Alliance To Bring Advanced Project Management Courses To India

Wednesday, 05 January 2005, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: 24x7 Learning, a provider of consulting and implementation services in the enterprise learning space in partnership with SkillSoft Inc., a provider of elearning content has launched a comprehensive suite of advanced project management courses which address various business and technology skills and techniques for planning, tracking, controlling and monitoring business projects. Since SkillSoft is a Project Management Institute, US Charter-Global Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.), this suite of courses are aligned to Project Management Institute’s PMBOK guidelines and will help Indian IT professionals certify as Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM). Said, John Catlin, Director, SkillSoft Asia-Pacific, “With Indian service providers across knowledge sectors winning and handling very large, complex and global projects, it has led to increased focus on management of such projects and growing demand for talent with skillsets of the same. At SkillSoft, we have the most extensive e-learning catalog in the industry, with over 3,500 courses across 22 major solution areas and 15 languages and in the area of project management, a depth of content that is notches ahead of what is available. We believe that the range of courses will meet with the local requirements and are happy to have 24x7 Learning as our partners for the same”. According to Anil Chhikara, CEO of 24x7 Learning, "We already have the most comprehensive consulting, product and service offering in the enterprise learning space and this partnership with SkillSoft adds content to that mix. We hope to impress Indian corporates of the benefits of this huge synergy and what it does in terms of their ability to leverage their investments in elearning better. Revenues out of sales of SkillSoft courses are expected to be a substantial contributor to our revenues”. The courses can be deployed over the Intranet of the organization or the Internet for use of employees who are geographically dispersed. Apart from Project management courses offered are in areas like Communication, Consulting, Customer Service Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Leadership Management, Marketing Personal Development, Sales, Team Building, and IT Skills. 24x7 Learning is a provider of consulting and implementation services in the enterprise learning space to corporations, academics and government institutions in India. Headquartered in Bangalore, the firm has offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and US. Its core team has over 50 years of industry experience in implementing enterprise solutions. 24x7 Learning’s business solutions have delivered bottom-line benefits to organizations like Wipro, Aditya Birla Group, Patni, Airtel and Convergys among others.
Source: IANS
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