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ExitCertified is a is global provider of authorized technology training services. Since the Ottawa-based company's foundation in 2001, it has experienced consistent growth, most recently generating 20 percent year-over-year growth in its 2011 fiscal year. The following profile highlights ExitCertified's past and present accomplishments and its plans for the future.
Where ExitCertified came from...
ExitCertified was established in July 2001 to provide a premium solution to the IT Training and Education market catering to both corporate clients and government agencies in North America. With Ottawa as its head office, the organization’s primary focus is on technology training, offering Operating Environment, Database Administration, Networking and Security, Server and Storage, Programming and ERP courses across multiple modalities including Instructor Led, Virtual, and Self Paced.
Core competencies focus around providing high-end corporate training solutions through partnering with industry leading hardware manufacturers and software organizations.
Where ExitCertified is Today...
Since the running of the first training session in November 2001, the company has grown from eight employees, one permanent centre with four classrooms, and one authorized partnership, to 70 employees, 11 centres with 50 classrooms, and 10 authorized partnerships. It now offers over 10,000 titles from the largest hardware and software providers in the marketplace. Current relationships exist with Oracle, IBM, Apple, SAP, Symantec, Red Hat, VMWare, SpringSource, HDS and BMC.
2011 marks an important year for ExitCertified and it represents their tenth year of being in business. To cap off this significant milestone, they have also been the recipients of the following awards this year:
- Oracle University North American Partner of the Year for 2011
- Red Hat North American Premier Training Partner of the Year for 2011
- Named to TrainingIndustry.com’s Top 20 IT Training Companies for 2011
ExitCertified continues to be exclusively focussed on providing customers with exceptional customer service and delivering the highest quality training to help organizations maximize their return on major hardware and software investments.
Where ExitCertified Plans to go Tomorrow...
As ExitCertified continues to evolve and further differentiate itself from the other options in the IT training industry, their next area of focus will be the implementation and expansion of a proprietary solution around the delivery of authorized vendor training. One of the major shifts the training industry has witnessed over the last few years is the adoption and acceptance of non-traditional Instructor Led Training. This includes Live Virtual Training, Online E-Learning, and a system that ExitCertified launched two years ago called Multimedia Video Presence, or MVP. MVP is a virtual solution that offers full video and audio capability to deliver classes to multiple locations at the same time while preserving the same critical components that make traditional instructor led training so effective. While there is still an instructor delivering the class, students are able to interact live and in real time, and labs are performed and monitored by the instructor. With hundreds of successful deliveries already under its belt, ExitCertified is now exploring the next phase of this project, adding the ability for customers to take instructor led training from the comfort of their home or office by joining courses that are being taught live in ExitCertified classrooms.
ExitCertified will continue to come up with creative solutions for their customers to allow them to get the training they want, when they want it, and how they want it.
For more information on ExitCertified, visit www.exitcertified.com.
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