Posts by Corjan Bast
Why Your Clients Don’t Need IT Training [Bingo]
Which reasons do clients give when they say No to IT training? That’s a question we wanted to have an answer to. See, we ensure our training partners have access to courseware and exams. But if our partners are not able to convince their clients they need training, there’s no point in having courseware at…
Read MoreUncovering Enterprise Architecture Courses: Why Should Training Companies Care [Interview]
Curious to learn about training opportunities around IT architecture? You’re not alone. Many of our partners are interested in this topic. Fortunately, there’s Greg Trasuk, Stream Lead at Web Age Solutions, who’s one of our content partners for enterprise architecture courseware. Greg was kind enough to answer some of my burning questions: Let’s start off with…
Read More5 SDN Analogies to Help Make Sense of It
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is clearly the wave of the future, and we are learning that the ability to program packet traffic in a network will be the standard ways networks are managed in the not-too-distant future. Many certified network engineers are dusting off their learning strategies to take in a vendor-neutral, technology-encompassing view of SDN, like…
Read MoreITIL Practitioner – Everybody Wins
The ITIL Practitioner certification has been released by AXELOS. Our partners have shown a lot of interest in our ITIL Practitioner training materials for this new certification. A question we get a lot is what type, of course, we’ve developed. Practical and Scenario-Based Training Materials To answer the question: We’ve developed a practical and scenario-based course…
Read MoreTraining Businesses: Expectations for 2016
What are your expectations for 2016? More clients, expanding your portfolio, reducing costs? We asked our partners during the latest Product & Services Update webinar and here’s what we learned. Priorities for 2016 Most of the partners (83%) make it a priority to find more clients. Of course, this is no surprise. Also, the majority…
Read More10 Questions Every Training Business Should Answer
If you offer IT training, you’ve probably noticed that the domain is evolving rapidly. New learning trends emerge, new topics are demanded, and technology continues to change. The IT training business is not an easy one to be in. In order to stay relevant to your clients, you need to constantly adjust. To help our…
Read MoreSecure Coding Training To Break ‘the Bug Cycle’
In 2010, when I was managing the portfolio of COBIT training solutions, I wrote an article about software development for ISACA’s COBIT Focus newsletter. The article explained how COBIT could support the software development lifecycle. While things have changed tremendously in the world of software development – some examples include COBIT being updated to Version…
Read MoreConfessions of a Marketer: Our Social Journey to Twitter
We, at ITpreneurs have been active on Twitter for a few years now but we were not very savvy in the way we used it. In the second half of 2014 we decided to see what would happen if we changed the way we interact on Twitter. In August we started a new initiative to…
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