Tag: training

Helping Business and Training See Eye to Eye [Podcast]

  • Posted on: March 3, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We sat down with CentralKnowledge, Inc. President, Ajay Pangarkar, at Training 2016 to discuss the disconnect that often exists between “the business” and training departments. In this episode of The DevHops Podcast, Ajay offers some excellent tips for trainers looking to avoid over-promising a training ROI to finance professionals, and how to deliver learning that

Making Self-directed Training Accessible and Learner-centric

  • Posted on: March 2, 2016
  • Author: Skytap
We’re taking a bit of a departure from the normal theme of The DevHops Podcast to focus on virtual training! Shannon Tipton sat down with us at Training 2016 to give us a preview of her session, “Creating Your 21st Century Toolbox.” Shannon explained how the modernization of training involves using traditional tools in a

Customer Success Series: Informatica’s Scalable Stellar Customer Experience

  • Posted on: November 10, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
We’re presenting a collection of stories on the awesome gains in scalability and efficiency, and reductions in costs and constraints that our customers shared with us at our recent Customer Advisory Board meeting. Informatica senior manager of global education services, Alex Gurevich quickly pointed out one of our favorite qualities of Skytap—that the benefits and

Customer Success Series: GE Healthcare Dramatically Expands Global Training

  • Posted on: November 6, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
At our most recent Customer Advisory Board meeting (see our CAB recap here), we sat down with Douglas McKelvey, Training and Services Readiness Manager at GE Healthcare, to learn how Skytap has helped his team increase the effectiveness of their training “100 fold” and take their classes for medical imaging software to a global audience.

3-Minute Video & Demo: Virtual Training Labs

  • Posted on: September 14, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Fall is the time some of us think about back-to-school activities. But here at Skytap, we’re thinking about the Education Services groups that teach hands-on software to employees and partners using Virtual Training Labs, or “Classrooms-in-a-Box.” So we just did this 3-Minute video that will give you a quick overview and a little demonstration of

Skytap Data Consumption Reduced by How Much?

  • Posted on: August 28, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
One of the coolest parts about working at Skytap is that people here are really excited about what our engineering team is building. I love when someone scours the newest release notes, or has been working closely with the engineering team to help deliver an exciting new feature—and then cannot wait to spread the word

Working to Narrow Seattle’s Software/Tech Gender Gap

  • Posted on: May 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Special thanks to Skytap’s Jill Domanico, Jewel von Kempf, Michele Costello, and Kat White for their contributions to this piece and our efforts to increase diversity in our own office and Seattle as a whole! When thinking of the reasons why it’s an awesome time to work at Skytap, there are tons that come to

Customer Advisory Board Reveals Virtual Training Wins in the Cloud

  • Posted on: April 21, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Throughout the year, we host a series of Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, where we invite customers from Skytap’s varied use cases in order to not just give and take feedback from our customers, but so they can also provide it their peers in their respective industries. Today we’re speaking with Director of Product Management

Consumerization at its Finest: Virtual, Self-Paced Training

  • Posted on: March 4, 2015
  • Author: Skytap
Chalk up another win for Consumerization — and for anyone who has welcomed it into their business. Global access and full control over self-paced training isn’t the way of the future anymore. It’s here right now, and it’s what businesses expect out of learning programs. It shouldn’t be a surprise, really. We are in the consumerization

The Collegiate Cloud: An Interview with Ferris State University’s Amy Buse

  • Posted on: August 15, 2014
  • Author: Skytap
Ferris State University (FSU) is an accredited state university located in Big Rapids, Michigan, offering multiple computing degree plans within its Business/Technology Consortium. The college serves more than 14,000 on- and off-campus students in the region. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ferris State Professor Amy Buse to learn more about how the

How Skytap’s Customers Used the Cloud in 2013

  • Posted on: December 26, 2013
  • Author: Skytap
Between the keynotes, the track sessions, and the conversations on the expo floor, Amazon AWS re:Invent 2013 was a ton of information to take in over the course of a couple of days. Amidst all the goings-on, we got the opportunity to sit down with three of Skytap’s customers to learn a little more about