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Training Providers - Who offers the best deal?
In terms of:
Quality, Value Added,
Service, Training
Environment, Management
See also:
We have also included an additional column for
you to tick off which features and benefits your current training provider
offers. If you find these tables useful please email stephenp@f1comp.co.uk and we will expand
them to include more training providers.
We have spent several hours in January 2005 pouring over each of the
sample training provider's
web sites and brochures, checking the information in each table is correct
and accurate. In some cases it is not at all clear if the training provider
offers this or that service. In which case we have indicated this
uncertainty in the key.
From an individual customer's viewpoint,
they might consider some points in isolation are minor and even trivial,
while others might consider them very significant in enhancing the
value of the training they receive. Rather than pick a subset of
comparison points, which could exclude some points that a customer
considers important, we have included all the points that have been highlighted
by our customers over the years.
Also, we want these tables to be reasonably
unbiased and if any information in the
associated table changes or
is incorrect, please feel free to email updates or corrections to stephenp@f1comp.co.uk
and we will update the table immediately.
If you
know of any training provider that offers an overall better development
training service than F1, or can suggest additional points to test training providers against, we would be happy to hear
from you as well. top
Key:
- Key to cells in table above: "." = unclear on their web site/literature, n/a = not applicable.
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Provider is Development company themselves?
- F1 is a successful development company themselves and knows how
developers learn most effectively and ensure our courses offer the best
development training environment there is. top
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Provider has trained Microsoft themselves?
- Over the past 10 years we have been selected again and again to train
Microsoft themselves.
- Developer Specialist Training?
- F1 is the only MCPLS (CTEC) mandated by Microsoft to focus exclusively on
development training to offer the market the 'best of breed'. top
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Visual Studio.NET Certified trainers
- F1 was selected to be one of the first MCPLS (CTEC) companies to be trained up in
Visual Studio.NET. top
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Language conversation courses available?
- Only F1 has written specific conversion courses to 'fast track'
developers to skill up in the different Microsoft development languages. top
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Offer all Microsoft XML courses?
- F1 is one of the few MCPLS (CTEC)s in Europe to offer and regularly schedule
all of the XML courses available.
- Offer DNS & DNA courses?
- Only F1 offers DNS and DNA training on their schedule. top
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Free Lifetime Technical Support?
- F1 is one of the few MCPLS (CTEC)s to have a fully manned technical support
help line available. top
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All courses use Microsoft Official Curriculum
(MOC) - Unlike some MCPLS (CTEC)s who cut costs by using cheaper course
notes, F1 also supply full copies of MOC with every course. top
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Provider produces supplementary curriculum as well?
- As we have access to developers ourselves we supplement MOC with
our own notes and workshops based upon our extensive real life
development experience. top
- Course customisation?
- F1 is able to offer complete MOC customisation so that courses can be
tuned to the specific requirements of each customer. top
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Market share of FP and VFP training in UK?
- F1 started training FoxPro (FP) over 10 years ago and since then
have continued hold the majority share of that training market. top
- Training vouchers discount
- Excellent value for organisations who have a requirement more that
20 days development training per year. top
- Training passports discount
- Excellent package for individuals. top
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Some 5 day courses reduced to 4 days - cost saving 20%?
- Only F1, by limiting class sizes, have reduced the length of some
courses down from 5 to 4 days and pass on the full savings to customers. top
- Free Training Review Sessions?
- Only F1 offer free onsite training review sessions to customers to
advise them of the pros and cons of different training options. top
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Late availability deal discounts
- F1 offer very significant deals for individuals who can/want to book
at the lat moment. top
- Authorised MCP
Testing Centre?
- F1 is a Microsoft/VUE approved test centre. top
- Free MCP exams
- Only F1 offer free MCP exams with every matching course attended. top
- Authorised MCP Practice Tests available/cost
- F1 offer development MCP practice tests at cost. top
- Free fortnightly technical review sessions
- Only F1 schedule these to allow customers to review what they have
learnt with a qualified trainer.
- Free 1-3 user Pro-ACTION Sales and Marketing Package available for
all delegates? - Obviously, only F1 supply this. It has been
written by our own development team and was previously sold for £1800. top
- Web based Course
Reservation Service? - You can check course availability dates
directly on every course web page and then reserve a place within a few
seconds. top
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Pentium 3 PCs with 17" screens, 256mb ram & 100 MHz network
- Some of our competitors made do with lower spec pc's and 14"
screens which are much more difficult to use when you want source, debug
and explorer windows open at the same time. F1 always supply high spec
PC's. top
- Restaurant & Pub lunches every day
- F1 ensure that we don't cut costs by skimping on lunches. top
- One stop service for all customer training req.?
- F1 do not claim to be good at everything. We do not have the internal
expertise to train operating systems courses. top
- Real people all the time (not automated call messaging system)
- We HATE being messed around with voice messaging and routing systems
and NEVER use them ourselves. When you call F1 during office hours you
will always speak to a real and helpful person. top
- Every customer assigned full time account manager
- Every customer is assigned a permanent account manager who first job is
to provide the best service possible for each and every customer. top
- Money Back
Guarantee
- The quality of F1 Computing Course is guaranteed. After attending,
unless you are fully satisfied we will refund your fee. top
- Cost of
average 5 day development course - F1 courses are very competitively
priced. As far as we know we offer the best value Microsoft
development approved training in the UK. top
- Introductory
discount available for limited time - To introduce you to the
benefits of F1 training courses, we are making a special limited-time
offer for first time participants. When you enrol by 31st July 2001
(for a course you can take anytime in the next 12 months), you will
save 15% off our already very competitive price for each course. top
- MCSE expertise?
- F1 are the development training experts, as such we do not claim to
have expertise in MCSE, Windows NT or Windows 2000. However, we have
partners who do that we can call on as
required.
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