Peter Dinham
Thursday, 23 July 2009 07:57
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Training
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The global recession has hit the software certification and training market in Asia Pacific, with companies in the region expected to cut training budgets and reduce investment in the area by around 25 percent.
However, despite the slowdown in investment,
Gartner is still forecasting the software certification and training
market in the region will grow from US$5.59 billion last year to
US$13.58 billion in 2013.
Gartner’s principal research analyst, Asheesh Raina, says that although
the software certification and
training market has played a pivotal
role in developing quality resources and addressing the long-term
skills shortage within the IT industry, smaller
training institutes and
franchise setups in the region are under severe strain and are “finding
it difficult to sustain themselves in the current economic climate
while larger organisations are also experiencing considerable decreases
in revenue.”
Raina says that
training budgets are usually among the first to be cut
as part of cost containment efforts with the result that investments
have been temporarily suspended and expansion plans deferred.
However, despite the current challenging market, Gartner says it is
confident that the ongoing need for qualified IT personnel in Asia
Pacific will fuel major opportunities for
IT training and certification
in the region.
Gartner estimates that around 1.5 million IT experts will be needed by
2012, and Asheesh Raina says that key drivers for this longer term
growth include enhancements in collaborative tools and technologies,
backed by increasing Internet penetration to deliver online content.
According to Gartner the entire certification and training ecosystem in
the region is becoming “increasingly vibrant due to the amalgamation of
‘mega vendors’ such as IBM, Oracle, SAP and HP; public sector
undertakings such as HPCL in India, training enterprises such as
Aptech, Genovate and NIIT and various niche and small players.”
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