monitoring....................................... 65 Introduction to Futures and Options.............................................................................66 Introduction to Payment Dispute Resolution................................................................66 Leasing and Off Balance Sheet Financing ..................................................................... 67 Mastering Foreign Exchange ......................................................................................... 67 Mergers and Acquisitions: Company Sales and Exits ................................................... 67 Mini-MBA in Business Strategy Masterclass.................................................................68 Mortgage-Backed Securities ..........................................................................................69 Option and Futures Fundamentals and Applications ...................................................69 Portfolio Management Applications ..............................................................................69 Principles of Credit Analysis .......................................................................................... 70 Principles of Project Finance ......................................................................................... 70 Private Banking and High Net Worth Individuals .........................................................71 Quantitative Analysis [Retro Learning Courses]............................................................71 Raising Public and Private Capital..................................................................................71 Real Estate Securities and Valuation ............................................................................. 72 Residential Real Estate Development And Investment – Part A .................................. 72 Residential Real Estate Development And Investment – Part B .................................. 73 Strategic Planning Masterclass ...................................................................................... 74 Syndicated Loans and Debt Capital ............................................................................... 75 Technical Analysis.......................................................................................................... 75 The Securities Trade Lifecycle ....................................................................................... 75 Tools for Fundamental Analysis Using Value at Risk ................................................... 76 Tools of Risk Analysis .................................................................................................... 76 Trade Finance and Letter of Credit................................................................................ 76 Trade Life Cycle Fundamentals ..................................................................................... 77 U.S. Residential Mortgage Business .............................................................................. 77 Understanding Common Provisions in Alternative Asset Management Deals ............ 77 Understanding Corporate Valuation ............................................................................. 78 Underwriting and Investing in Debt Instruments......................................................... 78 Venture Capital and Mezzanine Financing.................................................................... 79 Venture Capital Fundraising Masterclass...................................................................... 79 Working Capital Management .......................................................................................80 Yield Curve Analysis & Dynamics [Retro Learning Course] .........................................80 Yield Curve Dynamics .................................................................................................... 81 Full Stack Development ........................................................................................................ 82 A High-Level View of The Angular Framework.............................................................82 Advanced JavaScript ......................................................................................................82 Amazon Honeycode .......................................................................................................83 Full-Stack React in 60 Minutes......................................................................................83 Functional Programming with JavaScript.....................................................................83 Introduction to React and Redux...................................................................................84 jQuery Essentials............................................................................................................84 React Immersion for Beginners ..................................................................................... 85 © Starweaver Group, Inc. 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Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Business Adobe Xd – UI / UX Design, Prototype And Getting A Job Core | 11 hours 15 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic Get into the amazing world of UI / UX design using Adobe Xd, amazing tool which will help you, design, prototype, present and collaborate with your clients. Learn how to get one of the most popular jobs in the design market right now. You don't need any previous knowledge of UI / UX or Adobe Xd, we are going to cover it all in this course. All you need is an interest of this field, and you will do well by the end of this course. Through this course you will also learn about important resources which you can use in your work, that will save you hours and sometimes even months of your projects. Hours that you can charge extra for, while keeping your free time https://go.starweaver.com/courses/adobe-xd-ui-ux-design-prototype-and-getting-a-job Adobe Xd Animation – Complete Guide From Icons To UI Intermediate | 11 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic Animating your UI design is important because it shows your thinking and processes better than just a static image. Showing your client's animated design is going to help them understand it better and speed up the process dramatically. Animating in Adobe Xd is simple because the app is free, easy to learn and all in one tool. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/adobe-xd-animation-complete-guide-from-icons- to-ui Agile Project Management in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT), as it is sometimes called, are playing a critical role in all our healthcare organizations today. They are permeating our hospitals, our clinics, our homes, our pharmacies and every aspect of our lives. If implemented correctly they have the potential of making healthcare processes more efficient and maximizing patient and user experience. If implemented incorrectly, they can wreak havoc. The topics covered in this \" Agile Project Management in Healthcare \" course are: Conventional Pert and Gannt chart techniques in project planning Examples from the non healthcare world Agile planning techniques Examples from the healthcare world https://go.starweaver.com/courses/agile-project-management-in-healthcare © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 6 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Analytics in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano In the healthcare arena, immense volumes of data exist and are accumulated daily. Often within that data lies important and actionable insights that help to improve the healthcare for all, control costs and drive-up efficiencies. This class takes us through the journey of how to transform that data into understandable information which can be applied to predicting and changing future of healthcare. This course demonstrates the overwhelming amount of data in healthcare from our electronic healthcare records, laboratory results, genomics (DNA) information and environmental data, to name only a few of the many courses. The lack of \"insights\" from this data is, however, astounding as most people are not shown know how to view the data, create usable reports and analysis, and guide how intelligent decisions can be made from this information in patient care and treatment. In part, for sure, generation of actionable insights from large datasets often requires the use of sophisticated algorithms and powerful computing devices. But disparate data can be pulled together to form actionable information by just understanding how analysis is best done. The topics covered in this course include: Foundations of basic analytics Descriptive analytics Diagnostic analytics Predictive analytics Prescriptive analytics Advanced analytics and its challenges https://go.starweaver.com/courses/analytics-in-healthcare Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Systems (IS), or Information Technology (IT), as they are sometimes called, are playing a critical role in all our healthcare organizations today. They are permeating our hospitals, our clinics, our homes, our pharmacies and every aspect of our lives. If implemented correctly, they have the potential of making healthcare processes more efficient and maximizing patient and user experience. If implemented incorrectly, they can wreak havoc. Topics covered in this \"Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare\" course: AI vs Traditional Computers Rules vs Tools Business and Healthcare Examples The Role of the \"Mentor\" Training the Machine Business and Healthcare Example https://go.starweaver.com/courses/artificial-intelligence-in-healthcare © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 7 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Business and Technical Writing Immersion Core | 4 hours 35 minutes Instructor: Dan Graham Business Writing Immersion covers a proven, systematic approach to the art of effective, persuasive business and financial writing. Using 12 steps and almost 60 practical techniques, the course works through from initial writing analysis to final copy, producing documents that succeed every time. For each writing technique, the course provides tutorial with exercises and thoughtful answers. Special instructions help professionals for whom English is a second language. Advanced techniques help teams write long documents such as proposals. Each step of the course consists of videos, supplemental PDF documents that will allow you to follow along with the instructor, and an e-book extract that pertains to the segment being covered in the video for reference. There are 38 video modules for this course, including supplemental materials, averaging approximately 7-10 minutes each. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/business-and-technical-writing-immersion Customer Service Fundamentals Core | 2 hours 45 minutes Instructor: Xavier Jenkins There is no such thing as a job today that isn't service-focused, in the sense that everything within a company is being done in support of a customer. This course is an introduction to customer service and its importance in any business. This course covers the following topics: 1. Customer Service Overview 2. What is Customer Service? 3. Why is it More Important Than Ever? 4. How it Applies to Every Business 5. Five Service Levels of Companies 6. Key Factors 7. Rules of Great Service 8. Getting to High Service Levels 9. Evaluate Yourself/Evaluate Your Company 10. Powering a Great Service Culture 11. Case Study: Starbucks 12. Personal Primers 13. Steps to Great Customer Service 14. A Deeper Look at Managing Negative Customer Service Engagements 15. The Review/Take-aways https://go.starweaver.com/courses/customer-service-fundamentals Data and Database in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Data and databases form the foundation from which patients and clinicians make informed healthcare decisions. Our patient data is no longer stored solely in one healthcare institution like a hospital or a physician's office but in multiple locations. Many of these locations are non-traditional sources like pharmacies, our home and mobile devices. The data which was once static in the form of patient records now encompasses real time data from our smart devices. To complicate matters even more, some of the data is highly structured and easy to search and other data is not. The difficult challenge is to view and make decisions on data provided by multiple sources. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 8 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 This course will lead you thru the fundamental concepts of healthcare data and databases. The topics covered in this course are: The concept of \"Big Data\" The difference between Structured and Unstructured data Problems in integrating multiple data sources within one healthcare institution Hospital consolidation: what it means to healthcare data and databases Various methods of integrating multi hospital databases . https://go.starweaver.com/courses/data-and-database-in-healthcare Data Security in Healthcare Records Intermediate | 1 hour 30 minutes Instructor: Thomas Giordano Breaches of Healthcare IT systems are becoming more and more commonplace. Healthcare organizations continually face cyber threats, which put patient privacy and safety at risk. These threats also have significant impact on business continuity and financial health of all healthcare organizations. Issues relating to Healthcare IT systems and its security were once the sole domain of engineers in the IT department. This is no longer true. Understanding security issues and protecting against them is job #1 for all healthcare workers from the top to the bottom of the healthcare system. Advances in technology have made the whole cybersecurity issue pretty complicated to understand, especially for the average healthcare worker. This class on cybersecurity is focused on the non-healthcare professional who is just trying to get a familiarization on what cybersecurity is and how they can protect themselves, their organizations and their patients from harm. The topics covered in this course are: What is Cyber Security? The Nature of the Problem Controlling Access Something You Know (Passwords) Something You Have (FOB) Something You Are (Biometrics) Authenticating Access Phishing / Spam https://go.starweaver.com/courses/data-security-in-healthcare-records Data Value Governance Core | 3 hours Instructor: Mark Peco Many (if not most) data scientists spend a huge amount of their time being ‘data janitors’: sorting and cleaning data to make it usable, rather than analyzing it for actionable insights, analytics, visualization or other purposes. In fact, the entire field of Big Data is dependent on usable data, and without a framework and set of tools for ensuring that the data is useful, data scientists will be at a loss, and likely without a job. