NIIT Limited
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| Type | Public BSE: 500304 , NSE: {{{1}}} |
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| Founded | 1981 |
| Founder(s) | Rajendra S. Pawar (Chairman & Co-founder) |
| Headquarters | 85 Sector 32, Gurgaon - 122 001  India |
| Key people | Vijay K. Thadani (Chief Executive Officer) P. Rajendran (Director & Chief Operating Officer) |
| Industry | Training and Education in IT |
| Products | BPO, Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Schools, Application Development Management, Package implementation, Platform Based Services |
| Revenue | ▲ US$500 million (in FY 2007-08) |
| Employees | 3850 (As on 31 December, 2008) |
| Website | www.niit.com |
NIIT is a global education and training company based in New Delhi, India. Founded by Rajendra S. Pawar and Vijay K. Thadani in 1981, the company now provides IT and business training in over 40 countries. NIIT established IT education and training in India more than two decades ago.[1][2]NIIT as Asia's largest IT training institution has become the top 15 global head of education and training business.[3]
In 2004 IIT Delhi and NIIT would introduce an rigorous programme in bioinformatics sector. Bioinformatics would be provide at IIT and the IT modules would provide at NIIT centers. NIIT also tie up with with various universities which would cater in IT degree cources.[4]
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Polarization
In 2004 , NIIT was polarized into two groups one is NIIT Limited, which focuses on the training and education in IT segment, and another which is known as NIIT Technologies concentrates on IT Services company.[5]
Key Industries
NIIT has organized itself along the following three lines of business:
- Individual Learning Solutions - This focuses on providing employability skills to people in the age group of 16–25 years. IT training forms the bulk of this segment. In recent years it has launched new offerings for training in Banking, Insurance and Financial services ,Executive Management Programsand training in skills for BPO/KPO sectors
- School Learning Solutions - this provides training and learning solutions to government and to private schools.
- Corporate Learning Solutions- this division provides training services such as off the shelf learning library, custom content development, customized instructor led training and training administration services. Element K a US company, acquired by NIIT in 2006, forms about two thirds of the sales from this division.
- Partnering Success:- Alliance with Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Thomson Prometric, CompTIA and EMC.
- NIIT Technologies, one of the biggest software firms in India, has collaborated with SAP AG to implement public sector units and software projects for government institutions.[6]
- NIIT Technologies supply services to US, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific and India.
- NIIT and US software maker SunGuard have collaborated on disaster recovery and planning solutions for the Asia Pacific region.[7]
NIIT rode to its top position on the basis of GNIIT which is a multi track course for individual GNIIT
Global Training Centers
NIIT Global branches :
USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, China, India, South Africa, Nigeria, Botswana, Ghana, Columbia, Mexico, Peru, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Vietnam, Bahrain, Iran, Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Botswana, Egypt, Mauritius, Morocco, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Fiji.
See also
- Aptech
- Professional certification
- Professional certification (Computer technology)
- Software companies of India
References
- ^ "About NIIT > Overview". http://niit.com/aboutniit/Pages/Overview.aspx. Retrieved on 4 July 2009.
- ^ "Management Team - Founders". http://niit.com/aboutniit/Pages/ManagementTeam%E2%80%93Founders.aspx. Retrieved on 7 July 2009.
- ^ Website: [1] (URL last accessed on April 29, 2009)
- ^ [2] (URL last accessed on April 14, 2009)
- ^ TOI Website: [3] (URL last accessed on July 14, 2009)
- ^ TOI Website: [4] (URL last accessed on July 14, 2009)
- ^ [5] (URL last accessed on April 29, 2009)
External links
- Official website
- About NIIT page
- NIIT Demerger
- NIIT University
- Kuvempu University
- Universal Educational Trust
- Kuvempu University
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