Microsoft Training in Colombo

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level business professionals, educators, and marketers who wish to integrate DeepSeek with PowerPoint to automate and optimize their presentations. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Automate the creation of text-based content in PowerPoint slides using DeepSeek.
• Generate data-driven visuals and infographics powered by DeepSeek models.
• Use AI to summarize long reports and turn them into presentation-ready slides.
• Integrate DeepSeek with PowerPoint for streamlined, dynamic presentations.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to fully leverage Copilot 365 in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and beyond, including SharePoint, Microsoft Fabric, and AI agent integrations in enterprise environments. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Copilot 365's role in automating tasks and improving workflows.
• Formulate effective prompts for AI-driven assistance in Microsoft 365 applications.
• Utilize Copilot in Excel for data analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Enhance presentations with AI-generated content and design in PowerPoint.
• Streamline communication and email management with Copilot in Outlook.
• Optimize collaboration and task management in SharePoint and Microsoft Fabric with Copilot integration.
• Leverage AI agents for enhancing enterprise workflows and business processes.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level professionals who wish to fully leverage Copilot 365 in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand Copilot 365's role in automating tasks and improving workflows.
• Formulate effective prompts for AI-driven assistance.
• Utilize Copilot in Excel for data analysis, forecasting, and reporting.
• Enhance presentations with AI-generated content and design in PowerPoint.
• Streamline communication and email management with Copilot in Outlook.
• Develop AI-driven initiatives for productivity, data prediction, and HR applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level leadership teams who wish to effectively manage and coordinate tasks using Microsoft Planner and its related tools, leading to enhanced productivity and collaboration across the organization. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Effectively create, manage, and track tasks and projects using Microsoft Planner, enhancing team coordination and project visibility.
• Organize and prioritize individual tasks, share task lists, and collaborate on tasks using Microsoft To Do.
• Utilize Microsoft Loop components for real-time collaboration, integrating them seamlessly into projects and meetings, and enhancing communication and information sharing among team members.
• Design and manage custom lists tailored to specific project needs, automate workflows, and integrate Lists with other Microsoft 365 tools for more efficient task tracking.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level business professionals who wish to gain the skills necessary to utilize Teams, Word, and Excel effectively in a management context. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft 365
• Navigate and utilize Microsoft Teams for communication, collaboration, and project management.
• Develop proficiency in creating, formatting, and managing Word documents.
• Use Excel for data entry, manipulation, and analysis.
• Explore how to integrate Microsoft 365 applications for seamless workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level data professionals who wish to implement a lakehouse solution using Microsoft Fabric. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and components of Microsoft Fabric.
• Configure and manage a Lakehouse using Microsoft Fabric.
• Ingest and transform data using Apache Spark.
• Utilize Delta Lake tables for versioning and managing data.
• Implement data ingestion pipelines with Dataflows Gen2.
• Orchestrate data pipelines using Data Factory.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to manage and secure an organization's IT environment using Microsoft 365.By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy and manage Microsoft 365 services such as Intune, MDM, and Autopilot.
• Configure and enforce security policies using Windows Defender and other Microsoft 365 security tools.
• Monitor and troubleshoot devices and applications within a Microsoft 365 environment.
• Understand and implement compliance and data protection measures in Microsoft 365.
• Manage Microsoft 365 security services such as Microsoft Secure Score, Exchange Online Protection, Safe Attachments, and Safe Links.
• Implement compliance solutions using Microsoft Purview, data loss prevention, and sensitivity labels.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is designed to help participants prepare for the Microsoft Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certification exam.  The course covers the concepts of developing Azure solutions, including Azure compute, storage, and security features. It provides a comprehensive introduction to Azure development, including tools and services for building, testing, and deploying applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to advanced-level data analysts who wish to use Excel to perform a variety of tasks such as data entry, formula creation, data analysis, and advanced automation. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate Excel’s interface and perform basic data entry, formatting, and calculations.
• Apply advanced formulas, functions, and conditional formatting for data analysis.
• Create and manage pivot tables and charts for data visualization.
• Use tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, and perform data analysis.
• Automate tasks using macros and VBA to streamline workflows.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to enhance their productivity and efficiency by leveraging the advanced features of Excel and Google Sheets for data organization, analysis, and collaboration. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and utilize the core features of Excel and Google Sheets.
• Perform data analysis and create actionable insights using advanced spreadsheet techniques.
• Collaborate in real-time using Google Sheets for seamless teamwork.
• Create reusable templates for reporting, tracking, and project management.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level IT professionals who wish to manage and secure an organization's IT environment using Microsoft 365. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Deploy and manage Microsoft 365 services such as Intune, MDM, and Autopilot.
• Configure and enforce security policies using Windows Defender and other Microsoft 365 security tools.
• Monitor and troubleshoot devices and applications within a Microsoft 365 environment.
• Understand and implement compliance and data protection measures in Microsoft 365.
• Apply best practices for Microsoft 365 administration and security.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts or anyone who wishes to learn how to use Excel for creating data models for data analysis. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn to analyze and solve any business problems using structured problem-solving tools.
• Navigate Excel tools with ease.
• Set up, format, and present data effectively.
• Understand the logical structure and apply correct functions to Excel models.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators who wish to effectively deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Hyper-V environments. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand virtualization concepts and configure Hyper-V.
• Create and manage virtual machines, VM storage, and networking.
• Utilize advanced Hyper-V features and secure Hyper-V environments.
• Monitor and optimize Hyper-V performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level developers and programmers who wish to learn about Microsoft Copilot and use its features to complete codes. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how Microsoft Copilot works.
• Familiarize the features and benefits of using Microsoft Copilot.
• Utilize the advanced features of Microsoft Copilot for coding.

