Training as a Service - A new risk-free productivity paradigm

SPS Training as a Service is an instructor-led web or class-based customized course offering that can be tailored to your organization’s application architecture, policies and personnel roles. It can be archived and replayed anytime, anywhere as necessary by your organization

This new offering brings together both time-tested and innovative new features including:

• Custom-creation – for the unique needs of your organization
• Role-based and role-certification  – specific to the tasks of the operator, developer, administrator and other roles so that both temps and full-time employees are trained to deliver all the tasks assigned to their role. All students are tested upon completion to ensure a baseline skills-set
• Architecture-specific – designed around your application architecture including WebSphere and Tivoli so your employees understand how IBM Tivoli Identity and Access Manager fit within your specific  server architecture
• Policy-centric – designed around the security policies and processes of your organization so all users understand and agree to follow your corporate guidelines
• Instructor-led – ensures student interaction online or in the classroom
• Web-based, archived and re-playable – for anytime, anywhere access so a new employee can get trained and certified before starting their role instead of waiting for a scheduled class
• Time-sensitive – short and to the point so that an employee’s time investment is minimized
• Compliance-focused – guarantees auditors policy commitment by all employees
• Real-time – course content updated quarterly to ensure relevance to students
• Satisfaction guaranteed - or your money back

For a free quote, please email ibm@spsnet.com with the following information:

• Number of employees, subcontractors or temps in the desired role (specify developer,  administrator, and/or operator)
• Desired length of the web-based training session (suggested range ½ hr – 1 day)
• Desired frequency of instructor-led online or classroom sessions per year

Can your Organization Benefit from SPS Training as a Service?

SPS is focused on helping organizations maximize return on IBM WebSphere and Tivoli investments.

This is based on our belief that the quality of what employees do is directly proportional to their skills and competence. Unfortunately, many employees, specifically developers, do not get an opportunity to be trained due to cost, duration and availability of training for their role. Employees who are not adequately trained cannot be expected to deliver at peak potential.

Here are some questions to assess the state of your staff’s productivity:

• What percent of your current developers, operators and administrators are trained on IBM WebSphere and Tivoli?
• Is the percent of staff trained on IBM WebSphere and Tivoli low because the cost, duration and availability of training makes it unrealistic for you to send everyone? 
• How long does it take for a new developer, administrator or operator in your organization to get up to speed on their role, tasks, tools and procedures?
• Where do your employees, temps and subcontractors go to learn about your organization’s WebSphere and Identity Management architecture and security policies?
• How are your developers, administrators, and operators trained on IBM WebSphere and Tivoli implementations?
• Do the developers understand application integration with Tivoli Access Manager and if not, does this increase time to troubleshoot production rollout? Are they aware that they can reduce development time by up to 30% by leveraging the authentication, authorization and audit capabilities of Tivoli Access Manager?
• Do you believe that your current employees, temps and subcontractors have the training and ongoing refreshers needed to deliver at peak potential? Are they leveraging features in new releases?
• Have you quantified the loss of productivity and risk exposure that comes with employees and subcontractors who are not delivering at peak potential?

If any of the above is a concern, the SPS Training as a Service offering – a new risk-free productivity paradigm - may be an option. Please send an email to ibm@spsnet.com to receive a free quote.

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