Novatium, NIIT Offer Training Solutions to Nova netPC Platform Users
IT News Online Staff
2009-07-17
Novatium Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and NIIT Ltd. have partnered to deliver training solutions to consumers in India using the flagship Nova netPC platform of Novatium.
Under the agreement, NIIT will provide complete Nova netPC product training to customers, channel partners and business associates of Novatium across India. Novatium, on its part, will provide standard NIIT e-learning packages to its current and future customers on its Nova netPC platform, thus enabling competency building at home.
Novatium will be offering NIIT e-Learning packages on categories including Introduction to Personal Computers, Microsoft Office, Open Office, Microsoft Excel 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2007. With this partnership, NIIT e-Learning packages could be accessible to over 200,000 Nova netPC users as targeted by Novatium for this year.
"Novatium's vision of providing computers to next billion people compliments NIIT's vision of making technology easy and accessible to everybody," said Alok Singh, CEO, Novatium Solutions. "As more and more consumers adopt computing there is compelling need of training on basic softwares such as operating systems and Office. Backed by NIIT's best in class course content the training solution promises to offers consumers with complete knowledge of these softwares. We're excited to partner with NIIT to unlock the potential of computing and offer Indian consumers finest training solutions."
Vipul Rastogi, IBU Head, Enterprise Solutions, NIIT Ltd., said, "Active computing through the Internet will become a significant growth driver in the future. At NIIT we help our users achieve their full potential through customized e-Learning tools with direct Internet interface. We look forward to our tie up with Novatium to facilitate easy adoption of skills required towards meeting the needs of this emerging segment."
As a nationwide training partner to Novatium, NIIT will provide training sessions on the usage of Nova netPC at any of the pre-defined NIIT centers. Novatium would be giving one free session to each customer after which if subsequent sessions are required, they will be chargeable to the user.
Moreover, under the e-Learning package, Nova netPC customers have the option to choose from a wide range of courses, purchase and enroll on the course of their choice. The customers will have online access to an orientation program and navigation guides on their desktop, which lets them explore NIIT's e-Learning package through a demo course.
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