Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Free Course of the Day: Coaching for Performance Excellence

Monday, March 23, 2009

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certification Training Available on LatitudeU

LatitudeU, http://www.latitudeu.com , now offers online self-study certification training courses from leading elearning publishers to help Business Analysts prepare for the International Institute of Business Analysis's (IIBA®'s) Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) certification exam.

The IIBA® Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) certification helps business analysts develop their full potential। Certification candidates are not required to be IIBA® members in order to take the certification examination. Currently, the certification examination is offered in English, but other languages will be included in the future. The CBAP® program has been carefully designed to be in compliance with the International Standards Organization (ISO) 17204 standard for certifying the competence of personnel. IIBA® will be seeking ISO 17204 approval.

LatitudeU's elearning publishing partners have developed the following online training courses to assist business analysts prepare for the certification exam.
- Core Concepts in Business Analysis
- Enterprise Analysis and Making a Business Case
- Introduction to Requirements Planning
- Requirements Planning and Management
- Eliciting Requirements
- Analyzing Requirements Using Models
- Refining and Documenting Requirements
- Communicating and Implementing Requirements

"These online courses help the Business Analyst imporve their analysis skills. They are valuable career training, even if the Business Analyst chooses not to take the CBAP certification exam." says Jeff Walter, President of LatitudeU.

To learn more about theses courses go to http://www.certification-training-courses.com/certification-courses/iiba-certified-business-analysis-professional.htm . To access these and many other online training programs go to http://www.LatitudeU.com and sign up for free membership.

Monday, February 9, 2009

IT Professional Online Training Program from Computer Based Learning Leader, SkillSoft

We are pleased to announce immediate availability of approximately 1500 online training courses for IT Professionals from SkillSoft. SkillSoft is a world leader in online training and computer based learning. Through our relationship with SkillSoft, http://www.latitudeu.com/ can provide one course, one person access to any of SkillSoft’s thousands of courses for only $99 each. (Organizations typically can only purchase Skillsoft’s online training in bundles including several courses.)

SkillSoft’s IT Professional online training program and courses prepare users for working with hundreds of different IT (information technology) technologies. Workers and companies committed to career development for IT professionals will find these online training courses to be immensely valuable and easy to access and use.

These online training courses include training programs for all major technology companies including Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, IBM, Sun Microsystems, CompTIA, CISSP, SAP, EMC, PMI, CIW, Novell, CheckPoint, Macromedia, and many others.

Major topical areas include Software Development, Programming, Software Maintenance and Support, IT Projects, Web Design, Web Development, Internet, LAN, WAN, Network Design, IT Security, Security Administration, Operating Systems, Server Technologies, Business Intelligence. JAVA, XML, HTML, Visual Basic, C# and C++, Object Oriented Programming, Object Oriented Systems.

Discover all the online training offered by Skillsoft for IT Professionals

SkillSoft’s IT Professional online training includes approximately 1500 beginner, intermediated, and expert programs in:

  • MicroSoft OFFICE
  • Microsoft SHAREPOINT
  • Microsoft WORD
  • MicroSoft EXCEL
  • MicroSoft POWERPOINT
  • MicroSoft ACCESS
  • MicroSoft OUTLOOK
  • MicroSoft PROJECT
  • Microsoft SMS
  • Windows VISTA
  • SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • mySAP
  • DreamWeaver
  • PMI ( Project Management Institute)
  • Websphere
  • ITIL ( IT Infrastructure Library )
  • Dot.net
  • VB.net
  • ASP.net
  • ADO.net
  • SQL
  • Database Server
  • Project Server
  • Exchange Server
  • Windows Server
  • Oracle Database
  • Oracle Applications
  • Oracle AS
  • Oracle 11i E-business suite
  • Prince2
  • Cisco CIPT1
  • Cisco BCMSN
  • Cisco BSCI
  • Cisco CIPT2
  • Cisco ICND
  • Cisco ISCW
  • Cisco ONT
  • Cisco ARCH
  • Cisco DESGN
  • CISSP Domain
  • CheckPoint NPX
  • Solaris 9

Discover all the online training offered by Skillsoft for IT Professionals

Friday, January 30, 2009

Online Certification Preparation for Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technicians (MCDST)

Have you wanted to get a Microsoft certification that matches your current or desired job role? Why get a Microsoft certification now? 66% of managers believe that certifications improve the level of service offered to IT end users and customers. 75% of managers believe that certifications are important to team performance.

Have you delayed getting certified, because the preparation was too formidable? Now it can be easier with the online training programs available at LatitudeU. SkillSoft, a world leader in computer based learning, offers online certification preparation courses for Microsoft desktop certification. Skillsoft’s online training provides a more convenient, easier alternative to exam books or instructor led classes. Through our relationship with SkillSoft, we can provide individual access to their online certification preparation courses for the Microsoft desktop certification for only $99 each.

Microsoft certifications not only validate your real‑world skills, but they also provide you access to unique resources and offer a life-long career path for developing your computer learning. Earning the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support certification demonstrates your expertise with Microsoft Office applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and Microsoft Project.

SkillSoft’s online certification courses prepare users for Microsoft desktop certification testing as part of an IT professional’s career development. The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) credential proves that you have the skills to successfully support end-users and to successfully troubleshoot desktop environments that are running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

Start preparing online for your MCDST certification.

