Cúram Education Courses

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Courses For Business Users

CUR087 Introduction to the Merative Cúram Platform 8.X: Functional Overview

• Duration: 5 hours approx

• Course description: Merative Cúram offers products that Social Enterprise agencies need to provide government-funded social, health, and other services to citizens. The course provides a high-level summary of the Cúram Platform and the Cúram Application Modules. There is no lab for this course.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for Business Analysts and anyone who needs a general overview of the features and functionality of the Cúram Platform 8.X, including testers, project managers, and product administrators.

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CUR088 Fundamentals of the Merative Cúram Platform for Business Analysts 8.X

• Duration: 40 hours

• Course description: This self-paced course introduces the fundamentals of the Merative Cúram Platform. The course discusses out-of-the-box Cúram functionality and illustrates how it can be implemented by Social Services organizations and related agencies. This course is designed to familiarize learners with the main components of Cúram 8.X and explain how they fit together to support organizational processes.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for Business Analysts (BAs) who work on Cúram implementation projects. The course is also useful for anyone who needs an overview of the features and functionality of the Merative Cúram Platform 8.X, including testers, project managers, and administrators. In general, the contents of the course are relevant to a wider audience than BAs and will help members of that wider audience to collaborate effectively on Cúram implementation projects.

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CUR084 (9D84G) Cúram Solution for Child Welfare - Overview

• Duration: 3 hours

• Course description: This course provides an overview of the Cúram Solution for Child Welfare, which is a Merative product that is designed for organizations that provide child welfare services. The course also covers two of the six modules that the Solution contains, namely, Intake and Investigation.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for Child Welfare professionals who need to understand the features and functionality of the Cúram Solution for Child Welfare. It is also aimed at anyone who needs an introduction to the Cúram Solution for Child Welfare.

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CUR085 (9D85G) Cúram Solution for Child Welfare - Modules

• Duration: 3 hours

• Course description: This course describes the features and functionality of 4 modules in the Cúram Child Welfare Solution, namely, Case Management, Legal, Collaboration, and Resource Management.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for Child Welfare professionals who need to understand the features and functionality of the Case Management, Legal, Collaboration, and Resource Management modules of the Cúram Solution for Child Welfare.

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CUR079 (9D79G) IBM SPM Design System for Designers

• Duration: 7 hours

• Course description: The course explains the importance of design in the development of usable web apps and digital services. It also places the importance of design in the context of governments in Canada, the U.K., and U.S. setting up national web design systems. The course also introduces the IBM Design Thinking framework and the Merative SPM Web Design System.

• Audience: This course is intended for a mixed audience including business analysts (BA), Developers, and Graphic Designers who will work on SPM implementation projects that use the IBM SPM Web Design System.

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CUR093 (DL41001G) Merative SPM on Kubernetes for Business Consultants

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Courses For Developers

CUR089 Merative Cúram 8.X Technical Overview

• Duration: 16 hours

• Course description: This course describes the technologies that provide the business features for end-to-end case handling. It also describes considerations when implementing solutions, from understanding out-of-the-box artifacts to configuration, customization, deployment, and support. This course is the starting point for all Cúram technical training courses.

• Audience: This introduction-level course is aimed at anyone who requires a technical overview of Cúram, including developers, architects, project executives, database administrators, testers, system administrators (technical), and other technical personnel.

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CUR090 Merative Cúram for Developers (ADE) 8.X

• Duration: 40 -50 hours

• Course description: This course provides a solid grounding in the Cúram model-driven development approach and Application Development Environment (ADE). It presents an architectural overview of the Cúram application and introduces ADE features and tools for modeling, coding, building, and troubleshooting applications.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects. The course is also useful for anyone who needs a technical understanding of Merative Cúram Platform 8.X, including testers and support engineers.

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CUR091 Merative Cúram for Developers (Customization) 8.X

• Duration: 40 - 50 hours

• Course description: Teams building Cúram solutions for customers must be able to analyze and customize out-of-the-box (OOTB) solutions. The first part of the course describes the approach that Cúram uses for customizing OOTB applications compliantly, including how to customize client and server artifacts, as well as source code and non-source code artifacts. The course also outlines how SOAP and RESTful web services are used for integrating with external applications and how custom features can be implemented using events, deferred processes, and batch processes.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects. The course is also useful for anyone who needs a technical understanding of Cúram Platform 8.X, including testers and support engineers.

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CUR079 (9D79G) IBM SPM Design System for Designers

• Duration: 7 hours

• Course description: The course explains the importance of design in the development of usable web apps and digital services. It also places the importance of design in the context of governments in Canada, the U.K., and U.S. setting up national web design systems. The course also introduces the IBM Design Thinking framework and the Merative SPM Web Design System.

• Audience: This course is intended for a mixed audience including business analysts (BA), Developers, and Graphic Designers who will work on SPM implementation projects that use the IBM SPM Web Design System.

