Tailored courses for your project needs
Backbase has training courses tailored to each module and user profile for Backbase Portal Suite: front-end, back-end, portal management, user experience, CMS and Forms. All of our courses include hands-on exercises allowing you to learn and directly put that knowledge into practice. An instructor is there to help you along the way and answer any questions you might have.
Backbase Portal Front-End Training
The Backbase Portal Front-End training teaches you how to implement front-end portal configurations and customizations.
Duration: 3 days
Audience: Front-end developers interested in implementing Backbase Portal.
Prerequisites: Experience with developing standard web applications focusing on front-end. Technologies mostly used: Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT
Course Overview:
- Technical & Functional Product Suite Overview
- Short overview on Development Foundation (Maven, MVC, SPI, XEL, XPath, client include, jsp, ...)
- Portal Client Model
- Defining Widgets
- Managing the Portal Model via the Portal Admin
- Portal Branding
- Portal Layout
- Personalization customizations
- Portal Client APIs
- Widget Development Patterns (Content, Client Form, XML-XSLT)
- Working with the Portal Integration Service
- Inter(widget) communication
- Rendering Optimizations (Portal Rendering Service, Progressive HTML Enhancement)
Backbase Portal Back-End Training
The Backbase Portal Back-End training teaches you how to implement back-end portal configurations and customizations.
Duration: 3 days
Audience: Java developers interested in implementing Backbase Portal.
Prerequisites: Experience with developing application using Java web frameworks. Technologies mostly used: Java, Maven, Spring, Servlets
Course Overview:
- Technical & Functional Product Suite Overview
- Portal Environment Setup
- Integration of the security services, authentication, SSO, etc.
- Integration with SOAP Services
- Integration with REST Services
- Integration with (X)HTML Applications
- Integration & Error Handling
- Integrating content sources and CMS's (including Backbase CMS)
- Developing Widgets based on MVC Java Frameworks
- Personalization Service Customizations
- Rendering Service configuration and customization (SSR, Navigation Rules)
- Deployment architecture
Backbase Portal Manager Training
The Backbase Portal Manager training teaches you how to configure and maintain a Backbase Portal implementation.
Duration: 0.5 days
Audience: Portal Managers (business users)
Prerequisites: Basic website management (portal or CMS) and understanding of release management will be a pre
Course Overview:
- Understanding the Backbase Portal Model
- Portal Page
- Containers
- Widgets
- Catalog
- Registering Widgets in the Portal
- Defining Portal Templates
- Understanding Layouts
- Defining widget catalog
- Personalization & Template Changes Propagation
- Role-based Configuration
- Moving from Acceptance to Production Environments
Backbase Portal UX Training
The Backbase Portal UX training teaches you how to design for a Backbase Portal project.
Duration: 1 day
Audience: User Interaction Designers
Prerequisites: Experience with UX
Course Overview:
- Overview of UX-related Portal Features
- Understanding the Portal Model
- Understanding Layout options
- Branding
- Analysis of several Use Cases
- Going about with multiple devices
- Portal UX applied in banking
Backbase CMS Editing Training
The Backbase CMS Editing training teaches you how use Backbase CMS to populate a Backbase Portal implementation with content.
Duration: 0.5 days
Audience: Content & Portal Managers
Prerequisites: Experience with Content Management Systems will be an advantage
Course Overview:
- Configuring the Backbase CMS (Sites & members)
- Document types & content creation
- Aspects
- Workflow
- Publishing & unpublishing content
- Updating published content
- Working with WebDav
- Collections
Backbase Forms Training
The Backbase Forms Training training teaches you how to define Forms driven by business rules using Backbase Forms.
Duration: 2 days basic + 3 days advanced
Audience: Forms Managers (information/business analysts)
Prerequisites: Information Architecture experience, understanding of entity relationship models.
Course Overview:
- Introduction key concepts and tools (Forms Designer, Forms Composer and Forms Engine)
- Projects, modules and version management
- Define a Domain model
- Form page composition
- Field Dependencies
- Validation rules
- Defining page flows
- Business logic, rules, decision tables and decision trees
- Testing and publishing
