Collaboration Training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues

This instructor-led, live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is targeted at intermediate-level professionals who wish to optimize their use of Microsoft Teams and Read AI to enhance meeting outcomes and workflow efficiency.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Configure and optimize Microsoft Teams for efficient meetings.
• Integrate and personalize Read AI within Teams.
• Leverage AI-powered features such as summaries, transcripts, and participation analytics.
• Enhance collaboration, task tracking, and follow-up actions post-meeting.
• Apply advanced strategies and use cases for sustained productivity.

This instructor-led live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is designed for business professionals at the beginner level who aim to leverage Microsoft Teams alongside its robust integrations with Outlook, OneDrive, and Lists to enhance team collaboration and overall productivity.

• Navigate the Teams interface, establish teams and channels, and manage communication via posts, chats, and meetings.
• Schedule and attend Teams meetings through both Teams and Outlook, utilise in-meeting collaboration tools like screen sharing, and handle meeting notes and recordings.
• Efficiently manage emails, calendars, and Teams meetings using Outlook, and transition smoothly between email and Teams communication workflows.
• Leverage OneDrive for cloud storage, sharing, and real-time document collaboration within Teams and Outlook, including file version management and recovery.
• Create, customise, and manage Lists to organise tasks and projects, collaborate with team members, and integrate Lists with Outlook and OneDrive.
• Seamlessly link Teams with Outlook, OneDrive, and Lists to foster a productive, integrated work environment, thereby reducing redundant tasks and improving workflow efficiency.

This instructor-led, live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers who wish to customize, extend, and integrate XWiki into their business solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure XWiki for development and production environments.
• Create and manage XWiki extensions using scripting and APIs.
• Develop custom applications within the XWiki ecosystem.
• Integrate XWiki with external systems and databases.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is designed for technical professionals who wish to deploy and manage open source collaboration platforms that maintain data sovereignty while providing modern team communication capabilities.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to evaluate platforms, deploy self-hosted solutions, configure security and integrations, migrate from existing platforms, and establish operational procedures.

This instructor-led live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use Matrix to create an open collaboration platform where users can share real-time messages and data securely.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand and explore the features, APIs, and services in Matrix.
• Learn how to set up and configure a Matrix client and implement end-to-end encryption.
• Set up a homeserver with Synapse or get a free Matrix server using Oracle Cloud.
• Connect bridges to existing communication platforms (WhatsApp, IRC, Slack, Gitter, etc.).

Matrix is an open protocol for secure, decentralized, real-time communication. Organizations are increasingly adopting Matrix with the Element client as an alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams to maintain end-to-end encryption, on-premise data residency, and federation with external trusted partners.

This instructor-led, live training (available online or onsite) targets project management and IT professionals who aim to deploy and manage open-source platforms that ensure data sovereignty while supporting a wide range of project methodologies.

By the end of this course, participants will be equipped to evaluate solutions, deploy Taiga, OpenProject, and Focalboard, configure necessary integrations, and execute migrations from proprietary tools.

This instructor-led live training in BRICS Corporate Offsite Training Venues (online or onsite) is designed for individuals who wish to learn how to use Slack to collaborate and communicate seamlessly with team members within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Join a channel and create new channels.
• Send messages and make calls in Slack.
• Upload and share documents and files.
• Create, customize and manage their own workspace.

Synapse serves as the reference homeserver implementation for the Matrix protocol, enabling decentralized and end-to-end encrypted messaging. This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) targets intermediate DevOps engineers and system administrators who wish to use Synapse and Element to transition from cloud chat platforms to a self-hosted, federated messaging infrastructure.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at technical professionals who wish to deploy and manage self-hosted video conferencing solutions that ensure data sovereignty while providing enterprise-grade communication capabilities.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to deploy Jitsi Meet and BigBlueButton, implement security hardening, configure enterprise features, and scale deployments for organisational workloads.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite is an open-source enterprise messaging and collaboration platform that offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and file sharing within a unified web interface. It serves as a direct, self-managed alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Google Workspace.