Introduction to IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services (v8) (0S006G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

1:  Overview of Collaboration and Deployment Services • Identify the purpose and capabilities of IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services • List and describe the various tools within C&DS • List and describe tools that work in conjunction with C&DS

2:  Content, assets and permissions • Describe repository content management structure • Describe the file organization structure within C&DS Deployment Manager • Create and apply user specific access permissions for assets • Upload  and retrieve repository files using Deployment Manager

3:  Work with assets • Describe object properties • Describe how C&DS applies versioning to objects and assets • Create and use version labels • Explore custom properties for assets • Search for repository content • Describe object locking

4:  Track asset changes • Identify subscriptions and notifications • Create folder and asset level subscriptions • Create a notification

5:  Access files from other applications • Connect the Modeler client to the C&DS repository • Search for, and retrieve assets from the repository • Store a Modeler Stream into the repository with the correct property settings • Perform storage and retrieval operations from within IBM SPSS Modeler

6:  Advanced content operations • Describe the purpose of multiple repositories • Export content from a repository • Import content into a repository • Understand object promotion

7: Jobs • Identify a job its uses • Describe the job-building tool • Create a single-step job • Create a multi-step job

8: Notifications and parameters • Define the three different notifications connected to jobs • Build notifications within jobs • Define run time parameters and describe possible uses • Add parameters to a job or a job step definition

9: Schedule jobs • Identify and describe the three schedule types • Build simple and recurring time-based schedules • Create message-based job schedules • Monitor job schedule definitions

10: Examine Job History • View job history in Deployment Manager • Manipulate the Job History View • View job history in Deployment Portal • Use the Job History tool to monitor job execution success and failure

11: Analytic Data View and Real Time Scoring • Create an Analytic Data View • Identify how to create a scoring configuration • Configure and test Real Time Scoring

12: Model Management • Explore Model Management • Understand Model Evaluation and Model Refresh • Create and run a Champion Challenger job