Case Studies

Python skills help Data Scientists manipulate "Big Data"

19/10/2017: Nowadays, there is a significant business advantage in being able analyse, process and visualize "big data". While there is no agreed definition of "big data" it is generally accepted that big data refers to terabytes or larger data sets. The tools, techniques and systems for working with "big data" is known as data science. Big problem is the lack of professionals who can work effectively with data on this scale. Fortunately, the Python programming language is packed with libraries designed specifically for data science applications. To this end, JBI was enagaged to provide Python training...

Secure Coding skills help protect against cyber attack

13/10/2017: The BBC, who have a very substantial investment in technology, were keen to improve the quality of software development: to instil developers with the mindset of taking greater responsibility for the quality of code being produced, and adopting industry best practices for secure coding within the context of the BBC's security strategy. The number of developers was approximately 300 and locations were split across the UK. Most had a mixture of skills including Java, PHP and Javascript. Specifically, JBI were asked to consider the BBC’s Application Security initiative. Following a series...

Power BI allows corporate data manipulation & visualization

13/10/2017: This organisation needed their Supply Chain department to get fully involved with Microsoft’s Power BI reporting product as soon as possible. They had to bring quality reporting solutions to a fast and dynamic growing company. Power BI is a rapid reporting development tool for Business Intelligence and the department needed to get up-to-speed as quickly as possible. This is where JB International came in. After liaising with a JBI account manager, our client was given an agenda that covered all the topics they were interested in. They were switching from previous reporting products like...

Java Upgrade : Spring Boot, BDD and REST

11/10/2017: The training was to target a team of developers, with a mix of Java, C# and some C++. The team made heavy use of Java SE with some elements of Spring. Most had been with the company for many years, and were not that familiar with some of the more current trends and best practices when using the Java programming language and related enterprise technologies. The requirement was to upskill this team of about 20 individuals to the current best practices and trends within the Java community, and clearly an off the shelf standard course would not really be relevant to them. What we provided?...

Increasing Mobile App Development resource

07/10/2017: This client had previously utilised third parties to develop and deliver its customer facing products and services. A strategy change required that this activity be brought back in house with previously silo’d experts brought together as a functioning development team trained in a much broader skills set in order embrace the new remit. JBI was chosen to design and deliver a programme of courses that would comprehensively introduce a series of technologies to experienced technologist. JBI engaged with the client and through a series of meetings identified the key content, format and durations...

Modernising software development skills

07/10/2017: This client was expanding its capability to deliver technical training across EMEA. It had recently acquired a large technology company which had at a stroke doubled its population of IT engineers and therefore the demand for training. JBI Training was initially one amongst a large group of training companies which has over the last 36 months been reduced to a much smaller group of trusted specialist providers. Training feeds into multiple management metrics and so the client had very specific requirements around how the course was provisioned by JBI and delivered by the trainer. These...

Software Engineering Excellence boost productivity

05/10/2017: The BBC, who have a very substantial investment in technology, were keen to improve the quality of software development: to instil developers with the mindset of taking greater responsibility for the quality of code being produced, and adopting industry best practices for code maintainability, scalability, readability and so on. The number of developers was approximately 300 and locations were split across the UK. Most had a mixture of skills including Java, PHP and Javascript. Specifically, JBI were asked to consider the BBC’s Engineering Excellence initiative. Following a series of...

New Dev skills help improve Online engagement

03/10/2017: When a leading High Street Retailer (and purveyor of fine foods) recognised that teams of software engineers were writing overcomplicated and non-standard code they recognised the training need for the teams to pull together in a standardised way. The software engineers themselves had considerable but varied experience in building applications for the web, desktop and mobile devices. Based on input from the product owners and delivery leads JBI put together a programme to roll out training on Angular JS and associated technologies. The knowledge of JavaScript as a pre-requisite was already...

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