As more and more enterprise are getting introduced to handle big data and analytics for improving their business agility and achieve better growth, Intellipaat has carved a niche for itself by enabling education in these segments.
Diwakar Chittora, Founder & CEO, Intellipaat.com speaks with Zia Askari from ChannelDrive.in about the company’s key focus today and its future strategies.
What are the core focus activities for Intellipaat today?
Intellipaat offers more than +100 courses in the niche domains of Big Data, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing and Application Development. The company offers corporate, online instructor led and self paced e-learning courses. Intellipaat focuses on providing knowledge via video tutorials with 24*7 life-time access and support. Our course curriculum is designed to provide 70% practical exposure by lab exercises, project work, Quiz and assignment.
We have 2 lakh learners from across the globe primarily from US, Canada, India and other parts of the world. One of its most popular courses is Hadoop, an open source software framework for storing and processing Big Data. With Wipro, Ericsson and TCS as clients and targeted 250 courses by the end of the 2015, Intellipaat is poised to become one of the leading training companies across the globe.
What kind of corporate tie-up does the company has with Online portals for corporate training in Data Analytics etc?
Intellipaat has tie-ups with all top Indian IT MNCs for Data Analytics training. Ericsson was the first one and now TCS, Cisco, Wipro, Genpact, Sony and 40 others are on board.
How can the enterprise see big data analytics changing the competitive landscape and what is the role of your company in this?
Companies that know their customers best, win. The phenomenal victory of Barack Obama over his cash-rich rivals in 2008 was the result of a clever election campaign guided by extensive vote-bank data analytics.
Today, industries around the world are sitting on gazillionbytes of data that is simplywaiting to be exploited. Growth-focused enterprisesengaging with this data are not only gaining a competitive advantage, they are changing the face of our economy.
Data analytics completely transforms how business is conducted. Once big data enters the picture, multi-dimensional understanding of customers, lean operations, efficientprocesses, and smart sales and marketing get a complete makeover and register exponential growth.
In 2011 Intellipaat foresaw that the demand for big data experts was on the verge of a major explosion. It sensed the acute shortage of job-ready data analyticspersonnel. While there were companies offering courses at high prices, graduates from these courses were barely employable due to lack of practical knowledge and industry exposure. This is where Intellipaat filled the gap. It put out high quality but extremely affordable courses online for techies to acquire big data skills and leverage the demand for analytics professionals.
How can MOOC platforms bridge the skills gap among working professionals?
Massive Open Online courses or MOOC platforms are driving a revolution in education by democratizing learning. Working professionals can upgrade skills for a fraction of traditional costs without suffering a career break. Easy accessibility and doorstep deliveryalso add to their attractiveness. By addressing these constraints of conventional skill upgradation, courses on MOOC platforms are becoming the go-to solution for skill gap management. Both industries and individualsconstantly upgrade skills and remain agile to effectively navigate therapidly changingtechnology landscape.
MOOC platforms allow access to university educators and industry experts. Training, testing and certification are all available at the desktop. Flexible timings and self-pacing is invaluable to a working professional and MOOC platforms have made this a reality. MOOCs are poised to becoming the way most professionals will keep up with rapidly evolving environments and retain an edge.
Why Business Intelligence training is important for the enterprise today?
In today’s speed-driven business environment, a company that does not invest in Business Intelligence (BI) is like a person peddling away on a bicycle while the competitors have boarded an express train.
BI has clear, tangible and game changing benefits for every enterprise. Hence it is imperative they invest in BI training. Latest research shows a 1000% RoI for companies employing predicative and other analytics. With critical customer information at your fingertips, you can offer an invaluable business experience with high re-engagement value.
With BI, several tedious and time-consuming processes get automated saving precious man-hours. Report generation, employee evaluation and similar processes become easy to handle.
Efficient BI tools also boost data quality. Companies struggle with huge data errors that can lead to both minor hiccups and serious lapses. The right BI tool can help identify data gaps, flag errors and help maintain a healthy data bank.
How Online training hub are becoming new way of learning?
The availability of internet facility makes education accessible to all. Education comes to you rather than you going to it. A student doesn’t need to physically transport to a brick and mortar facility to study. This is a game changer. Millions of students are plugging into online training hubs like Intellipaat, Edx, Coursera, Lynda, Khan Academy etc. and expanding their skill sets. With availability of course material, testing and certification bolstered by real time interaction with experts and peers, more and more students are flocking to online training hubs rather than getting stuck with cost prohibitive traditional educational institutes.
Another advantage is the ability to enroll in as many and as varied courses.
This is giving learners a never before experienced freedom of choice. Artificial restrictions on the number of courses, age limitations etc.have become meaningless. One is not deprived of education by geographicor educational stream limitations. Online training hubs are rapidly expanding and will become an integral part of how education is conducted.
