Client case studies
Capgemini
How Xpertise provided blended learning and tailored accelerated training courses to leading services company Capgemini.
For nearly 40 years, technology and outsourcing services company Capgemini has helped companies around the globe address their business and IT issues. A major global player, Capgemini employs around 50,000 people in over 30 countries.
The challenge
When Capgemini wanted one of its Northern England development teams to acquire Microsoft .NET skills, the company approached Xpertise. Since Capgemini would be using .NET in upcoming major projects for its own blue-chip customers, it was essential to increase the company’s .NET skills quickly – and the quality of training would be very important
The Solution
Xpertise had been an early adopter of .NET skills, working with Microsoft from the product inception – and creating a market lead that other training companies have found hard to beat. In .NET’s early days, Xpertise was responsible for helping many early adopters enter the market, making the company a logical choice as training provider.
To help plan the training, Xpertise produced a Capgemini-specific education ‘roadmap’. This provided a visual tool to show different routes through available classroom and e-learning courses – making it easy to map the development team’s optimum training path.
It was decided that the target would be for developers to achieve the MCAD (Microsoft Certified Applications Developer) accreditation. Taken at the end of the training programme, this would provide a rigorous, independent and objective measure that the training had been successful and the team now had the right skills in place.
Xpertise developed a Visual Basic .NET accelerated training programme specifically to meet the needs of Capgemini’s developers. This programme sandwiched five days’ intensive classroom training between pre- and post-course e-learning modules, which delegates could undertake at their own pace. Although more demanding than standard courses, this blended combination of training delivers a high-quality training programme within fewer training days, thereby reducing costs.
In addition to successfully delivering the required Visual Basic .NET training, Xpertise also delivered a series of ‘lunch and learn’ briefings, to provide an overview on emerging technologies – including how .NET solutions were being deployed, the emerging mobile computing market and interoperability between Java and .NET.