SkillSoft’s online certification preparation courses for Microsoft desktop certifications include approximately 300 beginner, intermediated, and expert online training programs.

  • MicroSoft WORD 2002, 2003 & 2007
  • MicroSoft WORD 2003
  • MicroSoft WORD 2007
  • MicroSoft EXCEL 2002
  • MicroSoft EXCEL 2003
  • MicroSoft EXCEL 2007
  • MicroSoft POWERPOINT 2000
  • MicroSoft POWERPOINT 2002
  • MicroSoft POWERPOINT 2007
  • MicroSoft ACCESS 2000
  • MicroSoft ACCESS 2002
  • MicroSoft ACCESS 2003
  • MicroSoft ACCESS 2007
  • MicroSoft OFFICE 2000
  • MicroSoft OUTLOOK 2002
  • MicroSoft OUTLOOK 2003
  • MicroSoft PROJECT 2000
  • MicroSoft PROJECT 2002

Testing and certification is independent of these online certification preparation courses and provided directly by Microsoft.

Start preparing online for your MCDST certification.

Friday, January 23, 2009

LatitudeU Provides Skillsoft Online Training Courses for Microsoft and other Certifications

We are pleased to announce that LatitudeU has become a channel partner of SkillSoft PLC to provide Skillsoft’s online training courses. SkillSoft is providing LatitudeU’s members with over 3000 online training courses in many business and technical subject areas.

In becoming a partner with industry leader Skillsoft, we are making available highly reliable, proven and instantly accessible online courses and training programs used by many learning organizations around the world. The LatitudeU business model provides access to individual courses from SkillSoft without committing to any subscriptions, so you only pay for courses unique to your requirements.

Through LatitudeU, SkillSoft will provide online training to individuals and organizations for general studies and certification preparation. Online courses and certifications include Information Technologies, Desktop Technologies, Management Training, Sales and Marketing Training, Human Resources Training, Strategic Planning Training, Project Management Training, Six-Sigma and Lean Six-Sigma Training, Operations Management & ITIL Training, Team Building, Communications, Customer Service and Consulting Skills, plus many other career and job skills.

Additionally there are numerous online test and certification prep courses for:
  • Microsoft Desktop and IT Professional Certifications
  • Sun Microsystems Certifications
  • IBM Certifications
  • EMC Certifications
  • Oracle Certifications
  • Cisco Certifications
  • Linux Professional Institute (LPI)
  • IT Professional Certifications Check Point
  • CompTIA Certifications
  • CIW Professional IT Certifications
  • Human Resource Certification Institute
  • International Institute of Business Analysis
  • IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL Certifications)
  • Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Six Sigma Blackbelt Certification (SSBB)
To access these and many other online training programs from SkillSoft on LatitudeU go to http://www.latitudeu.com/onlinetrainingcourse/search.aspx?cat=c&search=skillsoft.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Expect More Business and Technical Skills Learning

All of us at LatitudeU hope you enjoyed a Happy Holiday Season and wish you a prosperous, healthy New Year. We thank you for your continued participation and bringing your friends and colleagues to our website. We have added many new features and will continue to add more capabilities to enrich and support your LatitudeU experience.


In 2009 LatitudeU is moving in a new direction that provides courses to enhance your work and your career. Based on feedback and additional research, LatitudeU will undergo a major change in content focus—from virtually all subjects to those related to Professional and Job Skills. With this change LatitudeU will dramatically and quickly expand our content offerings. We are in the process of bringing up thousands of new courses in technical, business and other job and professional skill development areas from some of the leading providers of e-earning in the world. You will start to see them this month. We are loading new courses just as fast as we can.


>> Please check www.latitudeu.com often for all these new courses available in 2009. <<


With this new direction, some existing courses will be temporarily deactivated. LatitudeU apologizes for any inconvenience this causes to our members and ask for your continued good will. We feel the new courses will provide even greater value to the LatitudeU learning community. Edit: Previous course announcements related to these removed courses were also removed from this blog.


We are excited to announce that we are now adding 3200 courses from SkillSoft, the world’s largest provider of eLearning. In addition to SkillSoft’s courses, we are actively working with dozens of other e-learning providers that offer well over 20,000 additional courses. These courses cover a wide range of technical, business, organizational, communications, leadership, and other work-related skills and knowledge. The new professional and job skill courses will begin showing up in the second week of January with continuous additions.


Also coming soon: a subject index and curriculums. You asked us to provide capabilities that make it easier to find courses of interest. In the next few months, a subject index and curriculums feature will be added to LatitudeU, so you can browse through the catalog more efficiently. Of course, you can continue to search the catalog based on keywords.


LatitudeU welcomes your suggestions, requests, and other feedback. You can always contact us through our website or eMail our Director, David Burta at dave.burta@latitudecg.com.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Scorm Verification Tool for Course Providers

Message for Course Providers:

If you are interested in submitting a Scorm course and had trouble in the past, you can check your course's compliance with a Conformance Test from Advanced Distributed Learning.

Please click here to be redirected to the test suite...

We hope this helps you get ready to submit a course. If you have any issues or questions about content, please email support@latitudeu.com.

Your contributions are invaluable to LatitudeU.com! Thank you, and we look forward to working with you in the future!