Accenture Joins AWS to Expand the AWS Cloud Institute, a Virtual Cloud Skills Training Program

Accenture has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to expand the AWS Cloud Institute, a virtual cloud skills training program. This initiative aims to address the global demand for skilled cloud professionals, offering comprehensive training and certifications.

The AWS Cloud Institute is a comprehensive virtual training program designed to equip individuals with the skills needed for cloud careers. It offers a nine-course curriculum that includes on-demand digital learning, live instructor-led sessions, over 150 interactive labs, and two capstone projects. These elements provide hands-on experience and practical knowledge.

This initiative combines Accenture's LearnVantage platform with AWS's expertise to offer a comprehensive nine-course program. It includes on-demand digital learning, live instructor-led sessions, interactive labs, and capstone projects. Participants can also prepare for and earn AWS certifications, equipping them with the skills needed for cloud careers.

Initially launched in the U.S. in 2023, the program is now expanding to regions like Saudi Arabia and the UAE to address the global demand for skilled cloud professionals.

Accenture's LearnVantage platform uses AI to curate personalized learning journeys, ensuring that participants receive tailored content and mentorship.

The program aims to bridge the skills gap in cloud technology, creating pathways for learners to fast-track their careers in this competitive field.

Kishore Durg, global lead of LearnVantage, Accenture, said – “We’re thrilled to collaborate with AWS to launch AWS Cloud Institute powered by Accenture LearnVantage. This program will equip professionals with the essential skills and knowledge they need to forge new career pathways in a highly competitive field, and also help address the critical skills gap that organizations face. Our global delivery capabilities and deep expertise will ensure that learners receive a structured, high-quality education that puts them in high demand.”

Uwem Ukpong, vice president of Global Services, AWS said – “Today’s announcement marks a significant step in our commitment to fostering the next generation of cloud professionals, allowing us to expand our reach and bring our capabilities to new regions. This follows AWS’s launch of its second Middle East cloud region in the UAE in 2022, with a planned US$5 billion investment in the local economy through 2036. It also builds upon AWS’s US$5.3 billion investment to establish data centers in KSA. By partnering with Accenture, we are able to leverage our combined expertise to deliver a world-class training program that will empower people in KSA and UAE to build their careers as cloud professionals.”

Dell Launches Platform Acceleration Lab in India to Teach Software Engr, Architects

Dell Technologies Inc. Education Services today announced the launch of Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) in Bangalore with a vision to transform the way the world builds software. The Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) is an immersive, best practices set of courses that enables developers and architects to develop new applications, move applications (replatforming), and modernize existing applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF).

The Bangalore PAL lab will organize 3-week of immersive, best practices boot camp every month at the campus, to help native developers to adapt cloud-native applications and modernize existing applications to drive digital transformation. During the boot camp, Dell Technologies practioners will teach the participants how to modernize and replatform existing apps to run on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The developers and architects will learn the fundamentals of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, CI/CD, Application Architecture, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud Services—as well as be exposed to many of Pivotal’s core practices.

This immersive, instructor-led boot camp provides participants with 90 percent hands-on lab access with a capacity of 16 students per class.

Dell Technologies helps the world’s Next-Gen workforce to transform the way they build and run their most important software applications. The teams who use PCF and have accelerated their adoption of modern software skills realize a faster time-to-market with + 50% increase in developer productivity. PAL is used by Global 2000 companies to achieve strategic advantages in software development and IT operations.

We are entering a could-native world, and with our vision to create technologies that drive human progress, this launch is only fitting. The Platform Acceleration Lab will help engineers be cloud-native ready and make their companies future-proof. Bangalore is home for many of our global customers and partners, I am excited to see how this program will help them grow and contribute to their future,” – Sarv Saravanan, Senior Vice President & GM, India Center of Excellence, Dell Technologies.

“The launch of the Pivotal Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) in Bangalore, India combines the expertise of Dell Technologies and Pivotal to support our customers with their digital transformation journey. The PAL offers a performance-based immersive learning experience to develop the talent and the skills necessary for organizations to modernize their legacy application architecture and become cloud-native,” – Cindy Etherington, VP of Education Services.