The course participants will be able to efficiently use primarily data analysis tools such as scenarios and pivot tables, use the features to perform calculations on dates and text-processing functions, and create and adapt to the needs of macros to automate work with spreadsheets.

Excel is a popular spreadsheet program created by Microsoft. Jest used to store, organize and analyze data in tabular form. Here are some key features and functions of Excel: 1. Spreadsheets: It consists of sheets, where each sheet is an array consisting of cells arranged in rows and columns. It allows you to create multiple sheets in one file, which allows you to organize different data sets. 2. Calculations and Formulas: Allows you to perform a variety of mathematical, statistical and logical calculations using formulas. It has a wide set of built-in functions such as SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, IF, VLOOKUP, etc. 3. Data Formatting and Appearance: Provides tools for formatting data, including changing font, color, style, and creating charts, pivot tables and diagrams. 4. Sorting, Filtering and Grouping: Allows you to sort data according to specific criteria. Allows you to filter data to display only selected information. Possibility to group data depending on needs. 5. Data analysis: Tools for performing advanced analyzes such as scenario analysis, trends, forecasting, and creating macros. 6. Data Sharing: Enables real-time data sharing and collaboration, allowing multiple users to work on the same data simultaneously. 7. Task automation: Ability to create macros and automate tasks using the programming language VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). Excel is widely used in various fields, from business to science and education. Its comprehensive features enable data analysis, creation of reports, budgets, schedules, data management and many other applications.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use advanced VBA in Excel for automating tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Write an advanced object-oriented application
• Convert text files
• Use of external data sources
• Use external libraries

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use VBA in Excel for automating tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Record and edit macros as required.
• Write procedures using data from the sheet.
• Create your own functions.
• Handle an event (opening worksheet cell update etc.) by means of the handler.
• Create a form.

Audience Analysts, researchers, scientists, graduates and students and anyone who is interested in learning how to facilitate statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel. Course Objectives This course will help improve your familiarity with Excel and statistics and as a result increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your work or research. This course describes how to use the Analysis ToolPack in Microsoft Excel, statistical functions and how to perform basic statistical procedures. It will explain what Excel limitation are and how to overcome them.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to learn techniques for preparing data in Excel, then visualizing it in Power BI. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of data analysis, objectives of data analysis, and approaches for data analysis.
• Use DAX formulas in Power BI for complex calculations.
• Create and use visualizations and charts for particular analysis cases.
• Import with Power View to move from Excel based Power BI to independent Power BI.

Data analytics is a crucial tool in business today. We will focus throughout on developing skills for practical hands on data analysis. The aim is to help delegates to give evidence-based answers to questions:  What has happened?

• processing and analyzing data
• producing informative data visualizations

What will happen?

• forecasting future performance
• evaluating forecasts

What should happen?

• turning data into evidence-based business decisions
• optimizing processes

The course itself can be delivered either as a 6 day classroom course or remotely over a period of weeks if preferred. We can work with you to deliver the course to best suit your needs.

The objective of the course is to enable participants to gain a mastery of the fundamentals and usages of VBA for Access & Excel.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to use Excel for data analysis. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create spreadsheets in Excel.
• Visualize data with charts, graphs, etc.
• Generate reports to share amongst team members.

During the training, will present the issues of financial analysis using the advanced features of Excel. This course is intended for financial analysts, accountants and all those who want to expand their skills spreadsheet with issues of financial analysis.

