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Xpertise awarded IBM Reseller of the Year for 2007 for its outstanding IT training
21 January 2008
IBM has selected leading training company Xpertise as its Reseller of the Year for 2007 – a prestigious award based on the company’s exceptional track record during the year.
Xpertise has provided accredited IBM training for several years, but according to Xpertise’s commercial director, Bill Walker, a great deal of the company’s IBM training success in 2007 was from taking IBM training services into its managed training services customers.
“Managed training services is one of our key growth areas,” says Walker. “A key part of our success has been connecting with larger clients who have a broader range of needs. Our IBM training has been absolutely crucial in helping many of those clients. During 2007 we increased our IBM training business by 84%”
By outsourcing their training needs to a specialist provider as a ‘managed training service’, companies can achieve performance and cost benefits. “In fact,” says Walker, “we are currently seeing considerable savings and performance benefits for all our managed training clients.”
Xpertise’s strategy has always been to provide accredited training – and its IBM training portfolio is no exception. Xpertise is an authorised IBM Education Centre providing accredited training on IBM’s AIX products and Xpertise also works with IBM to take their wider portfolio into clients. “We see accreditation as demonstration of meeting the vendors’ delivery standards”, says Walker. “Accreditation has always been the cornerstone of our training strategy.”
It’s a strategy that has served Xpertise well since its beginnings in 1993; as it has grown, the company has added further accredited training programmes to its portfolio – until today, when it offers over 500 courses.
“Many IT training companies can’t support corporate clients on products such as IBM products,” says Walker, “which leaves a significant gap in their offerings. Training on these IBM products is vital to larger organisations and has been a key part in us winning and delivering managed training services solutions.”
Note to editors
For more information, please contact:
Bill Walker, Commercial Director
Telephone: 0845 757 3888
E-mail: bill.walker@xpertise.co.uk
About Xpertise
From seven training centres, Xpertise provides the UK’s widest range of authorised IT training – over 500 courses, from most leading vendors, including CompTIA, Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, IBM, ITIL, Microsoft, Netscreen, Oracle, PRINCE2™, Red Hat and SCO.
Xpertise has been selected three times as Microsoft’s Gold Learning Partner of the Year for Europe, the Middle East and Africa – and was chosen as IBM’s Reseller of the Year for 2007.
Xpertise leads the market with development training in leading-edge technologies such as .NET, OO, UML and Java. Xpertise’s IT-focused professional development training, including data protection, project management, service management, security and team leadership training portfolio form a key part of solutions delivered to enterprise clients.
In addition, Xpertise’s training project management, training-needs analysis and bespoke course development capabilities – combined with applications training for computer users and strategic seminars for senior and IT management – provide customers with what is possibly the UK’s most comprehensive end-to-end IT skills solution.
Xpertise is an Institute of IT Training accredited company. Xpertise is part of Xpertise Group PLC, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.