Education

Technical/Administration

Product Direction: CGI Advantage Administration
(Technical/Admin)
116
Monday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Update

State and local governments require a powerful combination of standard, scalable technology and comprehensive, integrated, built-for-government ERP software. This session defines the underlying technologies that CGI Advantage is built upon as well as current technology trends, and provides a look ahead at future enhancements under consideration.

Doing More with Less (Technology)
(Technical/Admin)
126
Monday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview

In today’s economic climate, state and local governments have very limited capital for investing in and maintaining ERP technologies. Governments are looking for ways to do more with less. This session identifies ways to save money on hardware through new platforms and virtualization, how to best leverage IT staff resources, options to eliminate night shifts by improving batch cycles and the role of IT staff in a Managed Advantage environment.

Troubleshooting CGI Advantage
(Technical/Admin)
136
Monday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Basic

Application administrators are not only responsible for managing the CGI Advantage application, but also are the first ones called when an end-user runs into an error. This session provides a demonstration on troubleshooting and resolving common technical application and configuration related problems such as null pointers, out of memory errors, certificate issues, exceptions, database errors and other technical issues. Learn the tools that are commonly used for identifying and resolving technical issues within CGI Advantage. This session benefits technical system administrators who deal with troubleshooting issues with the application.

Creating a Data Management Plan in CGI Advantage
(Technical/Admin)
146
Monday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

This session describes data management in CGI Advantage, providing recommendations and best practices for our entire ERP suite of solutions. Attend to receive an overview of archiving, database compression, partitioning and information lifecycle management, as well as how to use enterprise content management and backup strategies.

Benefits of Migrating to a Page Security Model
(Technical/Admin)
216
Tuesday 9:45 am – 10:45 am
Type/Level: Advanced

This technical session covers security topics based on the "Page Security" configuration approach—the default security model starting with CGI Advantage Release 3.9. Learn how to set up and use Page Security and maximize the benefits of the Page-based security model. This session also includes discussion on using multiple security mechanisms in combination to meet complex security requirements. Finally, for sites that are already in production, attend for an explanation on how to move from a Table-based security model to the Page-based security model.

Mobile Computing
(Technical/Admin)
226
Tuesday 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, are rapidly becoming a staple in our lives. This session discusses CGI’s strategic direction for mobile device support. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of mobile web browsers versus native applications as well as how security will be handled, what development platform(s) will be used and how an enterprise centralized device could be managed.

Electronic Content Management (ECM) Solution Support
(Technical/Admin)
236
Tuesday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Type/Level: Overview

Public sector organizations receive, produce, process and store a large quantity of data and documents every day. This accelerating quantity of data and documents, combined with a need to control cost, drives the need for an ECM solution. This session defines ECM, the ECM products supported, baseline ECM integration support through CGI Advantage Business Integration (ABI) and ways clients have made use of ECM with CGI Advantage.

How to Manage Reorganizations
(Financial, Technical/Admin)
241
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Overview

In the state and local government industry, organizational change is constant, resulting from changes in administration and other factors. Departments are often merged, split or eliminated. Services may become centralized within a state or within a department moving from a decentralized model. There is also an increasing emphasis on the shared services model as governments strive to become more efficient. If organizational change is on the horizon, attendees can learn from other organizations that have experienced and managed such change. The session focuses on the implications for CGI Advantage Financial Management, such as chart of accounts, security and workflow changes.

Performance Tuning
(Technical/Admin)
246
Tuesday 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

The CGI Advantage ERP suite is a highly configurable multi-tiered, multi-component solution that runs on diverse platform configurations. As such, many areas of the solution may need to be monitored and tuned. This introductory session provides an overview of the CGI Advantage architecture and applications that should be tuned and monitored to ensure that your systems are running efficiently. General recommendations and some specific recommendations for each ERP component and platform will be covered. Explore some new topics with later CGI Advantage releases such as 64-bit software, browser considerations, virtualization and new ERP capabilities (e.g. PB parallel salary projection).

Web Service/Portlet Development
(Technical/Admin)
256
Tuesday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Type/Level: Advanced

This technical session discusses the CGI Advantage Web Service/Portlet architecture, demonstrates developing and deploying a sample web service and demonstrates creating and deploying a sample portlet. Presenters will also provide an overview of the baseline Web Services and Portlet catalog.