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Courses & consulting
Click the product name for a brief description and services offered. Courses are offered to meet your schedule, either at your location or at other convenient locations throughout the Greater Toronto Area. If you are outside of the GTA, Industrial Strength will be happy to come to your offices anywhere in the world to deliver courses, consulting, or development in any of these platforms. In each case, Industrial Strength can offer assistance in the classroom, at the desk, in an executive's office, or even at the corporate rollout level.
If you have custom-built software, or highly customized standard applications, Industrial Strength can create documentation and courseware just for your situation. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for further information.
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft
Access
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft
Word
Workshare Products DeltaView
Microsoft
.NET
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft
Outlook
Crystal Reports
Crystal
Enterprise
Lotus Notes
CommonTime mNotes
Palm & Treo
Mathematics for End Users Refresher
Microsoft
Visio (versions 5, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
Visio provides diagramming solutions that
help business and technical professionals document and communicate a broad range
of ideas, information, and systems. Diagrams make a message more concise, help
people remember main points, and transcend cultural and technical barriers. The
range and capability of Visio beyond simple diagrams place it in a category all
its own.
Services offered: Training from intro up to VBA programming,
consulting on Visio strategies , development of diagrams, templates, stencils,
and more. Course outlines available for level
1 and level
2. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for informationon training beyond level 2.
Check out Neman's Learn
Microsoft Visio column on 2000trainers.com!
Microsoft
Access (versions 2, 95, 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
Access 2003 offers a set of development tools powerful enough for experienced
database developers, but still within the reach of those new to the field. The
current version of Access enhances the features introduced in Access 2000 and
2002, such as easily placing a database on a corporate intranet, and includes
support for XML, which is rapidly becoming the data mechanism of choice.
Services offered: Training from intro up to VBA programming,
consulting on database design and troubleshooting, development of databases, forms,
reports, and more. Course outlines available for level
1 , level
2, level
3, and level
4. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for informationon training beyond level 4.
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Microsoft
Excel (versions 4, 95, 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
Create powerful spreadsheets for insightful analysis. Excel 2003 also continues
the Office XP innovations and includes more powerful PivotTables, PivotCharts,
refreshable Web Queries, strong native XML support, and much more. Everyone
who deals with numbers, tables or charts should know how to use Excel.
Services offered: Training from intro up to VBA programming, consulting on
spreadsheet design and troubleshooting, development of spreadsheets, macros
and
more. Course outlines available for level
1, level
2, and level
3. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for information for information
on training beyond level 3.
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Microsoft
Word (versions 6, 95, 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
The most popular word processor in the world is the application of choice for
writing and sharing documents. Greatly enhanced in Word 2003 from Word 2002
are features shared with other Office 2003 applications, such as Smart Tags,
Send for Review, Task Panes, and many more. XML support is also very strong,
now that it is a native file format for most Office applications.
Services offered: Training
from intro up to VBA programming, consulting on document and template design,
troubleshooting, development of templates, macros and more. Course outlines
available
for level
1, level
2, and level
3. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for information on training
beyond
level
3.
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Workshare
Products DeltaView
The world's leading document comparison tool, DeltaView
compares two versions of a document and produces an accurate accounting of the
changes. The high volume of electronic documents passed back and forth in business
mandates the need for a thorough understanding of all the changes that have taken
place between versions of documents and a simple way to communicate the changes
to others.
Services offered: Custom end user training as part of
a rollout in legal firms.
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Microsoft
.NET
Microsoft .NET is a vision of a connected world of information, people,
systems, and devices; a deep level of software integration and information flow
via the Internet. Using .NET services allows access to your information anywhere,
anyplace, anytime, and on any device. Learn about the fundamental nature of .NET,
its management benefits, or engage Industrial Strength's consulting services to
begin creating your part of the .NET world.
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Microsoft PowerPoint (versions 95, 97, 2000, 2002,
2003, 2007)
The standard in presentation software. Every manager and executive must know
how to create and deliver effective presentations, employing a look and feel
consistent with the corporate standards. PowerPoint 2003 provides new ways
of creating top-quality presentations in no time. Learn the effective use of
clipart, animations, text layout, and more.
Services offered: Training from intro up
to advanced, presentation and template design and development. Course outlines
available for level
1 and level
2. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com)
for information
on training beyond level 2.
