Our PES manager, Izak Potgieter
travelled to Rochester in the USA to undertake a course in Lenel Custom
Solutions work shop. Check out his blog below- Lenel Custom Solutions Workshop….
An engineer abroad!!!
Lenel Custom
Solutions workshop – an engineer abroad
In the last couple of months, since being appointed as PES
manager, I have increasingly had to deal with an escalation in complexity and sheer
amount of Data Exchanges. With some new projects I have also had to do
integration into 3rd party software and hardware using DataConduIT.
With this in mind I asked to be sent to the annual Lenel
Custom Solutions Workshop at the Lenel Headquarters in Rochester NY- which was
definitely a challenging experience!
This workshop covered all of the following fields:
·
Database
Architecture and links
This sector provided me with some
additional insights into the layout of the data in the databases, and as well
as supplementary information in regards to the database tables and relevant SQL
scripts, links and triggers.
·
Data Exchange.
In the course we did several
types of data exports and imports. We did hands on work in class and I definitely
learned some new techniques regarding complex Data Exchanges. These will definitely
save me a lot of time in the future and also will result in increasingly stable
exchanges for more complex projects.
·
Custom
Reports
With the use of Crystal Reports,
it is possible to write reports that will cover the specific need for any
client. With the use of existing templates from Onguard it is a simple case of
changing it to fit requirements. This is a massive time saver and increases the
simplicity of using the system.
·
DataConduIT
In this section of the course, we
covered the basic setup and integration of software with the use of
DataConduIT. Included in this coverage was basic fault-finding procedures that
will help with all future installations and fault finding.
This was definitely a
course that met my preconceived expectations and with the wealth of knowledge I
took from it, I will be able to implement it into my work and offer a much
better service to our clients.
I also managed to
sneak in a bit of sightseeing, and was able to check out New York and Niagra
falls- all in all the trip was a great success and I really enjoyed myself!
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