Enterprise Architecture Training in Penang Island

This instructor-led, live training in Penang Island (available online or onsite) is designed for software professionals at intermediate to advanced levels who wish to understand how to architect distributed systems that scale efficiently and handle failure gracefully.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Design distributed systems capable of managing load, latency, and failure effectively.
• Grasp key architectural patterns including microservices, event-driven architecture, and CQRS.
• Assess the trade-offs between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance as outlined in the CAP theorem.
• Select suitable strategies for communication, storage, and coordination.

This instructor-led, live training in Penang Island (online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level IT professionals and ICT service managers who aim to grasp and apply ITSM fundamentals and practices rooted in ITIL 4.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be capable of:

• Understanding the core concepts and structure of ITIL 4.
• Applying service design and architecture practices that align with ITIL 4 principles.
• Implementing effective delivery and sustainability for ICT services.
• Evaluating real-world scenarios and simulating ITSM practices.

This instructor-led live training in Penang Island (online or onsite) is designed for architects and enterprise architecture professionals from beginner to advanced levels. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding and practical skills for utilizing NAF in enterprise architecture. The course covers all aspects broadly, without focusing on specific views or functions, utilizing Sparx Enterprise Architect or other preferred tools.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Efficiently navigate NAF documentation.
• Leverage Sparx Enterprise Architect for architecture-related tasks.
• Describe and comprehend various types of NATO architectures.
• Generate and interpret NATO Architecture Views.
• Identify and analyze stakeholders and Communities of Interest (CoIs).
• Align stakeholder interests with the architectural framework.
• Analyze and document the architectural interests and impacts of CoIs.

This instructor-led live training, delivered either online or onsite at the Penang Island location, is designed for IT professionals who wish to learn how to properly install a structured cabling system in any building or structure.

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

• Understand the concept and infrastructure elements of a structured cabling system.
• Install and test a cabling system correctly.
• Learn the industry standards, techniques, and equipment used for a structured cabling system.

This two-day course centres on the simulation of SysML models.

Delivered as live, instructor-led training (available on-site or remotely), this programme is designed for professionals who wish to utilise Cameo Simulation Toolkit to effectively build and execute SysML diagrams and models.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Prepare and configure SysML diagrams for simulation.
• Run Activity diagrams.
• Run State Machine diagrams.
• Run Parametric diagrams.
• Run Sequence diagrams.

To join this course, participants must meet the prerequisites and possess a solid understanding of SysML diagrams.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Ample exercises and practical sessions.
• Hands-on implementation within a live lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• For those interested in tailored training for this subject, please contact us to make arrangements.

This is a 3-day training covering principles of modeling, UML, SysML and use of MagicDraw or Cameo following a case study, which demonstrates a typical model-based systems engineering approach.

The course:

• Includes lectures and hands-on practice in using MagicDraw or Cameo for systems modeling using SysML;
• Explains major SysML concepts and diagrams;
• Provides hands-on experience building system model examples;
• Shows how to trace model elements in different views;
• Explains how to use MagicDraw features efficiently;
• Is based on a consistent modeling case study.

Audience:

• System architects, system engineers, software architects and other stakeholders who will create and use models.

Methods:

• Presentations, discussions, and case study-based practical assignments.

Course Materials:

• Slides, case study model, and practical assignment descriptions.

Certificates:

• Each participant receives NobleProg certificate indicating that he/she attended the training.

This course builds upon your existing understanding of UML, focusing on the practical application of the UML language for object-oriented analysis during the training sessions.

Designed to impart the core principles of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), this course covers its application via MagicDraw/Cameo software, fundamental MBSE simulation techniques, and industry best practices for MBSE.

This training will guide you on how to use SysML, the modeling language for systems engineering. You will primarily explore block diagrams for structuring complex systems, and delve into sequence, state machine, and activity diagrams for dynamic modeling. You will also learn to use specific SysML diagrams such as requirements diagrams and parametric diagrams, as well as the concept of allocation. We will emphasize the importance of establishing a modeling approach tailored to the company's context and the type of system under study. Practical exercises will be conducted using the Cameo Systems Modeler (MagicDraw) modeling tool by NoMagic.

