Friday, July 29, 2011

Keeping Up to Date... Receiving Training...

In this, the second of two articles, Commericals Projects Controller Ian Skaife blogs about Atlas' constant thirst for knowledge, how we acquire it and the things he's discovered whilst on his hunt...

So, not only can we learn from reading the FT – I think the answer must be yes - but also all those other sources of rich information and comment too...

Sometimes we have to sit back and receive new knowledge, and here at Atlas over the past few months this has certainly been the case. In between helping our clients with systems we have been updating or knowledge of new products and technologies. In fact we have spent in excess of £20,000 in fees and time training a variety of people as follows.

- Microsoft Gold Partner
Two of our technology team have undertaken a variety of new and updated courses to fulfil this certification which gives confidence to many of our clients for whom we do technical systems management and hosting services.

- PropsectSoft CRM
One technical consultant on installation, two consultants for a total of 10 days on implementation and report writing in the new version 6+. We have done several upgrades and new work already using these new skills.

- QlikView
We have trained our third consultant in this growing area of Business Intelligence. She has attended 5 days of designer and development courses and is on another for advanced analysis. We have implemented this with several new customers recently.

- Access Accounts v2.50e and Web Services
Several consultants have been on training to keep us up to date in new features and the Web Services technology to link into the increasingly remote and web-based world we live in.

- AFS Suite
You may have seen in our recent blog article that this is another of the offerings which we are updating and up-skilling our consultants and those from other industry partners.

- Albany ePay
The well known provider of BACS solutions for payments and direct debits has a new offering out with increased functionality and Windows 7 compatibility. Four consultants are being trained just this week, ready to roll out to new and existing customers.

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