The course was piloted with select customers in India in September 2018. Their feedback was very positive:

“We were looking for cloud solutions that could help us transform our IT and support business with the agility and resilience that business needs. After an evaluation of PaaS offering, we found Pivotal Cloud Foundry to be the best fit for us as it continuously delivers custom software on a secure, reliable platform—PAL has enabled us to start our journey of digital transformation in the right direction. It is like essential primary education, it helps you build the foundation and framework which acts as the transformation vehicle for migration journey to Cloud,” - Rajesh Mann, Senior Manager, BT Technology.
About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organisations to build their digital future transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. The company services customers of all sizes across 180 countries – ranging from 98 percent of the Fortune 500 to individual consumers – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from the edge to the core to the cloud.

~ Published unedited except headline via Business Wire India feed.

SchoolCom Launches SmartTabs In Schools, A Ubiquity Focused Device Pre-Fed With Master Data Of A Particular School

Changing the way schools operate is yet another credit to one of the most eloquent disciplines of the decade- 'Technology'. As to the core influences of technology in schools, it is speculated to have solved the spot on problem of stagnant data and sparse communication for the stakeholders. The X generation of consumers in retrospect had humdrum routines of receiving education on blackboards and performance reports on customary school-printed cards. They rarely sufficed the complete information sought by parents and students. Moreover, teachers taught without personalized approach towards students mainly owing to the lack of real-time and targeted information at their disposal.

SchoolCom is a cloud based analytics platform which was developed with the sole proposition of fine-tuning the ineffective information system in schools. Till date, it has been able to successfully leverage management of affairs at schools by serving real-time insights availability, visual representation of report cards, detailed performance analytics concerning each student and topping all with germane two way sms alerts exchanged between parents, students, teachers and principals. Hence, connects the dots by bringing all stakeholders together.

Contributing more innovation, SchoolCom has launched its flagship product, “SmartTab” for the utility of principals and teachers at schools. SmartTab is ubiquity focused device pre-fed with master data of a particular school viz. student records, modules, teachers, sections; etc. Moreover, the tab has inbuilt Wi-Fi connectivity and offline-online syncing technology which does away with any impediment to the access for the user. Tabs have different usability in the technical insights with respect to teachers and principals.

[caption id="attachment_98276" align="aligncenter" width="700"] SchoolCom's SmartTab product being inducted in JSS School Dharwad- Hubli[/caption]

SmartTab empowered Principal of a school can take management decisions sitting at his desk with succinct statistics presented in the form of infographics as deep till each classroom and individual student studying in it is covered. Using SmartTabs teachers are no longer needed to confide their reliance in tedious manual records of grades, attendance, section comparatives and much more. The master data enables them to feed real-time records against it and the servers flip those data into presentable insights ready to be used by teachers.

SmatTabs have been successfully piloted in two schools, JSS School Dharwad, Hubli Karnataka and Achyuta Public School, Dindigul Tamil Nadu over two months of inception. A base of around 100 schools who have partnered with Schoolcom and the confidence of dealing with a database of over 1 lakh students in south region, SmartTabs come well rounded with anticipated projects.

SchoolCom's co-founder Mr. Bhuvana Kotteswaran, who is a young technology entrepreneur says, "We have already tested SmartTabs in two schools and response has been overwhelming. Never before in two years of partnership teachers have come to us and discussed the product and its pros with us and even suggested more applications. This has been inspiring for our diligent techies who have been working hard day-in and day-out for the project implementation. We do believe in the market need for this product and plan to take it to as many schools we can this year".