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Microsoft
Outlook (versions 97, 98, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
Outlook is a single, integrated solution for e-mail, calendar, contacts, task
lists, and notes. The Outlook 2002 new features like instant messaging and the
consolidated reminder window continue in Outlook 2003, but they take a back
seat to the completely redesigned and highly improved user interface. New keyboard
shortcuts, immediate support for plain text viewing of all e-mails, protection
from inadvertent downloads, and a great new Reading Pane are just the start.
Outlook also synchronizes with PalmOS-based, PocketPC, and other handheld devices.
Learn to master this most useful and powerful productivity tool!
Services offered: Training from intro up to advanced, and consulting.
Course outlines available for level
1, level
2, and level
3. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for informationon training beyond level 3.
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Crystal
Reports (versions 6 to 8.5 and .NET)
Find the needle in the haystack
by creating interactive reports from virtually any data source. The de facto world
standard for reporting and report-based analysis, Crystal Reports is the tool
to know. Find out why so many companies, including Microsoft, AccPac, and others,
have embedded Crystal Reports within their product offerings in order to facilitate
powerful reporting, ease of use, and automation.
Services offered:
Training from intro up to advanced (including formula development), consulting
and troubleshooting existing reports, development of reports for use in standalone
and embedded situations. Course outlines available for level
1 and level
2. Please e-mail for information
on training beyond level 2. For Crystal Reports.NET, the CR8.5 curriculum is employed.
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Crystal Enterprise
(version 8)
Crystal Enterprise is a web-based framework for reporting,
analysis and information delivery. It allows your end users to publish reports
to an intranet or the Internet as easily as saving a file. Visitors to your site
can work with full-fidelity reports, regardless of whether they have Crystal Reports
on their own systems. As a report manager, you can create accounts, control security
and access to reports, schedule reports to run on a regular basis, and much more.
Please note: Crystal Enterprise is currently offered as part
of the Crystal Reports 8.5 course material. Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com) for
further details.
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Lotus
Notes (versions 4.x, R5, 6, 6.5)
One of the most powerful groupware products
on the market, Lotus Notes can fundamentally alter the way information is shared
and people work together in the business environment. Learn to use the Notes brand
of mail, calendar, and address book, as well as customizing the Notes environment,
accessing common databases, taking your Notes databases on the road, and more.
Services offered: End user training, course creation. Please e-mail
(sales AT istcd.com) for information on Notes training.
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CommonTime mNotes (versions 3.5.2 and
3.6.0)
Got Notes? Get mNotes! mNotes is the
best solution to synchronizing your PDAs, such as the Treo, Palm, or PocketPC.
Full support for Notes, because it's
a Notes application built from the ground up without compromise. mNotes supports
both wired
(HotSync/ActiveSync) and wireless synchronization of your PDAs to Lotus Domino
as well as Notes databases on your local PC.
Services offered: Installation and configuration for servers and PCs, end-user
training.
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Palm (all models); Treo (600 & 650)
Personal Digital Assistants are quite possibly the most useful tool since
the personal computer, because they fit in your pocket.
The PalmOS platform has revolutionized the world of accessible information.
Its ease of use and ability to provide the information you need makes this both
critical and a no-brainer for anyone who ever leaves their desk. Get one today
and throw away your paper-based planner tonight. Integrates very well with Microsoft
Outlook and other personal information managers (may require additional software).
Learn to use other applications to extend its functionality beyond the calendar
and contact list.
Services offered: Personal training, corporate rollout
training and consulting, documentation, course creation. Course outlines available
for basic
setup and sales data tracking, Outlook
integration, and daily
use. Please e-mail for information
on Palm work.
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Mathematics
for End Users Refresher
Need to use Excel in the near future, but
don't remember your high-school math? This half-day course refreshes the concepts
basic number systems, operations, percentages, calculation order, syntax, symbology,
and other topics. Course content is determined by user requirements and identified
future uses of applications such as spreadsheets or databases. If you are math-phobic,
or just plain hate math because you "didn't get it," this is the course
for you.
Services offered: Personal training, classroom training,
custom curriculum development, "helping-hand" on the job assistance.
Please e-mail (sales AT istcd.com)
for information on mathematics
refresher work.
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Word
of Mouth
Reliability and integrity are rare attributes.
You will find both in Neman Syed. Neman gets the job done on both the short and
long haul. He will exceed your expectations.
Dave D'Silva, President
Intelligent Market Solutions Group Inc.
Toronto
sales AT istcd.com