India's No.1 Educational Blog: Aptech one of the finalists of Microsoft’s ‘Learning Partner of the Year 2014’ award

Aptech is the only partner from India to have received such an esteemed recognition

Mumbai, 3 June, 2014: Aptech Limited, a global leader in learning solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Microsoft as a finalist for ‘World Wide Learning Partner of the Year Award – 2014’. Of the 3000+ entries for Partner of the Year Awards, Aptech’ exceptional work clearly stood out to the jury. Aptech is the only Indian partner to have been recognized as an outstanding learning partner by Microsoft.

Aptech teamed up with Microsoft aligning their priorities and launched an innovation around a campaign rolled out by Microsoft – ‘Power Your Future’ -on Windows App Development last year with ‘Techno Minds-Power Your Future Campaign’, adding their own innovations. This campaign ‘Techno Minds - Power Your Future’, was focused on popularizing the potential of the new opportunity in the area of App development amongst the student community and current developers; Aptech worked together with Microsoft aggressively in the Indian market to tap the huge opportunity to fill the gap of skilled manpower in the growing area of App development. To significantly increase the reach, Aptech took an initiative by working very closely with STEM colleges also through Microsoft IT Academy model also bringing out the new opportunity of creating hobbyist developers while in college. With this effort of working together in addition to contributing significantly to developing talent in the area of App development, Aptech as an organization has been able to single handedly contribute through budding student developers over 1200+ quality Apps to the Windows Store in the last one year, a large number of these apps being rated with highest quality bench mark of 10/10 by editors of the team of Windows store and have also been received well by the customers.

In this regard, Mr. Ninad Karpe, CEO and MD of Aptech Ltd said, “We are thrilled to have received such an honorable recognition by Microsoft. We are certain that this will lead to a more engaging partnership with Microsoft and we will be able to contribute even more significantly to reduce the gap of trained manpower in IT Industry in the years to come as their learning partner.”

“These prestigious award winners and finalists represent the best technology professionals our partner ecosystem has to offer,” said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft. “The 2014 Partner of the Year Award winners and finalists honor our top partners that solve complex business challenges by providing innovative solutions to our mutual customers. Congratulations to each winner on this incredible achievement.”

About Aptech Ltd

Aptech commenced its education and training business in 1986 and has globally trained over 6.8 million students. Aptech is an ISO 9001:2008 organization and the first IT Training and Education company to get this certification for Education Support Services in 1993. Aptech has presence in more than 40 emerging countries through its two main streams of businesses – Individual training and Enterprise Business. As a leader in career education, it has over 1300+ centres of learning across the world.

Under Individual Training, Aptech offers career and professional training through its Aptech Computer Education, Arena Animation & Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (both in Animation & Multimedia), Aptech Hardware & Networking Academy, Aptech Aviation & Hospitality Academy and Aptech English Learning Academy brands. Enterprise business includes Content Development (Aptech Learning Services), Training and Assessment Solutions for Corporates & Institutions (Aptech Training Solutions, Aptech Assessment & Testing Solutions).

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Email: shrutidharp@aptech.ac.in

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