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 9 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Data governance as emerged as a critical field that enables an organization to leverage data as a true enterprise asset by assembling the right set of: People processes, and Technologies On the macro-level data governance refers to the governing of cross-border data flows by countries, and hence is more precisely called international data governance. On a micro level, data governance is a data management concept that gets organizations to ensure that high data quality exists throughout “the data lifecycle.” On a micro level, the key focus areas include availability, usability, consistency, data integrity, and data security, and includes establishing processes to ensure effective data management throughout the enterprise such as accountability for the adverse effects of poor data quality and ensuring that the data which an enterprise has can be used by the entire organization. In this course, Mark Peco will provide a road map to help you construct a path to rich data and powerful analytics for your project, team, and/or organization. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/data-value-governance Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT), as it is sometimes called, are playing a critical role in all our healthcare organizations today. They are permeating our hospitals, our clinics, our homes, our pharmacies and every aspect of our lives. If implemented correctly they have the potential of making healthcare processes more efficient and maximizing patient and user experience. If implemented incorrectly, they can wreak havoc. The topics covered in this \"Disruptive Innovation in Healthcare\" course are: Theory Business Examples Healthcare Examples Surviving Disruptive Innovation . https://go.starweaver.com/courses/disruptive-innovation-in-healthcare Excel Charts and Visualization Core | 2 hours Instructor: John Bura This course helps you understand how to use Excel to build a myriad of interesting charts, starting with the basics and moving up to some of the most complex charts imaginable. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-charts-and-visualization © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 10 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Excel Data Analysis Core | 5 hours Instructor: John Bura Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool to analyze data, including through the use of dashboards, data tables, simple and complex lookup functions and much more. This deep dive course covers all that and much more. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-data-analysis Excel Financial Analysis Core | 5 hours Instructor: John Bura If you do any type of financial analysis, you know that Excel is the tool of choice and it understanding its nuances is essential for you. This program helps you to understand how to use Excel in any financial analysis. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-financial-analysis Excel Functions Core | 5 hours Instructor: John Bura Innumerable Excel functions exist to help you perform statistical analysis, calculate the time value of money and net present value, transform textual and date functions, and identify/extract data within large data arrays. This course is designed to help you understand and apply all of these functions. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-functions Excel Pivot Tables Core | 4 hours Instructor: John Bura Excel Pivot Tables are powerful tools to help understand and analyze data. Pivot Tables help you to group values that aggregates the individual items of a more extensive table within one or more discrete categories. This course covers the power of Pivot Tables and how they can be used to create sums, averages, or other statistical analysis of grouped values. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-pivot-tables Excel Visual Basic Applications – Intermediate Level Core | 4 hours Instructor: John Bura Once you have completed our course on \"Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners,\" you are ready for this higher level program which covers many of the intermediate and advanced functions you can write with in Visual Basic within Excel. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 11 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-visual-basic-applications-intermediate-level Excel Visual Basic Applications for Beginners Core | 5 hours Instructor: John Bura This course is an introduction to Excel Visual Basic Applications, or VBA. It introduces you how VBA and you can use the Visual Basic Editor to create procedures (referred to as a macros) with VBA code that accomplishes a task. The macros you will learn to write include \"Functions\" and \"Subroutines.\" https://go.starweaver.com/courses/excel-visual-basic-applications-for-beginners Foundations of Data and Technology in Healthcare Today Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Technology (IT) is driving health care today, yet most healthcare organizations have just begun to implement systems in a small fraction of the ways they can to improve their operations and delivery of services. This course helps healthcare professionals with an introductory understanding of some of the key IT principles and concepts they will encounter, including: Bits and bytes Storage media Compression Databases Data management Centralized vs distributed architecture https://go.starweaver.com/courses/foundations-of-data-technology-in-health-today Foundations of Windows Server 2019 Intermediate | 6 hours 20 minutes Instructor: Robert McMillen Foundations of Windows Server 2019 is designed to be an intermediate course for those who have prior Windows server experience but looking to deepen their practical expertise on the Windows server platform. In this course, you’ll learn how to install the operating system, create an Active Directory domain and forest, and make all the configuration changes necessary to run Server 2019 in an on-premises or hybrid cloud scenario. Microsoft has created Windows Server 2019 as an evolved operating system with many roles and features new to the public. It is a bridge to operating Windows servers on premises or in the Azure cloud. With over 100 tutorials in this course, you’ll quickly learn how to operate Server 2019 in your local infrastructure. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/foundations-of-windows-server-2019 © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 12 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Healthcare Clinical Decision Support Systems Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Systems (IS), or Information Technology (IT), as they are sometimes called, are playing a critical role in all our healthcare organizations today. They are permeating our hospitals, our clinics, our homes, our pharmacies and every aspect of our lives. If implemented correctly, they have the potential of making healthcare processes more efficient and maximizing patient and user experience. If implemented incorrectly, they can wreak havoc. The topics covered in this \" Healthcare Clinical Decision Support Systems\" course are: The decision-making process The difference between correlation and causation Medical error example Pharmacy example Radiology example https://go.starweaver.com/courses/healthcare-clinical-decision-support Implementing Best Practices in Marketing Automation Core | 5 hours Instructor: Chandan Kamal Sharma This course introduces you to the fast-evolving practices of marketing automation in businesses and how organizations use marketing automation to vastly expand their reach and yet personalize their communications with consumer while scaling and streamlining their operations. By using software platforms and technologies to more effectively manage multiple marketing channels online and automating repetitive tasks, the business of marketing automation is improving business profitability while helping businesses attend to the customers in more personal way. At the end of this course, you will be able to understand marketing automation core concepts and how to implement and improve the way marketing automation is done in their business. Additionally, you will understand how to strategize marketing automation tool selection, which remains a bigger challenge these days as marketing automation remains still in a very infant stage of development and is at an exciting time where you can learn how to make a career choice in this direction. This course also guides students through various business models and how marketing automation is used in those contexts. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/implementing-best-practices-in-marketing- automation Intro to Interoperability in Healthcare Systems Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano For decades, the ability for healthcare systems to communicate with one another in a meaningful way (interoperability) has been a critical stumbling block in healthcare. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 13 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Islands of disconnected information platforms, data stores, and process flows has made it difficult for healthcare professionals to do their jobs effectively; for organizations to streamline their operations; for businesses to save money; and, for consumers to have excellent and seamless care. This course is an introduction to the many healthcare systems that exist, how they “talk to one another” (or do not), and what lies on the horizon for health care today. “Interoperability” is the key buzzword and among the largest challenges in healthcare today. The topics covered in this class include: Key challenges of current healthcare IT systems today Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems The Master Patient Index (MPI) The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard. Document-based approaches of current EMR systems What we really want and need Evolution of key enabling technologies (web, search, mobile…) Bridging the gap and the Application Programming Interface (API) FHIR and APIs The future of FHIR As many healthcare professionals are aware, standards set for most healthcare systems (including EMRs), were designed to address the insurance and billing needs of patients and hospitals. Historically, EMR systems had limited success for providing patients and clinicians the integrated view of healthcare information they need to make accurate diagnoses and treatment decisions. The birth of powerful search technology, distributed web-based systems, the diffusion of mobile healthcare devices, and user of data science and artificial intelligence into our everyday lives has made it possible for a much more mature, complete integration of not just our patient records but everything related to our healthcare needs. This course is a foundational introduction to the challenges that the healthcare industry faces today. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/intro-to-introperability-in-healthcare-system Introduction to Excel Core | 1 hour Instructor: John Bura Excel is one of the most important software packages in the World with 10s of millions of users and a vast array of applications. This very brief introduction to Excel helps you get a feeling for what you can do with Excel and why you should develop Excel skills. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-excel Introduction to PowerShell Core | 1 hour 25 minutes Instructor: Robert McMillen This course is all about computer forensics using a powerful tool known as Autopsy, a digital forensics platform, and a graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit and other digital forensics tools. In this foundations program, you learn how to install Autopsy, create a case, and investigate the data for suspected images and files. At the end of the course, © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 14 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 you’ll create a report that can be shared with other investigators and presented in court. More and more computer crime and misuse plagues organizations and individual consumers. Autopsy is the only open-source application used by law enforcement all over the world to investigate computer crimes on computers and mobile devices. By taking this course you will have a solid understanding of what computer forensics is all about and how Autopsy can be used to analyze images and files. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-powershell Mobile App Design From Scratch In Adobe Xd Core | 2 hours 15 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic Billions of people around the world, use their mobile devices every day. And more and more clients want to create mobile apps to serve that market, so knowing how to design an app is a really important skill to have as a designer. Using Adobe Xd to create it gives you unlimited possibilities because its free, cross platform, vector-based and it has regular updates. You don't need any previous knowledge of UI / UX or Adobe Xd, we are going to cover it all in this course. All you need is an interest of this field, and you will do well by the end of this course. Through this course you will also learn about important resources which you can use in your work, that will save you hours and sometimes even months of your projects. Hours that you can charge extra for, while keeping free time. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/mobile-app-design-from-scratch-in-adobe-xd Network Technology in Healthcare Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT), as it is sometimes called, are playing a critical role in all our healthcare organizations today. They are permeating our hospitals, our clinics, our homes, our pharmacies and every aspect of our lives. If implemented correctly they have the potential of making healthcare processes more efficient and maximizing patient and user experience. If implemented incorrectly, they can wreak havoc. The topics covered in this \"Network Technology in Healthcare\" course are: Interoperability Encryption Standards Workflow Software as a Service (SaaS) https://go.starweaver.com/courses/network-technology-in-healthcare © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 15 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Procurement and Supply Planning Core | 13 hours Instructor: Haytham Omar Welcome to Procurement & supply planning tools and techniques. In this course, we will learn : How to do forecasting for purchasing and procurement purposes? What are the strategies we use for negotiation with suppliers? How to do make or buy decisions? How to count safety stock when buying products, materials, and components? How to segment suppliers to maximize cost? The difference between bidding strategies and when to choose each one of them. The types of Contracts and when to choose one of them. How to mitigate risk when sourcing The course combines analytics and theory. during which, you will have a supply planning journey where you will be responsible for forecasting, planning for production, and Material requirement planning. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/procurement-and-supply-planning Python Excel Core | 3 hours 30 minutes Instructor: John Bura This course shows you how to use OpenPyXL to automate functions in Excel using Python, automate Excel tasks and build a wide range of Excel projects. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/python-excel Ransomware and Hacking in Healthcare Intermediate | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Breaches of Healthcare IT systems are becoming more and more commonplace. Healthcare organizations continually face cyber threats, which put patient privacy and safety at risk. These threats also have significant impact on business continuity and financial health of all healthcare organizations. Issues relating to Healthcare IT systems and its security were once the sole domain of engineers in the IT department. This is no longer true. Understanding security issues and protecting against them is job #1 for all healthcare workers from the top to the bottom of the healthcare system. Advances in technology have made the whole cyber security issue pretty complicated to understand, especially for the average healthcare worker. This class on cyber security is focused on the non-healthcare professional who is just trying to get a familiarization on what cybersecurity is and how they can protect themselves, their organizations and their patients from harm. The topics covered in this course are: Malware Ransomware Boston Children's Hospital Case Intro © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 16 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Response Lessons Learned Testing Your Vulnerabilities HIPAA Conclusion https://go.starweaver.com/courses/ransomware-and-hacking-in-healthcare Responsive Website Design In Adobe Xd Core | 2 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic Creating responsive design is an essential part to any designer’s skill set, especially in today's market where more and more traffic is coming from mobile devices and tablets. Adobe Xd makes this process really easy because it has some great tools inside to help you speed up the responsive part of your design. And it also has great exporting options which means it's going to make the developers happy because you are going to deliver files on time and in proper file formats. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/responsive-website-design-in-adobe-xd Sales and Relationship Management in Financial Services Core | 3 hours 20 minutes Instructor: Xavier Jenkins Sales is part of every job today, internal and external. This course will orient you on sales and relationship management, a very important aspect of business - one that going forward, will help you in your career. This serves as an introduction to sales, relationship management and the importance of both in banking and services. This course covers the following topics, in three sections. First, an introduction to the importance of sales and relationship management is given. Then, covering the Sales aspect: Sales? A definition and the Truth Where do you fit in? The Right Mindset / The Right Skills Your Unique Selling Position Analyzing Your Market Opportunity Competitive Analysis The Sales Process Great Meetings Closing (Options, Pricing) Success Principles Success Metrics Recap Finally, covering the Relationship Management aspect: What’s Relationship Management? The New Truth Why is it important? © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 17 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Relevance to banking Internal and external importance Principals of building positive relationships Steps to the process Principals to managing negative relationships Steps to the process Relationship Best Practices https://go.starweaver.com/courses/sales-and-relationship-management TCP/IP Basics Core | 2 hours 35 minutes Instructor: Robert McMillen The internet is built on TCP/IP. It is as simple as that. To function effectively in any career in technology you need to understand, at a minimum, what TCP/IP is all about. In this course you will learn all the necessary skills using TCP/IP, starting from no knowledge whatsoever and working your way to becoming a specialist in routing and networking. You also learn about the OSI model, encapsulation, network address translation, and TCPIP tools you can use for troubleshooting. By the end of this course, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) and OSI (Open System Interconnection) will become second nature to you, and you will be solidly grounded for any role you are looking to play in information technology. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/tcpip-basics Understanding Electronic Medical Records Core | 1 hour 30 minutes Instructor: Thomas Giordano Electronic Healthcare Record Systems are the foundation for significantly improved healthcare services in the future. It not only serves as a repository for all patient records but has the potential of unifying all of healthcare information from a wide variety of sources. It has the potential of improving the processes within out healthcare systems. It is also a treasure trove of information, which when mined, can potentially lead to significant discoveries on the treatment of disease. The topics covered in this course are: Digital vs paper patient records Definition of EMR, EHR, PHR The need for a unified view of our records Key components of an EHR system The Patient's perspective The Clinicians perspective Technology Issues Meaningful use The 21st Century \"Cures\" Act and how it will help. . https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-electronic-medical-records © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 18 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Understanding Hyper-V Windows 10 Core | 1 hour Instructor: Robert McMillen This course is designed to be an introductory course on Hyper-V virtualization using Microsoft Windows 10, a native hypervisor that can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. In this program, you will learn to create a virtual machine onto a Windows 10 computer, create a network switch, add storage, configure internet access, security, and much more. This will prepare you for working with production virtual machines running on a Windows server. Hyper-V is Microsoft’s virtualization product which allows you to create a software version of computer hardware (the physical machine) known as a virtual machine. In Windows 10, we can store many virtual machines onto a single physical machine, and this course shows you how to do that along with configuration and security. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-windows-10-hyper-v Understanding Pharmaceutical Industry Core | 1 hour Instructor: Kristoffer Kristensen Entering the world of pharmaceuticals can seem like going into a black hole. From the nuances of drug discovery to the complexity of governmental regulations, understanding how pharmaceutical companies operate seems almost incomprehensible. However, by exploring some of the foundational building blocks of the industry you can begin to see what it takes for a drug to go from an idea to being dispensed at your local pharmacy. During this 50-minute course, we will go on a deep dive into four key building blocks of the pharmaceutical industry: Introduction to the Industry Drug Discovery Drug Development Medical Affairs This invaluable resource provides a rich overview of these critical components of the industry and describes who some of the main players are and what they do. This course also sets the context and prepares you for further exploration into this fascinating industry. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-pharma Website Design From Scratch In Adobe Xd Core | 5 hours 40 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic When you design a website it's more important that it converts, then to have a trendy design. Because website is there to sell a service or a product, so you have to design with that in mind. Knowing how to structure a page for high conversion is really important because it makes you more valuable to client and more desirable as a designer. Using Adobe Xd to create it gives you unlimited possibilities because its free, cross platform, vector-based and it has regular updates. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/website-design-from-scratch-in-adobe-xd © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 19 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 What are Healthcare Information Systems Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano This course introduces the basic concepts of information technology and systems using many examples from both non healthcare and healthcare environments and explains why healthcare information systems (HIW) are so critical to the success of all healthcare organizations. The topics covered in this course included: What are the key features and functions of healthcare information systems? Why understanding healthcare information systems are essential Key benefits of healthcare information systems Different perspectives on healthcare information management https://go.starweaver.com/courses/what-are-healthcare-information-systems Wireframing For UI / UX Designers Intermediate | 2 hours 40 minutes Instructor: Aleksandar Cucukovic Wireframes are important part of any design process because they are the bridge between the idea and the execution. They are great because they are simple enough so everybody involved can understand them, and also cheap enough because you can create them on the piece of paper or majority of design software. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/wireframing-for-ui-ux-designers Wireless Technologies in Healthcare Today Core | 1 hour Instructor: Thomas Giordano Wireless technologies are at the core of healthcare with a highly mobile workforce, and constituent consumer-patients always on the go. Understanding wireless is central to an awareness of how the Internet of Things and other wearables will play an essential role in healthcare forever more The topics covered in this course include: Overview of the basics Cellular technology and 5G RFID Wifi & Bluetooth https://go.starweaver.com/courses/wireless-technology-in-healthcare-today © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 20 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Cloud A Guide to Kubernetes and Docker Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Sebastien Goasguen This course provides insights into containers, Kubernetes and Docker: vendor-agnostic cluster and container management tools, and platforms for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts. Today, containers are recognized as a key enabler of digital transformation, and they are positioned to be essential to the new computing paradigm that brings cloud computing, DevOps culture and business innovation together. From this course, participants get a clear understanding of this new trend while having an introduction to Docker (the leading container technology) and Kubernetes (an open source container orchestrator system, created by Google). https://go.starweaver.com/courses/a-guide-to-kubernetes-and-docker AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty Course Core | 6 hours 15 minutes Instructor: Hussein Awad Welcome! I'm here to help you to learn AWS Alexa Skill. Beginner’s welcome: no need to know anything about Alexa! I've passed Alexa Skill Builder Specialty certification before the exam retirement in March 2021. And I want to help YOU learn the AWS Alexa Skill Builder as well! This course is hands-on course, that will walk you through all stages of the Alexa Skill and would cover all parts in Alexa Developer Console. Here's what we'll learn to pass the AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Specialty exam: Invocation Name, Built-in Intents, Custom Intents, Slots & Entity Resolution, Dialog Delegation, Annotation Set & Evaluation Model, Intent History, Utterances Conflict, JSON Interaction Model, Endpoints, Permissions Interfaces: Audio Player Interface, Dialog Interface, Display Interface, Playback Controller Interface, Video App Interface Alexa-Hosted Skill, Import an Alexa-Hosted Skill, Personal AWS Resources with Alexa-Hosted Skill, Use AWS Tools to manage your Skill, Alexa Presentation Language, Custom Skill as a Lambda, Custom Skill as a HTTP Web Service, Request Types Alexa Simulator, Manual JSON, Voice & Tone – SSML Skill Store Details & availability – Alexa For Business – Beta Testing Certification checklist Analytics: Alexa Skill Metrics Purchase Products on Alexa: In-Skill Purchase – Amazon Pay Account Linking Concepts User Experience for Account Linking Different Grant Flows App-to-App Account Linking Pre-built models Smart Home Skill Cooking Skill © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 21 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Education Skill Entertainment Skill Flash Briefing Skill Meeting Skill Music & Radio Skill Networking & Wi-Fi Skill Video Skills https://go.starweaver.com/courses/aws-certified-alexa-skill-builder-specialty-course AWS Immersion Primer Core | 2 hours 5 minutes Instructor: Wayde Gilchrist This AWS Immersion Primer program introduces you to AWS products, services, and common solutions, and provides a foundational understanding of what Amazon Web Services are all about, including a “deep dive” road map about how to understand and apply AWS tools to improve performance, security and scalability of your digital business. This program is not designed to turn you into an AWS expert, but rather to help you understand the value propositions behind AWS, how to navigate AWS products and services, to help you find answers about AWS, as well as evaluating how AWS can fit into your broader IT and business plans. Among other things, AWS Immersion Primer is an engaging program that will, likely, open your eyes wide to the power of cloud technologies, and in particular to the power of AWS. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/aws-immersion-primer AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator – Certification Program Core | 17 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Anand Rao This course teaches the participants to prepare for AZ 104 Certification. If certification is not in your mind at this time, you can still opt for this course as it gives you the knowledge to make you Azure ready and become a better Azure Administrator. We will dive into all aspects of Azure service offerings and work our way with simple tasks like creating virtual machines , storage accounts etc. We would also learn how to manage them using PowerShell and Azure CLI. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az-104-microsoft-azure-administrator-certification- program AZ-300 Architect Technologies Practice Tests Core | 3 hours Instructor: Scott Duffy You are enrolled in a course that is designed to help you take a large leap forward in your career. Not only is Azure Architecture topic in the forefront of the news and most business agendas today, but it is in an area that will provide strong career growth © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 22 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 opportunities for you. In fact, this subject area may be the hottest in technology today. This course is a series of three (3) practice exams that cover the key questions asked on the Azure certification exam. Your senior instructor, Scott Duffy, and is probably the best-known Azure instructor in the World, and expert in Azure and other Cloud technologies. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az300-azure-practice-tests AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design – Certification Program Core | 11 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Anand Rao The AZ-304 exam is targeted at experienced IT experts, the exam covers a variety of subjects and services, all of which are covered in this latest course updated as per Microsoft Exam Curriculum. In order to understand core architect technologies, This course will lead you through a series of sections, modules, and demos to prepare you for taking, and ultimately passing, the Microsoft Azure AZ-304 exam. This course curriculum is as follows: Design monitoring (10-15%) Design identity and security (25-30%) Design data storage (15-20%) Design business continuity (10-15%) Design infrastructure (25-30%) This course will educate you on the fundamental terms and principles of the Azure platform and demos will enable you with a hands-on experience using scenarios to empower you in the real world. This course goes through all of the requirements of the Microsoft exam AZ-304: Microsoft Azure Architect Design. Multiple videos are devoted to each sub-objective, and we cover the topic thoroughly. If you are already an expert at many Azure topics, you can easily skip the sections that you already know and focus on the ones you have not yet had much exposure to. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az-304-microsoft-azure-architect-design- certification-program AZ-500 Azure Architect Technologies Practice Tests Core | 4 hours Instructor: Pete Zerger This Course is designed to help you and your team prepare for the AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam. Even if you aren’t planning to take the exam, these courses and hands-on labs will help you get started on your way to deploying and managing Microsoft Azure security technologies. The AZ-500 exam is part of Microsoft’s new role-based certification program. Candidates who pass the AZ-500 exam will earn the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az-500-microsoft-azure-security-technologies- practice-tests © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 23 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – Certification Program Core | 9 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Anand Rao This exam is designed for candidates looking to demonstrate foundation level knowledge of cloud services and how those services are provided with Microsoft Azure. The exam is intended for candidates with non-technical backgrounds, such as those involved in selling or purchasing cloud-based solutions and services or who have some involvement with cloud-based solutions and services, as well as those with a technical background who have a need to validate their foundation level knowledge around cloud services. Technical IT experience is not required however some general IT knowledge or experience would be beneficial. This exam can be taken as an optional first step in learning about cloud services and how those concepts are exemplified by Microsoft Azure. It can be taken as a precursor to Microsoft Azure or Microsoft cloud services exams. While it would be a beneficial first step, validating foundation level knowledge, taking this exam is not a pre-requisite before taking any other Azure-based certifications. In this course, You would find detailed explanations along with lab demonstrations for the services in Azure. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az-900-microsoft-azure-fundamentals- certification-program AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Practice Tests Core | 4 hours Instructor: Pete Zerger This Course is designed to help you and your team prepare for the AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam. Even if you aren’t planning to take the exam, these practice tests will help you gain a solid understanding of Microsoft Azure. Candidates who pass the AZ-900 exam will earn the Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals certification. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/az900-microsoft-azure-fundamentals-practice-tests Azure Cloud Architect Immersion Certification Core | 7 hours 10 minutes Instructor: Scott Duffy The Azure Cloud Architect Immersion Certification program is a six (6) module deep dive into the Microsoft Azure platform, providing delegates with practical and hand-on expertise, while preparing them to become a Microsoft Certified Expert Azure Solutions Architect by passing Microsoft exams AZ-300 and AZ-301. This program, thus, covers the necessary knowledge needed for delegates to pass the Microsoft Azure exams comfortably, while ensuring they develop practical skills that are needed within local, national and global enterprises architecting solutions on the cloud. This certification program starts by orienting delegates to the various clouds and the products and services available. It focuses on the Microsoft Azure cloud ensuring full awareness by delegates of each Azure technology, and the business value propositions for each. Working through architectural considerations for deploying and configuring the Azure © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 24 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 infrastructure, our certification program covers all the issues around workloads, flows and security, how to frame Azure solutions, and how to build and deploy applications and infrastructure on Azure. The two essential curriculums that are melded into our immersion certification are the Azure architect and design professional programs. This curriculum includes a comfortable balance of pre-recorded modules and live, interactive training (with ample “show and tell” demonstrations), supplemented by live office hours so that any and all questions and uncertainties are addressed for delegates. All components of the two (2) programs (and Microsoft requirements) are covered in depth, with ample labs and hands-on exercises so that delegates become skilled practitioners. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/azure-cloud-architect-immersion-certification Azure Serverless API Management Core | 3 hours Instructor: Hussein Awad Welcome to Azure Serverless API Management Course. This course will get you up to speed with Azure API Management, and you'll learn the best practices to implement API Management. With a special focus on API Management Policies, you'll get to learn how you can use different policies to empower your APIs in the API Management, covering the Infrastructure part of the API Management ending up with the Monitoring and understand the key metrics that would help you to analyze your API Management. Happy Learning! In this course you will learn the following topics Create an API Management Advanced Policies Create APIs API Management Infrastructure API Management Products Application Gateway Subscription keys CICD & ARM template API Mock Responses Monitoring Throttling Analytics Revisions Metrics Versions Alerts Policies Logs Authentication Policies Diagnostic Settings Access Restriction Policies Visual Studio Code Caching Policies API Gateway Cross-Domain Policies Serverless Transformation Policies https://go.starweaver.com/courses/azure-serverless-api-management Cloud Computing Fundamentals Core | 3 hours Instructor: Mohamed Rhim This course is designed to help you understand the basics of cloud computing, enabling a freshly graduated student looking to start a career in cloud computing, or a working professional switching from another field to understand the core principles of © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 25 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 cloud computing. Today we hear about many IT fields which are growing very fast and are the future of our world, Big Data, IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and many others. Yes, all of these technologies could not exist or evolve without the presence of cloud computing. In fact, most of these related technologies could not have evolved as rapidly or profoundly with the critical role cloud computing has played. In this course we will start by defining Cloud Computing and its history. Then we will see the different cloud service models, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service ( SaaS). After that we will describe the cloud computing deployment models: Public cloud, Private cloud and hybrid cloud. Then we will discover the best practices to benefit from Cloud Computing Services. And we cannot speak about cloud computing without speaking about the challenges you will face if you want to move your infrastructure to cloud. We will focus on the security of cloud computing and the challenges around it as the security nowadays is very critical aspect and we will see some cybersecurity attacks. Another important point is what are the strategies to follow to enhance the security of your cloud computing environment. This course will give you general information about cloud computing without discussing a specific cloud solution like AWS or Azure, but at the same time we will have an idea about the most popular cloud computing solutions and providers. We will see how to choose between the various cloud solutions for a business, and to install a cloud environment at your home in a few steps and in few minutes. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/cloud-computing-fundamentals-course Deep Dive into AWS Fundamentals Core | 3 hours 20 minutes Instructor: Wayde Gilchrist This course is for advanced user covering hands on techniques for using AWS foundational services. Course has been designed especially for professionals having real time experience of managing physical/virtual machines and networking setup/concepts. This course covers practical labs, which implements the concept covered in real enterprise environment. This course is limited for short duration to half a day and can be tailored on duration and coverage as per requirement. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/deep-dive-into-aws-fundamentals Getting Started with Heroku Core | 3 hours Instructor: João Gomes What is Heroku and why should you care? Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that allows developers to build, run, and operate applications in the cloud. In practical terms, allows developers to no longer have to manage servers. Need to scale up? Add it with a few clicks and never worry about it. This course is designed to help you learn Heroku from scratch and get awesome tools to build and host web applications and also covers Salesforce integration. You will learn many of the advantages of Heroku and understand why is a simple yet powerful solution for cloud applications. Unlike other cloud providers such as AWS, Heroku removed all the pesky configurations that you need to have a web application making it a simple yet powerful solution. Due to its © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 26 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 simplicity, Heroku considered as a more startup/hobby user friendly as the resources and time you need to get an application running is significantly lower than its competitors. Heroku's Moto is \"the fastest way from idea to URL.\" On top of that, Heroku also offers out-of-the-box features such as: Salesforce Integration, so that you can share data bi-directionally between your Heroku Applications and have it in the Customer Relationship Manager (CRM). From the basic setup to advanced features this course covers it all and will provide you with information to get the maximum out of Heroku. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/getting-started-with-heroku Infrastructure Automation on Azure with Terraform Core | 4 hours Instructor: Shantanu Das Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions. With Terraform, users define and provide data center infrastructure using a declarative configuration language known as Hashicorp Configuration Language, or optionally JSON. In this course, you will learn the core principles of Terraform and how it is different from Cloud-native tools like CloudFormation from AWS, Azure Resource Manager for Azure or Google Cloud Deployment Manager. You will be shown the nuances of how it is used in the context of “Infrastructure as Code” to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service. You will expand your Terraform knowledge to the next level by learning many of the most important advanced features like loops, if statements, conditionals, for-each loop, functions, provisioners, data and imports. In this course you will learn to use Terraform to build a production-ready multi-tier application right from scratch. This program covers: Terraform (infra as code) Terraform functions Installation Building a multi-tier application Writing terraform configuration Production-ready terraform code Parameterizing Configuration Provisioners with terraform Terraform state Terraform import for and for-each loop Data sources Loops using for expressions Custom variables Count parameter Count with modules Conditionals Introduction sensitive variables https://go.starweaver.com/courses/infrastructure-automation-on-azure-with- terraform SC-900: Microsoft Security Compliance and Identity Fundamentals – Certification Core | 7 hours Instructor: Anand Rao This certification is targeted to those looking to familiarize themselves with the © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 27 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. This is a broad audience that may include business stakeholders, new or existing IT professionals, or students who have an interest in Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and want to understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to- end solution. Identity is the new perimeter. Application developers and infrastructure teams must focus on identity and the security tools that revolve around it to protect the state of identity. This course covers various aspects of identity and security methodologies used to protect it. This course begins with the concepts of Security, Compliance and Identity. We'll look at security methodologies, security concepts and Microsoft Security and compliance principles. We will check the concepts of zero trust methodology , shared responsibility model and defense in depth . We'll then look at Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solutions. We'll look at identity principles and concepts, basic identity and identity types, and authentication, access management and identity protection and governance capabilities of Azure Active Directory. Next up is Microsoft Security Solutions. This includes basic security capabilities and security management capabilities of Azure, and also Azure Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender, Intune and Microsoft 365. The final module is Microsoft Compliance Solutions. We'll look at compliance management capabilities generally, then have a look at the capabilities in Microsoft 365 of information protection and governance, inside risk, eDiscovery and audit. Here is the course coverage : Describe Concepts of Security, Compliance, and Identity (5-10%) Describe capabilities of Microsoft Identity/Access Management (25-30%) Describe capabilities of Microsoft Identity Access Management (25-30%) Describe capabilities of Microsoft Identity/Access Management (25-30%) https://go.starweaver.com/courses/sc-900-microsoft-security-compliance-and- identity-fundamentals-certification-program Understanding Cloud Security: AWS Core | 4 hours Instructor: Tim Chase This Cloud Security course is an introduction to Cloud Security and how its applied across the major cloud providers. The course contains ~60 lectures and 4 hours of content taught by Tim Chase, an experienced Cyber Security leader. Starting with some fundamentals about what are the different types of Clouds and why people move to the cloud, the program will change into teaching an understanding of cloud security fundamentals. This includes digging into how network security, application security, and compliance work in the Cloud. Once we establish the basics, we will move into Cloud specific functions to learn how to build applications in the cloud. We will work across the 3 major cloud providers and see they are all similar but yet different in the way they handle security. In the end we will be able to draw out how we can build an application infrastructure in the Cloud using native cloud services. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-cloud-security-aws © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 28 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Cybersecurity Analyzing and Defending Networks with Wireshark Core | 3 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Kevin Cardwell Analyzing and Defending Networks with Wireshark This course provides students a complete foundational understanding of the process for conducting network protocol analysis, an essential skill required for a number of high value careers in the cybersecurity field. Protocol analysis is the technique of analyzing what is or has taken place on a network and is used by Security Operations Center analysts, as well as others including network forensics investigators. In this course, we take static capture files that you will be provided and show you how to analyze each with the Wireshark tool. You will learn ways to quickly identify anything that is abnormal within a network packet capture. This will provide you with the initial skills for intrusion analysis, and also malware tracking and monitoring. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/analyzing-and-defending-networks-with-wireshark Becoming a Cyber Warrior Certification Program Core | 5 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Kevin Cardwell Learn key skills of cybersecurity and earn a Certification from the Starweaver Institute. Today, the necessity of strong cybersecurity measures is self-evident. A proliferation of cyber-attacks is causing increasing damage to companies, governments, and individuals. Yahoo’s disclosure of a massive breach is still making headlines. Organizations need to respond to this increased threat by adopting strict cybersecurity measures. Starweaver is here to help you and your organization respond, building you into \"Cyberwarriors\" with our 7-Part certification program focused on helping you know you to prevent, and face cyber-attacks. This program includes modules on: Part I: Building a Security Skills Foundation Part II: Leveraging Wireshark for Security Part III: Essential Defensive Strategies Part IV: Building a Cyber Range Part V: Penetration Testing Unveiled Part VI: Intrusion Analysis Part VII: Intrusion Handling https://go.starweaver.com/courses/becoming-a-cyberwarrior-certification-program Essential Guide to Cybersecurity Core | 2 hours 10 minutes Instructor: Pedro Paulino Organizations which control, store, or transmit data are increasingly exposed to active hackers, phishing scams and other threats that arise from poor information security. Cybersecurity Essentials is the ideal course for anyone who needs to get a good all-round understanding of Cybersecurity. It provides an understanding of the fundamental principles of cybersecurity at a decision-making level. You don't have to be an aspiring security professional to do this course, it is suitable for everyone. This course represents the essentials of Cybersecurity, and it is designed in the way that the capabilities learned © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 29 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 by following this training course will be used to protect organizations and the society as a whole from areas of emerging threats. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/essential-guide-to-cybersecurity Introduction to Cybersecurity Core | 1 hour 50 minutes Instructor: Ahmed Zekraoui If you are looking to start your career in cybersecurity or freshly graduated from school, this is the right course for you! Learning cybersecurity is fundamental to every role as a technologist, or a business professional in the technology arena. This course empowers you with foundational cybersecurity skills. Core cybersecurity fundamentals General overview about Cyber Security Cybersecurity market size Confusions: Cybersecurity or Cyber Security Confusions: Cybersecurity vs information security Cybersecurity professional roadmap Top cybersecurity certifications by Hacker’s techniques and motivations Understand hacker’s mindset Hackers’ categories What motivates hackers to hack Understand the cybersecurity kill chain Hacking techniques Malicious software used by hackers [LAB] How hackers generate malicious software [LAB] How to detect that your machine is infected and how to protect yourself Cybersecurity law and standards Laws and standards that you need to know ISO27001 NIST Framework PCI-DSS Cybersecurity USA Laws Cybersecurity EU Laws Cybersecurity Australia Laws https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-cybersecurity Introduction to DevSecOps Core | 3 hours Instructor: Tim Chase This DevOps course is an introduction to DevSecOps and how its applied across the application development lifecycle. This program starts with some fundamentals about what is DevOps, why DevOps is such an important part of today’s software landscape and what impact it has on systems security. DevSecOps is a new concept brought on by DevOps and has implications all throughout the software development lifecycle. This course explores the various aspects of DevSecOps including CI/CD, Containers, SAST, IAST, Dynamic, and scanning for secrets. In the end we will talk about how we can begin © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 30 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 this journey to DevSecOps and end successfully. The program contains 10 modules and 3 hours of content. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-devsecops Penetration Testing Unveiled: From Beginner to Advanced Technician Core | 3 hours 5 minutes Instructor: Kevin Cardwell To effectively secure the networks of today requires establishment of the hacker mindset. That is, you have to attack your own network to learn how to defend it. A penetration test, colloquially known as a pen test, pentest or ethical hacking, is an authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to evaluate the security of the system. Learn to pentest and you will learn what cybersecurity is all about. In this course you will learn how to build and hone the skills to create that mindset of someone who has the sole purpose of attacking a system and/or network. Following the initial skill development, you will learn the process and methodology of professional penetration testing. You will learn the techniques to penetrate devices, servers and clients. Each day you will be presented a scope of work and have a number of targets to engage and attempt to “own.” The targets will be progressive in nature with the size of the attack surface being reduced as your skillsets increase. By the time you leave the course you will have performed a number of simulated professional penetration testing engagements as well as drafted a preliminary report of findings. The processes and techniques you will be exposed to have been used to train a number of global penetration testing teams. The system is proven and effective and can be put into place at once. In this hands-on intense course, you will Learn the motives and mindset of an attacker Carry out the penetration testing methodology like a professional Explore methods to attack devices and servers Investigate the process of attacking the client side of the network Explore penetration testing Experience the process of identifying weaknesses and then attacking them Learn techniques to penetrate perimeter devices Explore the challenge of defeating enterprise defenses Practice a multitude of evasion tactics Perform penetration testing by using client-side tactics Compete against a live progressive target range Enhance your professional security testing skills Develop a roadmap to becoming a professional penetration tester https://go.starweaver.com/courses/penetration-testing-unveiled The Dark Web ~ Understanding and Probing Its Depths Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Kevin Cardwell This course introduces the \"Dark Web\": content that exists on darknets and overlay networks that require specific tools access. This course helps you to understand who © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 31 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 uses it, how it is accessed, and the security issues involved. The “Dark Web” is the world wide web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. This course delivers a clear understanding of what it is, how to navigate it and the challenges involved. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines, although sometimes the term deep web is mistakenly used to refer specifically to the dark web. The darknets which constitute the dark web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted nature. The Tor dark web or Onionland uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network's top-level domain suffix .onion. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/the-dark-web-understanding-and-probing-its- depths © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 32 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Data Science AI, Deep Learning and Neural Nets Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Daniel Burnett This course discusses how AI drives an enormous and fast-growing set of software and platforms. After a brief introduction, modern AI technologies are explained covering what they are and aren’t, culminating with examples of what is possible today. While “Artificial Intelligence” has been a dream of scientists and a staple of fiction for much of human history, never before have the tools and technologies existed in such abundance to empower engineers and business professionals to deliver products and services based on reality, not dreams. This program covers the typical 20 year cycle where new products and businesses are minted (and in some cases new industries), followed by product and business failures, disillusionment, and a winter for new research projects in the field. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/ai-deep-learning-and-neural-nets Big Data Hadoop and Spark Developer in Amazon Elastic MapReduce Core | 7 hours 5 minutes Instructor: Rod Davison The Big Data Hadoop and Spark developer course has been designed to provide in- depth knowledge of Big Data processing using Hadoop and Spark in the AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) environment. The practical hands-on aspects of the course focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), where all demos take place. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/big-data-hadoop-and-spark-developer-in-amazon- elastic-mapreduce Big Data Services on Microsoft Azure Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Praba Santanakrishnan More and more businesses are realizing the power of data and taking on the challenge of analyzing big data to gain deeper insights that gives the competitive advantage in their services and offerings to win more customers and to retain the existing ones. The data is volume is huge and available in multiple variety of formats ranging from structured , unstructured and semi structured and at comes at different velocity This webinar is an introduction that exposes you to the various techniques available in Microsoft Azure data services and how to work with Azure Technologies like Azure Data Factory, Datalake, Azure Data Warehouse etc. This course also explains data transformation activities in Azure Data Factory that you can use to transform and processes your raw data into predictions and insights. A transformation activity executes in a computing environment such as Azure HDInsight cluster or an Azure Batch. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/big-data-services-on-microsoft-azure © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 33 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Data Science and Machine Learning – Developer Certification Core | 3 hours Instructor: Mark Kerzner The Data Science & Machine Learning Developer Certification program provides a comprehensive set of knowledge and skills in data science, machine learning, and deep learning. This immersive training curriculum covers all the key technologies, techniques, principles and practices you need to play a key role on your data science development team, and to distinguish yourself professionally. Beginning with foundational principles and concepts used in data science and machine learning, this program moves progressively and rapidly to cover the foundational components at the core of machine learning. The program builds on the foundations and quickly moves into deep learning, along the way teaching you via lectures and interactive online labs. The training uses open-source tools — along with your developing judgment and intuition — to address actual business needs and real-world challenges. This program also covers the significant development of deep learning methods that enable state-of- the-art performance for many tasks, including image classification, time series (such as audio) classification and natural language processing. In this program, delegates gain hands-on deep learning experience. Delegates will learn by hands-on labs working tools including Python, Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/data-science-machine-learning-developer- certification Deep Learning: From Basic Principles to Deploying Models in Production Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Praba Santanakrishnan The power of deep learning cannot be understated. While Deep Learning (DL) is a subset of Machine Learning ML, which is itself a subset of Artificial Intelligence, a DL algorithm is able to learn hidden patterns from the data by itself, combine them together, and build much more efficient decision rules. Deep learning works best as the amount of data scales, making it popular in industries that collect massive amounts of data. These industries include manufacturing, automotive, hospitality, healthcare, banking, agriculture, entertainment, IT/Security, retail, and supply chain and logistics. There are different approaches to putting DL models into production with benefits that can vary dependent on the specific use case. In this course, Praba Santhanakrishnan (a senior and experienced Microsoft executive who is long active in deep learning) will take you through both “the Big Picture” and the specific tools you can use to implement DL to solve various real world business problems. Praba will take you through some of the key nuances associated with: One off training models Batch training models Real time training models https://go.starweaver.com/courses/deep-learning-from-basic-principles-to-deploying- models-in-production © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 34 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Essentials of Python for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Core | 14 hours 10 minutes Instructor: Pramod Gupta This course provides an introduction to the Python programming language essential for data manipulation, statistical analysis, and modeling techniques required for machine learning and artificial intelligence. In this course we will explore the wonderfully concise and expressive use of Python’s advanced module features and apply it in probability, statistical testing, signal processing, financial forecasting, and various other applications. This course covers mathematical operations with array data structures, optimization, Probability Density Function, interpolation, Fast Fourier Transform, basic signal processing and other high-performance benefits using the core scientific packages NumPy, SciPy, Sklearn/Scikit learn and Matplotlib. Students will gain a deep understanding and problem-solving experience with these powerful platforms when dealing with engineering and scientific problems related to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The course will teach practical aspects of python for data wrangling needed for ML and AI applications so that the students will be able to apply lessons to solve problems using machine learning in their own careers and fields. The course uses examples to guide you through foundational concepts, often employing live algorithms to facilitate visual understanding. Pseudocode will be provided for most of the algorithms covered. You are encouraged to use the pseudocode as a reference to create your own programs in Python. The class has in-class quizzes to gauge learning and group activities including discussion. Homework assignments involving programming in Python are designed for in-depth practice. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/essentials-of-python-for-machine-learning-and- artificial-intelligence Getting Started with Pandas Core | 8 hours 15 minutes Instructor: Matt Harrison This Pandas course prepares teaches the fundamentals of data analysis. It shows how to load data, inspect it, deal with missing values, use statistical summaries, plot, pivot and more. This course contains 18 hours of materials, taught by Matt Harrison, a Python and Pandas expert and author. Following this course students will be able to leverage their skills with pandas to perform powerful data analysis, create plots, clean data, and prepare data for machine learning. Pandas is a powerful library, but it can be confusing. Fill in the knowledge gaps and understand how Pandas works under the covers. You will come out of this class grokking the syntax, and the best practices for creating beautiful Pandas code. We will also show how to use Jupyter and install additional packages. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/getting-started-with-pandas Hadoop for Executives and Managers Core | 3 hours 40 minutes Instructor: Mark Kerzner © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 35 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Hadoop for Executives and Managers is designed to equip managers and other decision makers with an understanding of Hadoop. To fully understand the impact Hadoop has on your organization’s infrastructure, it is critical to understand its business benefits, required resources, and potential uses. The course begins by providing a thorough understanding of what the technology is and how it impacts organizations. Next, students will learn how to use the technology to gain competitive advantage, save time and money, and solve data problems. The course concludes with focusing on giving a high-level overview of Hadoop and common technologies used with Hadoop like Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, and Hue. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/hadoop-for-executives-and-managers Introduction to Data Analysis using R Core | 12 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Pramod Gupta The course examines different approaches to a data analysis project, with a framework for organizing an analytical effort. Popular tools for data analysis, such as R and Python, are introduced to carry out analysis. The course covers how to obtain and manipulate the raw data for use, as well as the basic exploratory analysis and common data analytical techniques such as regression, simulation, estimation and forecasting. It includes several graphing and visualization tools to understand the data and to present findings and results. Overall goal of this class is to introduce participants to the discipline of data analysis/ data mining, a science of understanding and analyzing data. The class is designed to provide participants with the tools they need for solving real world problems using statistics and a better understanding of data analysis techniques. By the end of the course, you will learn a working framework to approach any data analysis project. You will be able to use R (or Python) to complete a large data analysis project, including a write-up with findings, insights and visuals. All tools used are open sourced. In this program, you will learn the practical expertise regarding data analysis. You will understand how it is the process of transforming data into useful information to support decision making. It is the foundation for data mining, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. This course presents the tools, techniques and common practices used in the industry, including how to obtain, manipulate, explore, model, simulate and present data. It will help you build the essential technical skills to perform as data analyst or data scientist, and to continue other course studies in the certificate program. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-data-analysis-using-r Introduction to Microservices Core | 1 hour Instructor: Allen Holub Microservices are becoming the most common and popular means of developing software where developing large applications where services are grained into chunks as per business domain are essential. There are numerous benefits to a microservices- oriented approach, which delegates to this program will learn, including: Agility and © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 36 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 speed through parallel application development. Flexibility and modularity in application scaling. Ease and modularity of deployment with multiple platforms. Reusability and resilience of code. Greater resilience to architecture erosion. Flexibility in continuous refactoring of individual services. This course provides delegates with a quick but deep understanding of the entire suite of skills to ensure they can become vital leaders in a team developing microservices applications. This program is conducted by some of the most knowledgeable and skilled leaders in the field of microservices, providing delegates immediate knowledge and skills their can use the moment they return to work. This program was presented by Allen Holub, a leading expert in the field of Microservices. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-microservices Introduction to Python for Data Science Core | 9 hours 25 minutes Instructor: Praba Santhanakrishnan This Python for Data Science course is an introduction to Python and how to apply it in data science. The course contains ~60 lectures and 9.5 hours of content taught by Praba Santanakrishnan, a highly experienced data scientist from Microsoft. Staring with some fundamentals about \"what is data science,\" and \"who is a data scientist,\" the program rapidly move into the specific challenges of data science. This includes the challenges of problem definitions and collecting data, to data pipelines, data preparation, data cleaning and related subjects. Data science methodologies, data analytics tools and open-source tools are all covered. Model building validation, visualization and various data science applications are also covered. Discussion of the types of machine learning are covered, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning, as well as methodologies and clustering. NumPy, Pandas, Python Notebook, Git, REPL, IDS and Jupyter Notebook are also covered. Arrays, advanced arrays, and matrices are discussed in some detail to ensure you understand what it is all about and how these tools are implemented. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/python-data-science Power BI Essentials Core | 10 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Jeff Robson Create stunning interactive reports and share amazing insights! Power BI gives Excel users the power to extract data from multiple sources, link it together, perform calculations and create powerful visualizations. Power BI is an amazing cloud-based business analytics service provided by Microsoft that allows users to transform data into rich, interactive visual reports that present a 360-degree business view and improve business decision making. Power BI Desktop is a development platform from Microsoft that allows users to connect to a huge range of data sources, clean and transform messy data, create relationships between data sets, perform calculations and prepare stunning interactive reports. Power BI.com allows users to publish their interactive reports and share certain features of those reports with others. Reports published to PowerBI.com © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 37 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 can be set to refresh automatically and can be interacted with online using any browser or mobile device. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/power-bi-essentials Python Foundations, Tools and Techniques Core | 8 hours 55 minutes Instructor: Matt Harrison This Python course prepares teaches the fundamentals of Python. It shows how to interact with Python, the common data structures, looping, classes, exceptions, file handling, environments and more. This course contains 18 hours of materials, taught by Matt Harrison, a Python expert and author. Following this course students will be able to leverage their skills with Python to build web backends, create GUI applications, do machine learning, and control cloud environments. Most developers don't know what they don't know. Fill in the knowledge gaps and understand how Python works under the covers. You might have programmed in Python before, but you will come out of this class grokking the syntax, and what the syntax abstracts underneath. We will show how to install Python, use the REPL, and understand errors that might pop up. This class has unique self-correcting labs to ensure that students are mastering the subject. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/python-foundations-tools-and-techniques R and RStudio: Visualizing Business Problems with Powerful R Tools Core | 45 minutes Instructor: Rod Davison This short course is designed for explain the practical applications and use of R and R Studio (an integrated development environment, IDE, for R) effectively in the shortest possible time. It provides a solid conceptual understanding of both how R works and how to produce effective results. R is a programming language and environment commonly used in statistical computing, data analytics and scientific research. It is one of the most popular languages used by statisticians, data analysts, researchers and marketers to retrieve, clean, analyze, visualize and present data. Its use is near universal when developers and administrators are looking to do analysis of data. RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. It is available in two formats: RStudio Desktop is a regular desktop application while RStudio Server runs on a remote server and allows accessing RStudio using a web browser. R comprises: The R programming language, designed specifically for working with statistical analysis and data analysis; The R environment, designed for effective handling and storage of large data sets; A massive on-line repository of R packages which cover advanced statistical modeling, machine learning, data visualization and data manipulation tools, as well as packages that support analyses in specific domains such biostatistics, financial modeling, population studies and computational physics. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/r-and-rstudio-visualizing-business-problems © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 38 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Snowflake – Applications and Implementation Core | 5 hours 35 minutes Instructor: Hamid Qureshi This course covers the fundamental concepts, design considerations, and best practices intended for key stakeholders who will be working on the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform. Snowflake is the leading solution for warehousing in the cloud. It is built for the cloud. Snowflake delivers the performance, concurrency and simplicity needed to store and analyze all of an organization’s data in one solution. Snowflake’s technology combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions https://go.starweaver.com/courses/snowflake-applications-and-implementation Spark and Elasticsearch for Big Data Analytics Core | 35 minutes Instructor: Mark Kerzner This brief, deep dive course into Elasticsearch and Spark help you understand how to perform real-time indexing, search and data-analysis. This course helps you to understand Elasticsearch as a datastore and as NoSQL, as well as the Spark processing engine. In this course you are introduced to the Elasticsearch search engine based on the Lucene library. You learn that Elasticsearch, developed in Java, can provide you with a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is the key product of a company called ‘Elastic’ and is provides some very important benefits, including Developer-Friendly API Elasticsearch is API driven. Almost any action can be performed using a simple RESTful API using JSON over HTTP. Client libraries are available for many programming languages. It has a clean and easily navigated documentation increasing the quality and user experience of independently created applications on your platform. It can be integrated with Hadoop for fast query results. Klout, website which measure social media influence uses this technique and has scale from 100 million to 400 million users, while reducing database update time from one day down to four hours, and delivering query results to the business analysts in seconds rather than minutes. Real-Time Analytics Real-time analytics provides updated results of customer events, such as page views, website navigation, shopping cart use, or any other kind of online or digital activity. This data is extremely important for businesses conducting dynamic analysis and reporting in order to quickly respond to trends in user behavior. Using Elasticsearch data is immediately available for search and analytics. Elasticsearch combines the speed of search instances with the power of analytics for better decision making. It gives insights that make your business streamlined and improves your products by interactive search and other analyzing features. Ease of Data Indexing Data indexing is a way of sorting a number of records on multiple fields. Elasticsearch is schema-free and document-oriented. It stores complex real world entities in Elasticsearch as structured JSON documents. Simply index a JSON document and it will automatically detect the data structure and types, create an index, and make your data searchable. You also have full control to customize how your © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 39 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 data is indexed. It simplifies the analytics process by improving the speed of data retrieval process on a database table. Full-Text Search In a full-text search, a search engine examines all of the words in every stored document as it tries to match search criteria. Elasticsearch builds distributed capabilities on top of Apache Lucene to provide the most powerful full- text search capabilities available in any open source product. Powerful, developer-friendly query API supports multilingual search, geolocation, contextual did-you-mean suggestions, autocomplete, and result-snippets. Resilient Clusters Elasticsearch clusters are resilient — they will detect new or failed nodes. It will also reorganize and rebalance data automatically to ensure that your data is safe and accessible. A cluster may contain multiple indices that can be queried independently or as a group. Index aliases allow filtered views of an index and may be updated transparently to your application. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/spark-and-elasticsearch-for-big-data-analytics Supply Chain Applications with R and Shiny Core | 18 hours Instructor: Hyatham Omar Do you work in inventory control/procurement ? Are you involved in taking supply chain decisions? Did you ever wonder how inventory concepts work in real life? Do You want to make a complete end to end inventory solution for your business/company? Do you want to work as a consultant for supply chain? ...... you have come to the right place. This comprehensive course shows how to take data driven supply chain decisions with data science and we take it one step further, combining supply chain, DevOps and data science to make a comprehensive inventory course. Don't worry If you don't know how to code, we learn step by step by applying supply chain analysis! https://go.starweaver.com/courses/supply-chain-applications-with-rand-shiny Supply Chain Design and Planning (Using Excel and Python) Core | 11 hours Instructor: Haytham Omar As a supply chain and logistics professional in this modern age, having analytical skills, know-how, and a data science coding language is imperative for the success and progress of one's supply chain career. The course will take you to step by step on understanding optimization problems in supply-chain that can help you make strategic and tactical supply-chain decisions effectively. As always, our courses are highly practical and follows a learn by doing approach. After this course we will be able to: Understand the basics of python. Understand linear programming. Work with python library Pulp for linear programming. Maximize the profit of our business given the resources available. Implement production scheduling to minimize cost in excel and python. Decide on the optimal location of facilities. Develop Optimization problems Masterfully in excel and python. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 40 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Optimize the flow of the supply chain network. Optimize the design of the supply chain network. Develop your supply chain network with the service level in mind. Understand the sensitivity and the binding constraints of supply chain decisions. Route optimization for logistical Flows with OR tools. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/supply-chain-design-and-planning-using-excel- and-python Understanding and Applying the Key Tools for Big Data Analytics Core | 3 hours 25 minutes Instructor: Mark Kerzner This course introduces you to big data analytics and shines a new light on the entire field of data science. How do you transform data into usable and actionable information? Where do you start? Why is data more valuable than money? How do you put the pieces together? Instead of limiting oneself to monthly averages, one can now analyze enterprise data on an hour-by-hour or minute-by-minute level of detail. However, for efficient big data analysis, one must master the appropriate tools. In this course we cover the following: Big Data batch queries with Hive Various ways of speeding up SQL queries (Tez, Spark, optimized data formats) Real-time analytics with NoSQL Cloud-based analytic https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-and-applying-key-tools-for-big- data-analytics Using Python and Excel for Investing in Stock Core | 5 hours Instructor: John Bura Stock markets trading activity generates massive amounts of information daily. This course will show you how to use Excel and Python in tandem to pull stock data and related information, calculate returns and establish a portfolio management strategy, predict stock market trends and much more. You will learn the fundamentals of linear regression and how this applies to machine learning, and specifically how to use this with stock market information. With these tools in hand, the instructor will help you to use machine learning to build a linear regression model to predict stock markets, as well as apply deep learning techniques (including applying Recurrent Neural Networks and Keras) to shape and scale your data and your model. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/using-python-and-excel-for-investing-in-stock Using Python for Data Science and Supply Chain Analytics Core | 37 hours Instructor: Haytham Omar © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 41 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 This course is designed as experiential learning Modules, the first couple of modules are for supply chain fundamentals followed by Python programming fundamentals, this is to level all of the takers of this course to the same pace. and the third part is supply chain applications using Data science which is using the knowledge of the first two modules to apply. while the course delivery method will be a mix of me explaining the concepts on a whiteboard, Presentations, and Python-coding sessions where you do the coding with me step by step. there will be assessments in most of the sections to strengthen your newly acquired skills. all the practice and assessments are real supply chain use cases. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/using-python-for-data-science-and-supply-chain- analytics Using R for Data Science and Supply Chain Analytics Core | 37 hours Instructor: Haytham Omar The course is designed as experiential learning Modules, the first couple of modules are for supply chain fundamentals followed by python programming fundamentals, this is to level all of the takers of this course to the same pace. and the third part is supply chain applications using data science which is using the knowledge of the first two modules to apply. while the course delivery method will be a mix of me explaining the concepts on a whiteboard, presentations, and python-coding sessions where you do the coding with me step by step. there will be assessments in most of the sections to strengthen your newly acquired skills. all the practice and assessments are real supply chain use cases. Supply chain Fundamentals Module includes: Introduction to supply chain. Supply chain Flows. Data produced by supply chains. Python Programming Fundamentals Module includes: Linear Prog./optimizations. Basics of python Data cleaning and manipulation. Pricing and markdowns Statistical analysis. optimization techniques. Data visualization. Inventory policy and safety Advanced programming. stock calculations. Supply chain Applications: Inventory simulations. Product segmentations Machine learning for supply- single and multi-criteria. chain. Simulations for Supplier segmentations. Customer segmentations. optimizing capacity and resources. Forecasting techniques and accuracy testing. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/using-r-for-data-science-and-supply-chain- analytics © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 42 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 DevOps / Agility Agile and Scrum in Action Core | 1 hour Instructor: Abbey Wiltse This short course cuts through the noise and helps you to understand agile, Agile, Scrum and other tools that will make you more effective as a professional, in your team and in your organization. You wouldn't be the first person to wonder: What the heck is the difference between \"Agile\" and \"agile.\" One has a capital \"A\" and the other not? The simple answer is this: The upper case “A” Agile is an iterative approach detailed in the Agile Manifesto (initially described in 2001) to describe software development and project management with defined principles, values, methods, roles, processes and tools. Breaking down work, establishing self-organizing teams and seeking out rapid and \"iterative\" feedback, the expectation (and results) is that outcomes are improved. The lower case “a” agile is a trait of an individual, team or organization that lives and breathes the principles of agility in everything (or most of the things) he, she or it does: flexibility, soliciting feedback, speed to results, preparedness and much, much more. \"Organizational agility\" is part of the very cell-structure and DNA of the business. It is live and breathed, not just documented in a certification or budget. The agile way of thinking is best known in the field of software development, but the principles are increasingly being applied in other types of projects. Scrum is a highly used agile methodology and is suitable for all professionals looking to keep their knowledge up to date with the latest developments in the fields of IT and project management. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/agile-and-scrum-in-action Agile Release Planning Core | 35 minutes Instructor: Michael de la Maza This mini course takes you through the standard approach and the Monte Carlo simulation approach to agile release planning, comparing and contrasting the alternatives, and the benefits and costs of each. While agile release planning is often well understood on a team-level basis, standard approaches do not often work well at the multi-team or a multi-release level. The standard approach can become riddled with inconsistencies and errors; dependencies may become difficult to handle; and, risks can be unknown, ill managed, and poorly quantified, or not at all. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/agile-release-planning Best Practices in Business Analysis Core | 8 hours 20 minutes Instructor: Rod Davison The right requirements and getting those requirements right are the most critical part of © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 43 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 any project. This course explores the techniques and methods which expert business analysts use to produce high quality requirements and specifications that form the foundation of a successful development project. The challenge of getting high quality requirements is so daunting that project teams often move to writing code, which is relatively easy, before they know what the code should do, which is quite hard. Expert BAs have developed a set of processes, tools and methods that ensure they can manage the requirements process to produce effective requirements artifacts in a highly efficient manner. This course introduces students to these methods and techniques as they are actually used by world class BAs. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/best-practices-in-business-analysis Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment in Action Core | 45 minutes Instructor: Rod Davison This course takes you through the fundamentals of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) to help you understand how CI/CD fits within DevOps, and how CI/CD is works to solve real world problems. This brief program discusses how continuous delivery is a software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time and, when releasing the software, doing so manually. Continuous delivery (under which Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment can be grouped) aims at building, testing, and releasing software with greater speed and frequency. In large measure, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment fall within the broader category of DevOps, which is discussed also in this brief program. Continuous delivery approach helps reduce the cost, time, and risk of delivering changes by allowing for more incremental updates to applications in production. A straightforward and repeatable deployment process is important for continuous delivery. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/continuous-integration-and-continuous- deployment-in-action Git – Complete Immersion Course Core | 5 hours 35 minutes Instructor: Jason Taylor Course Introduction and Overview provides an introduction to this course and the Git source control system and sets the stage for the rest of the course. After the introduction, the first thing we do is Git Installation for both Windows and Mac. Quick Start a very quick (15 minutes), hands-on introduction to Git. We start off by signing up for GitHub, creating a repository there, the making a local copy (clone), local changes (add/commit) and then update GitHub with our changes (push). In Basic Commands, we walk through all the foundational commands needed to start a new project managed by Git (or enable Git for an existing project) all the way through making commits, including common file operations like moving and deleting files. We also cover how to exclude the wrong files from accidentally being committed and how to review your repository's history. With a strong foundation in place, we explore ways to make © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 44 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Comparisons in Git, including all the different local states, between commits, and between local and remote repositories. We give great attending to Branching and Merging in Git. We start off with the simple \"happy path\" and learn about \"Fast- Forward\" merges and how to control them. The we walk through common \"automatic\" merges. Finally, we cause trouble on purpose so we can step through resolving conflicting merges with our visual merge tool. With a strong foundation in branching and merging, we will then cover a more complex topic, Rebasing. In that section, we cover several rebasing examples, including how to resolve a rebase conflict. In the Stashing section, we save our work-in-progress while we attend to more pressing issues, then pick up where we left off after that. In the Tagging section, we mark important milestones or releases within our project. We also use those tags later for comparing differences between important milestones. We also look at how to use tags within GitHub. All tools have installation and configuration sections to ensure no one is left behind. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/git-complete-immersion-course How to Become a Great Product Manager Core | 11 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Dr. Bart Jaworski Are you looking to get into Product Management and become a great Product Manager? Or are you already one and seek inspiration to improve or deal with particular problems? Are you a sitting product manager that needs inspiration or assistance to help with ongoing issues? Hi there! I am Dr. Bart Jaworski, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. For many years, I have been dreaming – just like you – of becoming a highly successful product manager. Now that I have reached this dream, I want to share with you how I managed to do that. The road had been full of unexpected challenges, and I have been forced many times to search for additional resources to help me deal with them. Sadly, there had been some aspects of the position that no course or book could have prepared me for, and this is exactly where this course comes in. Don't get me wrong. My efforts have resulted in gaining great theoretical and basic knowledge. However, no one has ever told me how to deal with an ineffective team, how to find the right data to perform analyses, or even the basics – what character features actually make a great product manager. Thus, I have created this course. Throughout over 11 hours of core material, I am going to teach you about the position itself and, I am going to provide you with practical solutions on how to deal with different setbacks that I had to find out the hard way. After completing this course, you will be well prepared to: Manage any IT product. Choose the best improvements for it and make them a reality with your team. Envision the product's growth for many years to come. Build a great product road map. Change your stale development team into a well-oiled, highly effective machine. Find great ideas for your product and support them with the right data. Excel in planning an A/B test for any product change and be able to understand its effects. Become a great spokesman. Conduct engaging meetings and make them highly effective. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 45 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 https://go.starweaver.com/courses/how-to-become-a-great-product-manager Introduction to Jenkins on Windows Intermediate | 3 hours 30 minutes Instructor: Jason Taylor This is a beginner's course designed to show how to setup and run a Jenkins CI server starting with continuous inspection (build, test and analysis) for users of Windows- based systems. This course provides a strong foundation for implementing continuous inspection and integration at your company or studio. In order to keep the course short and to-the-point, several decisions were made in order to provide a complete path to continuous integration. The pipeline created in this course consists of the following: • Jenkins CI server installed and configured on Windows • Git as the source control system • Java as the main programming language of build projects • Maven as the build tool This set of tools provides a comprehensive, end-to-end implementation continuous integration pipeline. Jenkins can be installed on many operating systems and supports a myriad of tools and technologies -- which means, this course provides tremendous value to those comfortable or interested in other operating systems and/or technologies. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/introduction-to-jenkins-on-windows Jenkins Bootcamp – Automating Application Builds through Deployment Core | 8 hours 10 minutes Instructor: Jason Taylor This is a comprehensive course designed to show how to setup and run a Jenkins CI server starting with continuous inspection (build, test and analysis) all the way through to continuous deployment. This course provides a strong foundation for implementing continuous inspection, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and even continuous deployment at your company or studio. In order to keep the course short and to-the-point, several decisions were made in order to provide a complete path from CI to CD. The pipeline created in this course consists of the following: Jenkins CI server installed and configured on Windows Git as the source control system Java as the main programming language of build projects Maven as the build tool Find bugs, PMD, and Checkstyle as the static code analysis tools Tomcat as the deployment server Setup Jenkins in AWS using LightSail Use EC2 Plugin for Auto-scaling This set of tools provides a comprehensive, end- to-end implementation continuous deployment pipeline. Jenkins can be installed on many operating systems and supports a myriad of tools and technologies -- which means, this course provides tremendous value to those comfortable or interested in other operating systems and/or technologies. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/jenkins-bootcamp-automating-applications-builds- through-deployment © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 46 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Mastering Git for Windows Core | 7 hours 50 minutes Instructor: Jason Taylor This course is designed to be a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to learning the Git source control specifically for Windows users. From installation of Git on Windows (which cannot be handled as a command line option), this course takes students with no prior knowledge or experience and provides a solid understanding and hands-on experience with Git and related source control concepts. The program covers both command line and graphical clients for Git. From zero to mastery in a very short program. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/mastgering-git-for-windows Navigating GitHub Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Rod Davison GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets developers work together on projects from anywhere in the world. To demonstrate its power and importance, as of now October 2019 GitHub is the largest code host in the world with 20 million users and more than 57 million repositories. Thanks to GitHub we can better visualize the various programming languages being used globally wherein the graphic shows JavaScript accounting for 20% and Python 17% of the languages in use globally. In this course, Rod Davison explores the many uses and tools available to developers in GitHub, and the ways in which the platform can be used by teams to build better software, more quickly and more effectively. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/navigating-github The World According to DevOps: An Introduction Core | 50 minutes Instructor: Nasser El-Battal DevOps (a clipped compound of \"development\" and \"operations\") is a software development and delivery process that emphasizes communication and collaboration between product management, software development, and operations professionals. It supports this by automating and monitoring the process of software integration, testing, deployment, and infrastructure changes by establishing a culture and environment where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably. Many organizations are failing software projects; their failures are often related to challenges in software development and delivery methodology(ies). This requires the use of a different innovative more effective approach, DevOps. The DevOps approach is supported by Agile Scrum and lean practices amongst others, whereby an adaptive, incremental approach is used to deliver continuous business value, expediently. © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 47 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Besides the “Technical” side of DevOps, it is meant to bridge the GAP between Development and Operations Teams and establish efficiencies and remove bottlenecks and obstacles between the two groups, whether cultural or technical. DevOps is not about culture change, only! It is a business transformation as well. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/the-world-according-to-devops-an-introduction Understanding ITIL in Principle and Practice Core | 45 minutes Instructor: Nasser El-Battal This immersion offers you awareness of ITIL in practice. It is for those new to information technology service management, and to help guide you through IT service management throughout the “IT lifecycle.” Best practices techniques are covered. ITIL® is the industry best practice for IT Service Management. It has been in place since the mid-80’s to provide guidance to IT organizations on how to manage IT services throughout their lifecycle to continually deliver value to clients. With the release of ITIL® 4, the global service management best practice has evolved to incorporate all the best practices from previous versions and has expanded on this body of knowledge by providing a practical and flexible approach to support organizations on their journey to the new world of digital transformation. This latest version of ITIL® provides an end- to-end operating model for the delivery and operation of tech-enabled products and services and enables IT teams to continue to play a crucial role in wider business strategy. This revision also integrates concepts from other industry best practices such as Lean, Agile and DevOps. This course also covers “What’s New in ITIL® 4” and helps you understand the changes introduced with this new update, why it is highly valuable to organizations to meet today’s challenges of increased velocity and agility to meet business demand, and how to plan your own professional certification path within the new version. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/understanding-itil-in-principle-and-practice © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 48 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Finance An Intelligent Course On Real Estate Development Core | 7 hours 40 minutes Instructor: Ron Forlee This course is the perfect introduction to the industry for novice developers (although there is plenty of information for seasoned practitioners too), or those considering in investing in real estate development. It covers the whole gamut of residential and commercial development, including: The attributes of successful developers How to reduce the risks in developing real estate Choosing a team of appropriate development consultants Conducting a feasibility study, and calculating your profit Selecting finance and managing your way to success. This course provides a good overview of real estate development for those contemplating a career in this lucrative industry. The course is not a highly technical and is explained in simple language. It is ideal not only for a novice developer, but for seasoned developers as well. It offers a sound approach and defines the risks and financial rewards involved in this exciting and creative industry. While this course is based within the Australian context, the development principles apply to many other countries as well. Any person contemplating entering real estate development will be overwhelmed by the incredible breadth and depth of knowledge required to make it a success. No development should be made without understanding areas such as law, finance, management, feasibility, tax, company structures and marketing. From the first lecture to the last, I cover a broad range of subjects. The subjects covered include whether you have the right attitude, development finance, feasibility studies, the timing of a project and the appointment of consultants. Also, it explains how to analyze profits and provides advice on a range of development projects from small residential to large commercial centers. https://go.starweaver.com/courses/an-intelligent-course-on-real-estate-development Asset Securitization and the Asset-Backed Securities Markets Advanced | 6 hours 45 minutes Instructor: Starweaver Instructors Asset securitization is a way to convert cash-generating financial assets into self- liquidating secured investments. This Self-Instructional Guide describes the process of creating securities — ranging from commercial paper to bonds — backed by pools of assets other than mortgages. This involves the sale of a pool of financial assets by a corporation to a special purpose entity, which in turn issues securities backed by the anticipated cash flows from these assets. Asset securitization is a simple concept with complex financial, legal, accounting, tax, regulatory, operational and credit implications. This Self-Instructional Guide covers the benefits of securitization to clients, summarizes the basic components of securitization and reviews the roles of the major participants. https://go.starweaver.com/retro-course/asset-securitization-and-the-asset-backed- securities-markets-retro-learning-course © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 49 of 85
Starweaver for Business Course Catalogue Fall 2021 Asset-Based Lending and Finance Intermediate | 6 hours 45 minutes Instructor: Starweaver Instructors Asset-based financing is a popular source of funding for small- to medium-size companies with adequate collateral in the form of receivables and inventory. In a typical asset-based transaction, the borrower uses the realizable value of the company's current assets to support its funding requirements, while the lender makes regular advances against the realizable value of a borrower's eligible receivables and inventory. The borrower's collateral, rather than the borrower itself, drives credit quality. Because the credit quality is based on loan structure and the quality of the collateral rather the borrower itself, asset-based lending is provided to a broader range of businesses than traditional cash flow-based loans. In addition, fees and spreads are higher than on traditional bank loans. https://go.starweaver.com/retro-course/asset-based-lending-and-finance-retro- learning-course Bond Coupon Strips Advanced | 3 hours Instructor: Starweaver Instructors The process of taking a Treasury bond, separating the principal, called corpus, then separating each coupon is called coupon stripping. Bond STRIPS separate every coupon payment and the final maturity payment from a Treasury note or bond issue and turn each one into an individual zero-coupon security in its own right, because there have been no periodic interest rate payments made on each piece. After stripping, each piece trades in the secondary securities. The liquidity of this market shows just how popular the STRIPS zero-coupon security market is. Tax implications are less of a driving force than they once were, but the supply of zero-coupon, risk-free tradable rates in the securities market is a valuable tool for all fixed-income traders and investors. https://go.starweaver.com/retro-course/bond-coupon-strips-retro-learning-course Bonds and Bonds with Options Intermediate | 2 hours 15 minutes Instructor: Starweaver Instructors To make their bonds more attractive, issuers may attach equity options to a bond issue. Other bond structures apply call and put options on the early retirement of debt securities. Bonds with options appeal to a wide investor base because they can be customized to an investor's point of view. Debt and equity securities can be fine-tuned to meet special needs of the issuer. Specifically, convertible and exchangeable bonds are debt that may either be converted into or exchanged for equity. Debt with equity warrants are bonds sold with detachable call options on the issuer's common stock. Hybrid instruments lead to the issuance of new equity when the equity options are exercised by the investor. The issuer must be mindful of the potential to dilute the interests of existing shareholders. https://go.starweaver.com/retro-course/bonds-and-bonds-with-options-retro-learning- course © Starweaver Group, Inc. All rights reserved Page 50 of 85
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