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Professional Services Firm Doubles Sales, Quadruples Employee Productivity
White Papers Knowledge Services is a professional services firm that delivers training on Information Technology (IT) and project management and provides tens of thousands of IT consulting hours every year. Founded in 1996, Knowledge Services is a professional...
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
Revised Microsoft Licensing Gets Muted Reaction
News Layers of support and training — that's what the customers want, and I applaud Microsoft for giving it to them," said Alex Tatham, director of commercial products for Bell Microproducts at Microsoft distributor Ideal
[September 15, 2005, 17:50]
Tech Life Tips From David Brent
News In 2003, Microsoft UK's director of people and culture, Steve Harvey, achieved the coup of getting Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to produced two training videos for the company. On training They follow the character of David Brent from The...
[August 23, 2006, 10:20]
Desktop Linux: Novell Making Slow Progress
News But the senior IT executive from the pharmaceutical company believes that training is likely to be more of a problem in large non-technology companies. Training is another issue in a large-scale migration but Green said little training was required...
[September 29, 2004, 18:40]
Making The Right Storage Decision
News Second, all of my staff is well-versed in Ethernet and TCP/IP, but no one - myself included - has had exposure to fibre channel, making the training side of the equation much more difficult. Third, I needed the SAN in short order, so extended...
[March 15, 2005, 11:35]
BT Lends Student Software Coders A Hand
News Microsoft and BT have announced that the top six winners of the Software Design category of the 2006 Imagine Cup have begun an intensive business training workshop as part of their prize. BT revealed on Tuesday that the six winning student teams...
[January 16, 2007, 16:29]
The Hidden Costs Of .Net
News Gartner, however, considered factors other than code conversions in its analysis, such as training and lost productivity. Bixhorn said he didn't see either training or productivity problems as much of a concern.
[June 24, 2002, 10:59]
Answers To Your Burning Career Questions
News The Microsoft .NET site also provides references to training centres and options. For training, go to the Microsoft .NET site to identify the Microsoft-certified curriculum courses, and compare those courses to courses offered by other vendors.
[June 18, 2002, 15:31]
Programmers: Coming Out Of The Back Room
News Some companies are also looking at cross-training staff within their organisations. Anthone Withers, marketing and communications manager at Avanade, said training was part of its process. What we're doing at the moment is training them all to use...
[March 27, 2002, 10:16]
Microsoft Blesses VM Technology
News Using VM technology, you can create a complex, multiserver environment for training and allow it to run on individual machines or a shared server. Companies like Volant Training provide courseware designed to take advantage of a VM environment.
[March 11, 2003, 8:25]
Local Authorities Keen On Open Source
News A range of issues with equal weighting were also cited as having an impact on local authorities' open source strategy including support, dissatisfaction with Microsoft, rising costs, training and security issues, and standardisation.
[May 10, 2005, 15:50]
IBM Looks For Workplace Desktop Success
News Training software company SkillSoft is using a training application in IBM's Workplace software to manage its learning materials, according to David Vickery, vice-president of alliances and corporate development.
[November 24, 2004, 7:50]
Healthcare Network Anticipates $2 Million Savings With Time And Attendance Solution
White Papers In addition, Scripps anticipates annual savings of more than $850,000 by creating Windows-based solutions to automate the process of preparing for a new hire's first day of work - reducing workdays otherwise lost to a new hire's inability to...
[March 24, 2004, 23:00]
Microsoft Office Specialist Success Story: Chris Menard
White Papers Because of his Microsoft Excel proficiency and some training experience, Clayton College & State University (CCSU) hired him to teach Excel courses on a contract basis. Menard first became interested in training when the company he worked for as an...
[September 8, 2006, 0:00]
Global Research Firm Cuts Travel Costs And Delivers New Services Using Web Conferencing
White Papers It uses the technology to drive sales and deliver research presentations and staff training. After a thorough review of the marketplace, Wood Mackenzie implemented Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2003 (now upgraded to Microsoft Office Live Meeting...
[September 12, 2006, 0:00]
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Case Study: Law Firm Saves Training Time And Money With Microsoft Interactive Training
White Papers A vital component of this model is the powerful instructional tool Microsoft Interactive Training. Before deploying Microsoft Interactive Training company-wide, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering presented the product to some of its employees to evaluate...
[March 1, 2004, 23:00]
Skills Assessment And Customized Training For Help Desk Staff Save Time And Money
White Papers Because the service center wanted to have 30 employees earn the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) certification, it turned to the campus, an IT training firm. By using the tool, the technicians discovered they already knew much...
[May 4, 2007, 0:00]
Challenger TAFE Sheds Incompatible Infrastructure For Microsoft Solution
White Papers Vocational training institution Challenger TAFE (Technical and Further Education) had 10 centers operating on Novell networking and email technology. It is working Microsoft Gold Certified Partner ISA Technologies to roll out a wide range of...
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
IT Consulting Firms Expand Capacity By Recruiting College Graduates
White Papers Faced with a dearth of available, well-trained IT professionals, some partners have extended their organizational growth model by hiring and training new college graduates, in addition to experienced professionals.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
National Park Service Saves Money, Expands Training With Web Conferencing Solution
White Papers Focused in-person training efforts were too costly, and, consequently, IT specialists received little training. To meet these challenges, NPS used Microsoft Office Live Meeting to host a series of virtual IT conferences that helped train its IT...
[September 12, 2006, 0:00]