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CUR080 (9D80G) IBM SPM Design System for Developers

• Duration: 16 hours

• Course description: During the course, learners will install the SPM Design System, set up the development environment, develop pages by using Design System components, integrate with the Cúram SPM server, and test their pages. At the beginning of the course, learners will review the main third-party technologies that are used during the course. At the end of the course learners will implement a prototype solution for the user experience they sketched in the pre-requisite course: Merative SPM Design System for Designers (CUR079).

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects that use the SPM Design System. This course is also useful for testers and support staff who will work with the SPM Design System.

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CUR081 (9D81G) IBM Universal Access for Developers (Responsive Web Application)

• Duration: 16 hours

• Course description: Developers must understand the structure of the UA Responsive Web Application so that they can customize and extend it to produce high-quality citizen services. During the course, learners will install the web application, add custom pages, fetch data from the server, and manage custom state using Redux. In addition, developers will investigate the server configuration and REST APIs that are necessary to support the web application.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects that customize and extend the UA Responsive Web Application. This course is also useful for testers and support staff who will work with the UA Responsive Web Application.

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CUR083 (9D83G) IBM Universal Access for Developers (Server-Side)

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CUR082 (9D82G) IBM Cúram SPM Intelligent Evidence Gathering (IEG) for Developers 7.X

• Duration: 24 hours

• Course description: Intelligent Evidence Gathering (IEG) is a Cúram technology that is used to create dynamic scripts. IEG is used by Cúram applications to gather data from internal workers and citizens who use fixed and mobile devices. This course describes how to develop IEG scripts and integrate these scripts into Cúram applications.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects. The course is also useful for anyone who needs a technical understanding of IEG.

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CUR086 (DL41002G) Merative SPM on Kubernetes for Developers

• Duration: 16 hours

• Course description: This course provides the essential knowledge and resources to help technical roles implement and manage Merative Cúram Social Program Management (SPM) deployments on Kubernetes.

• Audience: This is a technical course and is suited to learners with a technical background, such as developers, architects, DevOps engineers, and system administrators.

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CUR062 (9D62G) Merative Cúram Batch Processing for Developers

• Duration: 2 hours

• Course description: The course provides an overview of batch processing in Cúram. It also describes how batch jobs are developed and how streaming and chunking architecture can be used to improve performance. Finally, the course describes how SPM batch processes use the DB-JMS to access application server functions.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects who will work on Cúram implementation projects.

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CUR068 (9D68G) Merative Cúram - Developing REST APIs

• Duration: 8 - 10 hours

• Course description: This course provides students with a technical understanding of developing REST APIs for Cúram Social Program Management (SPM) and how to develop REST APIs for Cúram by using recommended practices. During the course, students will design and implement a simple REST API.

• Audience: This course is intended primarily for developers and technical architects.

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CUR052 (9D52G) IBM Cúram Workflow for Developers 6.0.5

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CUR094 (9D94G) IBM Cúram Express Rules for Developers (ADE) 7.X

• Duration: 24 hours

• Course description: This course describes how to develop CER rules using the CER Application Development Environment (ADE). During the course, students will design and implement a simple end-to-end application by using CER features.

• Audience: This intermediate-level course is aimed at developers and technical architects.

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CUR095 (9D95G) IBM Cúram Express Rules for Developers (Application Integration) 7.X

• Duration: 24 hours

• Course description: This course provides students with a technical understanding of integrating CER with Cúram applications. This course describes how to integrate CER rules with Cúram Applications and covers the following topics. During the course, students will develop rules and evidence for a simple product.

• Audience: This intermediate-level course is aimed at developers and technical architects.

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CUR099 Merative Cúram Express Rules for Developers 8.X

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Practice Environments

CUR097 Merative Cúram Development Environment 8.X for BAs: Sandbox

• Duration: 50 hours access

• Lab description: The sandbox provides learners with on-demand access to the Merative Cúram Platform 8.X development environment. This environment is used in the Fundamentals of the Merative Cúram Platform for Business Analysts 8.X course (CUR088). The Sandbox enables students to explore some of the functionality and features covered by the course. This lab is accompanied by the CUR088 lab exercise guide but there is no course book or training curriculum provided.

• Audience: This lab is intended primarily for Cúram Business Analysts and other functional/admin personnel who need to use and familiarize themselves with the Merative Cúram SPM Platform V8.X . The Sandbox is also useful for people who are preparing for the Cúram V8.X BA Certification Test.

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CUR092 Merative Cúram Development Environment 8.X for Developers: Sandbox

• Duration: 50 hours access

• Lab description: The sandbox provides learners with on-demand access to the Merative Cúram Platform 8.X development environment. This environment is used in the Merative Cúram for Developers (ADE) 8.X course (CUR090) and Merative Cúram for Developers (Customization) 8.X course (CUR091). The Sandbox enables students to explore the functionality and features covered by the courses.

• Audience: This lab is intended primarily for Cúram developers and technical architects, who need to use and familiarize themselves with the Merative Cúram SPM Platform V8.X. The Sandbox is also useful for people who are preparing for the Cúram V8.X Developer Certification Tests.

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