Audience:

Systems engineers, business analysts, and architects tasked with modeling complex systems involving both hardware and software.

Pedagogical Approach:

Theoretical lectures supported by illustrative examples.
50% hands-on exercises using Cameo Systems Modeler on a case study conducted throughout the training.

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an approach for handling complex behaviors when developing software.

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) serves as a specialized architecture framework designed for the United States Department of Defense. It offers a structured approach to addressing specific stakeholder concerns by organising them into viewpoints across various views.

DoDAF establishes a collection of views that function as tools for visualising, comprehending, and integrating the extensive scope and intricacies of an architecture description. These views can be presented through tabular, structural, behavioural, ontological, pictorial, temporal, or graphical formats.

This framework is particularly effective for managing large-scale systems that face complex integration and interoperability challenges. Notably, DoDAF stands out for its operational views, which clearly delineate the external customer’s operational domain where the system under development will function.

This course is designed for all professionals involved in planning, analyzing, implementing, executing, maintaining, or enhancing Enterprise Architectures. It provides a comprehensive perspective on the tools utilized to describe and implement EA.

This introductory training course on Enterprise Architect is tailored for individuals who want to leverage Sparx Systems’ UML modelling tool, Enterprise Architect, for their modelling tasks but are not yet familiar with its features, functions, and application.

Objective

This training course is designed to help participants grasp the most widely adopted Enterprise Architectures and the essential principles governing their construction. The goal is to enable organisations to select an appropriate architecture scenario that aligns with their specific needs.

By carefully selecting the right architecture layers, components, and traceability links—ranging from the business layer to the technical layer—the resulting enterprise architecture framework facilitates robust impact analysis in response to evolving business decisions and anticipates changes in corresponding information system components.

Through a blend of lectures, demonstrations, and interactive labs, this course illustrates the foundational practices for establishing and maintaining an Enterprise Architecture (EA) using the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) version 1.2.

Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is a software design methodology where decoupled components interact by generating and processing events, facilitating the creation of highly scalable, responsive, and resilient systems.

This instructor-led live training, available online or onsite, is tailored for intermediate to advanced Go developers seeking to master the design, construction, and deployment of event-driven applications using Go alongside popular messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS.

Through practical labs and real-world scenarios, attendees will develop hands-on expertise in constructing decoupled services, managing messaging infrastructure, and deploying scalable event-based systems within modern cloud-native environments.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be capable of:

• Grasping the core concepts and trade-offs inherent in Event-Driven Architecture.
• Designing and implementing event producers and consumers in Go.
• Utilizing messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, and NATS with Go.
• Establishing and managing event infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Applying industry best practices for error handling, monitoring, and deployment.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical practice.
• Hands-on implementation within a live laboratory environment.

Customization Options

• For customized training requirements, please contact us to make arrangements.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the core principles of embedded GNU/Linux, illustrating how its various components interconnect. It covers the essential elements required to construct an embedded GNU/Linux environment, including sourcing, configuring, building, and installing these components. Participants will also learn where to seek assistance and gain clarity on software licensing. Through practical, hands-on exercises, you will acquire the necessary experience to independently develop your own embedded GNU/Linux systems upon successful completion.

Description

This five-day training programme combines instructor-led teaching with practical exercises to effectively demonstrate embedded GNU/Linux concepts. It is designed to rapidly accelerate your proficiency. The course explores the philosophy, fundamental concepts, and essential commands for utilising GNU/Linux effectively, blending theoretical knowledge with practical, job-oriented training.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, learn from an experienced trainer and take away a working knowledge of GNU/Linux, empowering you to utilise it effectively in your own embedded development projects.

Who should attend?