Audience Financial or market analysts, managers, accountants Course Objectives Facilitate and automate all kinds of financial analysis with Microsoft Excel

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data analysts who wish to program in R for Excel. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Toggle and move data between Excel and R.
• Use R Tidyverse and R features for data analytic solutions in Excel.
• Extend their data analytical skills by learning R.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2019: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level. Learning Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to leverage the power of data analysis and presentation in order to make informed, intelligent organizational decisions. You will:

• Work with functions.
• Work with lists.
• Analyze data.
• Visualize data with charts.
• Use PivotTables and PivotCharts.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at data scientists who wish to use Excel for data mining.

• By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
• Explore data with Excel to perform data mining and analysis.
• Use Microsoft algorithms for data mining.
• Understand concepts in Excel data mining.

This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation. Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision makers in your organization steer you in the right direction. It will also make these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time, than if you used traditional pen-and-paper methods or non-specialized software. Learning Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to create and develop Excel worksheets and workbooks in order to work with and analyze the data that is critical to the success of your organization.

• You will:
• Get started with Microsoft Office Excel 2019.
• Perform calculations.
• Modify a worksheet.
• Format a worksheet.
• Print workbooks.
• Manage workbooks.

In this instructor-led, live training in Colombo (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to combine the capabilities of Python and Excel. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure packages for integrating Python and Excel.
• Read, write, and manipulate Excel files using Python.
• Call Python functions from Excel.

This course provides the knowledge and skills to design and implement DevOps processes and practices. Students will learn how to plan for DevOps, use source control, scale Git for an enterprise, consolidate artifacts, design a dependency management strategy, manage secrets, implement continuous integration, implement a container build strategy, design a release strategy, set up a release management workflow, implement a deployment pattern, and optimize feedback mechanisms. Audience profile Students in this course are interested in designing and implementing DevOps processes or in passing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Solutions certification exam. Job role: DevOps Engineer Preparation for exam: AZ-400 Skills gained

• Plan for the transformation with shared goals and timelines
• Select a project and identify project metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
• Create a team and agile organizational structure
• Design a tool integration strategy
• Design a license management strategy (e.g. Azure DevOps and GitHub users)
• Design a strategy for end-to-end traceability from work items to working software
• Design an authentication and access strategy
• Design a strategy for integrating on-premises and cloud resources
• Describe the benefits of using Source Control
• Describe Azure Repos and GitHub
• Migrate from TFVC to Git
• Manage code quality including technical debt SonarCloud, and other tooling solutions
• Build organizational knowledge on code quality
• Explain how to structure Git repos
• Describe Git branching workflows
• Leverage pull requests for collaboration and code reviews
• Leverage Git hooks for automation
• Use Git to foster inner source across the organization
• Explain the role of Azure Pipelines and its components
• Configure Agents for use in Azure Pipelines
• Explain why continuous integration matters
• Implement continuous integration using Azure Pipelines
• Define Site Reliability Engineering
• Design processes to measure end-user satisfaction and analyze user feedback
• Design processes to automate application analytics
• Manage alerts and reduce meaningless and non-actionable alerts
• Carry out blameless retrospectives and create a just culture
• Define an infrastructure and configuration strategy and appropriate toolset for a release pipeline and application infrastructure
• Implement compliance and security in your application infrastructure
• Describe the potential challenges with integrating open-source software
• Inspect open-source software packages for security and license compliance
• Manage organizational security and compliance policies
• Integrate license and vulnerability scans into build and deployment pipelines
• Configure build pipelines to access package security and license ratings

The course participants will be able to efficiently perform a variety of calculations in a transparent way to arrange and present their results, use multiple mechanisms to facilitate and accelerate the creation of spreadsheets, as well as protect the calculations and their results against unauthorized persons

Participants will be able to excel themselves, in the most optimal way to create, consolidate and manage data. A number of tools designed to streamline the work often significantly reduces the time to activities carried out so far and can help you design an application that could perform new tasks.

Course participants will learn how to create a clean, professional-looking documents (including official correspondence of all kinds - official and official), as well as make full use of the basic mechanisms enabling the transparent flow of information in both the shorter and longer documents.

Course participants will learn how to automate the work to create complex documents, retrieve data from the database and prepare forms.

Course is intended for those familiar the basics of VBA who want to develop their knowledge and greater use of language capabilities.

Training for those working with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that would like to improve their work.

The course is designed for users of Excel for creating analyzes and reports.

