Blockchain Business Consultant

The Learner after completion of this program:

• Will have a strong understanding of various blockchain protocols and solutions.
• Will understand various components in existing business solutions and where blockchain-based components might bring value.
• Will understand the overall project scope, ways, and approaches to systems design to understand various technical aspects of building a blockchain-based solution.
• Will have a good understanding of challenges, issues, risks, and mitigations and design solutions for various business solution integration projects.
• Will be able to analyze a business process/ workflow create blockchain-enabled. modular solutions which aim to achieve a few requirements for improved efficiency, cost reduction or streamlining of various processes in an industry/domain.

After completion of the program, learners will have a strong understanding of various blockchain protocols, solutions, various components in existing business solutions, and where blockchain-based components might bring in value and understand the overall project scope, ways and approaches to systems design, have a good understanding of various technical aspects of building a blockchain-based solution. Additionally, they will be able to understand challenges, issues, risks, and mitigations and design solutions for various business solution integration projects.

• High level overview of enterprise blockchains.
• Channels.
• Private Data.
• DLT vs Blockchains (HLF, Corda, Sawtooth, Besu, Ethereum, Cardano),.
• Chilliz, Tezos, IOTA.
• Upcoming DLT solutions in the Enterprise space (IOHK Atala, …).
• Dos & Don’ts in blockchain projects (porting data, legacy systems, integration).

• Consortiums – Creation, Governance, Issues, Types of Implementations – Outsourced infra, vendors, 3rd party IT solutions .

• Client-server architecture.
• Node / PHP / x technology servers / REST APIs / What they enable.
• Database Types: NoSQL / RDBMS.
• Consortiums – Creation, Governance, Issues, Types of Implementations – Outsourced infra, vendors, 3rd party IT solutions.
• DevOps / Kubernetes / Monitoring Tools.
• Cloud concepts (EC2 instances, firewalls, various cloud concepts at a high level).
• On-Prem / Cloud (hardware / software stack).
• Custom Protocol Development / Off the shelf Product – Tradeoffs, Benefits & Risks.
• Highlighting architectural differences between distributed and decentralized systems., participant interactions.

• Waterfall / Agile methodology in brief.
• Initial Proposal , Design document, Project Schedules.
• Testing and its importance.
• Test Servers vs Production Server .

• Assessing existing solutions, identifying Business Processes where blockchains can be applied .
• Zeroing in on appropriate architecture (Public / Permissioned / Hybrid).
• Feasibility Analysis.
• Step by Step Analysis – Focal points to be concentrated upon.
• Stages of a project – Proof-Of-Concept, MVP, Pilot, Production.
• Integration with existing business solutions.
• Drawing up the tentative schedule for each stage.
• Estimating infra, developers resources & Costing for hardware, software, team etc.

• Understanding the requirements.
• Researching into various solutions.
• Use case Analysis – Particular Use case (5 hours 1st use case, 4 hours each for succeeding use cases), Group Discussion with Consultant for second use case.

• Whitepaper creation, Project Proposal Documents, Initial Proposal , Design document, Project Schedules.
• Presentation & Review to a CXO / Blockchain consultant – Feedback, wrap-up.

• EMURGO Academy reserves the right to admission for any of its courses being offered either offline classroom-led, Online live, or self-paced.
• Although EMURGO Academy defines its batch start dates well in advance, in the unlikely event of any change of dates/batch cancellation EMURGO Academy shall be the sole decision-maker on the announcement of the new batch dates.