This course is ideal for managers, project managers, software engineers, hardware engineers, developers, systems engineers, testers, administrators, technicians, and other professionals interested in the technology who wish to quickly grasp how Embedded GNU/Linux operates. It is suitable for those who currently use or are considering using GNU/Linux, or those who want to evaluate whether it is a viable, potentially more cost-effective alternative to their current operating system. It is also perfect for those who have attempted to use Embedded GNU/Linux but are unsure if they have followed best practices.

Delivery Options

All training materials are provided in English. However, the presentation can be delivered in either English or German, depending on your preference, and is available worldwide.

• On-site - Instructor-led
• Online - Instructor-led
• Blended (On-site/Online) - Instructor-led

This programme is tailored for professionals who already possess an ITIL® 4 Foundation certification and wish to update their expertise to the latest ITIL® 5 framework. It offers a concise and efficient transition, emphasising the key distinctions, new concepts, and expanded practices introduced in ITIL® 5.

This training programme offers a thorough introduction to ITIL® 5, the contemporary framework designed for managing digital products and services in today’s rapidly evolving landscape. It empowers participants with a robust understanding of how organisations can generate value through efficient service management and collaborative efforts.

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application through the MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. This training covers the fundamentals of creating templates and generating reports within the MagicDraw/Cameo tool suite, and teaches how macros and scripts work inside MagicDraw and what they can be applied to.

The course is structured to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application via the MagicDraw/Cameo software, core Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and industry best practices. This training also equips professionals with a background in architectural simulation, introduces the Simulation Toolkit plugin, covers the simulation of various diagram types, and demonstrates how to link diagram simulations to automate architectural processes.​

This course is structured to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application via MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and industry best practices. The training covers core concepts and features related to validation rules, validation suites, and model metrics, while also introducing the essential skills for developing and utilizing model queries within MagicDraw/Cameo.

This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), its application using MagicDraw/Cameo software, basic Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) simulation techniques, and best practices in MBSE. The training offers a foundational overview of the core concepts and features of CATIA No Magic’s Teamwork Cloud, as well as introducing the key concepts and features of Domain Specific Languages (DSL) in MagicDraw.​

In this instructor-led live training in Penang Island, participants will learn to evaluate various technologies and approaches for designing service-based system architectures. The training begins with a discussion and comparison of monolithic systems and service architectures, before delving into the specifics of microservice architecture.

Participants have the chance to put their knowledge into practice by creating and deploying a set of proof-of-concept microservices built with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, and Docker.
Furthermore, relevant infrastructure building blocks are examined to help participants determine the most suitable tools and approaches for different organizational requirements.
By the end of this training, participants will have a solid understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservice Architecture, as well as practical experience using Spring Cloud and related Spring technologies for rapidly developing their own cloud-scale, cloud-ready microservices.

This instructor-led, live training in Penang Island (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level professionals who wish to understand and apply NAF to support enterprise architecture design and decision-making across defence-related projects.

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

• Understand the structure and purpose of the NATO Architecture Framework.
• Identify and describe various architecture views within NAF.
• Map stakeholder requirements to architectural components.
• Use tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect to create NAF-compliant models.

Objective: This course is designed to assist participants in effectively applying the UAF and NAF enterprise architecture frameworks.

Understanding the concepts of UAF 1.1 within the context of the NATO NAF v4 Architecture Framework is highly beneficial. The Domain Meta-model (DMM) of UAF articulates various stakeholder concerns related to a system, such as security, information, and measurement, through a set of predefined viewpoints, which are then mapped to corresponding views in NAFv4.

Furthermore, the Architecture Stages defined in the NATO NAFv4 Methodology guide participants on how to utilize UAF views efficiently, ensuring coherence and completeness while enabling traceability from high-level strategic goals down to the specific personal and physical resources required for their realization.

The concepts and techniques covered in the course are progressively applied by attendees through an end-to-end case study and various related exercises.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical application.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange it.

The OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental exam assesses the knowledge and skills necessary to create a foundational SysML model for a system. The examination encompasses model concepts and organization, the capture and management of basic requirements, structure and behavior models, parametric models, allocation relationships, and the application of stereotypes. By leveraging the knowledge and skills acquired at this level, along with proficiency in a compatible SysML modeling tool, a holder of the OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental Certification should effectively contribute to modeling tasks performed by a Systems Engineering team adopting a model-based systems engineering approach using SysML. The OCSMP Model Builder – Fundamental Certification serves as a prerequisite for the program’s two higher-level certifications and requires the OCSMP Model User Certification as its foundation.  

This examination (along with others in the OCSMP series) evaluates your ability to apply the listed knowledge and skills within the context of a system model. As you study, look beyond individual diagrams to understand how the aspects they represent can influence or affect other aspects of the system depicted in different diagram types.  

The course combines module-based lectures, instructor-led demonstrations, and practical laboratory sessions. Our trainers are seasoned practitioners who excel in balancing theoretical knowledge with practical application.

Key Outcomes:

• Understanding the purpose of ontologies​
• Comprehending the advantages of knowledge graphs
• Practical proficiency in Protégé and Concept Modeling

This course provides a comprehensive understanding of every aspect of the OMG Unified Architecture Framework. Rather than concentrating on a single view or function, it equips delegates with the skills to locate and comprehend information within the documentation effortlessly.

Throughout the course, participants will engage in practical exercises, answer questions, and more.

Sparx Enterprise Architect is typically used during the course, though other tools may be substituted if preferred.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets system administrators and infrastructure engineers who aim to design, deploy, and manage private OpenStack cloud infrastructures for enterprise environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to understand OpenStack architecture, deploy private cloud infrastructure, manage compute and storage resources, implement security with Keystone, and apply enterprise best practices.

Our ED-SOA training focuses on building and analysing an architecture framework that builds upon the SOA reference architecture. Services are used as event generators, signifying a problem or impending problem, an opportunity, a threshold, or a deviation.

Designed for postgraduate students or those with equivalent qualifications, this course blends theoretical lectures with practical lab sessions.

Upon completion, students will be equipped to:

Knowledge and Understanding.

• Comprehend the core principles and business benefits of systems built around services.
• Gain comprehensive insight into the key protocols and technologies underpinning web services standards, understanding how they interrelate. This includes mastering both established elements and leading-edge developments in web services.
• Deepen your understanding of the technologies that enable systems based on widely used programming languages to consume and provide Web Services.

Intellectual Skills:

• Determine where service-oriented approaches, particularly web services, are best suited for specific business contexts.
• Evaluate and design the most effective web services solutions.
• Build a foundation for future learning regarding the rapidly evolving aspects of web services standards.

Practical Skills:

• Utilize current platform-neutral web service technologies, including XML, SOAP, and WSDL.
• Develop and publish web services using popular programming languages, and write corresponding client code to invoke these services.

Objective:

This training is designed to equip Analysts and Designers within the System Engineering domain with the skills to efficiently gather requirements and proceed with embedded software design implementation, guided by system specifications through the use of UML 2 and SysML.

Spanning three days, the programme aims to assist system analysts in articulating their needs effectively, while enabling designers to formulate the appropriate architectural designs for the system based on those needs.

The resulting system architecture offers robust agility to embedded system software, particularly in the face of changes. It achieves this by maintaining coherent traceability between business rules encapsulated in system functions and the usage choices (use cases) of end-users, extending down to the software implementation level.

This course is delivered in two variants to provide a practical understanding of how systems can be modelled using the newest version of OMG's Systems Modelling Language (SysML) specification. The notation and underlying semantics of SysML are explained in a way that allows students to apply what they learn to any suitable system modelling method or tool.

In this instructor-led, live training in Penang Island (online or onsite), participants will learn how to use SysML as implemented in Enterprise Architect (EA) to carry out system requirements analysis and modeling.

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

• Understand and apply SysML to Systems Engineering projects, using a Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach.
• Identify system requirements based on use case models.
• Design and analyze system architecture.

