Rational, Asset tie up for corporate training

BANGALORE: Bangalore based Rational Software Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has

announced today its collaboration with Asset International, the technology

training arm of Aptech Ltd., to conduct Rational Training courses in India.

M K Bharatee, country manager, Rational Software, India, said, "Rational

provides a platform for software development that speeds time-to-market while

improving software quality. This integrated, full life cycle solution combines

software engineering best practices, market leading tools and professional

services to help organizations develop and deploy software. With a tie-up with

Asset, we would focus more on corporate training to facilitate employees with

upgraded technology knowledge."

Under the terms of the collaboration, Asset International would be a

"Rational Authorized Training Partner" and would offer training

courses on Rational Best Practices, Tools and Methodologies such as requirements

management, object-orientated analysis and design, functional and performance

testing, unified change management etc.

Ravi Dighe, vice president, Asset International, said, "Under the

collaboration, Asset’s faculty will be trained and certified by Rational

Software. The courses designed by them will be offered by Asset at all the

centers in India and would be aimed at the software developer community."

Dighe expects to address about 5 lakh software developers in the country

through this tie-up and said that the "slowdown has provided the right

opportunity to train these IT professionals because layoffs are happening and

there are a lot of these professionals finding idle time."

The course would run for five days and would cost approximately Rs 25,000.