SchoolCom, registered under the corporate name Banyan Learning Solutions India Private Limited is a firm headquartered in Chennai. It came into existence in 2012. It is a cloud based product which helps to make sense out of school database and presents insights in the form of graphics, statistics and color codes to make the information interesting, easier to assimilate and purpose driven. Product encases digitized report cards, sms alerts, elaborated and insightful analytics for every student, and zero percent data entry from the schools. The product has already gained goodwill in the southern region and has been successfully serving more than 100 schools
and 1 lakh students in Chennai and Bangalore. Further plans are to penetrate other tier 1 and tier 2 city schools pan India; such as Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurgaon, and more in coming years.

With employee strength of 60 at present, they aspire to become the largest and only complete school analytics platform in India. They plan to reform the data entry processes in the schools with the introduction of flagship technical device meant for the use of schools. They are a team of young techies and marketers with a mission to simplify our education sector. Enhancing their services further, they work towards providing schools and parents with real time personalized communication services, thus breaking an experience gap between the two stakeholders. They are on the course to pioneer a healthy education system in India.

Classle, a Chennai based start-up using cloud for education

Classle is a Chennai based startup which has invented a cloud based education system specifically keeping rural India in mind. Classle understands the importance of peer to peer learning and thus it lets lakhs of people to come together and connect with each other in the several communities that are available on the open social network made available by Classle.

Users can collaborate and exchange and share information, resources in the areas of interest that they have chosen simply by connecting with these communities on Classle.  In addition, there are many other features to collaborate available on the network in order to make learning more fun oriented.

By making use of cloud based system, users can have access to learning materials absolutely free of cost just by using their mobile devices. Till now around 55 academic institutes have been attracted to this platform and have partnered with it. Most of these academic institutes are engineering colleges that too based in rural areas. Excel College of Engineering, Thiruchengodu, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and GLA University, Mathura are some of the esteemed names to have partnered with Classle.

Classle has a Carry along Cloud Campus which basically consists of a virtual campus being set up on the cloud where each one is private to each institute. Through this virtual campus, students can have access to study material and information to expand their knowledge and interact and sort out doubts with their fellow student members in the community while the teachers can make them available with study material and assignments. These cloud campuses also have a feature of monitoring the interactions between the students, this helps companies to analyze and identify talented people for employment. The online cloud campus system also allows easy detection of weak students based on their interactions and submissions, and thus, the teachers can provide these students with extra time and attention after the classroom hours.

Founded in 2009 by Vaidya Nathan, Classle was rated as a Top 15 start-up worldwide by Amazon. Further, Classle was a finalist in Sankalp Forum 2012.  Classle is also the winner of esteemed Silver Edge Award from Information Week.

 

Classle, a Chennai based start-up using cloud for education

Classle is a Chennai based startup which has invented a cloud based education system specifically keeping rural India in mind. Classle understands the importance of peer to peer learning and thus it lets lakhs of people to come together and connect with each other in the several communities that are available on the open social network made available by Classle.

Users can collaborate and exchange and share information, resources in the areas of interest that they have chosen simply by connecting with these communities on Classle.  In addition, there are many other features to collaborate available on the network in order to make learning more fun oriented.

By making use of cloud based system, users can have access to learning materials absolutely free of cost just by using their mobile devices. Till now around 55 academic institutes have been attracted to this platform and have partnered with it. Most of these academic institutes are engineering colleges that too based in rural areas. Excel College of Engineering, Thiruchengodu, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and GLA University, Mathura are some of the esteemed names to have partnered with Classle.

Classle has a Carry along Cloud Campus which basically consists of a virtual campus being set up on the cloud where each one is private to each institute. Through this virtual campus, students can have access to study material and information to expand their knowledge and interact and sort out doubts with their fellow student members in the community while the teachers can make them available with study material and assignments. These cloud campuses also have a feature of monitoring the interactions between the students, this helps companies to analyze and identify talented people for employment. The online cloud campus system also allows easy detection of weak students based on their interactions and submissions, and thus, the teachers can provide these students with extra time and attention after the classroom hours.

Founded in 2009 by Vaidya Nathan, Classle was rated as a Top 15 start-up worldwide by Amazon. Further, Classle was a finalist in Sankalp Forum 2012.  Classle is also the winner of esteemed Silver Edge Award from Information Week.