Please answer the following questions:

• Is your daily work in Excel is a never-ending string of commands copy-paste?
• Are you wasting time on repetition of similar operations to prepare the data for analysis?
• Do you know all the keyboard shortcuts in Excel, but you are not satisfied with the results?
• Rather than deal with data analysis and preparation of wasting time?
• Do you have to manually verify the correctness of such data obtained from different systems?
• Do you have to stay at work after hours or Excel to take books home because not doing during the day?
• Is Your job is to prepare reports based on a large data set?
• Do you feel that working in Excel, you come to a roundabout way of results?

If you can answer YES to one of the questions then it's time stop this nightmare. This training is for you. Find out how you can speed up your daily operations and get most out of MS Excel. WARNING After the training, your life will change dramatically. Activities, which occupied the whole day will take just a few moments. Are you ready for this?

This course aims to improve PowerPoint skills of the trainees by practical exercises supported by relevant theory. It’s designed for everyone, mostly presentation designers, but also conference speakers and team-meeting presenters.

This course is aimed at anyone wanting to work more efficiently in PowerPoint when creating slides and to learn the basics of presenting them.

The course is dedicated to sales teams. It focuses on leveraging PowerPoint's functions that aid in the sales process, ie. how to show data effectively, how not to over-clutter slides, and what to focus on in a sales deck.

Objective: Improving the ability to prepare an attractive presentation using Powerpoint and other tools Addressees: Sales representatives, consultants, research and teaching staff, managers, teachers, corporate employees, SMEs and public institutions, for which the challenge is to stand in front of a group of people, say to them, arousing interest

This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations. Audience profile This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization's data. Skills gained

• Implement enterprise governance strategies including role-based access control, Azure policies, and resource locks.
• Implement an Azure AD infrastructure including users, groups, and multi-factor authentication.
• Implement Azure AD Identity Protection including risk policies, conditional access, and access reviews.
• Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management including Azure AD roles and Azure resources.
• Implement Azure AD Connect including authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronization.
• Implement perimeter security strategies including Azure Firewall.
• Implement network security strategies including Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.
• Implement host security strategies including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management, and disk encryption.
• Implement container security strategies including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Kubernetes.
• Implement Azure Key Vault including certificates, keys, and secretes.
• Implement application security strategies including app registration, managed identities, and service endpoints.
• Implement storage security strategies including shared access signatures, blob retention policies, and Azure Files authentication.
• Implement database security strategies including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking, and always encrypted.
• Implement Azure Monitor including connected sources, log analytics, and alerts.
• Implement Azure Security Center including policies, recommendations, and just in time virtual machine access.
• Implement Azure Sentinel including workbooks, incidents, and playbooks.

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level business analysts and data analysts who wish to use Excel to perform data analysis and reporting for their projects and tasks. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use Excel formulas and functions to perform calculations and data manipulation.
• Use Excel data analysis tools such as PivotTables, What-If Analysis, and Forecasting to summarize and visualize data.
• Use Excel charts and graphs to create and customize data visualizations.
• Use Excel data validation and conditional formatting to ensure data quality and highlight data insights.
• Use Excel data import and export features to connect to external data sources and share data with others.

Learn about Office 365 Management, including key components of Office 365, how to move an organization to Office 365, how to configure Office 365, and how to manage Office 365 ProPlus deployments. Audience profile This course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Admin role and have completed one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths. Skills gained

• Office 365 overview
• Moving an organization to Office 365
• Configuring Office 365
• Managing Office 365 ProPlus deployments

This 1 day training session is designed for people who use SharePoint as power users who perform as SharePoint site owner and/or Site Collection administrators Course objectives:

• Configure site navigation
• View site activity reports
• Customize lists and libraries
• Work with Site Columns and Site Content Types
• Configure Check out/in, Content Approval and Versioning
• Create and modify pages and web part pages

This 1 day training session is designed for people who use SharePoint as users and want to understand some of the advanced features of the tool. Delegates should attend this course if they need to understand functions such as; team collaboration, document management and social features of Microsoft SharePoint 2013 This course is designed for

• SharePoint Site Owners and users

Course objectives:

• Manage Sites and Site Collections
• Add users and groups and manage site, list, folder and item security
• Add and configure web parts
• Configure site options including theme, title, description and icon

This instructor-led, live training in Colombo (online or onsite) is aimed at marketeers who wish to create video content and presentations with Camtasia and PowerPoint. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create video content and share it on a video hosting platform.
• Employ assets within Camtasia such as music and icons for interactive content.
• Save on costs by producing HQ videos with Camtasia and PowerPoint.

This course will give you the knowledge about how to present finance information (numbers) in PowerPoint and not just the presentations skills itself. You will be able to present finance information in more professional way.

During the course, you will learn about creating, editing and using content.