NIIT and Computer Associates alliance for IT Training
14 Oct 1999
NIIT and Computer Associates (CA) India have entered into a strategic training partnership to impart higher end training on implementation of CA's Unicenter TNG to Indian software professionals.
Under this program, NIIT's centres across India will offer high end training on CA products. Unicenter TNG is one of CA's flagship product and the leading enterprise management software product in the world with over a 10,000 clients worlwide.
As a strategic training partner of CA, NIIT would market CA Training to organisations and individuals. NIIT training centres will provide state-of-the-art hardware and software facilities to enable training on CA platforms.
This relationship will build further on the excellent feedback
received from learners on NIIT's Unicenter Training in USA and Asia since the two organisations partnered to create training material on Unicenter TNG in May 1998. NIIT created course material is being used as the official curriculum by other CA training partners worldwide.
CA and NIIT will jointly promote these training programs and organise product launches and marketing events. This training partnership is expected to fulfill the growing demand for trained and skilled professionals to manage this technology. This training is aimed at network administrators, database
administrators, systems administrators and also those responsible for designing robust networks.
Mr. Venkat Subbarao, Managing Director of Computer Associates India, said; "The CA-NIIT partnership is part of CA's vision and long term commitment for India. NIIT has created effective training material on Unicenter TNG which is being used by all training partners of CA. NIIT's vast experience in creating and delivering world class instructional material for delivery through class rooms, CBTs and Internet and especially the excellent feedback on its faculty helped us
to extend this relationship to India to enhance the technical skills of the Indian organisations and the IT professionals."
"It is important that professionals from India master and use the
technology that drives business today. With this world class training on Unicenter TNG Indian IT professionals will have access to the latest and the best in Enterprise Systems Management technologies," he added.
Mr. Rajendra S. Pawar, Founder and Managing Director, NIIT Limited said, "We have always kept the IT professionals at the cutting edge of technologies by exposing them to advanced training since our inception 18 years ago. We are proud to be offering NIIT's own creation - the Model Centred Learning Architecture - as part of world class education and training on CA Technologies. Having trained CA customers in other parts of the world on the cutting edge Unicenter
technology, NIIT now takes on the challenge of upgrading the skill of IT community in India."