Through this hands-on training, you will learn to utilize the SysML modeling language effectively. You will explore block diagrams for the structural modeling of complex systems, and deepen your understanding of sequence, state, and activity diagrams for dynamic modeling. Additionally, you will gain proficiency in specialized SysML diagrams such as requirements and parametric diagrams, along with the critical concept of allocation. The course will also emphasize the importance of defining a tailored modeling approach that fits your organization's context and the specific type of system under study. Finally, we will review the current landscape of SysML modeling tools.

Target Audience:

Project managers, architects, and system engineers tasked with modeling complex systems comprising both software and hardware components.

Teaching Method:

• Theoretical presentations accompanied by practical examples
• Paper-based case study including a live demonstration of a SysML tool by the instructor

This course introduces the Systems Modeling Language (SysML) from a reviewer's standpoint and provides an overview of the Cameo Collaborator tool.

Constructing complex enterprise applications presents significant challenges in a rapidly evolving environment.

Modifications to the integration between services or systems inevitably necessitate changes in system design. This course addresses how to design maintainable service and systems architectures, as well as practical infrastructure, that are appropriately scaled to your organization's size and purpose.

The curriculum explores common challenges encountered when building distributed application landscapes, starting from integration issues and infrastructure considerations, through to modern approaches and strategies for resolving complexity.

Participants will examine the advantages and disadvantages of various solutions (such as traditional SOA versus Microservice architecture), along with the available tools (predominantly open-source) that support development and maintenance.

Course Format

The session is primarily discussion-based, with limited presentations.

As distributed systems become increasingly complex, the challenge has shifted from the intricacies of a single application to the architectural complexity of interconnected systems. This course explores the relationship between Software Architecture and Technical Enterprise Architecture, two domains that are closely intertwined yet often inadequately defined. For instance, decomposing a complex monolithic application into two distinct systems that communicate via web services necessitates significant changes to both the individual systems and the architecture facilitating their interaction.

This course addresses the trade-offs involved, alongside commonly adopted patterns and solutions for managing complex systems and their internal and external communications.

This course is tailored for analysts, designers, developers, testers, and project managers.

The workshop demonstrates how to analyze problems, design solutions, and document systems using UML and Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect. Participants will explore the software's advanced capabilities—such as MDA, profiles, and XMI—alongside best practices that significantly streamline and accelerate the modeling process.

As the training concentrates on the Enterprise Architect tool, it is assumed that participants already possess UML modeling knowledge. For those seeking to learn modeling from scratch, we offer dedicated UML training courses.

The training method

Lecture 10%, 90% workshop

The role of the IT Business Analyst is one of the fastest-growing positions within the IT industry. Business Analysts are employed by nearly every organization and serve as vital members of any IT team, regardless of whether it operates in the private or public sector.

This course offers a clear, step-by-step guide on how Business Analysts can effectively perform their roles using cutting-edge object-oriented technology.

UPDM is an Object Management Group (OMG) initiative to develop a modeling standard that supports both the USA Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF). The modeling standard is called the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM).

This programme is tailored for business analysts, managers, team leaders, and process owners, equipping them with the essential skills to develop use case diagrams and scenarios. These artefacts facilitate the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and communication of functional requirements. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises to construct use cases using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), enabling them to visually depict the interactions between actors and use cases.

This instructor-led live training, available both onsite and remotely, is designed for architects and technical leads who work with distributed systems that must handle high traffic while ensuring high scalability and reliability.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the key benefits, limitations, and governing rules that define the characteristics of distributed, scalable, and highly reliable systems.
• More accurately evaluate what is achievable and what is not when using such systems.
• Familiarize themselves with common architecture patterns for distributed, scalable, and highly reliable systems.
• Understand the capabilities and appropriate usage models of technologies that support scalability and reliability, such as streaming service buses (based on Kafka), NoSQL storage solutions (based on Redis), and distributed processing frameworks.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Review of real-world architecture solutions.
• Practical examples leveraging Kafka and Redis.

Course Customization Options

• For tailored training requests, please contact us to arrange.