CB Technologies, trading as TrainSA.com, says it is the first company to provide online, Web-based training for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional.
The IT training division of CS Holdings has completed a R1 million user-training project for the Metropolitan Group. The aim of the project was to ease staff into Microsoft`s Office and Outlook software platforms.
Microsoft has selected SmartForce to provide an online continuing education e-learning solution for more than 600 000 Microsoft Certified Professionals worldwide.
Speaking at the Information Technology Association`s annual general meeting, Adrian Schofield, president of Information Industry South Africa, said SA needs 200 000 new IT employees over the next five years in order to compete globally.
ADvTECH Training has completed a reorientation and restructuring exercise that sees it change and extend its focus into the e-learning domain. As a consequence of this restructure, the company has changed its name to ADvTECH Skills.
ADvTECH Multimedia has introduced the Registrar training management software package. The company believes the solution, launched in the UK 13 years ago, will address training administration problems and the demands of the new skills legislation.
Mitel, a provider of converging voice and data systems, has been awarded Microsoft Certified Technical Education Centre (CTEC) status.
SmartForce Network+ Certification courseware is now available locally on a CD-ROM which can be deployed over a corporate intranet or local area network.
The Internet Solution (IS), in conjunction with the World Bank, has launched a provincial technology training hub for SchoolNet SA in the North-West province at Mmabatho High School.
BSW Telecoms says Dreamworks, an initiative that seconds selected employees to Dreamworks for six-month sabbaticals, enables it to keep at the forefront of technology.
JSE-listed Vesta Technologies today launched an e-business training division, E-Commerce Business School, which will introduce the Certified Internet Webmaster certification to SA.
Sanlam, a life assurance company, has outsourced its internal IT training division to CS Education Solutions, a division of CS Holdings (CSH), in a R15 million agreement.
Violet van Niekerk, national sales director for IT-IQ, says the management buy-out from Datatec does not signal huge change, but does give momentum to the direction of the company.